A Heads Up.
We might not be combining our festival with the Memorial thread after all, it is up to some debate and Smaug's Bane is running that show, not me and we will abide by his decissions on this. We will open our own festival thread. The question is where? I think that the Guild would be out in force at the Memorial and I propse we keep it at that location with the same theme for contributions.
If not a part of the actual memorial thread, I propose that we begin with re-growing the Splintered Chamber Pot and once we get it up we can get notice about the memorial. I think we can have the Guild turn out for the event only we do it in our own thread and we can have as many songs/poems as come along. we are still welcome and encouraged to participate in the Memorial thread and if we hold ours as I suggest there will be no timeline conflicts between the two.
In the Mithril Knight & spin off threads, Erinhue is still MIA and will be until he isn't, so I think I will create a Steward character who can open the thread and do what is needed and generally stand in for the guild master until the Master Bard does turn up again.