[UA] Orphomancy?- what do you think?

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I think cantomancy is a great idea.  But, then again,
I rather liked "Spellsinger" by Alan Dean Foster
(especially the Marxist dragon.)

Having tried my hand musically, and coming from a
family which contains several moderate-to-completely
unsuccessful musicians, I'd suggest the sacrifice you
have to make for music is Dignity.

You have to give up something which makes you look
good toother people, some element of your life which
makes you more socially acceptable.  You could
generate a significant charge by getting yourself
fired (not merely quitting, but going through the
humiliating experience of having a job torn away from
you.)  You could get one by being thrown in jail for
something -but only if it got around pretty widely
that you did.

People forgive musicians a lot of things, of course,
but that's only when they're on stage.  Offstage,
people expect and often get the worst.

--- "j.kinman" <j.kinman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of a new style of magic- that
> connected with music...
> I mean magic has allways been thought to have some
> magic about it, magic can
> alter ones moods, alledley charm animals, and all
> through mythology there
> are magic drums trumpets etc... what do you think?
> It could have a similar charge system to that of the
> clockworkers, that is
> it takes you one day to compose a minor
> "composition"
> say a week and a meaning sacrifice of some kind: a
> pet you have had for
> several months, some piece of memorabilia you have
> treasured from childhood,
> a large quantity of money... or perhaps a day and
> some blood, or a day and
> the burning of a famous piece of music/ famous
> instrument/ the baton of a
> famous composer to create a significant composition
> Finally for major spells you could have to spend
> months writting it, before
> playing it with a full orchestra and a human
> sacrifice?
> 
> You would cast it by playing the piece, simple, and
> the effects would be to
> do with manipulation or summoning perhaps? The
> blasts could be say "The
> tugging of the heart" where the usual sadness
> sometimes assosiated with
> beautiful music becomes an actual pain... and the
> major is "the wrenching of
> the heart" maybe? Were the agony is excrutiating,
> perhaps fatal...
> 
> Conversely the music could make you happy, with
> varying degrees for
> different levels, loyal, or make people follow you
> pied piper-esque?
> 
> Maybe each adept would have his own instrument and
> his taboo would be to
> play anything other than it, or to allow it to come
> to harm, something like
> that
> 
> Sorry, just a hotch potch of ideas, I thought I
> would see what you think
> 
> 
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