Old Haunts: Happy Auseil

📍 Hickman-Franklin Warren
🌃 Level Three
🕝 Early Morning

“The rattle of holiday decorations added to the din. It was Auseil, sometimes called Bresh in the inner Territories. The month-long winter holiday, a time of feasting, drinking, celebration, and remembrance. Decorated five-limbed branches hung from ceilings or were mounted above doorways festooned with twinkling lights. Families wrote the lyrics of the traditional Zann hymns—ancient accounts of the Aligning—on long strips of paper and sealed them around doorframes with brightly colored wax. They were said to bring fortune and good luck, something Lovat could use these days. The strips of colorful paper moved and twisted in the breeze, giving the whole city a strange quavering appearance. They tore from their seals and danced down the street, creating a constant rain of inadvertent confetti.”

—Waldo Bell, Red Litten World

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Visit Previous Haunts:

• Licensed Directory Agent: Unknown Warren, Level Three
• Local Service: Martello Warren, Level Four
• Serenade on Two: Martello Warren, Level Two
• Rhapsody: King Station, Level Four
• Lucky Star: Denny Lake, Level Four

Study Related Ephemera:

• Echoes of the Wasteland: The Repository
• Read the Bell Forging Cycle

Explore Distant Margins:

• This Green Sunrise Shore
• No Lips Dare Speak Aloud
• Did you think this was over?
• A telegram arrived

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Credits:

Auld Lang Syne performed by the Westminster Chimes (1908), written by Robert Burns

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