troll music

From: Luc Lavergne <arkat_at_rocketmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:32:51 -0700 (PDT)


Here is how my players became stars of the troll music scene. It all began with the characters themselves : a duck from duck point, a newtling from Pavis and a green elf from a small forest near the Rockwoods Mnts. It all started up with the players waking up in a lead jail stuck upon a wheelcart pulled by a giant beetle. There was a human girl with them.

Upon their way to crabtown, they were given food (well, troll food) and one of the trolls could even say some words of trade and a few other appropriate languages all learned at the Argan Argar Temple. It was clear that so long they would play or sound well they would be given food, and that they would be food the day they wouldn't play anymore. Sure, the players tried hard to find a way out of the cage, when Yelm was up there and the Uz were sleeping. But the lead bars resisted.

At Crabtown, the cart was parked behind a troll bar. It was late in the night and a whole bunch of Trolls and trollkins were wandering around the bar. Soon, the trolls came back to the cart, all dressed with strange black leather armor vests with studs and all wearing big drums and hammers. All of the players and the slave girl, who was so afraid that she had refused any food since at least a week, were taken out of the cage. The cage had no door, it was opened by lifting one or more of the lead bars, a feat only trolls could do. So they were carried in the dark, inside of the bar. The ambience there was kind of ill : lots of loud voices, fumes of strange beverage, squeaking trollkins, all coming from behind a curtain.

The curtain opened, and the pc's found themselves kind of strapped and chained on the stage, a troll in black leather with a drum and huge sticks in front of each of them plus the girl. The crowd was roaring with delight as the Hombobobom Drummers began smashing the drums skins. But the real great moments were the special screaming instrument each of them was playing. Here are some skills : Play Elf, Play Duck, Play Human Child and play Newtling.

The Human Child Player was a little hard with his sticks so the girl was quickly broken. She was thrown in the crowd and the Uz in the mosh pit ate her with delight. Needless to say that the other intruments played well during the remaining part of the show.

The story end up with a band of trollkins trying to espae their masters wrath. They helped the pc's escape from the lead cage with the strenght of a dumb great Troll. From there they crawled through trollkins tunnels to small for big Uz to the lair of a giant spider sacred to Aranea. But this is a nother story.

Luc Lavergne
National Animation and Design Centre

(special thanks to the digester who sent this idea of troll playing sentient instrument some months ago, but whose name has been forgotten)



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