The Dedication of King Orion at Feast of Chimeron 30

First off, Thank you to everyone who came out to the Dedication of King Orion at Feast of Chimeron 30! This was a huge milestone for Chimeron and we are thrilled to have shared it with all of you. There are so many people to thank for making this event happen. First I would like to thank our wonderful feastocrat Matt Butler and his entire team: Liz Butler, Ben Greene, Jana Greene, Dani Lacasse, Beth Tozier, Neil Tozier, Lynn Butler, Dez Bomster, and Kris Payne. The food was absolutely incredible, delicious, and thoughtful; and we are truly grateful. I would also like to thank our incredible servers, including our head server MJ Rodriguez as well as our full team of servers Elyse Donnelly, Jerry Pearce, Emma Sherman, Anna Hewitt, Sarah Fournier, Jasper Sierra, Dez Bomster, and Ken Belsito. A huge thank you to Ben and Dani Lacasse for providing the sound system for coronation and taking the time to run that for us as well. Another big thank you to our Reg Desk Runners Katrina Hull, Matt Brenner, and Sky Rubenstein, and our Magic Marshals Becky Baron and Dan Hudon. Thank you to our Clean Up Coordinator Hillary Fontino who also curated the gorgeous Chimeron Museum. Thank you to my fellow EH Sean Veale who also ran our casino. Thank you to Karen Veale for crafting a beautiful coronation, heralding, and running our dancing. Thank you Megan Williamson for also helping run dancing. Thank you to Pat Bobell and Kathy Fey for transporting all the questing gear from Chim storage to site. Thank you to Hannah Boucher, Devon Power-Sanford, and Stephen Sanford for making our lovely new banners. Thank you to Matt Norris and Kersten Prince for taking stunning photos of the coronation and questing. Thank you to Megan Matulewicz, Arthur Granger, and Brookelyn Tilton for bringing their shops. Thank you to Kathy Fey and her incredible team: Max McCalla, Dan Hudon, Amber Fox, and Pat Bobell who helped write and run the questing content. As well as all our other writers and NPCs! I wanted to list all of you, but the sheer number of people who stepped up to do all manner of writing, staffing, NPCing, setting up and taking down mods, marshalling, etc. made this feel impossible to do without missing someone, so thank you, all of you, for your dedication to this dedication! Thanks to our Friday night set up crew: Max McCalla, Matthew Brenner, Kathy Fey, Pat Bobell, Eric Willisson, Eric Stegehuis, Stephen Sanford, Hannah Boucher, Cameron Huneke, Zack Koval, Ethan Knight, Sam Brenner, Katrina Hull, Megan Williamson, Hillary Fontino, Briar Sieracki, Heath Sainio, Peter Brillinger, Amber Fox, Becky Baron, and David Rubenstein. Extra special shout out to Max for being there right when I got on site and immediately making our lives so much easier by assisting with everything all weekend. Thank you to those who were there with us cleaning until the very end: Hillary Fontino, Briar Sieracki, Pat Bobell, Zack Koval, Sky Rubenstein, Karen Veale, Sean Veale, Eric Willisson, David Rubenstein, Kelly Perfetto, Jerry Pearce, Justin Thibeault, Char Larson, Laura Larson, and Kathy Fey. A big thank you to Brookelyn and Paul Tilton for helping us clean up after the feast! Thank you to all those who helped in any way this weekend whom I may have accidentally missed. It takes a village to throw an event this grand and I have been blessed with the best village out there. 

Cheers to the New King!
Crystal “Cressida” Welch

P.S. From Kathy Fey: “Thanks to Kelly P (Fern) for their involvement with the Darkvale mod.  Thank you to Matthew (Traveller) for lending us a flotilla of boats. Thanks to Kelly B (Twen) for providing some Kids Quest papers. And, for dedication to the execution of the questing day, an enormous thanks to the people of Chimeron, who gave their time and effort in so many ways – writing mods, running mods, making props, lending and schlepping supplies, staffing, and just being there for whatever was needed. You all rock more than I can say!”