Fantasy Faire – Page 5

April 18, 2017

Fantasy Faire 2017 LitFest – Tolkien Day, Seanan McGuire & More

One of my favourite recent additions to Fantasy Faire has been the literary festival; LitFest and this will be held again this year with a very packed schedule over the 10 days of Fantasy Faire.

LitFest involves talks by authors, creative writing sessions, discussions, performances, open mic sessions, storytelling, poetry, tours, writing challenges and much more.

Author Seanan McGuire will be a featured guest. Seanan is the author of the October Daye and Incryptid urban fantasies.

April 25th will be Tolkien Day, with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien being celebrated. Previous Fantasy Faires have featured Pratchett day, celebrating the work of Terry Pratchett and Shakesepeare day, celebrating the work of Shakespeare, no great mystery there.

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April 18, 2017

Fantasy Faire 2017 Quest – Farion The Pixie Needs Your Help!

Many would say that the whole of Fantasy Faire 2017 is a quest, indeed I’ve had many a quest at past Fantasay Faire locations without actually being in the official quest area.

However there will be an official quest this year, and this one is The Bard Queen’s Song, which involves Farion The Pixie realising that his boss, The Bard Queen, has been missing for a bit longer than usual and this makes Farion realise something may very well be amiss.

FARION SUNBREEZE IS A PIXIE WITH A PROBLEM.

His boss has gone missing and he (and The Lads) have come to the conclusion that, while she’s been known to do this sort of thing before, something’s not right about this one. Were Farion a noodle seller from Kakushi Pasu this wouldn’t be a problem, but Farion (and The Lads) work for the Bard Queen – and an absent Bard Queen is bad news for the Fairelands.

Farion (and the lads, although they are not quite as keen as Farion) would like a bit of help finding out what has happened to The Bard Queen.

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April 18, 2017

Fantasy Faire 2017 Takes A Look At The Sponsors

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Fantasy Faire 2017 is just two days away and Sonya Marmurek has been busily publishing a number of posts in which she speaks to sponsors of the event.

These posts are very interesting because they give you an idea of the wide and varied designs and use cases of Second Life in terms of Fantasy, the obvious ones such as roleplaying, skins and building and then use cases you may not initially associate because they go beyond Fantasy, such as animations and dances.

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February 4, 2014

Second Life Has Orcs And Much Much More

There are some interesting comments on Mitch Wagner’s article about High Fidelity, which I blogged about yesterday. The comments demonstrate that some people don’t realise how vast Second Life is in terms of range of content and they also demonstrate that some people simply do not like the idea of an open ended platform.

The first comment I’ll highlight is this one:

Second Life would have fared better if it had appealed to MMORPG fans, the primary proven market for such activities. Philip Rosedale, you need orcs.

The thing is Second Life has Orcs! Second Life also has Elves, Wizards, Dragons, Halflings … whom you should be really careful around and all sorts of other weird and wonderful characters. Indeed my favourite Second Life event of the year is Fantasy Faire.

Kaylewuffel has a nice video from the Lumenaria Sim at Fantasy Faire 2013.

etheriaparrott has a video of The Atomic Kitties of Rynn Verwood and Lauren Thibaud on stage at the event:

Draxtor Despres covered the event in The Drax Files episode 4 and highlighted via his interview with Zander Greene how Second Life can be an excellent platform for charity fundraising.

I could go on and on … no really, I could, I love Fantasy Faire!

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February 23, 2011March 23, 2012

Fantasy Faire 2011

As some of you may know, inworld I’m an evil Drow Lord with minions working for me, plotting world domination and fighting the forces of goodness …well that’s not quite the story but don’t believe Tweets from people like Lady Sakai or Constanza Amsterdam who describe me as a sweety! I’m a Lord dammit! Anyway to this end, I’m very interested in the Inworld Fantasy Faire event, it’s also linked to good causes and of course, should be good fun and although it doesn’t start until April, I thought I’d post a heads up now. Although I’m not involved at all in organising this event, I do have notecards and information, so feel free to IM me for the info.

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