Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page117 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n song, dance, music, stories, magicians, comedy skits or anything really.<\/p>\n The name is borrowed from the old days when pubs might have had an \u201copen mic\u201d session. Not that many people know exactly what a microphone is \u2026 or was!<\/p>\n Michael Rafone is the Master of Ceremonies for the evening, and on a Saturday everybody\u2019s allowed to call him \u201cOpenMike\u201d. On a Sunday he\u2019s back to being Mr Rafone when he helps with the local Sunday League. The local archery practice! He says that citizens have to be good at archery. When faced with threatening raiders from Worringfolk it\u2019s no good kicking an inflated pig\u2019s bladder at them he says!<\/p>\n MaxChaos is a brilliant archer, and occasionally he too helps with the local Sunday League. On other Sundays he\u2019s off into the forest hunting deer. A side hustle which brings in a welcome bit of extra cash. A big carcass is worth a lot, the meat, the hide, and even the bones are tradeable goods.<\/p>\n Having a night out on a Saturday is a tradition throughout Wolfland. Even on board ships things usually stop at 19:00 on a Saturday, for anyone and everyone to take their turn to entertain.<\/p>\n The ship\u2019s navigator JumpingJack is the first person to perform a skit this evening. A gregarious fellow, and a regular performer, JumpingJack reminds the crew that \u201claughing at my jokes is compulsory!\u201d Then, with not a moment\u2019s pause he immediately launches into his latest, hastily composed fisherman\u2019s tale.<\/p>\n The Dubious Story of The Barrel of Laughs<\/strong><\/p>\n Back in the mists of time, long before The Decimation, back when the coast of Wolfland was very different to the way it is today, there was a small sleepy village \u2026 called Blackpool \u2026\u00a0 where nothing ever happened. As predictable as the tide, but twice as noisy, the village came alive every Saturday evening for its one and only weekly spectacle The Great Barrel Roll<\/em>.<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page117 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page117 \u2013 Next song, dance, music, stories, magicians, comedy skits or anything really. The name is borrowed from the old days when pubs might have had an \u201copen mic\u201d session. Not that many people know exactly what a microphone is \u2026 or was! Michael Rafone is the Master of Ceremonies for the … Continue reading “Chapter 15 A Barrel of Laughs117”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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