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[enigmaestro]

Who: Everyone at the State Island Renn Faire.
When: From noon 4/29 to 11:59pm 5/2
Where: Staten Island.
Summary: Reality is temporarily broken as demonic forces accidentally make a Renn Faire very real.
Warnings: None?
Format: Whatever thou doth deign upon.

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[acahellyeah]

Andy was not usually easy to miss. His clothing was colorful, a dark blue with a lavender vest and red leathery trousers -- merry as a minstrel should be. He cheerfully strummed a mandolin, bouncing around from place to place to serenade passersby and making conversation between verses. He loved Ren Faires, but there'd never been good ones in Scranton. This was so far up his alley it might as well have mugged him.

"Hey! Hello!" Maybe Olde English wasn't his forte; he just strummed more, wandering the fair and greeting people with a friendly wave. "Good day! Wouldst thou like some music?"

is this before the magic took hold, i'm guessing?

[nottheanswers]

Noisily ringing his bell and shouting his hear-ye-hear-ye's, Vic spotted Andy strumming a tune and decided to say hi.

"Hail and well met, good minstrel! What news of the day do you bear?"

yep!

[acahellyeah]

Andy paused mid-strum, looking over and waving.

"Good news and only good news, sir! That's the only kind of news I care to bear." He brushed his fingers over the mandolin strings. "I'm sure you've got the bad news more than covered."

[nottheanswers]

He stopped ringing the bell and adjusted his hat as he took the liberty to break character.

"Well, figure someone has to in a joint like this. Brings me back to the old days, though my outfits weren't quite as ridiculous back then."

[acahellyeah]

"Ridiculous?" Andy looked down at their clothing, which -- while period appropriate -- he was relatively fond of. "Eccentric, maybe. But it looks good. Were you a reporter or something?"

[nottheanswers]

"Yeah, well, when in Rome." He took off his feathered cap and dusted it of a bit. He stopped himself to wonder if it wouldn't be more appropriate if it were dustier.

"For twenty years I was. Still used to do some freelance work before..." He paused, unsure if he'd ever told Andy about his cancer. If not, this didn't seem like the right time to get into it. He wasn't in the mood "...I had a more pressing job to do, about a year before I showed up here."

[acahellyeah]

"Twenty years? That's awesome." Andy raised his eyebrows, impressed. "You know, I thought about going into communications. But it wasn't really for me. Too much writing anyway."

[nottheanswers]

"Well, I've told you before I was in TV news." He puts his hat back on and decided to try to stop fidgeting with it. It wasn't like his fedora and that made him uneasy. "It's more about speaking than writing, though that does come into play to some degree. But how what you write will be read is the important part, so there are certain nuances to it."

[acahellyeah]

"Oh, right." Andy rubbed the back of his neck, nodding. "Can't do that really well either, personally. You need a certain charm to be on the news. I bet a good-looking guy like you'd kill out there. What'd you give it up for?"

[nottheanswers]

That hit a bit too close. Definitely not the time, he'd have to find a way to deflect. "I left my regular gig ten years ago after I left Hub. When I quit freelancing, it was for personal reasons."

[acahellyeah]

"Oh. Yeah, I hear you. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do." Andy nodded enthusiastically, easily rolling with the deflection.

[nottheanswers]

"Yeah, the circumstances didn't leave me many options." Moving on... "One thing I've been curious about, if you had the chance to do anything, what would it be? You seem to have taken to music pretty well."

[acahellyeah]

"Music's totally my passion. I mean, ideally I could do like... Broadway or something," Andy admitted, rubbing the back of his neck, "but what I'm doing now is cool too. I'm way better around people when there's an instrument in between, you know?

[nottheanswers]

"I could see that being true." He always thought Andy seemed a little unsure of how to deal with people, but he'd never say as much. "Plus, I'm sure it doesn't hurt that it shows off what you can do in the process."

[acahellyeah]

"Yeah, believe me, I don't mind people thinking I'm talented." Andy beamed, strumming his mandolin again in a twangy Billy Joel refrain. "Plus it's always a great ice-breaker."

[nottheanswers]

"Oh, I've noticed." He crossed his arms and smiled. "Though they wouldn't have to think it if you're showing them that it's a truth."