Orcadia

On Saturday, 7 June, we celebrated the second annual Værð, or Warming Day, in Orcadia with a dance and amusements. Wyre is just over a year old, and has been joined by Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm!

Edwina Heron, the Countess of Swoonsbury, set out amusements in Hoy, including two kinds of bumper vehicles and swan boats. Jameson Despres, the Thane of Shapinsay, arranged romantic settings throughout that island and below the waves. Muckle Green Holm was transformed into a sim-sized maze, a recreation of the maze created by the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. And Soliel Snook, the Marchioness of Giggleford, entertained an assembled party with ’80s pop and music. (Wings turned out to be the order of the day. Below the group shot are photos of me and of nox Pinion.)

You are most cordially invited to join the residents and friends of Orcadia (Wyre, Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm sims) for our national holiday, Værð, or Warming Day, on Saturday, 7 June, 2008. This holiday celebrates the first anniversary of the settlement of Wyre, and the recent addition of Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm.

For your entertainment and pleasure:

• Wyre dance floor, 10am-1pm SLT, dancing to music by Radio Riel presenter Soliel Snook (80s pop and dance has been requested)
• Hoy dance floor, metal tunes by Edwina Heron as the whim takes her
• A most impressive labyrinth in Muckle Green Holm, based on that of the Utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana
• A carnival on Hoy, all weekend
• Elven drums and gamelan orchestra, location to be determined
• 7Seas fishing
• boating
• lovely countryside for picnicking

Public Square on Wyre

In a very exciting development, this evening Shapinsay and Hoy joined Wyre in the estate of Orcadia. Needless to say, it will be difficult to go to work tomorrow, and the weekend will be filled with terraforming so that the eager new residents can move in. You cannot yet teleport to the new sims, but if you go to Wyre you can cross the sim border.

An invitation to all and sundry from His Serenity, Otenth Haakon Paderborn, Jarl of Orcadia, Duke of Murdann, Viscount Ormsby of Little West Sniggery and Giggleford, Thegn of Aa:

You are cordially invited to the Investiture of The Most Honourable The Marchioness of Giggleford, Soliel Snook.

Saturday, 29 March
1-3 pm SLT
Wyre Fairgrounds

A short presentation will be followed by revelry and silliness. Music will be provided by Radio Riel, with presenters Otenth Paderborn and Soliel Snook.

Orcadian court genealogists continue to put their records in order (duly forwarding their discoveries to Begonia’s Peepage), and they have uncovered a familial relationship between Lady Giggleford and I, which prompted me to bestow on my kinswoman the title Marchioness of Giggleford.

Our common ancestor is his Grace, James Guinne Ormsby, Third Duke of Murdann, of whom I am the great-great-great-grandson by his first marriage, to Lady Lydia Jane Maclachlan, and of whom the new Lady Giggleford is the great-great-granddaughter by his second marriage, to Lady Wilhelmina Sylvia Post, making us half third cousins, once removed.

Yes, it is confusing, isn’t it? I’m also both the great-great-grandson and the great-great-great-grandson of Sigurdr Oskrr Aas, whose daughters Eleanor Margaret Aas and Sif Gudrun Aas married, respectively, my great-grandfather, His Serenity, Otenth Heinrich Paderborn, Jarl of Orcadia, and my great-great-grandfather, Magnus Haakon Heidrun, Baron Wyre. I *believe* this makes me my own third cousin, once removed.