Okay, so we've got this problem... Phoenyx t-shirts don't work well with
festival garb. Karen's been talking about doing a tasteful phoenix on our
cloaks (I figure we should have guardsman garb, and we'd be the Phoenyx
Guards) but that's not going to work for everybody.
I've been skimming alt.fairs.renaissance today and apparently AFR does
what they call "Invasions", where AFR readers meet at renfairs. (Now
that's cool... an online community that's already associated with
gatherings of people in RL.) Apparently, what AFR does is have *pins*...
not sure if they're enameled or what, but they have a "base" pin to which
are attached "danglies" (official term) for each fair or festival. (It
looks like you get the base pin to identify yourself to the group, but the
danglies don't seem to be available until after the event, so I guess you
can tell which events people have been to when you run into them later.)
The Invasion thing has its own website... www.afr-invastions.org.
What's weird is, they have *web forums*. For a community formed around a
*newsgroup*.
They have multiple organized photo opportunties at the next upcoming
Invasion (Maryland), but ask no more than *forty* persons (or otters, as
they call themselves) per photo.
Anyway, they also have Ren.Geek pins, which apparently some guy that runs
a pewter foundry makes and gives away free to "otters" who can answer a
simple quiz (to indicate that they're really AFR readers). This isn't the
same thing as the Invasion pin.
But, I think pewter would be cool, if we could make them or have them made
in time.
Enameled in the proper fiery colors would be even cooler, but more
expensive and I'm sure couldn't be made in time.
As a last resort, I've got a Badge-a-Minute.
Whadda y'all think?
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