A Really Funny Fit

It's Really Funny!

The Really Funny Fit is a fashion item worn by comedians and clowns of all sorts. It is not an official uniform but instead serves as a symbolic outfit.
It has a special property to it, applied through a Magic enchantment, or more accurately, a curse. This curse is applied to the hat, but the hat is only a piece of the greater outfit to which it has bonded. What this does is force the people around the wearer to uncontrollably laugh.

Laugh Out Loud

The centerpiece of the Really Funny Fit is the magical item known as the Really Funny Hat. The Really Funny Hat is a circular hat of iridescent red, green, and magenta. When looking from some angles, it looks very different. The green has been known to look purple and even blue from some angles.
The red portion, which makes up the actual hat itself, is a round shape that extends upwards from the brim, rounding up to connect with the other side in a circle. This leaves a large hole at the center of the hat. It is made of linen from the Elven Forest.
The magenta of the hat comes from its garish bow, which sits at the very top of the hat. It is nearly as big as the hat itself and made of magenta Jing.
Around both the hat itself and the bow are green ribbons, made of the same fabric as the bow. It is circularly tied around these, and in some cases will blow in the wind enough to appear as if they are floating around the hat rather than being tied around it.
The dyes that make the bright colors of the outfit come from a plant found deep in the Elven Forest, the Coloriant. The process requires bringing the plant to something of a similar color and extracting its dye with speed and precision before it turns into your skin color.
Following the hat is the greater outfit. The outfit is that of a clown, with matching colors to the hat. Ruffles around the neck are a major part of it, along with long red and green stripes running up and down the outfit, and large curved shoes.
These shoes, like much of the outfit, are disjointed and uneven. The right shoe has a flat bottom and a large green pompom. On the right foot, a green sock is worn. However, there is no sock on the left; the pompom is much smaller (and purple now), and the bottom includes a heel. Both shoes are purple.
As with the shoes, the gloves are also uneven. Unlike the shoes, it is the left glove that is larger than the right. Both gloves are white and padded to be overly big, however the glove on the right still looks feasible for the size of a hand. The left, however, is comically large.
Some parts, such as the shoes, are omitted in the case of the wearer being a Kenku or Dragonborn and being unable to fit in them.
There is also the additional possibility of wearing a big red clown nose. Not all wearers of the Really Funny Fit wear this nose, but some comedians say it is a necessity. These are called Fun Purists. They're not very fun.

The Funniest People in the World

Vimbish Baxcol by Jarhed

During the Grand Wizard Struggle, the Dragonborn were in a time of crisis. The position of Grand Wizard was losing its status, as Dragonborn kept finding gimmicks to kill them and take their place.
Instead of wanting to fix this, a Dragonborn from the Bardic village of Ealla thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get his name out there.
Vimbish Baxcol, also known by the Dragonborn Nickname of the Funster, was known for his terrible jokes.
Of course, this was not his intention.

Or maybe it was, he was a sick bastard sometimes, so it could've been one big joke.
But at least publicly, his goal was to become Grand Wizard to reach a wider audience and make more people laugh.
To reach his goal, Vimbish needed a gimmick all his own to seize power for himself. Something... funny.

A Really Funny Fit by Yumedatchi

Item type

Clothing / Accessory

Place of Origin
Ealla
World Court Classification
Unath

Properties

The magical properties of the hat are what makes this outfit special. With it, they are able to make people around them laugh. It is controlled by how funny the wearer believes they are.
The funnier they believe they are, the more they can control both whether people laugh and how large the radius around them is in which people laugh.
The minimum radius, for one who does not consider themselves humorous, is ten feet. If they are not funny in their own minds, they cannot control it, and people around them simply laugh.
The intention behind the rest of the outfit, then, is to amplify the funniness of the wearer. Both by making others view them as crazy, and also in case they ever see themselves in a mirror and see what they are wearing.

The Creator

Vimbish traveled to the village of Yirthum, where he learned to enchant items. He used this magic, and his knowledge of comedy, to create a powerful enchantment. With this, he spent years on his magical magnum opus: The Really Funny Hat!
The hat itself was not a unique item. While its coloring and appearance can make it seem like it was made to stand out, it was actually made as a set. It was meant to match his already garish outfit, the first version of the Really Funny Fit.
This consisted of seashells over the nipples and a torn loincloth. All of these clothing items were the same color as the hat and the eventual outfit that would accompany said hat for the rest of time.
Vimbish made sure to only test his hat in seclusion. In places where no one else was around, he tried making others laugh with his enchantment. Finally, in the year 230, Baxcol approached the Grand Wizard with his outrageous outfit. The Grand Wizardturned him away, as he didn't take Baxcol seriously. Baxcol, in turn, asked for a wager.
He would give a comedy show. If he could not make the Grand Wizard laugh, he would never challenge him again. The Grand Wizard, knowing Baxcol's record, agreed.
Yet when Baxcol stood in front of the Grand Wizard and his confidants, the Grand Wizard found that he could not stop himself from laughing. Baxcol hadn't even told a joke, and he was laughing. When Baxcol began his show, he laughed harder. So hard, in fact, that it became hard to breathe.
Baxcol was also laughing. Laughing in the face of the Grand Wizard, supposedly the most powerful mage alive, who was trembling before his jokes. Never again would he be made fun of for his comedy. He watched as the Grand Wizard laughed himself to death.
Baxcol became the 19th Grand Wizard, but he found it was not all it was cracked up to be. As he wore the hat and made people laugh, he found they were not laughing with him. They did not find his jokes funny at all. They were laughing at him, and his stupid outfit. For this, he called his enchantment a curse and swore that he would have been better off without it. Still, he was unable to be killed, as no one could get near him while he had the hat on.
That was a lie. Or, more accurately, a false assumption on his part. While no one could get near him, there was little need to do so. Soon enough, he found himself on the receiving end of a ranged spell known as Light Arrow, a light magic spell that was out of his laugh radius. After only two years as Grand Wizard, Baxcol died a laughingstock, as he always had been.

