Shanty of Fools

St.Calenda's Wandering Pageant, Odeum & Lunar Fair

Introductions

'Description: The lodgings and performance venue of the pageant's collective of fools, the shanty is a ramshackle structure formed of spare sackcloth, rope, odds and ends and fallen logs. While distinctly unimpressive as seen from without, once inside the Shanty visitors and pageant-folk who are not fools themselves become lost in a maze of clothbound corridors whose dimensions far exceed normal expectations. But the Shanty is not a maze, so much as a labyrinth which leads the brave ever deeper towards a central chamber called the "Tabernacle". All along the corridors of the shanty-labyrinth are recesses in which scenes are played out for the paying visitors and for those who trespass within the private sanctum of the fools. These scenes are supposed to serve as a series of morality plays meant to remind the visitor-folk of their ethical and spiritual obligations and what might await them after death should they they fail to keep faith. But, all-too-often, these performances do the opposite, revealing the holes in medieval life and presenting the visitor with a distinct emotional or moral dilemma which they must solve if they wish to escape the Shanty by reaching the central "Tabernacle of Fools". All too often, however, visitors who enter are never seen again and it is assumed by those within their communities that they simply ran away with the pageant.

Background:

Contents:

Tabernacle of Fools

Fools

Nabil ibn Saqr -- The King Fool {Persian}

Wan Lady -- ' {Missing since October of 1094}

Hellequin -- ' {}

Bozho -- ' {}

Quote: "Three mages, a Cappadocian vampire and a whole slough of sad clowns." -- Rambert the Oneriomancer

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