Set Lists

Composition Levels

GM's note: Assume all styles that are traditionally electric have been converted to accoustic for this game, as there's no such thing as electric instruments. All "rock" forms are songs that incorporate folk musics into pop style. The term "rock music" doesn't exist yet on Shem.

Album titles get underlined or italicized, song titles get put in quotation marks--unless you're writing a news story, then they're all in quotation marks. Italicizing song titles triggers my insanely sensitive pedant reflex & results in my eating your eyes out.

Sunheart

Love - emperor and wife

Fear - running from Vesturia - "Dragon's Egg" (20)

Sadness/Longing - "thinks she's dead" - "Stone Siren" (19)

Hope - "she might be alive"

Determination - defending the city

Long Dark Night

Hatred - "thinks she betrayed him"

Anger/Protection - "smite his enemies" and save her

Happiness - ending

Jack Crane

• Dues to Deserel, blues-rock in the style of Kenny Wayne Sheppard. This would amount to Jack having appropriated soulful Taggaran rhythms & vocal stylings for a guitar-heavy pop song. Specialty Song
• Roses and Barbed Wire, a power ballad
• Blind Man's Bluff, Angsty Stone Temple Pilots-esque ballad. This is basically just an angry pop song with raspy vocals.
• Through the Glass Darkly, in the style of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," about drinking. This amounts to an abrasive pop song. It's not popular at all.
• Thunder of Horses, in the style of Rod Stewart. Essentially, Jack has 20 ounces of semen pumped from his stomach on stage. No, just kidding. Given his early folksy styles, this is just an odd sounding pop song.
• What It Takes to Give A Damn, a very angry song he wrote while drunk
• Two Fools, song in progress, in the style of Skid Row's "18 And Life," about the duel between Paul and Belizo--I'd have to hear wehat this is based on, but I presume this is a power ballad?
• Blood Boiling, a semi-comic rock song about hating the world
• Crispin's Blood, a rock song about music
• Black Mass, in the style of Dio's "Strange Highways."
• Bloody Heather, a love song to a girl Jack knew once, in the style of Bowling for Soup's "Girl All The Bad Guys Want."
• Day of the Races, a semi-comic rock ballad about Jack's younger days
• Mansagian Triad, an attempt at a Savatage-esque blending of rock and classical. This is essentially just your typical New School song with stronger folk rhythms than usual.
• The Elephant in the Room, in the style of Manfred Mann's "Quinn the Eskimo" about Gaja and her drumming
• On That Night, in the style of Leonard Cohen's "On That Day," about the night Venair died, and Jack was drinking.
• Stuck in Hell, in the style of Ugly Kid Joe's "I Hate Everything About You."
• Sunset, in progress, in the style of Posion's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
• Luck of the Draw - with Avery, kinda bluesy-country, somewhere between Kenny Wayen Sheppard's "Blue on Black" and Clint Black's "Good Run of Bad Luck"
• Trace Legacy - with Avery, semi-autobiographical for Avery, ballad
• Swim For Your Life - A somewhat comic ballad about the encounter with the Morag in the sea.

Avery Colzayre Avery's Song Levels

• Firefall - in the style of Beth Patterson's "Take Some Fire." Avery plays guitar and sings. written for the band
• Battlefield - in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Crossfire."
• Jonathan's Lass - in the style of "Captain Wedderburn." Avery sings. written for the band
• To Morrow - a comedic piece playing off the word tomorrow
• Starlit Dance - instrumental slow dance tune emphasizing everyone's best instrument. Written for the band.
• Rankeillor's Fife - lively instrumental dance reel, mainly Avery on pennywhistle and Aurelia on flute. Written for the band.
• Beggar's Lament - in the style of "Jolly Beggarman"
• Purple Sky - slow, dreamy song, almost lullabye-ish. Flute and cello emphasized, written for the band.
• Man's Lament - in the style of Phil Pritchett's "Hard To Be a Man" bass, guitar, clarinet, cello, percussion
• Spun About - in the style of Great Big Sea's "Stumbling In", about a boyhood crush of his. written for the band
• Jack and the Blackguard - in the style of "Devil Went Down to Georgia", only with guitar, about the trouble between Jack and the Church of Darkness[I believe?] over "Dues to Deserel", written before he ever met Jack. bass, guitar, percussion
• Luck of the Draw - with Jack, kinda bluesy-country, somewhere between Kenny Wayne Sheppard's "Blue on Black'" and Clint Black's "Good Run of Bad Luck." written for guitar, feat. bodhran, cello, oboe
• Trace Legacy - with Jack, semi-autobiographical for Avery, ballad, written for the band
• Willow Wind - A lively upbeat dance reel, heavy on guitar and flute, written for the band.

Subiquim Ixioj

• 1st through 5th symphonies - elegant, classical compositions (20 songs plus 2 intros pre-game) Specialty songs
• e - an Athak opera in the style of Pi (45 songs pre-game)
• Fugual Variations (unfinished) - a series of dry demonstrations of contrapunctal technique, similar to J.S. Bach's Art of Fugue (6 songs pre-game)
• The Challenge - with Dionysus, Sue's first earnest attempt at romantic composition. Inspired by the gig in New Anlir where the bearer of the First Song appeared. (6 movements plus intro unfinished)
• Stone Siren - a song of Despair, inspired by Sue's inability to compose on paper while underwater
• Fast Train to Zue - a song to wake up by, feisty dance music. contains an "antivox earsplitter" (1 song finished - TRADED)
• Devil's Feast - based on the Hymn to Envy, written for the band; all sing
• Dragon's Egg - a symphony of terror, written for the band plus void mantis
• instrumental harmonies on Color of Sound
• unnamed hymn to void 6

Arsul Toutant

Aurelia Lucent

• "Blue Walker's Eye" - Experimental semi-spoken word piece inspired by the whale Walker's challenge. A bit of Cibo Matto, a bit of Blackmore's Night, a bit of Handel. Written for two violins, cello, harp, bowls, bass guitar, pennywhistle, trumpet (with cup mute), bodhran, and antivox.
• "Diana" - Instrumental, a violin and oboe led mix of pain and pleasure
• "Dream Mirror" - Instrumental, classical. Focused on three interwoven themes - Beauty and awe on the oboe, absolute peace on Jack's bass, and something like the gentle caress of a mother's love on Avery's guitar - with other instruments supporting.

