{"id":5904,"date":"2017-04-21T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:54:47","slug":"never-trust-an-elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5904","title":{"rendered":"Never Trust an Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Fairechylde\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33779465560\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2942\/33779465560_5cba840b4c.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Fairechylde\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had arrived at Fantasy Faire in very good spirits and promptly made my way to The FaireChylde to celebrate the opening of the faire. A DJ merrily played some tunes, not good old bawdy tavern tunes, but decent foot tapping tunes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for going somewhere that played music was because I knew that it would diminish the sound of any bloody awful singing from Elves, there are always Elves, strange ears and a distinct lack of beards I should add.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Keeping an eye out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33781569840\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2878\/33781569840_b8db5d35f1.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Keeping an eye out\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly Elves appeared aboard The FaireChylde, they even danced rather well, although I kept a beady eye on them in case they tried any of their magical tricks.<\/p>\n<p>I felt secure aboard The FaireChylde, after all there were plenty of humans, wizards and all sorts of wonderful races there, I knew they wouldn&#8217;t allow Elves to do me any harm, indeed the Elves even started talking to me, asking me where I was staying for the duration of the faire. I informed them that I had not yet found a suitable tavern and then they told me they knew a great place with plenty of lodging, they pointed me in the direction of a place called <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/san-mora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I should have known better, but the faire has a way of seducing you and putting you in a happy mood. I followed the advice from The Elves and found myself here :<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Destruction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/34141143176\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2931\/34141143176_7520d5e4fa.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Destruction\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was &#8220;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My second reaction was &#8220;Bloody Elves!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I soon discovered that I was in an area that had been quarantined following a deadly contagion. Strange buildings, strange vehicles and people, I assume humans, wearing strange outfits and masks.<\/p>\n<p>A sign advised me to go to the docks. I haven&#8217;t yet found the docks, I&#8217;m not even sure how I get out of this place, there&#8217;s a distinct lack of mead, taverns, beards, but on the plus side, I haven&#8217;t encountered any Elves yet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Evacuation Notice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/34050754751\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2836\/34050754751_6f33135626.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Evacuation Notice\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never trust an Elf. You&#8217;ve been warned. Now, where are these docks?<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/<\/a> to read about all the Fantasy Faire happenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had arrived at Fantasy Faire in very good spirits and promptly made my way to The FaireChylde to celebrate the opening of the faire. A DJ merrily played some tunes, not good old bawdy tavern tunes, but decent foot tapping tunes. One of the reasons for going somewhere that played music was because I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never Trust an Elf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[159,375,535,130,3,14],"tags":[131,1133,19,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1xe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}