“Fantasy Faire is always a treat for everyone involved, but this year has been especially great. The artistry and pageantry has been mind blowing to behold, the people have been a joy and fun to be around, and the events have been great.
The Dwarfins team has been blown away by the generosity of the Dwarfins community members who have gone above & beyond in their donations to the cause of fighting cancer. We’ve been overjoyed to welcome many new members that the Faire brought to us, and have reveled in the community spirit brought to us by this great cause.” – Judy Chestnut Of Dwarfins.
All good things come to an end and I’ll pretty much wrap up my Fantasy Faire coverage with this post, although you should never say never as there may well be more news to post, but I’ll mostly wrap it up here. I apologise to those of you who read my blog and have no interest in this event, but I love this event, it’s an event that exemplifies oh so well some of the excellent use cases of Second Life and that most certainly should be highlighted.
One complaint regarding events like this, and that applies to the other fairs that take place during the year, is lag. Fantasy Faire this year wasn’t that bad, but there were some who experienced problems. The thing is, this is Fantasy Faire, if you take away the beautiful buildings, the weird and wonderful avatars and their scripted accessories, you take away some of the heart of the event.
Although Fantasy Faire 2013 is officially over, there are still a couple of Fantasy Faire related events to run. There’s a short story competition in association with Prim Perfect: Weave a tale of fantastic landscapes for the Fantasy Faire / Prim Perfect Short Story Competition. Your story should be between one and three thousand words and the best entries will be published in the summer edition of Prim Perfect Magazine. One of the good things about blogging Fantasy Faire is that I’ve now discovered the excellent Calameo system Prim Perfect use for their magazine, that’s a really impressive platform.
The second part of the Key Of Hope hunt, in association with Madpea games, will run from May 1st to May 19th on The Valley Of IshNar.
The Quest For The Golden Prim has moved from The Explorer’s Club to a web comic, well it has always been a web comic but with the relaunch new features are being added, this will involve games related to the comic itself on the website and is a very interesting concept that I will certainly be keeping an eye on.
During the event the weird and wonderful popped up, so did Draxtor Despres whom I spotted in The Dwarfins Store!
I spent the week with The Dwarfins at The Faire, and had many exciting adventures there as they unveiled their new wares in the shape and form of Wizard and Enchantress Dwarfins and avatars.
I was also fortunate enough during the week to catch up with the master wizard Zachh Barkley of Arcanum, The builder of The DragonSpire sim and owner of Refined Wild, Khyle Sion, Golden Thorn owner Thorn Witrial and managed to visit the weird and wonderful sim of Ravenshard to look at the products of hair creator Meka Aeon at the Lupoaica store.
As I’m merely a blogger rather than an organiser I don’t know all of the people involved in organising this event, I do know that Sonya Marmurek and Elysium Hynes worked tirelessly in trying to make this as wonderful experience as it could be and they certainly deserve special thanks, but I’m sure there are others involved who also deserve praise.
If there’s one complaint about the faire, it’s that it’s too short! I could have enjoyed this for a month but the work and effort the organisers put in for the nine days it was open would have worn them out, plus the costs of a longer event being prohibitive, but it was a magical and wonderful experience. Here’s looking forward to the next one.