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Re: Announcements post #77: Music, bands, performance!
Re: If your mindsim could do anything, it would...
Maruna said:I'm sure I'm gonna cop shit for saying this, and it's never going to happen, but...Automatically remove/fix people who think it's cute to stutter, or speak with an overexaggerated accents. To quote Nazihk from Achaea:'Some words, dey hard to say wif my mouf' -> Fine, whatever. I can live with that.
'Y'guild willnae support y'actions lest y'slip an' find y'self suddenly in over y'head.' -> Fuck you, get out.Similarly for people who litter their sentences with 'um' or '...' everywhere. Or speak like "N-no, i-it's just... I-I d-don't want t-to..."
You must be Khizan from Imperian's soulmate.
Mindsim config to make those people talk normally pls. It's not cute, it's well past the point of cliche and overused.
kamdian
Re: Gimme your tunez!
Ice Horn
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and... Needleback
Reeloc
Re: Announcements post #77: Music, bands, performance!
So it seems it's three paragraphs. The first two lines seems set no matter what the instrument is.
I'll add them here for sake of consistency.
Third person
$+(caster$) steps up on the stage and the lights dim, a spotlight in the ceiling casting a cone of light on $(his$) frame. The audience quiets down.
$+(caster$) focuses for a few moments, gathering $(his$) wits as the song is about to begin.
$+(caster$) proceeds to limber up, stretching $(his$) limbs backwards and forwards before stepping to the center of the stage.
With a flick of a wrist, $(caster$) begins an intricate dance routine. A combination of highly personal and ancient dancing traditions, $(he$) dances across the stage with grace and aplomb, the background music never becoming too loud and overtaking the performance.
Each step and carefully calculated movement brings $(him$) closer to a crescendo, moving in feverish pitch until $(he$) finally finishes, arms raised up before taking a sweeping bow before the audience, music and dance muted as the spotlight fades away.
First person
You step up on the stage and the lights dim, a spotlight in the ceiling casting a cone of light on your frame. The audience quiets down.
You focus for a few moments, gathering your wits and getting in the zone, relaxing your muscles as the song is about to begin.
Limbering up, you pull and stretch a few limbs and head just in case they are tight, making sure to be prepared for dancing as you step into the center of the stage.
With a flick of your wrist, you begin an intricate dance routine you prepared yourself, a combination of both highly personal rhythmic movement combined with ancient cultural dances. You sweep across the stage in practiced measure, movements and music working together in time.
Each step and twirl and heavy beat is in time as your body moves to your will, music and form reaching a fevered pitch before you end in a perfect pose, arms raised and sweating before you dip low in a sweeping bow before the audience as the music and lights fade away.
Starmourn on the Titans of Text
Ilyos
Re: Announcements post #77: Music, bands, performance!
Announcements post #77: Music, bands, performance!
Subject: Music, bands, performance!
Ever wanted to be a Nanorock star? Had dreams of becoming a Streampop icon? Or do you just like to chill and jam out some Dreamfunk once in a while?
Well all your dreams are about to come true as we are now introducing PERFORMANCE. There is a budding musician in everyone, or so we like to believe. So you may now put our theory to the test and go out and perform music for the masses.
Before you do so, you need to choose a PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENT. Choose between GUITAR, KITHDRUMS, VOIDPIPES, SYNTHBOARDS, EUKULELES and VOICE. The choice matters very little to us, but it might mean the world for you! Take care, you can't switch for now after a choice is made.
After you have an instrument of choice, seek out venues where you can perform in the world and PERFORMANCE PERFORM. Focus only on your songs and do nothing else until the performance is over, or you will lose focus. Currently there are venues at: Lamentations on Omni, Gravity in Haven City, Malice in Litharge and the Verge in Song City. As you perform, you will get better at it and increase in level, increasing the amount of tips you make from a performance and unlocking other options. (Yes, you gain marks every time you perform and the better you get at it, the more you get. Don't expect to become rich overnight though, you start from the ground up. Consistency is key!).
Once you reach level 3 in performance (which you can always check via PERFORMANCE STATUS), you may form a BAND! That's right, your very own band. Become as famous as Talking Tukkav or Shentones! You can invite up to 4 people to join your band and you can then start getting GIGs. GIGs are awesome opportunities to make yourself and your band known to the masses! Schedule concerts, entertain the audience during the concert and grow your band's popularity (and income). But be warned, miss out on your scheduled concerts and the fans won't be happy at all.
Note: It costs 25,000 Marks to form a band!
