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Quick Use

• A yearly safety rite about keeping trade and travel routes predictable.
• The Keepers treat it like court.
• The House treats it like PR. </aside>

What the festival is for

• Keep routes predictable and survivable.
• Share storm patterns, wreck-lists, and the new extortion points.
• Renew contracts, hire crews, and publish the next season’s charts.

The public battle: Festival Witness Songs

• The Keepers perform witness songs that name dates, routes, and “missing” conjunctions in a chorus the crowd can repeat.
• The truth lands as celebration first. By the time the Watch responds, it already has a melody.

How the House fights back

• Sponsors the festival as a medical patron.
• Stages “miracle recoveries” and gratitude testimonials right before the Keepers take the stage.
• Plants a controlled Dreaming incident so the Keepers look reckless.
• Uses an “accident” that reads like tragedy: lantern fall, rigging snap, stampede started by a false omen.

The twist

The Keepers are right.

The House is saving lives.

The crowd is singing for both.