How about we all try to sing it? :p Embarrassing oneself is always more fun if it's done as a group.
E: Just a suggestion (I really need to read the damn story so I can have a better basis for this stuff), but instead of having the whole song be pertinent to her (not that I'm saying it is, I have no way of knowing short of reading the story), maybe have just one or two parts that jump out at her? That's usually how it is with me.
That'll be hard. lol I don't know if you've ever tried to say stuff at the same time as somebody else online before, but when you try to do it in Skype, it comes out as a huge mess due to the tiny fraction-of-a-second lag delays. I guess we could each record ourselves singing it and then send it in, but then you lose the "as a group" feeling and you feel singled out. Or maybe you weren't really serious and I'm taking you too seriously. (also, I imagined a girl singing it. random.)
As to your suggestion, yeah, most of the song is just poetic stuff that doesn't apply to her, really. What's really going to get her moving is going to be the music - the beat of the song, and all that - and then halfway through, she'll hear these lines:
"Stone, moon, and shadow
I need you here with me"
I'll probably have her mention those lines in her journal, because it'll remind her so much of her almost-kiss with Urist in the Gorlak Caves that she'll break down.
edit: I had her write this about the gorlak cave in her journal:
"The moonlight shifted again, throwing moonbeams upon the walls, glittering gems catching the reflections and throwing them about in a beautiful cascade of colors; the shining elven moonlight combining, intertwining, with the solid dwarven stone."A big thing to note is that she's never really listened to music before, so any music she hears is going to have a
much stronger psychological effect on her than it would on most other people - I speak from experience here.
I was stuck with low-quality games for most of my life until I got internet access, and then I downloaded a Halo demo for PC and immediately decided it was the GreatestThingEvarTM. Until I played some really, really good games, I couldn't believe Halo's quality simply because it was head and shoulders above everything else I'd played up to that point.
edit: what'll be interesting is seeing if I can pull off giving her an experience that will make her actually be able to relate to the rest of the song - but afterwards. Although, Urist has technically rescued her at least twice before, so she might be able to most of the rest of it already... but, the point is largely moot because she'll be listening to the music instead of the lyrics... it's how I do things. I could never be content with writing two lines and pretending the rest of the song was actually there - I have to write the rest of it to be satisfied. I may have her mention some of the rest of it, but I'm not entirely sure yet.
I was mainly just posting it in thread because "why not", though.
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