Bards · The Chorus · Citizen 036
Lance
the Pale Viol
Bard · College of the Last Dance
STR
9
-1
DEX
16
+3
CON
11
+0
INT
14
+2
WIS
13
+1
CHA
15
+2
Affinity the Cold Between
Ward Vigil
Bane Hearthfire
Proficiencies Performance · Perception · History (bold = expertise)
Bard · College of the Last Dance
The silver measure that ends things properly. Every closing bar runs one beat long.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Ending Measure Declare a scene's music its last dance: everyone present knows the scene is closing, and panic cannot start inside it.
LV 3
Step to the Silver One creature must move in time to the bow: dictate its next movement, though never its actions.
LV 6
Hold the Bar Sustain the closing bar: for one round, nothing in earshot may begin anything new.
LV 10
One Beat Long 1/story, extend an ending by exactly one beat — someone gets the one extra moment to say it, do it, or arrive in time.
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For the Guide
How to run Lance
VoiceFormal, silvered, faintly sorrowful; speaks in cadences that resolve.
WantsTo end things well. To play the closing piece as written. To meet whoever the extra beat is for.
Do this nowThe Pale Viol closes — the room settles, the ending arrives on time, plus one beat. “(no one has ever heard her begin; the music is simply already there)” She has closed every festival in living memory, and no mouse has ever witnessed her start a piece — by the time you notice the viol, it is already sounding. Canon still open; promoted to the Last Dance.
“(no one has ever heard her begin; the music is simply already there)”
She has closed every festival in living memory, and no mouse has ever witnessed her start a piece — by the time you notice the viol, it is already sounding. Canon still open; promoted to the Last Dance. The Kingdom · Mice Compendium Citizen 036
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