Bards

I keep on thinking of Bard characters and then getting stuck on the thing where I don't know much music.

Bards could in theory be primarioy Oratory or Conedy dudes though, and honestly I'm not coming up with much for that either.
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Thing is I'm getting stuck on what kind of
get up and dance
(with death, reprise)
song could even go there

at which point I have to admit I know not of music.



I am getting many ideas for how to fit these Torchwood inspire characters into this Runelords adventure, what character arcs they can have etc.

But it wouldnt be good fanfic, or properly original, so then I dont get around to writing it.



I like game rules though, they give you such an epic climbing frame.



I do have another Bard character in mind where I could think of songs for all their spells
as long s they were Disney
with a hint of Bagpuss.


... that's unuseable for a whole other reason long before you get to Mood though.


You can get a long way with Queen's Greatest Hits as well.




If you try and make up music you get a really tough challenge, because music is primarily connotational, so you have to build the connotations before you use them.

And if you're trying to do that in text
where you can't use key and tempo anyway
you're just stuck trying to make up really meaningful poetry
that your Bard could say
in six seconds.


Trick-y.



Ah well.

Sometimes the internet bumps suspended disbelief

I was reading a fic that described a building as
fifteen stories of grey boredom
and it struck me that the author was not from the city they were writing about
and has very different ideas of what normal height in a building is.

So I distracted myself, first by double checking my impression that Norwich doesn't go that tall
(almost, two tower blocks)
then by checking the actual city the story is in, both via wiki.

... 15 stories narrows it down to four buildings, grey rules out two, and year of construction leaves one.
... which is probably not what the story meant to do.

If they'd just said tall grey boredom then we can fill the rest in
but a number gives the brain something to trip up on.




Also, the internet is a wonderful thing, but I can't steer my attention for toffee.