{"id":803,"date":"2000-05-06T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2000-05-06T23:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=803"},"modified":"2000-05-06T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2000-05-06T23:09:16","slug":"bard-audition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/05\/bard-audition-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bard Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDay 265, Year 537 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEver since the Bard’s Guild arrived on our isle of
\nPuddleby, I had been excited at the prospect of becomming a bard.
\nThough I was not the most skilled of musicians, I had learned to play
\nthe flute quite well among the Loth’airen, and I would have very much
\nliked to see how my skills compared to those of my fellow exiles.
\nHowever, it seemed that I always missed the audition days, for the
\nduties of a mystic are long and arduous. So, you can imagine my
\nsurprise and delight when I heard today that there were going to be
\nbard auditions. I requested Perkusi to add me to the list of
\nauditioners, and waited patiently for my turn to come.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Bard<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe first auditioner was Harg, followed by Solace
\nand Ishamael. Solace’s music blew me away, and dealt a powerful blow to
\nmy self confidence. I began to doubt whether I should audition, or not.
\nIshamael’s performance following Solace was just as good, if not
\nbetter. By the time my turn arrived, I was nervous as heck, but with
\nsome words of encouragement from Perkusi, I managed to step onto the
\npodium. I was breathing so hard that I doubted I could play any
\ninstrument, but I borrowed a Reed Flute from Trep, and played away. My
\nfirst song was “Spiderweb” followed by “To Sing a Song” and
\n“Boogieman”. I grew more confident with each tune, and before I knew
\nit, it was all over. I went back to my seat on the grass, and collapsed
\nin a nervous heap. The final player was Polygon, who was vying for the
\nposition of full bard. His songs were simply marvelous, and after he
\nwas done, all the bards went to their tower to judge the contestants.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAfter what seemed like hours, each of the
\ncontestants were called to Hendrux’s hut, one by one. When my name was
\ncalled, I rushed to the hut, and stood nervously before the judges. The
\nall smiled warmly at me, and welcomed me as a new bard questor! I was
\noverjoyed, and jumped around in excitement. Afterwards, Polygon was
\npromoted to full bard, and showed off his new, golden sash. The only
\none of us who did not make it, unfortunately, was Harg, whose short
\nmelodies proved to be a bit too short for the judges. Now I am a bard
\nquestor, scouring the lands for instrument parts that I may make my
\nfirst instrument. I am also working on some new pieces of music, and I
\nhave just now finished an awesome piece of music that I like to call
\n“Romp”. It blows all my other music away. If any of yi see any bones or
\nreeds out there, let me know!<\/a>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 265, Year 537 of the Ascendancy Ever since the Bard’s Guild arrived on our isle of Puddleby, I had been excited at the prospect of becomming a bard. Though I was not the most skilled of musicians, I had learned to play the flute quite well among the Loth’airen, and I would have very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}