On an entirely different note, I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for the last few days. Our festival isn't only two people going into an arena and beating the stuffing out of each other after all, but we also wanted to include theater, music and proto-opera performances.
So here is my suggestions:
We give a play in the harbor on two ships, acting out a Braavosi play with generous helpings of magic. We erect a few wooden stands in the harbor for the live audience and, of course, transmit everything by mirror to the rest of the realm.
The play itself is about a dashing Braavosi smuggler and his distinctly Ghiscari business partner, who is a pirate most of the time and known to raid for slaves now and then.
The two of them have been doing a bit of business for a while, but when they meet this time, the Ghiscari has an odd addition to his crew. His wife was murdered recently by a rival and to protect her, he has now taken his beautiful daughter on his ship for safekeeping.
Obviously our Braavosi and the Ghiscari Princess fall in love and start a tryst that they keep secret from the Ghiscari Captain.
Then the Captain offers the Braavosi a great opportunity. Smuggle some slaves for him. The Braavosi agrees, planning to hoodwink his partner and use the money to run away with his daughter.
Obviously, the Braavosi's crew is pissed at the idea, but he manages to sweet talk them into it, asking them again and again what's so bad about transporting them, and what could even go wrong, telling them to think about the money.
He tells the Ghiscari Princess about this and she, who isn't a fan of slavery either, is disappointed in him and breaks up with him.
In her sorrow, her father notices that something is wrong and in a moment of weakness, she tells the Captain that the Braavosi tried to steal from him.
Now it's the Captains turn to be livid and he attacks the Braavosi's ship, planning to enslave the treacherous bastard and selling him as an eunuch for touching his daughter.
A big naval battle starts, in the middle of it, the Braavosi and the Captain fight on planks between the ships.
But just as the Captain overpowers the Braavosi, his daughter has a change of heart and jumps in between, taking the strike meant for her beloved. She is wounded and will soon bleed out.
The Captain is shocked by this and the Braavosi manages to kill him.
The play ends with everyone except the Braavosi and the Princess dead, both ships on fire and slowly beginning to drift away from the docks.
They sing the last aria together, the Princess voice slowly failing until she goes silent, the Braavosi singing the last sorrowful lines alone as the burning ships sink beneath the waves.
All of this acted out with two genuine ships in our harbor, magic supplying the necessary voice amplification, fire and making the ships safely sink.
Meanwhile, Viserys and Lya watch the play from a bog standard balcony on a nearby SSE or ACSEC owned building. They have a little picnic while under the effect of a
Invisibility Sphere, so that they can enjoy the play in peace without the weight of the world on their shoulders.
It will be just like their first shared Unmasking in Braavos or the the dance on the roof in Volantis.
And if anyone has any better suggestions to when and how to propose to Lya, I'm all ears, because otherwise, this is perfect.
@DragonParadox, can we do this?
Before I was joking, but with the sept basically dead center in heretic land, and the local septons getting very very used to magic and blood magic, would we be able to sell it?