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Henroik D Qloun, Retired by Jarhed

The Clown

The hat passed from person to person, eventually making its way to the hands of the Clown College . In the year 257, it landed in the hands of a Dwarven clown that went by the stage name of Henroike D. Qloun.
Henroike hated being a clown. He found that the gig was boring because while others laughed, he was forced into so much tradition. The same gags, the same jokes, it was ludicrous. He could write jokes! He could be funny on his own... right?
Henroik found a love for clowning again when he found something deep in the Clown College. A hat. The Really Funny Hat. The outfit that had once accompanied it was long gone, but that was fine, Henroike was a bit of a prude anyway, so something as revealing as that was not an option for him.
But that was fine. This hat just so happened to match the colors of his clown outfit. At least, that was what he told everyone when he showed up the next week with a new red, green, and magenta outfit. But before that, he couldn't help but laugh as he took the hat and added it to his new Really Funny Fit.
Henroike reinvented the title of Comedian. While before, there was a setting for clowns and not much else, Henroike opened the door for new jokes. No matter what he did, after all, people would laugh. It brought hope to people, hope that rarely appeared. And best of all, it was weird. Laughing at this strange Dwarf in his strange, uneven outfit and his kinda ugly hat made people feel better about themselves. After all, they wouldn't end up like that, and even if they did... it was quite enjoyable.
Because of Henroike and his ridiculous outfit, which became known as the new Really Funny Fit, many impostors appeared all over Totania. It became an unofficial outfit of clowns and comedians everywhere. Recreations of the outfit were made, so much so that finding the actual outfit would be a nightmare for anyone seeking it, but none of them were able to recreate the hat's properties. So, while the outfit itself became widespread, there was only ever one Really Funny Fit.

Sirlini Glirdog by Jarhed

Eventually, Henroike retired, passing the outfit down to another worthy successor. He wore normal clothes after that, wanting to finally rest after working so hard for comedy. It was a heavy burden, and he too agreed with Baxcol. It was a curse that he had only made stronger.

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The Comedian

In the year 497, a young Human girl named Sirlini Glirdog found the hat. She was raised in the Dragonborn village of Ealla alongside a stern girl named Zefsica.
In order to try and make Zefsica laugh, Sirlini had made jokes since they were young. So much so, she became known by the Dragonborn nickname of the Comedian. Finding the hat only added to her comedic prowess, as she took Ealla by storm with her comedy.
She found that the Really Funny Fit as a whole had changed. Now, some of the residual magic from the hat had gone to the outfit, and almost bound it to the hat. It would mold itself around the wearer of the hat, to ensure they were always, as intended, really funny.
At the top of the article, in the outfit, is none other than Sirlini "the Comedian" Glirdog in the fit. It was her that truly made the outfit a mainstream staple of culture in not just Ealla or the Clown College, but the continent of Elone itself.
With the power of the hat, the greater outfit as a whole, and her own jokes, Sirlini was able to become the only village chief in Dragonborn history to not be a Dragonborn. This meant she had command over the entire village with no one above her to give orders, and also that she had sway in Dragonborn society in its entirety.
With this rare honor, she opened up festivals for other races to participate in, and made customs that allowed other races to be more readily accepted in Dragonborn lands.
But that mattered little to Sirlini. What mattered most of all to Sirlini was that when she saw Zefsica again, she was able to make her smile, and even at one point or another, laugh. She did not view the Really Funny Fit as some others did. Not as a curse, but as a blessing for herself and the world.

"If all the world could smile more, what a wonderful place it would be. I'd be able to walk down the street in this, and everyone'd laugh at me."

— Sirlini "The Comedian" Glirdog

Where to Find a Good Laugh

After Sirlini died, the Really Funny Fit was taken away from Ealla by a collector named Dia Ree, to be stored away. Her intention was to sell it when demand for it grew high enough. Until then, the laughter and joy it brought would be gone, as would its curse.

In its place, the mock outfits that lesser clowns and comedians had made would fill its void. Genuine comedy would be needed. Perhaps one day, when the Really Funny Fit is released again, the world would not need it anymore. But this was not possible, as in a world full of tension and strife, laughter was the best medicine. The world could always use some more laughter.