Arlie Battisto

• "That's Nothin t'all" or "Song of Feats" - he wants to write an audience participation song, where band members shout back and forth about how they're better. The start of every chorus is done by one person who always talks about something trivial and makes it sound better than everyone else.

Gaja Gamini

Dionysus Berrywight

• The Silver Wolf Symphony (No. 36) - first official work of romantic composition in the world, about Matrim Argent; written for Archduchess Kimber
• The Messiah of Hope Symphony Cycle (No. 37 - 41) - 5 symphonies, meant to be played back-to-back or on successive nights; first work of progressive romanticism in the world. Written for Matrim Argent.
• Symphonies No. 1 - 35 - various classical/baroque pieces; of especial interest are No. 1 (his first work, made for Archduke Hyun), No. 22 (made for Emperor Maraddon), No. 26 (made for Merriander Hyrase--later dubbed The Traitor's Symphony); & No. 33 (made for then Princess Annavera). Specialty Songs
• Various concertos, solo pieces, & other works, 54 of them. All in classical/barogque style.
• Aldergast Prison, a soul-wrenching folk ballad about the horrors witnessed in the now fallen Aldergast prison. Co-written with Albert Heartsinger Renkarr
• Children of Freedom, political folk song co-written with Albert Heeartsinger Renkarr almost reminiscent of a fighting/marching song although it is often sung in inns as well
• The Fall of Chryandemus, a highly fictionalized account of what happened in the Wolfwood, an epic ballad that paints Albert as a warrior prince, Matrim as a noble defender, Paul as a driven lawman, Viollca as a powerful sorceress (no mention of the shades), Taka as, well, a Berellian agent (though her shapechanging is included--it seems to imply all Berellians can do that), Aldo & Daisy as a long established loving couple (& saints of life). Charlie, Wax, Bloodhound, & Ahaus are depicted pretty much as they are. Caradonna & Jean Luc are not mentioned at all. In it, Taka fights Angier, the Servant of Filth (partly because she didn't ever tell anyone otherwise), & Albert goes straight through to fight Chryandemus. Dionysus depicts himself as an observer, a fiddler who plays while the whole battle goes down. Most of the other details are fairly accurate. This is the version of the story that most people in the world know, if they know it at all. Each PC & the major NPCs (save Dionysus, JL, & Caradonna) have a verse, then there is a chorus between each verse. It lasts about 15 minutes, in all.
• The Flower Suite, a twelve minute epic pop song incporating strange verses about various types of flowers. One of two pop songs he has written since he became a bard.

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Characters: Arlie Battisto . Avery Colzayre . Jack Crane . Aurelia Lucent . Subiquim Ixioj . Arsul Toutant . Dionysus Berrywight . James "Magnum" Peltier . Bartleby the Rogue . Tomerane the Snowsinger . Leia Bantae . Leonas Willow . Hunny . Manny . Little Wing . Kashaji . Odellino . Muxiat Solgheraq . Klaus Uwengelter . Lucilla Toutant . Greipur . Jack the Diamond . Rumbleford . Rubella Crane . Stalker Toutant . Domy Toutant . Shatter . Samuel Jericho . Rex Cuniaid . Dayrum . Damon Argent . Merian Dremholz Battisto . Conell Colzayre . Valara Lucent . Kansallus the Rogue . Gaja Gamini . Ushpishtim Gamini . Darion Bumblebee . Todzeney Gemmerit . Uvex . Berko . Bentley Pharnum . Thelser . Robin Goodfellow . The Merry Men . Beauregard . The Balladeer . Katerina Ryne . Kinglsey Allfenn . Tracey Jamison . Roshadam . Fane Crow . Monir the Unseelie . Qualla the Fool . Servant of the Never . Asad Windkin . Fitz Romaine . Eliza Hawk . Uriah Trumble . Wivena . Martha Mellaus . Henry the Guileless . Ulysses Bloom . Roan Asher . Deepa Ramanarah . Civitello the Great . Mark Goodrich . Ismuth . Borreliosis . Idjallora . Seela Wile . Necrocurcuriba . Shezeri's Son . Queen of the Black Goats . Gryfyn Cuniaid . The Crippler . Giobog . Avery Jericho . Deltriquim Ixioj . Christopher Laird . Hornet Rust . Caella Markanan . Nadia Hyatt . On'Jandu . Genfyllid Cuniaid . Corwin Jericho . Blake Guidry . The Norns . Flick Tinpot . Albert Renkarr . Marilyna Maraddon . Onitan . Shona . Minerva . Bast . The Nilos . KratsatsMeky . Boelvasmithr . ShijieDeMailuo . NagyVadaszno . NeizaiFangshi . Eris . ZirehliZeng . VahKadumavenRashaven . TananIlay . Gorgeron . HiliKar . MiteraTonAlogon . Jodis . Drifa . Valdis . Salmei . Ilse . Jana . Grag Headsplitter . Chiyo Date . Inteus . Hanisim . Marcus Johansen . Nicholas Kringle . Hrodwulf Grom . Germaine Butterfelter . Makeko . Guiteau Toutant . Ten Thieves of Renown