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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 23 Sep 2008 : 23:37:47
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I was just looking at some of my Realms travelogues by Volo, and I noticed that the guy liked his festhalls. Not that I blame him. 
However, I was wondering: if you had to pick some of the best festhalls in the Realms, which would they be? And have you ever made up any fetshalls for your own campaigns?
If I had to go with just one, The Velvet Veil in Mistledale would be it. No crowds, nice meals to go along with the floor show, and dancers who put the exotic in 'exotic dancing'. Like the tabaxi woman. Meee-owwww...
What would your choices be?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 00:54:51
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The Blushing Mermaid in Waterdeep has always been one of my faves. I like the frolicking in water with mermaids idea. 
Another fave is Neverwinter's The Moonstone Mask. I like the Masks the ladies wear, and it just seems like a friendly, welcoming place -- a place to go relax, much like the home of a good friend. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 01:30:12
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The Warm Wondra's in Tantras. 'Tis a good example of a true festhall in the Realms.
From Ed:-
"The wildest festhall in Tantras, Warm Wondra’s, is also on Roardragon Way (the main street running along the southern edge of the docks), and it truly is a festhall: nightly shows are held there from dusk until dawn, beginning with contortionists, comedians, jugglers, and players who perform short bawdy works, and progressing through minstrels who put on rousing sequences of drinking and ‘slay the dragon’ songs, to a farce play involving maidens who get disrobed by monsters or villains (the audience is encouraged to boo, hiss, cheer, and even help deliver lines if they buy drinks for the actors), and finally to out-and-out exotic dancing and sex-for-coin activity (all of which is legal; the masked, cudgel-wielding Watch of Tantras are there -- just as they are on their frequent street, dockside, and tavern patrols -- to keep order, arresting persons who draw steel, wound others, or start fires, and ejecting the unruly onto the street)."
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 14:02:15
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Another fave is Neverwinter's The Moonstone Mask. I like the Masks the ladies wear, and it just seems like a friendly, welcoming place -- a place to go relax, much like the home of a good friend.
Yeah. I can't say I've ever thought much about what festhall I like best in the Realms, but I like the description of the Mask. |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:56:48
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
The Blushing Mermaid in Waterdeep has always been one of my faves. I like the frolicking in water with mermaids idea.
Another fave is Neverwinter's The Moonstone Mask. I like the Masks the ladies wear, and it just seems like a friendly, welcoming place -- a place to go relax, much like the home of a good friend.
Talking about Waterdeep's festhalls -- didn't Volo almost get killed for revealing that one such place had doppleganger 'girls' working there?
And I seem to recall something about a festhall that was run by a lich. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 17:58:03
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quote:
Originally posted by Ardashir
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
The Blushing Mermaid in Waterdeep has always been one of my faves. I like the frolicking in water with mermaids idea.
Another fave is Neverwinter's The Moonstone Mask. I like the Masks the ladies wear, and it just seems like a friendly, welcoming place -- a place to go relax, much like the home of a good friend.
Talking about Waterdeep's festhalls -- didn't Volo almost get killed for revealing that one such place had doppleganger 'girls' working there?
And I seem to recall something about a festhall that was run by a lich.
Right on both counts. The Hanging Lantern was the Unseen front Volo revealed, and the Blushing Mermaid is run by the archlich Lady Alathene Moonstar. |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 26 Sep 2008 : 17:23:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Ardashir
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
The Blushing Mermaid in Waterdeep has always been one of my faves. I like the frolicking in water with mermaids idea.
Another fave is Neverwinter's The Moonstone Mask. I like the Masks the ladies wear, and it just seems like a friendly, welcoming place -- a place to go relax, much like the home of a good friend.
Talking about Waterdeep's festhalls -- didn't Volo almost get killed for revealing that one such place had doppleganger 'girls' working there?
And I seem to recall something about a festhall that was run by a lich.
Right on both counts. The Hanging Lantern was the Unseen front Volo revealed, and the Blushing Mermaid is run by the archlich Lady Alathene Moonstar.
Hmm, dopplegangers and undead mages... Volo sure knows how to make enemies, doesn't he? |
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Nerfed2Hell
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Posted - 26 Sep 2008 : 17:42:41
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Great Festhalls of the Realms
