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Message ID: 11452
Date: Tue Dec 7 21:45:44 GMT 1999
Author: JB Paradis
Subject: Re: Sometimes it's Hard to be a Bard
> >Message: 18------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 18:43:21 -0600
> > From: Talies the Wanderer <snicker@...>
> >Subject: RE: Bard sit in or Mana Song walkout or
> whatever (long, possibly
> >rant ish)
> >
> >We're Bards, right?
>
> Waitaminute, I thought we were necromancers...
> hehehe oops do I feel like a
> ninny. No wonder those bone chips never worked.
>
> >So.... who's up to a little composition? Sing a
> little here... sing a
> >little there.... sing to the news guys.. sing to
> the news groups...
>
> Well, here's something I threw together last night:
>
> Sometimes it's Hard to be a Bard
>
> Sometimes it's hard to be a bard, although I have to
> say,
> I love it though it hurts to know it's changing
> every day
> In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to
> see -
> The many ways these changing days have been the
> death of me.
>
> I've had a song, though not for long, a joy for me
> to play
> It let me fly across the sky, but then, the other
> day
> My levitate began to wait before it would relight
> And so I fell and died, oh well... a casualty of
> Flight.
>
> I have a greed for superspeed, I simply hate to wait
> To break a root, there's no dispute, Accelerando's
> great
> And then one day, to my dismay, ghoul-rooted and in
> need,
> My precious tune did nothing boon... a casualty of
> Speed.
>
> I've one refrain, a sonic chain - it slows the
> target down
> Reducing flight, and in a fight, it's justly won
> renown.
> A fleeing whelp returned with help; one change my
> fate explains -
> Since he had SoW, I could not slow... a casualty of
> Chains.
>
> I'm very sad to say I had the horrid luck to see
> Upon the plain, through fog and rain, The Thing That
> Must Not Be.
> To show their ire, the gods rained fire, and both of
> us were charred...
> Apparently the gods could see the Thing but not the
> bard.
>
> Sometimes it's hard to be a bard, although I have to
> say,
> I love it though it hurts to know it's changing
> every day
> In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to
> see -
> The many ways these changing days have been the
> death of me.
>
> Aloro Silvertongue (E'ci)
> I'm sure there are some other stanzas I should
> include, but can't think of
> what other unintended/undocumented nerfs have hit us
> lately. Any
> suggestions?
>
>
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