Festival of the Rift

The **Festival of the Rift**, or the **Great Empires Festival**, (23 October 2022) is a season 2 event organized by Oli, very near the Greatbridge.

The date coincided with *Hermitcraft* member Scar's charity livestream event.

## Buildings

Each empire came to the festival grounds and set up their own thing. The Evermoore set up a drinks cart. Gobland brought a hog race, GlimmerGrove an archery game, Animalia a food contest (and a scam fortune teller), and Sanctuary a fighting pit. Cogsmeade brought False's show car stocked with curios for sale, and Stratos brought a Donkey Jeremy toy shop. Pixlriffs did not set up anything in particular but instead helped the others with technical redstone.

The festival groundsOli's blue tentOli's tent of bardic curiositiesShelby's drinks wagon (Shelby ep. 12)Katherine's archery rangeJoel's toy stall (Joel ep. 21)Sausage's fighting pit (Sausage ep. 22)fWhip's hog race (ep. 14)Lizzie's food contestMystic Meri's caveFalse's hot rodBridge to the crystal cave
## Event

When the event came, Oli helped to run many parts of the festival for the purpose of getting diamonds to pay off the exorbitant bail costs that deputy fWhip had heaped on him. Other leaders helped operate parts of the festiival as well, such as Katherine operating an archery competition, and Sausage operating a PvP arena.

Lizzie ran a fortune teller stall, operating under the name "Mystic Mary," and sold some Animalia products under the pretense of it helping aid or prevent fortunes she predicts. Joey immediately got wise to the ruse after attempting to use some slime he bought from the fortune teller to try to win Katherine's heart over (though ironically, this slime he had bought rather than stole).

fWhip had set up a pig race track, where many of them ran, though ironically fWhip won the race.

At the fighting arena, Joey publicly called out Shubble and dueled her to the death, though it turned out he was not a match for the witch's magics. He attempted to expose Shubble's secret of being expelled to the people present, but Katherine prevented that from occurring and stormed off after realizing what the duel was about. The two quarreling rivals set aside their problems and truced once Katherine revealed she wasn't ready for a relationship due to having to deal with her issues, so all three held hands.

Lizzie also hosted a food competition, where Sausage with an enchanted golden apple in first, someone with honey landed second, Oli got third with a nice melon, a cheese and bacon potato got in fourth, and Pirate Joe squeaked by into 5th place with a tuna (much to Joey's chagrin, as he thought Lizzie would love it).

Throughout the festival, fWhip passed around papers saying that "Jimmy is in fact a toy," likely due to his falling out with the Sheriff due to recent events.

When it was almost time for the final event of the festival, they all gathered in front of the Rift for a special performance by Oli. The bard caught a bout of stage fright and almost didn't perform until Sausage gave some comforting words to him. However, right before he began his performance, a single note was spat out: "New portal who dis?" The sudden appearance of this note confused or frightened many of them, and only fWhip threw in one of the many papers he had written to spread the rumor that Jimmy was a toy. It immediately disappeared, and everyone decided there was a good time to end the festival as there was too many confusing things going on to handle at the moment.

## Original videos

* Dangthatsalongname ep. 15, "The Empires Rift Festival!"
* FalseSymmetry ep. 11, "THE RIFT IS... OPEN?!"
* fWhip ep. 14, "The Rift is ALIVE and PIG RACE!"
* GeminiTay -- *No video*
* Joey Graceffa ep. 19, "Fighting Shubble To The DEATH!!"
* Katherine Elizabeth ep. 11, "💜ARCHERY CONTEST!"
* LDShadowLady ep. 13, "🔮 Fortunes"
* TheMythicalSausage ep. 22, "THE RIFT FESTIVAL HAS BEGUN!!!"
* Pixlriffs ep. 17, "Festival of the Rift!"
* Shubble ep. 13, "Everything On Empires Is Changed Forever!"
* Smallishbeans ep. 21, "Festivals, Fortunes & Rifts?!"
* Solidarity ep. 17, "NEW RIFT, WHO DIS!?"

## References

1. ↑ YouTube post by TheMythicalSausage: "The Great Empires Festival will begin Tomorrow/Sunday at 10:30am EST!!! BE THERE!!! THE BEST Episode of the Season...So Far!!!! 👑👑"