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.

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Big bonfire in middle of festival, with smaller fires at the quarters. Much naked dancing. Someone decides to firewalk -- not on embers or coals, but on the fire itself. Medics -- while caring for burns and awaiting helicopter medevac -- send helpful bystanders to fetch clothes for patient & medics, so they will not need to meet medevac crew naked.
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Hurricane strikes autumn lakeside festival. Fire warden canoes through fire circle site.
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"Con crud" a familiar post-festival malady --- until the year the main rit is organized using separate cups for each participant, rather than having 80+ share common cup.

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"This looks like a job for emergency pants!" (Alas, the Sluggy Freelance webcomic site is having internal server issues, or there would be a link here.)

I think I've written my hurricane story for this series, but I have to say, the fire warden canoeing through the fire circle site is a lovely image. (Somewhere I have pictures of my sister-in-law sea-kayaking on a golf course.)

Ah, epidemiological clue! As much as I admire a great deal in paleopagan cultures, I am a big fan of germ theory.