Frolic & Fob

As with many traditions at Yesterland Academy, the Frolic & Fob is inspired by the practices and rituals of the ancient Bekiskapan—the dominant human culture during the First Age of Eden. In particular, the F&F was inspired by the so-called “Barracks Visit,” wherein the member or members of an all-female triad would visit the local Barracks to request “an offering” from one or more of the men stationed there.

In the spring of 146, to celebrate the end of the Academy’s first academic year, the founders decided to honor this old tradition with their own cheeky spin on it.

Founder Ella O’Ash petitioned the queen (her wife) to move the kingdom’s prized Blue Anvil from the castle in Old Ludditon to the Academy Quad. This magical anvil, the only predictable one in Eden, would ensure the festivities would be entirely safe, pleasant, and rooted in consent. And when the event went off without a hitch, Queen Gwen decided that the Academy could keep it.

The event commences at sundown on the Saturday following the end of Finals Week, the moment at which the campus anvil begins to glow a bright blue. Offerers then surf their mattresses down the stairs of their dorms and present themselves for inspection to any and all passersby. When a passerby sees an Offerer who they’d like to couple with, they ask the Offerer, “Would you fancy a frolic?” And then, if the Offerer consents, the pair get down to business.

So to speak.

As the event has evolved over the years, dozens of outdoor venues have popped up across campus—some romantic, some downright silly, and others kinky as kinky can be. Attempts have also been made to make the event more inclusive for those with less interested in the raw, carnal nature of it all. Such attempts typically morph into the own separate-yet-adjacent events, however.

Mattresses, willing participants, and the campus anvil—the anvil being the most critical part of the equation. The anvil, after all—so long as it is glowing blue—is what ensure there will be no accidental pregnancies, no coercion, and no transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

It’s also what keeps folks from breaking their necks while surfing down multiple flights of stairs on mattresses—the surfing being considered a kind of foreplay in this instance.