The Recital

The Recital is an encounter in Melody of the Maze. It comes after Anger Management or The Audition.
==Enemies==
Opponent 	Gold	XP 	Energy	HP 	HP 	HP
Opponent 	Gold	XP 	Energy	Normal	Hard	NM
Orc Critic 	1100	120	75 	5 	6 	7
Demon Critic 	1000	112	70 	5 	6 	7
Beastman Poet	1000	112	70 	5 	6 	7
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
"I walked under stars that shined like ice,
Twinkling dots, that looked really nice. 
Just like diamonds. Or maybe silver. 
Then I killed a human and ate his liver."
The sound of abysmal poetry draws first your curiosity and then your footsteps. Both are rewarded when you come across the source of the orchestrator of this brutality against the muses.
A beastman stands with his back against a stone wall, staring off into space in the manner of a poet or consumer of psychedelic mushrooms. Below the line of his stare, a few yards in front of him, an orc and a demon sit on a stone bench.
"I'm not sure about 'liver' bit," the orc says.
"Huh?" The beastman blinks as his eyes withdraw from his poetic vision and return to the real world -- or at least this approximation of it.
"It doesn't rhyme with 'silver'," the demon says.
"Yes it does!" the bestial poet protests. "Same ending. That means it's a rhyme."
"It's still not a rhyme," you say -- dredging up a half-remembered scrap from the less dynamic portion of your childhood education. "There's another word for that. Homeoteleuton."
"What did you call me?" the beastman roars.
"No, I meant-"
You sigh as he attacks. Poets...
===Conclusion===
"Alas, I die like a butchered cow!
Didn't like this world anyhow!
So strike me down, human scum!
The best poet in hell I shall become!"
Harp music, louder now that you're so close to the middle of the maze and the instrument's player, trills into a mock epic score which somehow manages to express the full measure of the bard's derision.
"At least he rhymed properly that time," you say.
The music flutters in agreement.
Category:Melody of the Maze