Wanna Bring The Bardic Fun Back Into Allanak?

[Barsook]

Then this family role call you is for you!

I'm looking for three more members for this bardic family based in Allanak.   I'm planning to play the youngest son of the family and I seek one or both parents, in their middle ages (CLOSED), and one or two siblings of any gender and any age (both spots taken).  Please note that one of the parents must be a veteran player that knows about the bardic art in Allanak.  All characters must be a of mundane subguild and start in Allanak.

If you want more details or are interested in applying please feel free to PM me.

Allanak needs more bards...

Edit to add: My play times are peak EST to 2 am-ish EST, but some times I'm on earlier.

[Jihelu]

Mundane subguild* 

Sounds interesting though, sadly I'm in my 'I kinda want to wait for a good magick' idea though.

[Barsook]

Thank you!  I forgot.

[Asmoth]

Then this family role call you is for you!

I'm looking for three more members for this bardic family based in Allanak.   I'm planning to play the youngest son of the family and I seek one or both parents, in their middle ages, and one or two siblings of any gender and any age.  Please note that one of the parents must be a veteran player that knows about the bardic art in Allanak.  All characters must be a of mundane subguild and start in Allanak.

If you want more details or are interested in applying please feel free to PM me.

Allanak needs more bards...

Edit to add: My play times are peak EST to 2 am-ish EST, but some times I'm on earlier.

Not meaning to derail this at all, and it's an honest question.  But I thought Bards in Allanak had food and mugs thrown at them, and told to take their stinking ass to the north and play with the pansies?

I never saw any sorta bardic culture in Allanak, ever.

[Jihelu]

I'd say take a look at the wall and you'll see a story, if you know what it is, that shows bards have had their place in Nak.

Tuluk may take it a step further with it, however.
Everyone enjoys a good song.

[Patuk]

Then this family role call you is for you!

I'm looking for three more members for this bardic family based in Allanak.   I'm planning to play the youngest son of the family and I seek one or both parents, in their middle ages, and one or two siblings of any gender and any age.  Please note that one of the parents must be a veteran player that knows about the bardic art in Allanak.  All characters must be a of mundane subguild and start in Allanak.

If you want more details or are interested in applying please feel free to PM me.

Allanak needs more bards...

Edit to add: My play times are peak EST to 2 am-ish EST, but some times I'm on earlier.

Not meaning to derail this at all, and it's an honest question.  But I thought Bards in Allanak had food and mugs thrown at them, and told to take their stinking ass to the north and play with the pansies?

I never saw any sorta bardic culture in Allanak, ever.

You never saw any because the Tuluki infrastructure supported it better, and people prefered playing them there, but there's been the occasional Allanaki bard, and the docs support their presence just fine. Telling people off for being bards is no different than me telling a basketballer to go back to America.

[Iiyola]

There's even a bard on the famous Allanaki Arena mural.

[Jihelu]

There's even a bard on the famous Allanaki Arena mural.

Thats what I was hinting at but I wanted him to go look himself! ;.;

[Barsook]

I never saw any sorta bardic culture in Allanak, ever.

That's the goal of the role call is to get it live, if there is one.

[RogueGunslinger]

 

This sounds like it will be fun! Hope I'm not too late.

[Barsook]

You are not.  In fact, you are the first who have PMed about the call!

Thank you!

[RogueGunslinger]

Not meaning to derail this at all, and it's an honest question.  But I thought Bards in Allanak had food and mugs thrown at them, and told to take their stinking ass to the north and play with the pansies?

Naw. That's a misconception based on player ignorance. Allanak has bards, they're just usually not the flowery, long-winded sort. Everyone loves music and a good story.

[Barsook]

Both sibling positions are taken, we are still seeking out a parent!

[Suhuy]

Bards have a longer history in Allanak than they ever did in Tuluk. When Tuluk fleshed out their bardic circles, however, some players misinterpreted this to mean that Allanak must be the default opposite and concluded that there are no bards in the south at all. Bards (minstrels, musicians, etc.) are everywhere. They can be rugged, or flowery for that matter, even in Allanak. This notion that Allanak is some sort of crude and in-your-face culture also came about out of a desire to make Allanak the polar opposite of Tuluk (rather than having derived from any actual documentation on the subject). These things vary and the options are pretty limitless. You may not see bards as a regular course currently, but that doesn't mean they aren't part of the virtual world by any stretch. There probably isn't a single civilization in the Known World which frowns upon music and telling tales by the fire (including gith!) so when you see some Allanaki throwing a mug at someone purely for being a "bard" it's because they don't understand the nature of the game world, regardless of location (and likely come from the same camp who tried to make Allanak into something it isn't just to distinguish it from Tuluk).

[Evilone]

I'll totally support this IG if I get the chance. Great timing. Good luck!

[valeria]

I hope this concept goes a long way, because Allanak can always use more bardic fun.

[Barsook]

Thanks for all of your support and our parent role is filled!

[IAmJacksOpinion]

I thought Bards in Allanak had food and mugs thrown at them, and told to take their stinking ass to the north and play with the pansies?

If someone forces me to witness their recital in the Gaj, this will happen. You've been warned. Take that shit to the Bards Barrel! :p

[Barsook]

Isn't the Barrel, the one that was burnt down a few in real life years ago?

[RogueGunslinger]

I thought Bards in Allanak had food and mugs thrown at them, and told to take their stinking ass to the north and play with the pansies?

