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Message: <blockquote data-quote="magnusmalkus" data-source="post: 6144047" data-attributes="member: 34915">Heyah Folks...I'm launching a brand spankin' new campaign and my PC's are on their first adventure.  The main adventure is a juiced up B4- The Lost City, and I'm using the adventure published in Dungeon Magazine #142 (2007) "Masque of Dreams".I'm fleshing out this somewhat-urban encounter setting. There's a street fair going in in a small oasis hamlet and the setting is ripe for juicy encounters... but not much is given in the Dungeon magazine and my creativity is dry... The setting is this:The party has been asked to escort some supplies out to a luxury oasis a few days journey away where the wealthy merchant class and noble aristocrats have gathered for a week-long revelry culminating in a masquerade ball where an event will occur to propel them into the main adventure... I have this FINAL event scripted but there's plenty of room for more fun-stuff the few days before the poop hits the fan with the street festival.The party arrives at Ashinanas Oasis where the adventure begins.  The oasis is about the size of a small hamlet. It exists in the lea of a huge rock cliff over a hundred feet high, at the base of which, running nearly the length of the cliff, is a crystal blue spring.There are a few  villas that stand out as the homes of what are probably very wealthy aristocrats and maybe a few retired military generals.  Tents and huts make up the remainder of the citizens/servants housing. There is one Inn, The Dancing Tabi near the fountain at the center of town.  A quaint adobe affair with one deluxe room making up a second floor.It is 3 days before Ashinana's big event and the festivities are well underway. The hamlet is swarming with followers, laborers, merchants, aristocrats, and personal bodyguards. The entire town is decorated in bright colors with flowers and ribbons attached to every post, sign, and cart all up and down the main strip.  Festivities are in full swing; those who are not relaxing at the spa and garden or partying at the Dancing Tabi, are walking the main road in town among the street performers, game barkers, and merchants.Jewelers, artists, perfumers, vinters, carvers, brewers, glassblowers, tinkerers, fakirs, chemists, fashion designers and an assortment of other craftsmen hock their wares from their tents.  Some people are dressed in their costumes, others wear fine garments. Even the peasants and servants are dressed appropriately for the festival (if not ridiculously).So... Beyond pickpockets and con-men... what else can I put in the players paths?  Anyone have any unique encounters that they've made up themselves or seen published anywhere else before specific to a Street Fair/Bazar/Masked Festival?Thanks in advance folk!MM</blockquote>

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