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Fantasydays 2010 – Day 2
2 October 2010 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, Oct 2, 2010 * Workshops – Medieval market – Party
When we arrived at the Novotel right on time at around half past nine on Saturday, part of the team who had stayed at the hotel was already waiting for us. So we hurriedly tidied up the booth, put all the sabers in their places and checked that they worked, since everything had to be perfect when the doors opened and the Fantasydays began that day.
Gradually the first visitors found their way to our booth, and we soon realized that it probably wouldn't get as busy as we had expected. So after a while, small groups kept breaking away from the booth to explore the grounds.
Pretty quickly we had gotten an overview and roamed through the fan rooms with exhibitors and vendors, the games room where various consoles could be tried out, and the medieval market on the square in front of the Novotel.
There, various stalls offered unusual goods: from drinking horns, medieval hats and sheepskins to jewelry and mead. The atmosphere here was completely different from the busy fan rooms. Vendors, exhibitors and guests sat under canopies and in tents in their robes, praising their goods for sale or staging small fights with LARP weapons.
When we showed up there with our lightsabers, we got the odd skeptical look, but also found lots of interested people, so Jana was soon drawn into a spontaneous lightsaber fight.
While one part of the team was having fun and dueling at the medieval market, the other part held down the fort at the booth. By now, some curious people had gathered there who wanted to take part in our workshop. So Markus and Jana, who had found her way back to the booth by now, headed down to the basement of the Stadthalle with the interested participants:
There, lots of space and few visitors offered the opportunity to spin and try out a lightsaber. After the two had explained the basics of the attack-block system as well as simple spins, everyone practiced hard in pairs and spun to their heart's content. So we successfully completed the first workshop and, despite the low number of visitors, were happy about the lively interest in lightsabers.
Around noon we went looking for something to eat. Since we didn't want to walk all the way to the pizzeria in Neuss again, we got discount vouchers and picked up Asian noodles sold in the hotel.
Refreshed, we tackled the afternoon, still without having to deal with very many visitors. When our first performance approached, we went to the changing rooms and left the booth to Timo, who accompanied us at the Fantasydays and gave us a lot of support.
During our show, too, most of the chairs were empty, so we fought our way through our program in front of quite a small audience, but were still happy with ourselves and pleased to find that our new stage program was received enthusiastically here too.
Just like the night before, the Ring-Stars performed their new rock theater „Das Schicksal von Cysalion“ at eight o'clock. But since we had already seen this masterpiece at the premiere on Friday, we stayed at our booth after the rooms closed and had a small team-only celebration of the successful Saturday with mead and music, until one of the helpers came and kindly and regretfully asked us to go to the foyer and let our booth have its well-deserved night's rest.
Since there wasn't much left for us to do, some of us soon drove to Andre's place, while the rest stayed at the hotel and partied late into the night in the hotel lobby with the Ring-Stars, who were toasting their successful second performance.
