Report 793

Report #793
Skillset: Music Skill: New:Reprise
 Org: Cantors Status: Completed May 2012
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1+3.
Problem: There is currently no satisfactory method for a bard to perform a
reverse in stanza aside of the stanza loss associated with Starhymn's
AvengingAngel and GuardianAngel. It is felt there is an imbalance because of
this. This report aims to address the problem.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Add a new skill REPRISE into the Music skillset. This
 would be used in the following fashion: PERFORM
 REPRISE <songname> - It will require both balance and
 equilibrium and will have a 3.25 second loss of
 equilibrium associated with it. Further, it will cost
 1P to perform a reprise.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Cause REPRISE to consume a 2.75 second loss of
 equilibrium with a 1P cost.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Any of the above solutions, but add the skill into
 each bard specialisation skillset.
Player Comments:
---[Mirami on 5/7 @ 21:29 writes]:
Sol1 supported, enables fugue to still be effective in combat( Balance time on
fugue is around 2s).
---[Draylor on 5/7 @ 21:44 writes]:
For the sake of completeness, please take into account that both AvengingAngel
and GuardianAngel are on a 3.75 second balance (This is with +2 to eq.)
---[Draylor on 5/7 @ 22:05 writes]:
Also, despite the addition of solution 3, it would be greatly preferred if this
new proposed skill actually be added directly into each bard specific skillset
rather than into Music. It certainly makes a lot more sense themetically,
although I can appreciate the extra work this would take.
---[Raeri on 5/8 @ 05:07 writes]:
Supported. Stick it somewhere after refrain and sustain. (If you can think of
renaming it something that ends in '-ain', that'd be great too!)
---[Raeri on 5/8 @ 06:43 writes]:
I will also settle for Repriseain.
---[Tacita on 5/9 @ 13:51 writes]:
Solution 1 supported.
---[Enyalida on 5/9 @ 22:43 writes]:
There is nothing in the solutions that indicates what the skill will actually
do, and I'm not exactly sure what you're going for here. Will this be exactly as
if you could play fugue adagio at yourself, one stanza? Will this be more than
one stanze? Will it be forceable, should the enemy divine your song name? Please
clarify solution 1 with skill function.
---[Raeri on 5/10 @ 05:03 writes]:
It's described in the Problem. Logically, it would be like performing the song
forward, or refraining, mechanically speaking, but take 1p and send your song
backwards one stanza instead of forward or redoing the current one.
---[Enyalida on 5/10 @ 17:41 writes]:
No, the goal is described in the problem. It's easy to assume what he wanted the
skill to do, but no one can profess to be able to read his mind. Would this
cause the effects you've imbued in to come into effect? How would it act if you
reprised back onto a targeted skill?
---[Draylor on 5/10 @ 22:24 writes]:
To quickly clarify: Performing a reprise would be a single stanza regression. It
would be subject to the usual restrictions on any balance type skill. I would
see no major problem with it being forceable. As for already imbued effects, a
bards song would act like it always has done, in that you would lose any imbued
effect above your current stanza. Performing a reprise back onto a targeted
skill will not be possible. Should you have a targeted effect in place and
attempt to perform a reprise, it will simply fail without consuming a balance.
---[Llandros on 5/12 @ 16:50 writes]:
I know that we used to be able to fugue our own songs backward but that was
changed to no longer be possible. I don't remember the reason for it though.
---[Talan on 5/15 @ 21:14 writes]:
Solution 3 is a given, if accepted, since you need the specs to be able to play
songs. Solution 1, 1p with a longer than normal eq recovery time.
---[Shuyin on 5/19 @ 00:38 writes]:
Solution 1 is fine