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[Fancy Admiral]

I thought you were going Captain Kirk on us there.  "Only one man, can do, what, many others have, tried, and failed, to accomplish!"

I like the idea of the bard being a traveling event.  Nobles could request a performance in their room much like they request meetings with other nobles when they come to visit.  They could play in meeting halls for the expectation of food and drink.  Or maybe they'd expect some other form of pay.  (This could get interesting, if they decide they own some dwarfbucks value of things for the service of making n dwarves happy.)  They can be expected to spread the stories of your fortress's deeds and would play a factor into immigrant wave sizes.

Musicality and other Language skills could be used if this were an adventure mode.  In fortress mode, it would give dwarves new topics to engrave, build statues, etc.  And of course another source of happiness is well regarded by most forts. 

No real new suggestions here, but I like the idea enough to throw them down in the forum again.

[Supercharazad]

Or Elona style, Have them throw rocks until you die.

Fix'd

[Deimos56]

If you're going to use the military screen, go all the way and allow military musicians. Right now, they'd give a morale bonus. Later on they'd be used to convey orders.

Drums in the deep

HFS musicians. Maybe if you started getting close you could hear them?

to convey orders.

Tholtig McMason cancels construct vitally important furniture: Orders from Below.
Tholtig McMason has become a Miner.

[TolyK]

LULZ
sadly forum doesn't support karma 

anyways I agree with the idea of making them into a squad using the militia menu/equivalent

[Dradym]

whispers....from the deep....tell me to do things....always there....in my dreams.....must obey

-picks up shiny blue weapon-

[Demicus]

Music!!! <3 ....
ahem.
I think having a band controlled through a pseudo military screen would be neat, especially if it allowed you to have concerts held and/or boost military morale. Though I would think that whenever there is a party, random dwarves would run to your instrument storage and grab some instruments to play at the party, which would potentially give extra happy thoughts from the party...unless those dwarves(or their instruments) really suck. Though it would still be good practice for those dwarves.

And it would give me a use for the mountain of rock instruments I always make, besides trading that is.