Hydaelyn Role-Players

I'm going to put the TL;DR to the beginning here for those with limited time to read my longwinded and babbling posts :p.

TL;DR - Would there be any interest amongst the RP community (on either server; I'd love to hear opinions from both) in a travelling performance/carnival/circus/street entertainers style FC or LS?

I don't have a name for it yet, but I've been toying with this for a while and figured it would be a good idea to simply go ahead and ask the community for feedback on it to see whether it's something people would be interested in doing or seeing.

The company would be based around the idea of a group of travelling performers with a strong focus on small-scale street entertainment, maybe a carnival/fair kind of set up and (depending on interest) possibly more formal shows. Basically the troupe would be a gathering of performers bound together under one company name, travelling from place to place to put on shows or random, small-scale performances such as the kind of entertainment you might find on street corners. The group might include performers such as jugglers, dancers, mimes, magicians, sword swallowers, fire eaters and so on, maybe even a bit of street theatre if there were enough people interested in doing it. As well as that I can see merchants, craftsmen and traders possibly being part of the group; setting up shop wherever the troupe stops, putting out stalls and hawking their wares, and maybe also having fortune tellers, games of chance and other novelty things going on too. It may be a bit ambitious given the lack of visual effects to help with this, but RP is pretty much about using your imagination so I'm sure we could find a way to make things work.

I have characters on both Balmung and Gilgamesh and I don't know which server I'd look at doing this on (which is another reason I'd like to hear feedback before making any decisions), but is this something that would interest anyone?

I think this is an amazing idea, and I'm willing to lend my support on Balmung.

Please don't use the word gypsy, it's considered offensive/pejorative/a slur by many Romani. It's controversial, but when in doubt, better not!

If this takes off the ground maybe it could somehow be integrated into a market/bazaar-type event? Open markets seem like a good spot for street/nomadic/traveling performers in general.

Yes!! I'm excited to see this because my character IS from a traveling circus and it's a huge part of her history/concept. In fact, I was about to start posting up her story here in the next day or two, and the entire thing is about her time at the carnival. 

She is already part of a free company, but could I participate anyway?

I'm all for this, it sounds like good fun!

(10-24-2013, 03:02 PM)Lament Wrote: [ -> ]Please don't use the word gypsy, it's considered offensive/pejorative/a slur by many Romani. It's controversial, but when in doubt, better not!

If this takes off the ground maybe it could somehow be integrated into a market/bazaar-type event? Open markets seem like a good spot for street/nomadic/traveling performers in general.

It's not my intention to cause offence so, done.

As for the market/bazaar type event, I can definitely see something like this being involved in some way, either setting up themselves or attending someone else's.

(10-24-2013, 03:07 PM)Aureliya Wrote: [ -> ]Yes!! I'm excited to see this because my character IS from a traveling circus and it's a huge part of her history/concept. In fact, I was about to start posting up her story here in the next day or two, and the entire thing is about her time at the carnival. 

She is already part of a free company, but could I participate anyway?

That would be fine. I'll probably start it up as a LS to start with and then turn to a FC once there are enough people. ICly I'm sure we can find a way for those with affiliations elsewhere to be involved too.

Right now I'm mostly trying to gauge interest before I jump in with both feet. Its encouraging to see so many responses so fast.

(10-24-2013, 03:12 PM)Swygrael Wrote: [ -> ]As for the market/bazaar type event, I can definitely see something like this being involved in some way, either setting up themselves or attending someone else's.

Well, I'm willing to help organize, if you're willing to be involved, so let me know! I have an organization which, IC, is willing to sponsor things like this, since it tends to cost money to run. They could help with funding the bazaar, ICly. c:

I have a character who's taken up dancing and otherwise songstress-shenanigry in her life, though she hasn't officially preformed anywhere.

It might be fun to get her involved in this as some sort of official debut?

She also currently owns a teashop and, gil wise, lives a fairly comfortable lifestyle. I'd imagine she'd be more than happy to sponsor!

(I am on Balmung and her name is Ophelia De'winter in game. Wiki here! )

I'm glad I looked here before posting anywhere because I recently came up with a very similar idea of creating a performing troupe except for mine I was thinking less of a circus and more of a theater/music/dance group and it would simply be a LS.  Perhaps we can combine our ideas in some way?

(10-28-2013, 05:32 PM)Symphony Wrote: [ -> ]I'm glad I looked here before posting anywhere because I recently came up with a very similar idea of creating a performing troupe except for mine I was thinking less of a circus and more of a theater/music/dance group and it would simply be a LS.  Perhaps we can combine our ideas in some way?

I'm not completely settled on what or how to do it yet, whether a circus or a performance troupe but I would definitely be up for combining ideas. We should talk more. My character on Balmung is Arianna Nightingale. I only recently rolled her but feel free to give me a nudge some time, or send me a message on here - I check this site pretty frequently. I'll try and send you a message tomorrow (assuming I can still coherently string sentences together tomorrow with this cold). So far I have a name in mind and a vague idea of what I want to do and how but I'm still rolling ideas around for the most part - I would definitely welcome another person to bounce ideas off and/or work with.

Thanks for the feedback guys, its nice to see some enthusiasm for the idea. I am going to go ahead and do this, since there seems to be a little bit of interest in it. I'll get in touch with the people who have already posted in this thread, but if anyone else is interested in this (and in particular interested in helping found the troupe), please feel free to get in touch with Rhaq'a Chalahko in game, or send me a message here (Swygrael) and I'll get back to you. It might take me a little while to get things rolling but if anyone interested in this would be up for some impromptu RP in the meantime, please feel free to get in touch.

Thank you again for taking the time to reply to this post. Much appreciated.