Annotated 47-34
Sure, bardic magic. Can we sing it? Yes, we can!
If we consider the war to last a couple of weeks to a couple of months, it’s safe to assume that Best and Penk will perform this song many times, more than enough for everyone to just pick it up naturally. And TBH, I didn’t realize anyone else was singing this besides Best on first read-through. So I don’t know if Frigg and Tamara’s explanation is really necessary. But better safe than sorry!
FB: Frigg appears to have traded her sick burns for sick birds, which leaves her ill-prepared for quick bards’ trick words.
Byron and Syr’Nj aren’t tagged.
That’s actually just a cardboard cutout of Byron and Syr’Nj.
I remember back in one of my undergrad minor courses, we were studying a rabbinic text passage which focused on Exodus 15:1 — “Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord” — and asks how, given this was a spontaneous song just after God had rescued them at the Sea of Reeds, everyone knew all the words. Although the prof liked someone’s joke-answer (“Songsheets?”), the text goes on to explain that Moses sang one line at a time and had everyone repeat it. Though that’s clearly not what’s happening in the present comic.
That kobold is living his best life with the ridiculous lance I imagine Fr’nj made for him.
The kobolds in this are small, semi-sapient green things that seem to be closer to the level of tool-using animals as they aren’t included in the World’s Rebellion. Byron makes his appearance trying to sell their hides in an oversaturated market. That appears to be the gnoll that Madam Arfa introduced briefly as her replacement, by the tags I presume his name is Sir Groff? I’m bad with names.
Yeah, Groff’s Arfa’s successor, and the one with the eyepatch.
I’m a bit relieved I’m not alone in not noticing that everyone was singing along.
I suppose Frigg’s mention of that fact might also be a way to establish exactly that fact. Even makes sense to me, since The ability to produce stadium rock without a PA might be pretty cool, but getting people to sing along (and mean it) when you’re doing a song for the first time is a much stronger power. This goes some way to explaining how bardic magic is a lot more than just playing some music to amplify whatever mood it represents. Without something like this, it would be hard to imagine how the many groups of previously mortal enemies could be kept from killing each other every now and then.
Yeah… next gig (and every other gig for the rest of his career) Best should open with this song. And then, sing it again for an encore