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Mazonas

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Dwarven Inns!
« on: February 06, 2011, 06:32:52 am »

Longterm suggestion, not necessarily something to come in any time soon, but more for when music is in better and we have actual musicians.  Obviously dorfs should have bards, and battle-poetry, and should sing and make merry when quaffing in the inns.  I would love it if part of game mood would be the ability to see even a few bars of a song being sung or being made popular.

A bit of fun for us, what songs will your dorfs sing?

Excerpt from one RL song that seems to go well.

The Brewing of Soma
John Greenleaf Whittier

The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke
Up through the green wood curled;
"Bring honey from the hollow oak,
Brink milky sap," the brewers spoke,
In the childhood of the world.

And brewed they well or brewed they ill,
The priests thrust in their rods,
First tasted, and then drank their fill,
And shouted, with one voice and will,
"Behold, the drink of the gods!"

They drank, and lo! in heart and brain
A new, glad life began;
They grew of hair grew young again,
The sick man laughed away his pain,
The cripple leaped and ran.

"Drink, mortals, what the gods have sent,
Forget you long annoy."
So sang the priests, From tent to tent
The Soma's sacred madness went,
A storm of drunken joy.

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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2011, 06:53:47 am »

I like the Discworld version, personally.

Gold, gold, gold, gold,
gold, gold, gold, gold,
gold, gold, gold, gold,
gold, gold, gold, gold.

(second verse)
Gold, gold, gold, gold...


Okay, seriously, I guess my dwarves would be fans of Turisas (folk/viking metal). I won't quote the whole thing here but "One More" is pretty much THE post-siege song for me.

Gathered round the wooden table
Same tavern as the nights before
I brace myself against the gable
Sunlight pushes its way through the gap in the door

As the golden sunbeams reach my eyes
I stand up and raise my pint up high

One more for our brothers who fought besides us
One more and forward again
Once more, we'll fight and conquer
Until we meet again

Staring at the stools not taken
I reach for my tankard of ale
The silence remains unbroken
All you hear is a tinkle of mail

As the golden sunbeams reach my eyes
I stand up and raise my pint up high...
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 08:08:55 am »

On a long and lonesome dirt road,
East of Golsinrozmo,
You can listen to the donkeys braying out in one long song
You can think about the woman,
Or the infant you strangled the night before...

But your thoughts will soon be wandering,
The way they always do
When you're leading sixteen drunkards,
and there's nothing much to do,
And you don't feel much like sleeping,
You just wish the trip was through.

Say here I am,
Ambushed by bogeymen
There I am,
Choppin their heads,
Here I go,
Playing adventurer again
There I go,
[T]urn the page

Well you walk into this castle,
Strung out from the road,
And you feel the eyes upon you,
As you're shaking off the blood,
You pretend it doesn't bother you,
But it actually doesn't bother you.. Uh....

Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
Other at times, you can
All the same old cliches,
Is that a bearded woman or a dwarf,
And you always seem out numbered
But you laugh and make your stand

Here I am,
Killing Humans again
There I am,
Gouging out eyes
Here I go
Playing Adventurer again
There I go,
[T]urn the page.

Out there in the death fields
You're a million tiles away
Every ounce of brute force,
You try to give away,
As the Blood pours out your body
Like the vengeance that you pay

Later in the evening, as you lie await in someone's bed,
With the concussions from the mace blows ringing in your head,
You strangle the day's last infant,
Remembering what she said...

Here I am,
On the road again
There I am,
Hunting a Cyclops
Here I go
Playing Adventurer again
There I go,
[T]urn the page.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 08:11:02 am »

Obviously:
The Sick Note
Dear Lord, I carve this note to you to tell you of me plight
and at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight;
me body is all brown and blue, me face a deathly gray
and I write this note to say why Urist's not at work today.

While working on the fourteenth floor some blocks I had to clear;
now, to throw them down from such a height was not a good idea.
the foreman wasn't very pleased, he being an awkward sod
he said I'd have to cart them down the ladders in me hod.

Now, clearing all these bricks by hand it was so very slow,
so I hoisted up a barrel and secured the rope below.
But in me haste to do the job I was to blind to see
that a barrelful of building blocks was heavier than me.

