Soot-streaked urchins wave pamphlets (and shout at the illiterate) saying that in the Fairbanks Community Center on [Saturday the 20th of January, 6PM EST], all Northerners and self-proclaimed Friends of the North are welcome to a Blót, a sacrificial feast, to welcome in the Spring. The large Prideborn hosting it has proclaimed that the butchery will be taken care of before, so all the guests need do is sit down and enjoy themselves. The Ambassador from Tryllelande is invited as the very special guest of honor to be waited on before the feast begins. There is a vague overture that "she is not the only special guest," an implication one has to attend to understand... While there is no strict dress code, public indecency will lead to ejection. All brawling and carousing is to be kept to an "acceptable minimum" in front of the Ambassador. There is only one rule of etiquette: don't sit until told to.
