Bards of Aegic

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:38 pm

what about a taunting dance, say you get in a fight with a bard, and in the middle of the fight he starts dancing around you, singing about what an idiot you are, while cutting you, and he is almost impossible to hit because he is skipping around. it would be irritating and you could get dizzy, or stunned from trying to keep him in front of you.

Post by **belannaer** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 15:30 pm

Sounds too much like jester/fool skills/dances which I intent to keep out of the guild

malag · Post by **malag** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:47 am

Taunting dance - if there would be one it should not be the kind you mentioned Thera - but instead the mosnter would take the bard as a primary target - muah! That's what i would do if some1 would taunt and tease me.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 01:41 am

that is why you would have a high, very high dodge skill, you insult the guy, maybe do minor damage to all of his weak points, when he can no longer think, one of you friends attacks him and he is so focused on you that he cannot dodge, plus it would probably be in the back. what about a fencing skill: you have the weapon parry, but with this skill, it would be twice as affective, maybe a fighting style. for the bard.

tanstai · Post by **tanstai** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 03:05 am

* 1 dance that is only available for males
* 1 dance that is only available for females

A dance for the its?

Tanstai

Post by **belannaer** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 08:05 am

Nope, you need to choose a gender

tanstai · Post by **tanstai** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 18:45 pm

Nope, you need to choose a gender

LOL! Are you going to have a "limbs" requirement as well? I could always spin and twirl in the air as a beholder...but suppose that might not be considered dancing by some...

Tanstai

iluth · Post by **iluth** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 23:33 pm

hmm now that you bring gender into it, would a song or dance from a female bard have more/better effect on male party members, and vice versa?

Post by **belannaer** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 08:33 am

tanstai wrote:LOL! Are you going to have a "limbs" requirement as well? I could always spin and twirl in the air as a beholder...but suppose that might not be considered dancing by some...

You need to be able to wield your instrument to play it and some dances require a weapon (four of them) and also beholder has horrible charisma

iluth wrote:hmm now that you bring gender into it, would a song or dance from a female bard have more/better effect on male party members, and vice versa?

Possibly yes

tanstai · Post by **tanstai** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 22:58 pm

Yes...beholders do have a charisma issue. As far as instruments go, I use telekinesis to skin animals (with a knife), so I don't see why the same wouldn't be *possible*.

Maybe I have a particularly nice eye colour...thus enhancing my charisma! lol

Tanstai

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 02, 2004 11:44 am

so a requirement of the guild will to be ether male or female, how about you have two places to join, one per gender?

Post by **thoran** » Tue May 18, 2004 21:26 pm

ok something that I really think fit bards quite well:

'Ode'

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

solar · Post by **solar** » Fri May 21, 2004 21:45 pm

Thought I should post this one here, but to those whose knowledge about 'Kalevala' is lacking, VÃ¤inÃ¤mÃ¶inen (or Vaenaemoeinen, for those who can't display scandinavian letters) was a 'musician' of sorts. I don't have exact knowledge (never read Kalevala quite thoroughly), but at least 'magic' was used along with singing. He almost sung a poor fellow called 'Joukahainen' into a swamp. He also made the first 'kantele' (national instrument of Finland) from a jawbone of a GIGANTIC pike.

Now after this litte bit cultural knowledge, I'd like to see kantele-instruments in the game when bards are implemented.

And check your local libraries - they might have Kalevala for you to read! Perhaps even in your native language too!

roag · Post by **roag** » Fri May 21, 2004 22:25 pm

I do have huge Kalevala-book holding whole story about it. Anyone like to borrow sentences or something?

zak · Post by **zak** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:34 pm

An idea: Maybe if more than one bard is in the same party, they could boost up each others performances by playing diffirent instruments to make more complicated music together?

By the way, how complete is the bard guild nowdays? Do you have any estimation when it's ready or percents completed to give us?

icesus

Bards of Aegic

National epic-level hero of Finland: VÃ¤inÃ¤mÃ¶inen