What Could Possibly Go Wrong At A Festival?

[dr_pretentious]

Okay, festival-going folks, I need to collect potential incidents for the Sebastian novella. What are the weirdest, most high-stakes, most improbable, most hilarious and/or most dangerous things you’ve seen happen at a festival? What interesting disasters have you seen averted, or had a hand in averting? Please don’t use names or identifying details, because I don’t want to be party to accidentally upsetting, embarrassing, or libeling anyone. I just need some ingredients to zizz together in the Cuisinart of my fictioneering brain so I can make some story pesto. If in doubt, please respond privately.

Comments

[citabria]

Oh my -- you should get in touch with Eve on this. Some of my favorites:

There was the first year a certain festival invoked the fae during main ritual; a couple's child (pre-teen) went missing for over a day. She was finally found, but not until much, much panicking had been had.

The next time the same festival invoked the fae during main ritual someone coded in the dining room, among other things (it was a very eventful festival, not in a good way).

Someone's already mentioned the words "scooter" and "penis" in the same sentence. Enough said.

I'm blanking on the details, but there was a group of hipsters (4 I think, all wearing very ... unique clothing) who crashed the festival, leading to several golf carts filled with security people patrolling camp and giving occasional radio updates about the search.

Someone retired from the Army being on security and taking part in that (and other searches), leading to radio communications such as, "subject located and closing at 100 yards."

I wish I could remember more -- there are so many!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

You have given me a lovely car-chase-like scene that's fleshing itself out in my head. I may need to test drive a segway to get that scene right.

What did the hipsters hope to accomplish? Ogling naked people? Why do the cowans even want to try? Naked people at festival look like actual, non-Photoshopped humans who don't work in Hollywood.

It must be terribly disappointing for them to sneak into a festival and see that a third of the population is in their normal street clothes, a third is wearing stuff that's eccentric but affords widespread protection from sunburn, and most of the remaining 33% that's naked is old enough to be the intruders' parents.

[citabria]

Honestly, I have no idea what they thought they were doing. The only thing I can think (and I don't know this for sure) is that they came for a concert the night before and didn't want to leave -- and didn't want to pay to be there. I'll try to remember to ask Teem if he has a better recollection of the whole episode.