delight_in_wt | 7 Oix 4385: The Naked Parade

To My Favorite Coz, Delight-in-Surprise:

I am glad to hear that you can find some pleasure in the seasson of Far Too Much Flokin, coz. I do wish I could share your enthusiasm, but the best I can manage is Delight in Cold Water -- a taste for which we do indeed have in common at the present time. If the airship docks were closer to the lake, I'd be a happier Khtsoyis still.

But Oix has brought one pleasant surprise for me: Song-of-Songs has obtained employment for Don't Go in It's a Tarp!, in the form of performing at Daukrhame's quasi-annual Naked Parade. Wherein everyprime participant assembles before the First Dangerous Courthouse, there to shed all their clothing (and, for the truly dedicated and/or overheated, fur) and run the streets to the lake, typically just ahead of local law enforcement. Daukhrame has rather inflexible ideas about when nudity is and is not appropriate, and even the heat of Oix is not sufficient to make the city council to part with their ideals (although more than enough for the local Orren to part with ideals and clothes alike). The Naked Parade explicitly does not get an exemption from Daukrhame's standards of decency. But I am assured there are a number of Naked Parade sympathisers in the guard, and there's a certain amount of subterfuge amongst participants involving strategic use of Illusidor, which combines to make successful arrests unlikely. The event organizers raise funds to cover the fines of those unlucky souls who are captured.

Not that this is anything I need fear personally. As the entertainment rather than the parade-runners, Don't Go in It's a Tarp! will be performing in our usual state of dress. We're to perform one set during the parade itself, stationed at an empty lot to offer the runners encouragement and ridicule to their detractors. Once the parade ends at the lake, we will decamp to the beach, there to perform two more sets.

I don't mind saying that I am quite looking forward to the event! Our honorarium is modest, but the crowd will be far more diverse -- and larger! -- than our usual. The exposure should be good for us, even if we shan't be exposing ourselves in the fashion of the other attendees. Also, the event is dominated by Orren and attracts comparatively few of my own kind, so I daresay Ioste and Orziman shall be relieved by the change of pace.

I hope all goes well in solving the Mystery of the Furstylists, Dee. At the least, it sounds less hazardous than your adventures of last month.

Your devoted coz,
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