So when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead
and clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead.
Well, I shot up like a rocket till to my dismay I found
that halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down.

Well, the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped,
and when I reached the top I banged the pully with my head.
Well, I clung on tight through numbed shock from this almighty blow
and the barrel spilled out half the blocks fourteen floors below.

Now, when these blocks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more;
still clinging tightly to the rope, I sped towards the ground,
and I landed on the broken blocks that were all scattered round.

Well, I lay there groaning on the ground, I thougth I'd passed the worst,
when the barrel hit the pully-wheel and then the bottom burst.
Well, a shower of blocks rained down on me, I hadn't got a hope
as I lay there moaning on the ground, I let go the bloody rope.

The barrel than being heavier, it started down once more,
and landed right across me, as I lay upon the floor.
Well, it broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say
that I hope you'll understand why Urist's not at work today.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2011, 08:22:19 am by scriver »
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 08:18:41 am »

awwwww poor Urist
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2011, 05:59:20 am »

Come on you guys, of course all songs in the game would be procedurally generated. There will be a Songwriter skill and you'll be able to export your masterpiece songs to the humans so that you, years later, can hear them at the inns where your adventurer is staying.

"The Submerged Chant"

The greenesses mortify the hills
But the wound is the paper
So the severe sky is grassy!

All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy and apes!

The books smooth the hold
But the merchant is the dagger
So the worthy crypt is deformed!

All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy and apes!
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2011, 06:06:19 am »

Come on you guys, of course all songs in the game would be procedurally generated. There will be a Songwriter skill and you'll be able to export your masterpiece songs to the humans so that you, years later, can hear them at the inns where your adventurer is staying.

"The Submerged Chant"

The greenesses mortify the hills
But the wound is the paper
So the severe sky is grassy!

All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy and apes!

The books smooth the hold
But the merchant is the dagger
So the worthy crypt is deformed!

All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy
All is gems and pregnancy and apes!

You win. So hard.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2011, 11:07:45 am »

Yep, a winner is you.
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Nice one, not sure when I'll be feeling like killing a baby but these things are good to know.
This is why we can't have nice things... someone will just wind up filling it with corpses.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 04:29:17 pm »

In after win:
Quote
Dear Count or Baron, will you lead our fort
It took me years to dig, will you take a look?
Based on a map by a dwarf named Id
And I need a drink as I'm now a legendr'y miner,
Ledgendr'y miner.

It's a dirty story of a dirty elf
and his worthless goods that we want to seize.
His caravan guards are lying all dead
Because we flooded the depot when they threatened our legendr'y miner,
Legendr'y miner.

Legendr'y miner

It's a hundred levels, give or take a few
I'll be digging more after a break or two.
I can dig it deeper if you like the thrill,
I can channel too as I'm now a legendr'y miner
Legendr'y miner.

If you pull the lever you can set it alight,
it'll flood the fort with magma overnight.
If you must abandon, you can reclaim it here
But I need a drink as I'm now a legendr'y miner,
Legendr'y miner.

Legendr'y miner

Legendr'y miner - legendr'y miner.
Legendr'y miner - legendr'y miner.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2011, 08:04:06 pm »

Who wants a whole buncha songs? Warning: Swearing, Violence, Horror, Utter Dwarfyness and spoilers.

Spoiler:  Boatmurdered (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Dwarven Lullaby (click to show/hide)

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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2011, 09:54:24 pm »

In my imagination, dwarven music sounds like this. I really need to get around to changing their instruments in the raws. Dwarven piccolos? Seriously? Dwarves should play zithers, tongue drums, bells, bellows-powered reed organs, and xylophones.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2011, 12:31:21 am »

It has already been quoted twice, I realy should ~snip~

That is the most dwarfish song ever known... Hat is off, awesome is yours.

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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2011, 01:39:20 am »

In my imagination, dwarven music sounds like this. I really need to get around to changing their instruments in the raws. Dwarven piccolos? Seriously? Dwarves should play zithers, tongue drums, bells, bellows-powered reed organs, and xylophones.
In my mind, dwarves are mostly a capella and opera, but also with drums.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2011, 03:21:07 am »

They use flutes and harps made from elvenbone and catguts, obviously.
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Re: Dwarven Inns!
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2011, 06:30:13 am »

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