'Muses at the Festival'

Muses at the Festival
♫♪'I would have given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And she's taking almost all that I've got,
But if you want, I'll try to love again,
Baby, I'll try to love again but I know...

The first cut is the deepest, baby, I know,
The first cut is the deepest,
Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed,
When it comes to lovin' me she's worst,
But when it comes to being loved she's first -
That's how I know!

The first cut is the deepest, baby, I know,
The first cut is the deepest!

I still want you by my side,
Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried,
Cause I'm sure gonna give you a try,
And if you want, I'll try to love again,
But baby, I'll try to love again, but I know...

The first cut is the deepest, baby, I know,
The first cut is the deepest!

Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed,
When it comes to lovin' me she's worst,
But when it comes to being loved she's first -
That's how I know!

The first cut is the deepest, baby, I know,
The first cut is the deepest!'♪♫
Chapter one: Renaissance theme festival amusement park

Mister Americo George, a young Byronic adult, belongs to family of farmers with dairy cattle and goats, and a myriad of precious enlarged growing fruits and vegetables in the green, fertile and well-irrigated region of the state of California where he contributes with wise hard labour. Americo is like Clark Kent, a modern man ambitious, disciplined and geeky. Americo has been anticipating the six monthly Renaissance theme festival amusement park of which happens every Spring and Autumn on the first weekend of May and the last weekend of October respectively. The next festival happens soon of which begins on the Friday the 24th before All Hallows' Eve of which is the next Friday. Americo has been attending these festivals since he was a boy as it was a safe yet exciting environment. Here he made many museful acquiescence alliances, however there is one who stands out and her name is Miracle Richards and they first became interested in each other when they were speaking about miracles, music and paradoxes.

Here at the mirific Imagination Park of Recreation the festival is ready and Americo meets his best museful acquiescence alliances wearing their elegantly practical period costumes in their favourite colour combinations whom are called Eros the sex god maniac, Miracle the genre savvy pundit psychotherapist, James the musical artist, Dylan the deeply intense poet, Perry the entertaining actor, Lana the Siren opera singer and Fred the awe-inspiring dancer. For the first-time festival attending person that person is always from the beginning made a peasant but as for Americo, Miracle and the other veterans of the museful acquiescence alliances they have been promoted to nobility this year. After the introduction the evening continues as the participants prepare to set up their privileged camp sites, amusingly socialise as they dine at a feast and work as people would in the past. At midnight it is revealed after an alerting alarm that the modern retro styled artificial royal throne, diadem and sceptre have been enigmatically stolen, the clues are muddy foot prints and tracks mixed with tree leaves, sap and bird feathers. Americo and his museful acquiescence alliances decide to investigate and hunt the criminals deep in the dark forest thickly surrounding Imagination Park of Recreation in a ring. Once present in the forest they discover another clue of which is a riddle of which the answer is the 'underworld' and thus the group decide to search for the camouflaged entrance into and through tunnels in a cavern. After an hour they discover the entrance through splitting up into four teams of two to cover more ground and after descending and exploring its tunnel they arrive at the beginning of a maze they suspect is guarding the hoard of the stolen royal items.

Chapter two: Amazing
Americo, Miracle and the museful acquiescence alliances split up again into four groups of two – Americo and Miracle together – to discover the correct path's exit to the hoard and battle those criminals whom may be still guarding and protecting it. So a farmer and psychotherapist march hand in hand as the illuminate their path with renaissance style lanterns, as for weapons they have batons and slings attached to their utility belts and shields hung of their backs. The maze walls are made of stone through masonry and Americo and Miracle suspect some of the paths of to be occupied with guards waiting for anyone to approach the hoard. This is not the first time somethings were stolen from the festival and gone missing, but is the first time a group has come this far to retrieving the hoard of treasure. As Americo and Miracle try not to get lost they look for evidence of the throne and the other items leaving marks of a trail. Suddenly Americo and Miracle discover scratched and small craters in the round and the walls and together pursue the new path ready to reach for their offensive and defensive weapons and shields to help them further their progress to the hoard by crippling, incapacitating and binding their enemies in arresting rope knots. Warily and formidably Americo and Miracle march ready to ponce or dodge and thus suddenly the opportune need to act arrives and they employ their best effort, ingenuity and dexterity in averting danger. This happens several more times as Americo and Miracle reunite with the others of which they help each other successfully handle these guards before arriving at the maze's exit to the hoard where again a final battle happens where they defeat the hoard protectors after much cunning and distractions. Once all they hoarding criminals are amateurishly arrested the others nominate Americo and Miracle to return to the festival with souvenir proof to tell the authorities that stolen treasures from the festival of past recent years has been found and that the criminals have been arrested and wait for their just desserts.  Americo and Miracle acquiesce as they promenade with romantic messages expressed through their eyes to one another to their destination.

Chapter three: Memorable rarity in the moment

Later on Saturday Americo and Miracle are honoured for leading their investigative hunters and their excellent affect on the criminals whom they triumphed over through justice and so are also rewarded with royal privileges for the rest of the weekend. So continues the harmonious festival as the community contribute through organised involvement to prepare everything that can be made by amateurs each with a variety of special skills and talents. Celebration of traditions, music, religion, retro re-enactment of art and science experimentation, food and drink, the harvest and the involvement of elders sharing stories and experience are performed. There are also sports and markets to be enjoyed. Through leisure carouse and masochistic hard labour the hours pass and so to end Saturday a grand vying game of cunning, strength and wits is to be played in the form of 'Living Chess', where the royals lead their inferior rank armies into battle, thus in comparison the army with the least metaphoric causalities wins an invitation to the elite winter festival for a week from the morning of Monday the 22nd to late evening of Sunday the 28th. The next day, Sunday, the morning is to be celebrated with renewing of vows, wedding vows and courting vows ceremonies and the weekend will end with a grotesque masquerade dancing contest and feast where the winning dance couple will win a three day getaway vacation at a guest mansion and spa in the fresh isolated tranquillity of the wilderness in Maine for Thanksgiving. Such are the largesse rewards.

There are five group categories in the festival, such as:
Peasants: manual labour, apprentices and beggars
Gentry: Artisans, merchants and military
Nobility: Lords/Ladies, Baron/Baroness and Duke/Duchess
Royal: Prince/Princess, King/Queen and Emperor/Empress
Elders: Referees, teachers and philosophers. On the battle ground there are trenches, mounds and shielding objects, each player wields a shield and after losing one's shield one is vulnerable to becoming defeated. As for weapons there are batons, swords, crossbows, star maces, sharp garden tools, spears and whips. There are also trap kit ingredients each army are gifted with from the beginning of the chess war.
On Sunday morning Americo and Miracle decide to finally take their vows of courting and witness the other couples' ceremonies. To celebrate their union of vows Americo and Miracle decide to participate in the Halloween-inspired grotesque masquerade dancing contest and disguise themselves as a couple of vampiric monsters.