Emerald Gift On Stage

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Encounter Conditions

Initial Text

The current of the crowd has guided you to the end of the ballroom where Emerald Gift is performing. There's still a pretty solid wall of people between you and stage, but you could probably force your way through to actually see their faces.

Any further than that, though, and you'd be wading your way through security guards. It's a little weird they aren't Midgard, but it looks like some of the guards from the Docks are pulling overtime here.

Summary of Choices

  1. Listen -
  2. Head up -
    1. Singer -
    2. Guitarist -
    3. Keyboardist -
    4. Turn back -
  3. Mingle -
  4. Leave the crowd -

Choice Text and Results

Listen

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You sit back and listen, letting Emerald Gift's whispering lyrics and bizarre melodies flow through you.

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live.

Head up

You push and elbow your way close to the stage. You're in range now to actually see the individual performers. They have a singer, guitarist, and keyboardist but none of them seem bound by your expectations.

From listening to the music, you're almost surprised they even have a guitarist. You can see what he's doing now, but it's so strange as to sound like more synthesis from the keyboard.

or, while Etheric

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You push and elbow your way close to the stage. You're in range now to actually see the individual performers and the swirling disk of energy floating behind them.

The energy lashes around and through the singer, guitarist, and keyboardist. They don't seem to mind… quite the contrary, really. They stand as beings of energy, fed from the portal and feeding the portal.

Something seems… off, though. It's as though periodically the light will flicker and the three of them will just be people for a moment, then become energy once again.

Singer

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You watch their singer, well, it's not exactly singing that she does… it's more of a pleasant whispering. You can't get close enough to hear her directly, you'd probably have to be right up on stage, but the microphone and speakers do a good job making her almost audible.

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live

or, while Etheric

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You watch their singer, well, it's not exactly singing that she does… it's more of an unearthly whispering. She crackles with a strange energy that seems to carry into her words.

You can't recognize the language, but somehow know the words speak of great promise and loss. It's a mournful sort of tale, a "look what we could have done, could have built."

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live.

You've earned 5 XP in Will

Guitarist

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You edge in a bit closer to watch the guitarist. He stares glassily into space, plucking the strings without seeming to even realize he's doing it.

It might be that you're just not used to pre-electric guitars, but the range and emotion he can drag out of it are almost surreal. It's mostly just a few sparkling notes of ornamentation here and there, but it really bridges the gap between the synthesized notes and the whispering vocals.

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live

or, while Etheric

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You edge in a bit closer to watch the guitarist. He stares out over the audience with a manic gaze, plucking at his guitar to create beautiful patterns of notes, each of them more beautiful than the last.

Even the patterns swallowed up under the swell of the music speak of strange wonders and bizarre mathematics.

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live.

You've earned 5 XP in Perception

Keyboardist

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The Emerald Gift's keyboardist is certainly a spectacle. With his shaved head and cybernetics, he looks more like the kind of slave worker Midgard accuses all its adversaries of using than a musician.

However, between the keyboard and the cybernetic links, he seems to have an absurd level of control over the eerie foundation of Emerald Gift's music. Of course, you might too, if you could control your instrument directly with your brain.

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live

or, while Etheric

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The Emerald Gift's keyboardist is a being of sound and light. Energy flows out of him and into the crowd. You feel strangely invigorated.

The sounds are completely unearthly, you grope for a metaphor to explain, or even understand, them and come up short

You've gained 50 energy of Emerald Gift Live.

You've earned 5 XP in Strength

Mingle

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You spend a little time mingling with fans who are far more hardcore than you. On the bright side, since this is their first live performance and the band was so mysterious until now, they don't actually know much more than you.

You've earned 4 XP in Will

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