Monday, December 21, 2009

The Functionning of the Caravan (Continued)

Oh dear, I still spent over a week without updating anything... I swear I will try to update at least once a week from now on!
It's been really hectic around here for a while, I was sick, Christmas is coming, I lost my job... Just plain hell.

Anyways.
Last post was cut short by my inability to think. But now I have more things to say.

The Caravan, like I said, is a big family. Everyone has his or her own ability that can help, weither on the road or while parked at the outskirts of a town.
Obviously, the jugglers will need to do something different when the caravan is travelling but some people do not have a specific 'entertainment job'. The person in charge of the toddlers in example, will not stop taking care of them to entertain villagers with the others, the toddlers require constant care.
Different people have different jobs, but most everyone in the caravan will enjoy singing and dancing.

The exact population constantly changing. For generations, people have come and gone, but only under certain criteria.

- An infant born from one of the women from the caravan will be considered a member of the faily.
- A child under the age 10 found abandonned will be taken in as a member of the family if no one can trace his parents in two weeks' time. (Or if the parents are deemed unable to take good care of their children.)
- An adult that has no connection to the caravan will be allowed to travel with them but will be kept away from any secret, they are welcome to travel with the group for safety but they are not of the group.
- An adult that used to be from the caravan but left of his own accord can come back anytime and will be welcomed to stay.
- An adult or child that has been banished for any reason will never be allowed in the caravan again, not even to travel with them.

I have written that the caravan in a group of charlatans, this in neither completely right, nor copletely wrong.
The caravan will never cheat honest people out of their money nor sell something harmful to someone. They are honest people who will find ways to get something without stealing it directly - i.e. asking to see something and, when someone diverts the owners attention, pocketing it and never mentionning it again- but if asked for it back, they will not hesitate to give it back.
They are tricksters who take profit of people's lack of attention, they are not thieves.

The people from the caravan have a wide variety of features and skin colors due to their habit of taking in orphans from across the lands.They wear many different type of clothing, mixing a bit of every culture they meet. The women tend to prefer long colourful skirts or very revealing outfits, depending on the occasion. The only common occurence in the dress of the caravan is the insane amount of jewelry the all wear and the bell ankle-bracelets women wear, which supposedly repels monsters.

*To be continued, yet again*

1 comment:

  1. Oh, then they're not too bad as tricksters, that's neater than petty theft, I'd say...

    I was wondering tho, how old is the Caravan? Who did start it? Probably a group, but why? Where were they from? Why did they leave on the road? That intrigues me.

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