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<b>Message ID:</b> 11280 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Mon Dec  6 16:52:44 GMT 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Robin Wise 3 <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Sometimes it&#39;s Hard to be a Bard <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1604541930"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;Message: 18<br/>
&gt;    Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 18:43:21 -0600<br/>
&gt;    From: Talies the Wanderer &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:snicker@...">snicker@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: RE: Bard sit in or Mana Song walkout or whatever (long, possibly <br/>
&gt;rant ish)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;We&#39;re Bards, right?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Waitaminute, I thought we were necromancers... hehehe oops do I feel like a <br/>
ninny.  No wonder those bone chips never worked.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;So.... who&#39;s up to a little composition?  Sing a little here... sing a <br/>
&gt;little there.... sing to the news guys.. sing to the news groups...<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Well, here&#39;s something I threw together last night:<br/>
<br/>
Sometimes it&#39;s Hard to be a Bard<br/>
<br/>
Sometimes it&#39;s hard to be a bard, although I have to say,<br/>
I love it though it hurts to know it&#39;s changing every day<br/>
In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to see -<br/>
The many ways these changing days have been the death of me.<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ve had a song, though not for long, a joy for me to play<br/>
It let me fly across the sky, but then, the other day<br/>
My levitate began to wait before it would relight<br/>
And so I fell and died, oh well... a casualty of Flight.<br/>
<br/>
I have a greed for superspeed, I simply hate to wait<br/>
To break a root, there&#39;s no dispute, Accelerando&#39;s great<br/>
And then one day, to my dismay, ghoul-rooted and in need,<br/>
My precious tune did nothing boon... a casualty of Speed.<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ve one refrain, a sonic chain - it slows the target down<br/>
Reducing flight, and in a fight, it&#39;s justly won renown.<br/>
A fleeing whelp returned with help; one change my fate explains -<br/>
Since he had SoW, I could not slow... a casualty of Chains.<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;m very sad to say I had the horrid luck to see<br/>
Upon the plain, through fog and rain, The Thing That Must Not Be.<br/>
To show their ire, the gods rained fire, and both of us were charred...<br/>
Apparently the gods could see the Thing but not the bard.<br/>
<br/>
Sometimes it&#39;s hard to be a bard, although I have to say,<br/>
I love it though it hurts to know it&#39;s changing every day<br/>
In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to see -<br/>
The many ways these changing days have been the death of me.<br/>
<br/>
Aloro Silvertongue (E&#39;ci)<br/>
I&#39;m sure there are some other stanzas I should include, but can&#39;t think of <br/>
what other unintended/undocumented nerfs have hit us lately.  Any <br/>
suggestions?</div>