Merry sodding Christmas.
Presents are under the razorvine. Don't lose a hand.
Holidays
Tue, 2007-12-25 15:01
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Holidays
Sat, 2011-07-02 20:38
#3
Re: Holidays
Damn it all, now I'll be awake half of the night brainstorming ideas!
**takes bottle of razorvine wine and cackles deviously**
Sat, 2011-07-02 20:45
#4
Re: Holidays
Well I can't sleep lest I miss my flight so I'll be waiting eagerly! 
Fri, 2011-09-09 18:20
#5
Re: Holidays
Polyhedron #127 contains an article by none other than Monte Cook describing "The Day of Grace," the first day of Sigil's calendar. According to legend, on this day, so long ago that no one remembers how long ago it was, a small child walked up to the Lady of Pain herself and dared to talk to her. Since the Lady failed to flay the impudent child, ever since then the people of Sigil have celebrated the event as the Day of Grace. On this day, everyone tries to show a similar spirit grace in their own way. The Mercykillers suspend all public executions on this day. The Anarchists try not to blow anything up on this day. The Society of Sensation tries to think of different ways to show grace every time. The Fated challenge themselves to be charitable. The Harmonium holds a parade. Merchants sell things at a discount and ordinary sods give each other presents. No one can really tell if the Xaositects celebrate this holiday or not.
Sat, 2011-09-10 05:14
#6
Re: Holidays
Factions with philosophies that propose transcendence will probably celebrate the anniversaries of times they expected that this occurred, such as the ascendance of Lariset of the Fraternity of Order. It makes for a good ad vertisement -- "Remember, our system works."
Lariset's Day calls for suspension of work in the Courts. The Guvners are sensitive enough to public opinion to make an effort to delay cases of debtors being called in until afterwards, giving them an extra day to make payment, while disposing of cases asking clemency or dismissal before the holiday rather than make them wait an extra day.
On the day, Guvners get together for a liturgical reading from some of Lariset's papers -- she had many, so each group picks one or two. Ambitious Guvners hire out to speak on surveys of her work. The idea is to perhaps get a glimpse of where she was headed in her research. This spends the morning, and then the celebrations turn public. Lunch is a volunteer affair with free meals handed out around the Courts, followed by an afternoon of street fair material: morality plays (formulaic but not entirely uninteresting, in which the steadfastly law-abiding or disciplined hero always triumphs over the cheating or impetuous villain), festival food, and a hit-or-miss variety of art exhibits exploring various theories of artistic pattern, especially in rigorous poetry and experimental music.
Suddenly I want faction holidays, explanations for holidays central to Sigil or one of the other gate towns, info on how everyone avoids the streets on Orcus's or Dionysus's holidays...
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