Oracle of the Ocean Needs the Network's Creativity - I'd Love Your help!

[PearlieMae]

I've been invited to perform as a mermaid at an event in the fall, with a very particular theme. I'm in need of ideas to coordinate. I'll be in the hotel pool for the bulk of the weekend as resident mermaid and fortune teller and want to set the mood.

I have a sideshow style banner, painted canvas, and some Victorian styled furniture bits, but what else should I add? (No electricity, though...not poolside. Battery powered LEDs at most. )

[Mermaid Lorelei]

Music by chance? Dry ice fog?

[Seraphina Suds]

Love the fog idea! Maybe some treasure or other things you may have pulled from the deep?

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[PearlieMae]

I like the fog idea! And music! What should I play? I have a waterproof speaker, too!

[PearlieMae]

And yes, plenty of treasures!

[KaraLenae]

That sounds like a reallt fun gig! How about a movie themed soundtrack? Pirates of the Caribbean? Instrumental?

"It's the good girls who keep diaries, the bad ones never have the time." Tallulah Bankhead

[Mermaid Lorelei]

If you're playing up the oracle, fortune teller, sideshow act, I'd go with slightly discordanant, circusy gypsy music.

You could try something like Yearning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnv-Dpq4XnI

[PearlieMae]

Nice!

[merwandering]

I found a steamer trunk that looks cool on craigslist for almost nothing, and I'm adding a little to it, but it could be a fun prop- I am going to be using it, plus it is an easy way to wrangle some of the mermaid stuff.
Music, yes- not sure quite the feel or audience, but I love this song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W3MpOU3OUU
And it isn't at all mermaidy but I'm recently obsessed with Melody Gardot, and she seems like she'd be in good company with a fortune telling mermaid with victorian furniture.
Ugh the vision of you doing this is just perfect!!!!

[merwandering]

If you're playing up the oracle, fortune teller, sideshow act, I'd go with slightly discordanant, circusy gypsy music.

You could try something like Yearning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnv-Dpq4XnI


just clicked on that- that's awesome! way better than what I suggested lol

[Mermaid Lorelei]

I liked yours too merwandering!

[Sea_Angel_Rusalka]

I see a lot of clam shells with runes on them. At one event I went to, they were giving out shells with runes painted on them? So that's a thing, maybe!

[PearlieMae]

That's so funny that you mentioned that! I've managed to convert a tarot deck into shells, using colors and tick marks to indicate card numbers! I'm brushing up on my cards so I can read them without the imagery, but I'm a bit rusty. I plan on doing three-card readings to keep things moving along, rather than full spreads, so that'll be easier, too.

I think Futhark, or maybe Angelic runes carved into shells will make a lovely takeaway! Thanks for that!

[Echidna]

That's so funny that you mentioned that! I've managed to convert a tarot deck into shells, using colors and tick marks to indicate card numbers!

that's awesome, definitely better than trying to waterproof a mermaid oracle deck.
But how will you draw/choose a shell?
Also, that's a lot of shells! xD

[PearlieMae]

I'm going to put them into a plastic fishbowl and they reach in and pull out three. No glass poolside, obviously. And 78 is a lot, so I might ditch the Major Arcana. I might put them in a separate bowl bowl and have them draw one.

[Merman Dan]

That's so funny that you mentioned that! I've managed to convert a tarot deck into shells, using colors and tick marks to indicate card numbers!

There used to be a guy in town that did readings with cowry shells. There is also margaritomancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaritomancy) to consider.

[PearlieMae]

Margaritomancy sounds awesome!

I'd love to read cowries, but getting accused of cultural appropriation will start a fight.

[PearlieMae]

Damn. I thought margaritomancy had something to do with reading rim salt on glasses.

[Merman Dan]

Damn. I thought margaritomancy had something to do with reading rim salt on glasses.

That's the very reason I changed it to Nacremancy for my undersea D&D game. I devised the Madstone Witch, who specialized in bezoars, enteroliths, madstones, pearls, and the like.

[Echidna]

One could also do runecasting with a twist: throw pearls or shells and then divine from the pattern how they fell.

Probably more complicated to learn, unless one just makes up something xD

[PearlieMae]

That's a good idea, but I already have a handle on tarot. Might explore some other poolside friendly forms of divination. I have until February! :D

[Seraphina Suds]

Maybe you can read bubbles/sea foam as one might read tea leaves? [emoji14] not sure how much froth you'd get in a pool. Perhaps a good flick from your fluke and then you read the pattern of bubbles as they rise lol

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[Imogen Finnly]

Oh my god suds, thats is a really cute idea!

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[Seraphina Suds]

Oh my god suds, thats is a really cute idea!

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Thanks! :D

I actually just thought of something else, too. If you could have a small pitcher and basin set at the pools edge, you could have the guests scoop some pool water out with the pitcher and pour it into the basin for you to then scry out of. And it makes them feel involved/like they're adding their energy (like when a customer shuffles a tarot deck at a reading).

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[PearlieMae]

Nice! Thanks!