[Video] In which Pidonus finds a thing!

[have_hat_will_travel]

So I decided to ask a drone for things for being less bored, and it found something!

[Pidonus dramatically tosses her phone up into the air, then mutters something, the camera stopping directly above her pointed down, where she holds up... a copy of "The Settlers of Catan", a box of some decks of Poker cards, and a copy of Munchkin.]

Board games! And cards! A start to the solution for the boredom problem!

This is a good day! To do things! Who's interested?!

[And then the phone drops to the ground, thankfully not damaged, but the camera going dark as it lands on the floor. Pidonus apparently failed to keep her concentration on the Prestidigitation effect. Also, all the stuff's shrink-wrapped... Huh.]

Comments

[riderofcharlemagne]

[...]

Have you ever poked one?

[have_hat_will_travel]

I've been shoved into one.

Remember how I said that just because I have damage reduction that lets me recover from small injuries and partially from big ones, it doesn't mean it still hurts?

I also have Acid Resistance. It. Still. Hurts.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He inhales sharply, and winces a little.]

I see.

[have_hat_will_travel]

It totally destroyed my lute, too. I liked that lute...

[riderofcharlemagne]

You play?!

[Band plans: forming...]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Any Bard worth her salt has the Versatile Performer feat so she can rapidly adapt to any instrument or mode of performance! Lutes, harps, horns, my voice, my dance, even freaking alphorns if need be!

... So, yes.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[Astolfo excitedly claps his hands to his mouth as Pidonus explains. Once she's done he shuffles closer to her and leans in inches before her face.]

You know what this means, right? [Shuffle.] Right?

[have_hat_will_travel]

[Pidonus blinked, but didn't back off any at least.]

Uh. Maybe???

[riderofcharlemagne]

Of course you do!

[He bounces back to a further distance, gesturing excitedly.]

Surely those automatons can find us some kind of instruments, so once we have those we'll be good to go!

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Multiple bards?

[No, she apparently didn't get Astolfo's intent.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

I wouldn't want to settle on that for a name, but it's a start. We'll think of a better one later.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Most adventuring parties only use one bard, though...

[The idea of a band performing music for its own sake is not something she's adjusted to!]

[riderofcharlemagne]

We can take artistic liberties with the name, you know.

[have_hat_will_travel]

...

[Pidonus blinks and nods a bit.]

I think we're doing that thing where each of us is thinking of a very different thing from the other again.

[riderofcharlemagne]

We're forming a band, right?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Oh, that's what you meant. Okay.

Mind, to do much good I'll need to study the styles of the timeframe you're thinking of. I've mostly got experience with single-performer forms suited to use on the road, but adapting isn't too hard!

[riderofcharlemagne]

I don't know much about what music is around in this era, but something high-energy would probably suit us nicely. As for instruments, I guess we'll have to see what the androids can get us.

[He's winging this, entirely.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, fair enough. I think I can make it work.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Great!

[He claps his hands together.]

Now- we just need to decide on a name [The most important part, of course.] and our instruments and then we're good to go!

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, practicing as a team would likely be necessary... Just because I've got 24 ranks in Perform doesn't mean it'd likely just work.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Well, of course we'd rehearse...

[That's far less glamorous than the other parts though.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Shouldn't take too much, assuming most of us have Perform ranks or equivalent.

[riderofcharlemagne]

What's a Perform Rank?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... It means we have practice playing an instrument for crowds. Loosely.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Ah, well, that's less important.

["Just wing it": the Astolfo motto.]