The Gubby's Ho Ho Hoe-Down Holiday Parade!

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The Gubby's Ho Ho Hoe-Down Holiday Parade!

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The Gubby’s Ho Ho Hoe-Down Holiday Parade!

Leading off with the RhyDin High School Majorettes, the Dragons Marching Band will perform “Electric Hoe-down” on entirely acoustic instruments - introducing this year’s holiday parade theme: Down Home Holidays! Bring all the tacky and kitsch fun and march in the parade!

Starting at the Marketplace downtown, the Parade will end at the Winter Wonderland holiday festival, where parade participants and audience alike may enjoy the sights and smells and tastes of the holidays.

The Society of Practical Krampus will be collecting bad children as they make their way down the parade route, and the Haxxan Choreographed Witches will be stirring the pot as they groove on down the road. Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, a giant fluffy tabby of DOOM, will be making sure that everyone has gotten new clothing for the Holiday, too!

Hotei-osho, one of the seven gods of Fortune, portrayed by our own Eregor, will be riding in a vintage convertible Datsun Fairlady and tossing small stuffed animals and good fortune as he heads down the parade. Hanukkah Harry will toss out geld from a classic Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.

Our fearless Governor Pharlen VonTombs will be riding in the iconic Beverly Hillbillies open truck, tossing candies to the crowd from a precariously perched rocking chair, with her husband Jack VonTombs driving and her children secured in various places on the truck.

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Bringing up the end of the parade will be our own Shirtless Santa, Jochin Nagadari, who will be in a glorious red convertible Dodge Phoenix drawn by eight gorgeous Centaur lads and lasses! They will be tossing candy canes, holiday themed beads and crackers to the crowd, and later, will pose for photos with all the holiday icons!

There will be free hot chocolate, cookies, and coffee for parade goers and participants alike at the Winter Wonderland main area! Jólakötturinn will oversee the handing out of coats, scarves, hats, and gloves to those that need them.

So: Bring your wagons, your dance troupes, your youth club groups, your classic cars, your bikes and trikes and dancing dogs! All faiths and none are entirely welcome! Sign up and get into formation, the parade begins at 6 RhyDin Time and ends when Shirtless Santa reaches Winter Wonderland!

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(NPC event! Post in your parade crew or your watching duds and experiences. :3 It’s a kitschy HillBilly theme, so go wild with it. :D Jochin (ab)used with permission. Admire his manly abs and savory gun show! Let me know if you have a character or NPC who would like to portray Hotei-osho or Hanukkah Harry. :D Or add in your own holiday icon! )
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A massive boulder wearing a festive Santa hat and an angry glare chased the Miskatonic University of Old Market Archaeology Department out of their holiday party and all the way down the parade route, managing to avoid collateral damage along the way (for the most part*).

The terrified professors, TAs, and undergrad research students emptied their holiday gift bags as an attempt at distracting the boulder, flinging many candies into the crowd by accident, while others were ground into peppermint dust under its weight. When the boulder reached Winter Wonderland, enterprising mages erected a reinforced ice wall that smashed it to dust, revealing its hollow inside to be filled with candy canes, chocolate bars, and King’s Gambit and House of Things-branded merchandise including sweatshirts, frisbees, keychains, and koozies.

Olaf von Trunk has refused to clarify whether this constitutes a parade float, a vendetta against the Miskatonic at Old Market Archaeology Department, or some terrifying combination of the two.

((*If you would like your character and/or their float to be adversely affected by the boulder, short of death, feel free!))
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Though Mist had hitched up Steven and Greg to the wagon, which the kids of the village had decorated along with Amaris's help, they stopped him before he could take the horses's leads and handed him a pole on which was mounted a decorated horse skull.

Mist stared at the kids for a long while.

"It's the Gray Mare! She goes around and sings at your door and if she beats you at a song, then you have to give her food and drink," the eldest girl explained.

"There's special songs for her!" Amaris added, opening You Tube to play the melodies.

"...And I am to be the Gray Mare," Mist inquired, his brows quirked.

"'Course, you're the tallest!"

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With that sorted out, the wagon full of kids soon pulled into line in the parade. They threw candy canes and small straw stars to the audience as they passed by. Behind them, because neither Greg nor Steven was having any of this bizarre gray mare, Mari Lwyd and a few attendants danced around, singing the lively wassailing songs.

Every now and then, Mari Lwyd would notice the large Angry Boulder of Christmas was coming on too fast and would gesture frantically at it to slow down, mainly because the panicky profs and such were getting under hoof. Mari Lwyd finally was yanked out of formation near to the festival grounds because someone had the great idea to build a huge ice wall.

Thankfully that worked instead of launching the rogue boulder into the air!
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Tippletoe was sporting some fancy Holiday Boots for the Parade. She and her cheery fiddle played all sorts of lovely holiday-themed music - until the boulder came. The small gnome was seen running in terror from the Angry Boulder of Christmas (ABC). Due to a serious of misfortunate events, her fiddle got caught between ABC and the ice wall, and was smashed to pieces!

The picture of resilience, she pulled out her ukulele instead.

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Free stuff? Eden is there! Parade floats and beads and music! She might eventually even come to like this fat-man holiday!



She'll be very disappointed to learn that Hanukkah Harry is throwing out chocolate coins though instead of actual gold coins. Oh well.
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A float joined the parade, representing Lucy's art gallery, PUBLIC.

The float was made up entirely of floating, multi-size spheres, lit up with twinkling and colorful lights.



The orbs seemed to float entirely on their own, but they were flanked by a handful of young men and women that were handing out clear, fillable tree-ornaments.



The ornaments each had a removable tag reading PUBLIC: an Art Gallery on one side, and on the other, Celebrate the season with your own artistic magic!
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Representing the Matadero Meat Company was a large open-bed trailer decorated in Christmas-y red and green pulled by one of the company cargo vans. The van was likewise tinseled and jingled, driven by what appeared to be a goblin who waved cheerily at everyone they rolled past. In the bed of the trailer was Mamorel Fiedlerson, the young half elf pig farmer responsible for raising the free range animals that Matadero slaughtered. Alongside her was one of the many sows that Matadero was famous for, also looking festive. Mamorel was dressed in her holiday finest and wearing the brightest of smiles, having perfected her pageant wave which she ceaselessly employed just for this occasion.



Two other goblins and a cow dressed in an enormous festive sweater were also clustered on the trailer with Mamorel. Running alongside the float were also a trio of large moss-coated canines with bushy green tails and intelligent eyes. The half elf and the goblin periodically flung trinkets into the crowd, such as fridge magnets advertising the Matadero Meat Company and 25% off Christmas ham coupons redeemable at the Matadero Carnicería located in the Old Market District (good through the end of the year). The cu sidhe stopped on occasion to allow children to pet them and always dashed off to catch up with the float without trouble, never straying far.

No, Salvador himself was not in attendance, as was to be expected. Representatives of the Carnicería, however, Boscoe and Lyle Stiggowitz, were additionally riding in the trailer and the van. They were present to toss free samples of plastic packaged chocolate covered bacon into the crowd as well as the coupons.
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