If someone forces me to witness their recital in the Gaj, this will happen. You've been warned. Take that shit to the Bards Barrel! :p

Thanks, it always helps to have a goal in mind when starting a new PC. I'll find you PC and force him to listen to my... poetry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4

[IAmJacksOpinion]

I once had a HG bard that wrote a poem about a booger based on "Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning."

[Xalle]

Prompted by this, here's the restored and updated juicy music doc from the old site:

http://www.armageddon.org/help/view/Music%20Theory%20and%20History

[Barsook]

OMG!  Thank you!

[nauta]

The upper classes of Allanak are an entirely different matter. Never to be outdone, the nobility of Allanak have reached an appreciation of music so difficult to understand, so outstretched, that many would suspect that the nobles themselves only claim to like it in a vain effort to tout their intellectual superiority over their peers. The music complicated without bounds, with the scale of notation reaching up to 16 different notes. Harmonies are dissonant and lack most, if not all rhythmic structure, as percussion driven music is too often associated with the barbaric tribes of the sands and the common dregs of the city, whereas literate, educated and civilized tastes are seen to be far more "sophisticated". Instruments are often used for the sake of their value, with ornately decorated violins, harps and flutes which are often more pleasing to the eye, than the ear. Music in the upper class is often used as a backdrop to theatrical entertainment instead of dance or song, with heavy themes of political power and presentations of Allanaki history being common.

I love this paragraph.  I can imagine a bunch of Fale and Borsail nobles sitting around listening in earnest to John Cage's 4'33" sipping wine, wearing outrageously hot dresses that don't allow any physical movement, with hair up to the ceiling, while two commoners get stretched out the rack in the background for being all what-the-fuck? about it.

[boog]

The upper classes of Allanak are an entirely different matter. Never to be outdone, the nobility of Allanak have reached an appreciation of music so difficult to understand, so outstretched, that many would suspect that the nobles themselves only claim to like it in a vain effort to tout their intellectual superiority over their peers. The music complicated without bounds, with the scale of notation reaching up to 16 different notes. Harmonies are dissonant and lack most, if not all rhythmic structure, as percussion driven music is too often associated with the barbaric tribes of the sands and the common dregs of the city, whereas literate, educated and civilized tastes are seen to be far more "sophisticated". Instruments are often used for the sake of their value, with ornately decorated violins, harps and flutes which are often more pleasing to the eye, than the ear. Music in the upper class is often used as a backdrop to theatrical entertainment instead of dance or song, with heavy themes of political power and presentations of Allanaki history being common.

I love this paragraph.  I can imagine a bunch of Fale and Borsail nobles sitting around listening in earnest to John Cage's 4'33" sipping wine, wearing outrageously hot dresses that don't allow any physical movement, with hair up to the ceiling, while two commoners get stretched out the rack in the background for being all what-the-fuck? about it.

This is always how I've imagined Allanaki bards to be. At least, those sponsored by the nobles. You are perfect.

[Desertman]

The upper classes of Allanak are an entirely different matter. Never to be outdone, the nobility of Allanak have reached an appreciation of music so difficult to understand, so outstretched, that many would suspect that the nobles themselves only claim to like it in a vain effort to tout their intellectual superiority over their peers. The music complicated without bounds, with the scale of notation reaching up to 16 different notes. Harmonies are dissonant and lack most, if not all rhythmic structure, as percussion driven music is too often associated with the barbaric tribes of the sands and the common dregs of the city, whereas literate, educated and civilized tastes are seen to be far more "sophisticated". Instruments are often used for the sake of their value, with ornately decorated violins, harps and flutes which are often more pleasing to the eye, than the ear. Music in the upper class is often used as a backdrop to theatrical entertainment instead of dance or song, with heavy themes of political power and presentations of Allanaki history being common.

I love this paragraph.  I can imagine a bunch of Fale and Borsail nobles sitting around listening in earnest to John Cage's 4'33" sipping wine, wearing outrageously hot dresses that don't allow any physical movement, with hair up to the ceiling, while two commoners get stretched out the rack in the background for being all what-the-fuck? about it.

If I'm reading that correctly, it basically says: "Nobles in Allanak are so full of shit they sit around pretending to like what basically amounts to random fucking noise for no reason other than to appear to appreciate something other people can't understand....because to common people it sounds like shit.".

Basically, if you want to be a bard for nobles in Allanak, you have to be Steamy Ray Vaughn.

[Vositus]

Prompted by this, here's the restored and updated juicy music doc from the old site:

http://www.armageddon.org/help/view/Music%20Theory%20and%20History

THIS IS SO RAD

I'm thinking a little of this through some gaudy mandolin or harp.
https://youtu.be/ZYLaPVi_I2U?t=1m20s

[Lizzie]

I always figured Allanak "art" to be Avant Garde/Absurdism, with its audience having absolutely no understanding of the genre. Sort of like if Ferlinghetti took the song "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen, played it backward, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance to it while wearing a dinosaur-print terrycloth robe and black-patent-leather Mary Jane shoes, with still shots of WWII photo-shot with celeb faces instead of soldiers, looping on a screen in the background.

[Delirium]

Allanaki nobles are hipsters.

That explains everything.

[Khorne8]

https://youtu.be/dBVIJnqtYfs

[Lizzie]

Allanaki nobles are hipsters.

That explains everything.

I was thinking more on the order of beatniks but okay that works too