<div align="center"><strong>The Harvest Festival</strong></div><br/>There is no time like harvest time to turn a small city into a large one.  Heaford at the harvest is no exception with farmers, merchants, traders, adventurers, and truly all types coming from all over Brondolor to buy or sell the finest foods of the autumn season.  Even if it weren't a religious holiday for the Ovarans in the city, followers of the goddess of civilization and bees, the sheer number of people turn the city into a festival atmosphere.  Because of this, enterprising pub owners always ensure that the season offers something special and more and more elaborate traditions have formed around these parties.<br/><br/>And the Alfzers are nothing if not enterprising.  Besides, the Harvest Festival is Ayca's favorite time of the year.<br/><br/>The first step to a successful Harvest is of course decoration and this has been well taken care of.  The Storm is filled with carved gourds, fake bee hives, and apples with drink and food specials that take advantage of those very same things.  The mead is flowing, a straight golden mead, a cyser made with apples and honey, and a spice metheglin as well as bottles of a bright sparkling mead available to be presented as a prize.  This is, after all, a religious holiday.  The curtains, runners, and napkins have also all been replaced with bright orange ones, just a bit more to draw the mood.<br/><br/>And there are the costume jars.  With the Delvers being such recognizable people at The Storm and Queen, Ayca has decided to have a bit of fun with them.  Under one of the windows are several sealed jars (being carefully watched by a Storm and Queen guard at all times to avoid tampering or stealing) labeled with names of costumes.  Each of the jars has a label upon it with a name of a Delver and a costume requested by the tavern goers.  Some of them are more realistic than others (the amount of coin in each of the jars for costumes that would essentially be nothing are not surprising), but it's a nice little way to connect with the community if nothing else.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/45/b1/c3/45b1c304aaba15287a1cecf07d472b8d.jpg)</div>There also was a jar for Ayca and after an initial early run of 'Fire Elemental' and a lot of reminders fire elementals don't wear clothing, somehow the scales tilted towards 'Witch.'  Rumors are that Burnus made that one happen.  So Ayca has dressed to the best of her ability as a witch, wearing a tight black lace dress that she picked out for precisely this occasion.  She hadn't had even a single black dress previously and it's a bit jarring seeing Ayca without flashes of color around her.  At least she's got her hair down, those thick red luscious locks falling over her bare shoulders as she saunters around.  The dress is, as with most things in her wardrobe, just a little too short for strolling through the temple district and cut low enough that she really oughtn't leave the tavern.  The fair, pale, smooth skin of her elven mother is shown off wonderfully, though relatively few elves have quite the level of decolletage that Ayca does.  And, of course, perched on her head is a big, black witches hat, a similar silk and lace design on it as the rest of her clothing.<br/><br/>The barmaid moves quickly around the bar, checking drinks, chatting briefly with people, and more or less just keeping things buzzing along.  Burnus, not quite into the harvest season yet, is dressed normally running the bar.  A number of regulars are present, Riset in full guard dress uniform (it's a costume, right?), the drow guards Cheszeth and Divdor dressed in earthy wood-elf clothing, and a smattering of more familiar faces drink, chat, and dance to the music being played by a handsome elven lad with tattoos all up his bare arms.<br/><br/><strong>Delvers!  Feel free to add in NPCs, relax, enjoy yourselves! We'll have some kind of Harvest themed events coming up as well!</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">A Note On Timing</div><div class="spoiler_body">As we know, The Storm and Queen doesn't always line up in super pretty ways with the rest of the story.  That's alright.  Assume that this first pose is taking place perhaps a week after Crimes of the Ancient Stronghold returns and two weeks after Yula returns from Malrefesh's Castle.  We may need to retcon a thing or two, but that's alright!  We're hopefully going to be having both groups in here, though some players have yet to be recruited still!  Remember that new players may have been Delvers for quite some time, all of that can be worked out!  Enjoy!</div></div>