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Ardashir
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Posted - 23 Sep 2008 :  23:37:47  Show Profile  Visit Ardashir's Homepage Send Ardashir a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
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?

Wooly Rupert
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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
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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  Show Profile  Visit Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's Homepage Send Rinonalyrna Fathomlin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
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.

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Ardashir
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 :  16:56:48  Show Profile  Visit Ardashir's Homepage Send Ardashir a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 :  17:58:03  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 24 Sep 2008 17:58:50
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Ardashir
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Posted - 26 Sep 2008 :  17:23:37  Show Profile  Visit Ardashir's Homepage Send Ardashir a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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  Show Profile  Visit Nerfed2Hell's Homepage Send Nerfed2Hell a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Volo makes the best enemies.

Some people are like a slinky... not good for much, but when you push them down the stairs, it makes you smile.
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