Notes about GIGs:
- A band can have a gig/concert once every 20 hours
- You can schedule gigs in advance and it is recommended to do so. You will always have a NPC audience and the more time passes before a concert, the more word gets out and more tickets sell
- Missing a concert will severely impact your reputation. You need ALL members in the venue before you can PERFORMANCE BAND GIG PERFORM and initiate the start of a concert
- Using PERFORMANCE BAND GIG PERFORM [color] [emote] once a concert is started will allow you to display colored, free form emotes for everyone in the room to see! It is your responsibility to make the show entertaining for those in the audience!
- Be sure to PERFORMANCE BAND GIG CONCLUDE and end the concert before the day rolls over or the concert will be considered to have been missed
- You need at least 4 players in the room (outside band members) in order to gain popularity from a concert. Otherwise, you only get the money from the NPC tickets.</pre>
Announcements post #76: August's Collectible Cards.
Subject: August's Collectible Cards.
Greetings Stamourners,
As we announced previously, this month's promo is all about Entertainment. So what you can expect to see is a lot of music, performance, gambling and show-stuff! However, we're going to put you in the center of the action, rather than have you be a member of the audience.
Let's talk promotion first! Every 100 credits you purchase from the website, you will receive a 'premium card packet'. You can open this card packet and receive a COLLECTIBLE card. In addition, premium card packets will also contain one of the following:
- a robotic skulf puppy
- a robotic feracht kitten
- a snowglobe display case
- a three-eyed rosewing
- a violet-antlered lapine bunny
- an aerosol can of smartpaint
- a silver microphone - TOUCH this microphone to activate it and it will make your voice resound in the area you in!
- a personal augmentation casket
- a self-regulating autofeeder - For all your fishtank feeding needs
- a clear nanoplastic baggie - Open this baggie and get a random fish
Okay, but what are these collectible cards? You may now use the COLLECTIBLE command and learn more about this system. These new cards offer insight about some of the bigger bands in Starmourn and their members. We currently have collectible cards for 6 bands and each of the band sets contains 5 cards, detailing their different members. If you collect all 5 cards that belong to a band, you may COLLECTIBLE COMPLETE [cards in set that you own] a set and get a cool reward for doing so.
Whenever you open a card packet and get a card, there is a chance that the card you get is a premium version (a foil version). If you manage to complete a set of foiled cards, the reward you get is even better and it also includes the base reward. If luck isn't on your side, you may always COLLECTIBLE UPGRADE 4 cards with the same name into a foil version of that card.
Since these are collectible cards, you may, of course trade them. There is a special COLLECTIBLE MARKET where you can COLLECTIBLE SELL and COLLECTIBLE BUY cards for Marks or Credits. You will be using Unbound Credits to purchase cards from other players.
In a break from tradition, you may also buy cards directly in game with your Bound Credits. A random card costs 20 credits and a premium card packet (that includes one of the toys above and has double chance for a foil card) is 40 credits. Simply use COLLECTIBLE PURCHASE [PREMIUM].
Ok, now what do you get for completing these sets? You can always refer in game to COLLECTIBLE SETS INFO and see the list, but here is a breakdown:
1(Talking Tukkav) - Normal - Doubles your caloric intake. Stacks with the Bushraki Digestion.
1(Talking Tukkav) - Foil - Grants use of CALORIES MIN/MAX to set your daily calorie count to 0 or 60000
2(Elen and the Elgans) - Normal - Reduces the time it takes to reach a new elevation by 30%.
2(Elen and the Elgans) - Foil - Increases your movespeed by 1.
3(Song City Hippies) - Normal - Informs you when your mutual allies login or logout.
3(Song City Hippies) - Foil - Informs you when your mutual allies are attacked by another player.
4(Space Rogues) - Normal - Reduces rejuvenation costs to 1/3 of their value.
4(Space Rogues) - Foil - Reduces cloning times by ~20%.
5(Daughters of Ur) - Normal - Allows you to use more words when you CUSTOMIZE GAIT.
5(Daughters of Ur) - Foil - Changes the login and logout messages that others see in the room (this is predefined).
6(Lithium Alleys) - Normal - A rainbow-feathered malaca minipet.
6(Lithium Alleys) - Foil - A robot butler minipet that can prepare 2 drinks per day for you.
If you COMPLETE a set, be warned that the set is permanently yours. You can no longer trade a away a card in a completed set!
As always, let us know your thoughts and happy card hunting!
Oh...and before I forget, stay tuned for the next bit of content that will come in just a few. We heard that all this talk of music has stirred up the aspirant musician in some of you...</pre>
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