Performance and Dreamcatchers

[pipers_son]

Who: Joker, those working entertainment, and whoever wants to do fun arts and crafts
When: The day after the orientation, and then after the ringmaster's announcement
Where: The Big Tent and one of the side stages, respectively
What: Joker gets his performing ducks all in a row, and then does an arts and crafts corner. As you do. Mingle log!

At around ten in the morning, as he told a few other workers and anyone who'd been listening in on the walkie talkies, Joker starts to radio in those who are working under him to meet up in the big top. Hope you had breakfast and not a hangover! Of course, for anyone who tries not to attend, Joker will cheerfully hunt them down and bother them into going.

Sorry, mandatory, you know how it is.

It's later in the day, after the ringleaders' own announcement, that eventually Joker makes another of himself, this time to the general channel. It's an invitation to one of the side stages to make dreamcatchers together, for anyone who still craves company or simply doesn't know what the hell a dreamcatcher even is. Along with that, Joker has taken it upon himself to make sure signs advertising this are plastered all over the carnival.

He drew them himself. Please appreciate the scribbled stars.

Comments

[atouts]

[ Childermass hasn't gone too far from the stage since this morning, when Joker first called all of his new employees together. He hasn't been working on dreamcatchers, however. Instead, he's at the other end of the table, taking up space while writing away in a little leather-bound memorandum book. His own, though he's borrowed a new-fangled (that is to say, modern) pen from the mass of arts and crafts supplies scattered about.

And though he was at least aware of Jou Shan being nearby (he's hardly oblivious), he doesn't actually look up until she speaks up about her own work. ]

Oh? Have you made one of these before?

[ Because Childermass? Childermass has not. He knows nothing of dreamcatchers, save for what he's witnessed here already. ]

[mistweaver]

A few, yes! Mostly when I spent some time in Thunder Bluff. The Tauren there are very good at that--they are more a spiritual symbol to them, I think, perhaps. I respect that, or try, but I do not quite revere dreamcatchers as they do. But I am not shaman, either. I might, if I were.

[She seems to be able to talk and work at the same time; happily nattering away at Childermass while she twists wire into the center web, adorning it with her multihued beads. Jou is also eyeing another tray, this one with clear crystal and smoky quartz beads in them. Probably plotting another dreamcather even as they speak...]

[atouts]

A spiritual symbol?

[ But for what?

Aside from something to do with dreams. That much he can surmise on his own. He'll take one last moment to finish writing what he'd been in the middle of before, then tuck the book and pen both away into a pocket. The little book safely put aside, he's free to get up and move down a few chairs to sit by Jou instead.

It gives him a better look at what she's doing to make these things. ]

Is that all they are? Wrapped hoops with wire in between?