Dramatics Melody

Moi

DRAMATICS - MELODY

Syntax: COMPOSE NEW <song>
        COMPOSE LIST
        COMPOSE <song> STANZA <number> LYRIC <text>
        COMPOSE <song> STANZA <number> MELODY <text1> [HORN|STRING|DRUM] <text2>
        COMPOSE <song> STANZA <number> DELETE
        COMPOSE <song> DELETE
        COMPOSE <song> [INFO]
        PERFORM SONG <song>
        SONGSTAT, SONGSTATUS

Using your skill in dramatics, you are able to compose a limited repertoire of musical performances with all varieties of instrument, including horns, stringed instruments and drums. You can write your own song, choose an instrument for it, customize your melody and set it in stanzas. Each song can consist of up to 9 stanzas. Note that unless you have access to a specialization of the Music skillset, you will not be able to imbue your song with bardic powers. Even if you do have access to Music, imbued powers will only work for stringed instruments.

When playing a custom song, it always begins in stanza 1, each time you play the song, it progresses to the next stanza until the song ends or you change to another song or a certain amount of time elapses, whichever comes first. Note that before the time elapses, you can take other actions so long as you continue your performance before the time elapses.

COMPOSE <song> STANZA <number> MELODY <text1> [HORN|STRING|DRUM] <text2>

sets the text that goes in

"<lyric>," you sing, <text1> <wielded instrument appearance> <text2>.

when you do

PERFORM SONG <song>

Also, add drums as an artisan design, plz.

Eritheyl

Questioning the worth of this inclusion. Seems like a fun idea, but you could just as easily emote the lot of it.

That, and people can't typically sing and play a woodwind/brass at the same time.

Enyalida

That being why there aren't any instrument designs for them!

I would support, however, the inclusion of more instrument designs that don't work with bard skills, just for flavor. So, yes please to more drum/guitar/standingbass/whatever design patterns!

For added use, if the emoting engine were expanded, this would become very easy, and would be very cool. Allowing people to put things before their name in the emote would go a long way and should be easy. Somewhat more difficult would be highlighting things said in emotes (things surrounded by quotation marks) in the color the viewer has set for says.