Enjoy Your Faire Part 3

Stage 3: Seasoning
Seasoning takes another 3 years or so. Learning where all the pubs are and where all the returning entertainment appears becomes easy. During this time you start seeing atmosphere at the Festival that you hadn't before. . . small details that elude the wide-eyed folks who are still marveling in just what a RenFaire is.

Its during this period that your garb grows even further because you had to buy special Pyrate garb for Pyrate Weekend, maybe a Kilt for Scottish Weekend, and you're starting to research on ebay about just what kind of Oktoberfest Renaissance stuff you could get!

By this time, you've got a seasoned mug on your belt, there's a dozen Renaissance-themed books in your library, and you no longer need a cheat sheet of lyrics to follow along at PubSing. In fact at this point, you might even know a castmember outside of faire or at the very least be able to recognize them in their mundanes on the street.


The Black Fox's RenFaire Addict Questionaire applies to you:

According to Sir Black Fox, You Might Have An Addiction to Renaissance Festivals if. . .
. . . a month after the season closes, you still find yourself yelling "Huzzah!" at any live performance.

. . . re-watch any Tudor-themed movie and get misty-eyed.

. . . have Faire characters in your dreams, then wake up and whisper to your significant other "I see Renaissance People!"

. . . a CD with bagpipe has a permanent disc place in your car's CD changer.

. . . you constantly go back to your local Faire homepage to check for any changes whatsoever.

. . . spend more than three hours of your life each year trying to find new ways to take time off your travel to Faire.

. . . upon hearing any Jeopardy question about Henry VIII, your ears twitch and your head tilts like the RCA dog's.

. . . your Newsgroup Filter only allows posts with "Faire" in the subject line.

. . . when you refer to karoke at any bar as "PubSing."

. . . out of instinct, you check where you put your mug after using any port-a-pot, anywhere.

. . . you refer to any month that's not August-October as "off-season."

. . . when you meet any castmember outside of Faire and they DON'T use their faire accent, you're disappointed.

. . . you proofread all your children's material when they're involved in a Medieval/Renaissance unit at school.

. . . you look for yourself in the background of Faire photos posted on the web.

. . . when you put away your ren garb for the year and find a pebble in your shoe from Faire, you put it in a jewelry box.

Stay Tuned for Part 4 tomorrow!