Terrific idea Bernwyn! This would be one quest I would definitely work on.
As quests go it would be similar to the Trueshot bow quest, which is time
consuming and tiring but if successful yeilds an excellent item. Did you
mean that a bard would have to personally visit each place to get part of
the song sheet, meaning the song sheets are no drop? That's the way I'd
like to see it. Something as valuable as this potential song should not be
bought, it should be personally earned. Sounds like the perfect diversion
for Lakosh when he hits his mid-life crisis since he can't buy a sports car
:)
You got my vote!
Lakosh <Divine Harmony>
Bard of the 19th Chord
----- Original Message -----
From: scott brisko <scott@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Philosophy behind the Bard class
> From: scott@... (scott brisko)
>
> I would like to see the addition of high level group gate song with it's
own
> special twist like this.
>
> Instead of gating your party to druid ruins, or some strange magical site,
> the bard group gate would teleport everyone to one of the many Inns or
> Tavern in Norath. This may be in a city, out on the country along a road,
or
> even out to places like the Ocean of Tears. In order to get the song, you
> would have to do a world-wide quest to visit each of these places and get
> each one's verses (which may spawn many sub-quests) that would comprise
the
> final song which would be created from the combined verses at the end of
the
> quest.
>
> The actual mechanics of the song would be to begin singing it, and then
have
> a dialog or portion of the interface display the choices of where you
would
> like to be taken (kind of like a ranger's tracking screen). As a balancing
> mechanism, once everyone in the party had been teleported they would all
> roll against their alcohol tolerance skill to see how disoriented the
songs
> intoxicating lyrics had made them. Those that fail will stumble around
drunk
> for a time until it wears off.
>
> Just my 2 coppers
> Bernwyn
>
>
>
<snipped out of kindness to digesters>