Kellen Rist wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:21 pm
After a pleasant morning in the gardens the subject was of course flowers! Their ephemeral beauty. The warmth of feeling they evoked. The sweet smell and glorious colour. And of course he was going to dedicate his work to Princess Jameela, she was the reason he was here.
It all started so well. Obviously flowers were a good metaphor for life, love, blah blah blah. Good grief it was hard work writing this stuff. Flowers. Flowery. Metaphor. Something something Princess. He scratched his head. Hmm, go with what you know?
Kellen's poem became an excellent example of why Academic discourse is not the subject of bardic or artistic celebration. It would have made an
excellent journal article. It had references. It had footnotes. It even had a series of delightful figures (Kellen could sketch rather exquisitely). As a poem though... Well at least the novelty would keep the audience amused. It was difficult to distract them all from reminiscing about the Captain's, er,
display anyway.
Then of course one had to deliver the actual poem. It had been a wee while (cough, decade) since the Professor had last been anywhere near an Alderaanian poetry recital. He had, however, spent plenty of time on Coruscant recently, and they were very much into both freestyle jazz and spoken word versions of rap songs...
At the end of the day Kellen could say he was the only being to have ever given a spoken word version of a poem written in the style of an academic report. He even interpretive danced the figures. Occasionally words rhymed. No one was entirely familiar with the type of thing they seeing. Strangest of all? It was not even the worst performance of the day.
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Details: Affection (Jameela), MA slot used
Rolls:
D2. MA. Thousand Word Poetry (Event). Affection! Pure Creation: Average Education (Intellect).:
4eP+2eD 3 successes, 1 advantage
Success, 1 poetry point.
D2. MA. Thousand Word Poetry (Event). Affection! Word Crafter: Perception (Cunning) at Hard:
1eP+2eA+3eD 1 failure, 2 advantage
Failure, 2 advantage (does nothing).
D2. MA. Thousand Word Poetry (Event). Affection! All the World's a Stage: Average Discipline (Willpower). Player destiny, GM destiny.:
2eP+1eA+1eC+1eD 2 successes, 2 advantage, 1 Despair
Success, 1 poetry point. 2 advantage (does nothing). Despair loses 2 Poetry points.
Final tally = 0 Poetry points
