Maul

Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings. Torchlight licked luridly from broken windows and wide-thrown doors, and out of those doors, stale smells of wine and rank sweaty bodies, clamor of drinking-jacks and fists hammered on rough tables, snatches of obscene songs, rushed like a blow in the face. -First Paragraph of Tower of the Elephant, by Robert E. Howard
Maul is the grandest underground festival of all Arcadia.
==Description==
The most Mirthfully Murderous of all the Jackanape Japeries of the Punk Persuasion. Held once a year at a different Logical Location, this is their Grand Gala. Putrid Punks from all over the mega-city Converge Casual-like, beginning a Repulsive Revery that lasts Seven Salacious Sunsets.
It begins with the Punks gathering, then other such Baleful Beings flock to them. There are Deadly and Degenerate Clown Cultists, Minor Misfit Shadow Shamans and a thousand other Mysterious Murderous Motleys. Tis no place for the Common Careful man, but rather a Terrible Tumult to be avoided at all costs.
It begins with Sacrificial Slaughter to the Strange and Sensuous Hellishly Heathen and Malefic and Malignant god that the Punks worship, if at all, and ends with them gathering to sing. The Sinful Songs? The Dread Threnody and the Dragmire Coronach written by the First Fetid Punk, Havar Maul.
Then they Sweetly Separate, to the restrained relief of all. Until next year.
==Note==
Name taken from The Tower of the Elephant, by Robert E. Howard.
*http://wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Tower_of_the_Elephant
Category:Festival
Category:Arcadia
Category:Punks