Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-9601450-20131014232908

Curse of the bard:

You can start this quest by either going to the certain village or hearing a rumor about it. When you get there the entire village is in a bad mood, and some of them are muttering about "stringing up that bard" if you ask them why their in a bad mood, they will point you to the local inn, when you enter, the bard is preparing to sing and play his lute. He is horrible at the lute and sings like the first ten seconds of this video. You are left rattled by this truamatizing experiance. When leaving the village, the bard, dressed in a cloak approaches you, and asks you to come to a place more private, he leads you to an alley. He then begs you to help him, the villagers are out for blood, and have locked the gates to stop him from escaping. He asks you to distract the guards so he may escape. You can do this in many ways, ranging from starting a brawl, to blowing up a cow with magic. He escapes and when you leave the village he thanks you. You then get on with your life.

Until you recieve a letter from the bard, saying that the villagers have caught him, and are holding him prisoner, he says they will hang him if you don't get there soon enough. You travel to the village, but to late, they are about to hang the bard. He asks for his lute so he can play his own requeim. They grant him this final wish, and he begins to play, suddenly inhuman screams of terror are heard, and concealed ogres begin to run away from the village. Apperently, the ogres, seeing the village preoqupied, had decieded to attack. But the bards singing had scared the lot of them away. The village praises the bard as their hero and make him the town protecter.

If you return, every now and then a monster will attack the village, but the bard will scare it away with his music.

Crud or not?