Just a random topic starter motivated by some work on the Heritage quests...

If you could pick one, and only one, event that you'd consider important in Bardic history - what would it be?

Feel feel to include as many or as few details as you'd like and define "important" - to the guild, to yourself (as a character or player), whatever.

I'd start this off with a bardic memory of my own - but as most of you know I don't really have much of a bardic background so I'm going to cheat and answer "The Mirror Wraith Prophecy".

-Raesh

Hmmm I'm sad to say I haven't been able to participate in many Bard events but when they had wren captured and we were all fighting and praying for her that was cool. The guy was trying to make the Bards sing for something. I was only around for part of that event due to RL so I don't know the particulars, I just remember thinking it was cool Bard stuff.

There was also the Karovaas stuff which was a BUNCH of fun. Karovaas was this sort of rebel Bard back from the days when Siryn was around. Karovaas had his own interpretation of how the Bard guild should be run, and it was in conflict with what Siryn's teachings were. I think Karovaas was more bent on power and magical and he's the first one we saw reference the naga. I really liked that event because it explored an entirely new realm of Bardic history as it was being created.

I'd like to see more like the Cleric's Flames of Ushnish event. It was kind of small, with a guildleader going to uncover the spell. But if you read the enchante journals about how each enchante was discovered, I just think it was pretty cool. I'd like to see some quests or events surrounding new screams or new enchantes or anything. I just think as a Lore prime guild who is actually focused on events, record keeping and Lore that we should have more events surrounding our guild. As it stands, no guild gets more event attention than the Moon Mages. I'd like to see the Bards get some attention, that would ideally bring to life more aspects of Bards than the stereotypes already adrift right now.



- Terra
Raesh gives Terra wings. And then rips them off and beats her with them.

Either or.

-Raesh

>>One possible venue for example is some guild higher ups not being very favorable to a "sect".

While that was sorta a mini theme with the moon mage sects, do not expect that with the Heritages.

I'm not saying there won't be some good RP chances with their release (And existence) just that that particular angle isn't going to happen. Heritages are aspects of the Bard guild, whereas Moon Mage sects have their own identities separate from the Moon Mage guild. You can have sects without Moon Mages, you cannot have Heritages without Bards.

-Raesh

As for something from a Lorekeeper perspective, it's a story in progress that I created fitting into that period of time between the fall and restoration of the guild which centers around a particular part of the guild's history and how it was preserved. Full of intrigue...LOL.

I should probably finish that and send it to ya for fun.

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~Faih

Three things that make a bard:
Playing of the lute
Knowledge of ancient lore
Poetic power.
- adapted from the Triads

I'm not saying there won't be some good RP chances with their release (And existence) just that that particular angle isn't going to happen. Heritages are aspects of the Bard guild, whereas Moon Mage sects have their own identities separate from the Moon Mage guild. You can have sects without Moon Mages, you cannot have Heritages without Bards.

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I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm hoping the heritage release will be used as an rp storyline and not just a mechanic release. I'm not sold on any one course of action, and the above was just an example (even though I'll admit I think the option of a little dissent in the guild could be fun).

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* Malik was just struck down!

>>"From my personal point of view the Medmaev event wins hands down..."

Best part of that whole event was the typo of a placeholder name left in the messaging during the final confrontation. For those wondering, in dev the hideous instrument made from the harvested bones of Bards was... a xylobone.

Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay

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Faerie tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Faerie tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
- G.K. Chesterton

A couple of extra positive points in favor of the Medmaev event and the way it was run:

A) It was successfully run despite time correlation with the outcast war. It might not have been big in terms of game wide event, but it was big in terms of a bard guild event, yet it didn't seem to need a whole lot of GMs to keep it running.

B) The time of the final confrontation was known in advance. This gave time to people like me with conflicting time zones to plan ahead.

C) It had two immediate offshoot events. One that came into frution - (Linet and the cursed Fife recovered from Medmaev's belongings), and another that seems to have been abandoned - Saechilaya (or however her name is spelt) abandoning the songsworn and seeing with the "wrong" kind of people. In a sense, we ended up exactly where we started with a defected songsworn (albit not quite as mad).


Oh yes, and the Xylobone was great. You think the peddler might be able to obtain a couple of thise? ;P

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* Malik was just struck down!

Thought my post looked wrong. It's Saecihlaya, not Saechilaya.

We need names like "Bob" in the guild. Songsworn Bob. Guildleader Anne. Shopkeeper Jim. Etc.

Oh well...

-V.

"Reject me not, sweet sounds! oh, let me live,
Till doom espy my towers and scatter them.
A city spell-bound under the aging sun,
Music my rampart, and my only one."
-Edna St. Vincent-Millay

The only real Bard event I was even remotely involved with was during the Gorbesh War, and I was both young and clueless at the time. The experience cemented my love of DR, I think, but not specifically of Bards.

I think the event that made me feel the most Bardly was the events surrounding the Adan'f, Xerasyth, and specifically Iszanua in Shard. I've always felt that to play a Bard you have to be versatile and be quick with both items and spoken word to get through situations since Enchantes are such a pain at times. During the event in question, I got information from the GMPC Iszanua using song-games where I would sing leading songs to try to get her to say what I was describing. It was a ton of fun, and even more fun when the other PCs involved began hounding me for it.

I utilized a TON of RF runes to sneak into town and around the area undetected. I used a lizard charm I have to contact Cierzen the Guard Captain with details on where we could meet so I could pass on intel. I used Resolve from RF to knock people down in the safe room to gain credit with the Adan'f. I used sigils to mess up peoples moongates. I even dropped labeled satchels from RF during one battle in the Woods with weird keys I had lying around in my vault to mislead people into searching for a door that wasn't there to get them off my back briefly. Issus got the crap kicked out of him daily, but the pursuit of information that could potentially serve to help people was worth it to Issus. I even tried to get the one Adan'f (cowardly MM one, can't recall his name) to overthrow Vigther but that kind of backfired...

Anyway, that's probably the time I felt most like Issus was performing his responsibilities as a Bard most thoroughly. Afterwards, I had an absolutely disastrous run as Court Bard and realized I'm really, really not cut out for that kind of role in DR, but I think it's clear not everyone in the guild plays the same.


-=Issus=-

Yeah part of the Lyras event was my favorite too, when Zamidren Book was out and I happened to walk into him as he was examining one of the blood symbols painted on the wall. Everyone was basically depending on me to help decipher the meaning behind it because of our perceive history and it was so much fun.

I've had a lot of fun doing performances at different vigils and stuff too. I suck at writing songs, but sometimes I can put together a decent playact for a purely instrumental performance which is something I think that DR had previously lacked.

I'd love to see song scrolls for instrumental pieces, as an aside.


- Terra
Raesh gives Terra wings. And then rips them off and beats her with them.