Music

[Selfish]

Yes, it is a comic strip. There is no audio track. I understand this.

Music is life, though. Not just for me, but for others too.

The light warriors have been on the road for a lengthy amount of time.
I have not seen a lute, a horn, a flute, a mandolin. In fact, no musical instruments at all.
(I can imagine Fighter on electric lead guitar, Black Mage on synthesizer, Red Mage on vibaphones/drums/percussion and Thief in bass guitar soooo easily. The vocals now, that would be hard for me to imagine.)

(Yes, Fighter, sound now has a colour - however there appears no mention of ordinary music.)

Do the light warriors not have an inclination towards it?
(Theme songs somehow don`t match what I am asking, thank you, Red Mage)
Or is the music like the FF1 game, all pervasive, all the time, from wandering music to fight music, etc.? If so, then I would have expected one of the light warriors to have mentioned it by now.

Am I crazy, fellow NPF friends? Would you be able to live without your music?
Do you think that there is no music involved with the lws, or do you think it might happen off scene? Thank you for gracing this question with a reply.

edit: Excellent link, Skyshot, yet I don't know if the sword was actually used as a guitar, or whether Fighter was just interpreting Red Mage's story his own way.

[Skyshot]

There most certainly has been an instrument (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=050823) in the series. Plus King Steve has his old strummin' guitar (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=020614). That ought to be enough instruments to keep them occupied.

[Khael!]

Dude, I used to play vibraphones... wiggy. Their can't be no music in their world; the reality would be so hollow. Or like that movie Signs (correct me if I'm wrong). It has no real soundtrack for the first whole twenty minutes - it is disturbing how suspensfully void this makes you feel.

Fighter occasionally gets creative: "How many swords could a sword-chuck chuck if a sword-chuck could chuck swords?" Wouldn't surprise me if he made a tune to go with that. http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=020716 Poetry is kind of like music.

The only reference to music I can remember Red Mage making is: "the haunting melody of a natural 20 followed by maximum damage rolls." Can't see why he would though. If he's still going by D&D rules Perform (musical instrument) is a charisma-based skill. He would suck. But he does add in the occasional sound effects (:rmage: Dun dun duuun!) Do those count?

[Selfish]

Hm. I don`t know about that, Khael.

Although there has been talk on the board (especially in the dead topic forums) that Red Mage is actually based on a bard.

Now, I thought that in a Matoyan dream RM had a dream that he had everything except a 13 CHA score stripped away from him. I (nerdishly) did a doubletake of the dream he had before, near the beginning, and he doesn`t appear to even HAVE a CHA score in that character sheet.
If he *is* a bardish type character, and what with his illusionary spells he very well COULD have been based on such, I would imagine that he would have enough charisma to play. Seeing that 13 is a little higher than a 10 or 11 a regular joe or jill would be sitting at, he very well could be playing something rather melodic. (As well, of course, of having a bag of magical tricks that tickles the eyes as the flare when he was first introduced, or the `haste`spell that blanketed the zombie dragon.)

I`m starting to think that perhaps none of them have any particular inclination towards music, really. Odd that. I would figure that if anything would be had in common, it would be a liking of some sort of fluid sound other than their feet striking the earth.
Again, Skyshot did show us a sword being played like a guitar. Part of the imagination, or actual instrument?
Something to ponder, in times of grave boredom to be sure.

[Captain Hat]

Dude, it's pretty obvious from what I can see- if they are music fans, they would all like drastically different stuff.

Fighter, for example- I can't think of him liking anything other than balls-out battle metal and heavy rock. Nice bit of DragonForce, Man'O'War, Saxon and so on. Favourite song? Probably either "Valley of the Damned" or "Through The Fire And The Flames" by DragonForce. He probably can't understand how anyone could like anything else, and almost certainly doesn't understand that none of the other Light Warriors enjoy it, much less why.

Black Mage- Fairly obvious again, apocalyptic black metal. He thinks of Fighter's tastes for the cheesier end as being extremely juvenile. Favourite song? Probably something along the lines of "The Eruption" by Emperor, though I don't know enough about the genre to say so for sure. He's probably also a fan of classical music, particularly those pieces which deal with death or have apocalyptic overtones.

Red Mage- Red Mage is obviously a techno freak, probably into his drum 'n' bass and all kinds of electronica. Why? Well, once he's twinked out his armour so that everything gives him stacked haste bonuses, it's the only music he can actually hear without having to wait half an hour of relative time between beats. Also, even in his more chilled out moments, most old game soundtracks are electronic music when it omes down to it, so it makes him feel much more comfortable- he finds it easier to get his twink on when there's something that sounds like a game soundtrack in the background. Anything else just disrupts his lines of thought (crooked though they may be) so he can't stand to be in the same room as BM's or Fighter's stereo.

Thief is a bit trickier. I was thinking of regular pop music, but I think that actually the only way he'd get involved with that is at the managerial level, and then only so he could make a killing out of selling records and tickets at prices that amount to nothing less than daylight robbery: But really, I think he'd prefer some kind of indie stuff. Relatively chilled out, not too loud or preposessing so as to make him wan to jump about like a maniac like Fighter does when he's headbanging to Man'O'War but just loud enough to cover the sound of him slitting your purse and rifling through the contents of your backpack. Additional bonus is that being an indie kid makes him supremely arrogant when it comes to any other kind of music at all, especially that juvenile cheese that Fighter listens to, the manic-depressive Goth crap that BM listens to and that horrible repetitive "dance music" rubbish that RM seems to like. Secretly he probably likes a bit of emo, especially given his history at home, but if you tell anyone that he'll kill you. Probably also likes some classical music, but prefers the pieces that Black Mage dislikes almost as much out of principle as anything else.

So there you have it: They're all music fans, but nobody ever plays anything because they all hate each others' taste so much that the moment anybody did, they'd be stabbed in the face by everyone else simultaneously. Except maybe fighter. He might not like BM's music much, and he probably thinks Thief's is really boring, but he isn't the kind of person to hate anything to that extent.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

I think White Mage is probably only into classical music, maybe some folk: King Steve is definitely a folk/skiffle fan, though I should think Princess Sara probably hates it. Don't know what she WOULD like, though. Garland is almost certainly into his emo and nu-metal, and the vampire kid whose name I forget is obviously a big fan of The Cure. Sarda probably likes something bizarrre and chaotic whose rhythms are based on excessively complicated matematical formulae that have something to do with the Big Bang, and maybe prog rock in general, but I can't think of what musical attatchments I'd make to any of the other characters.

[Khael!]

I dunno what the hell's up with Black Mage, but he does like this song. (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060114)

(Ignore this if it's too pissy or offtopic; I'm still cranky about my D&D getting cancelled last saturday. XP Yeah, The Red Mage and the Bard do have a lot in common. They both work off of the idea of versatility rather than specialization. They also both tend to fill support roles in a party, being able to assist every other member in some way. But the bard uses music to cast their spells, both of which rely on their charisma. Red Mages cast black and white magic, which are likely intelligence based.
Though you have a point of him still being able to play tunes better than Bob McNormalguy, is a minmaxer gonna put a 13 into charisma for that? I mean, I sucked at character building when I started my Bard, but his charisma was 18 and his intelligence still 15.)

Captain Hat! You have put this beautiful little picture inside my head.

All the Lightbulb warriors are rockin' to their music. Hehe, fighter with an 8-bit ipod, Theif with his cd player running as he steals Fighter's, BlackMage with a boombox on one shoulder and Rm chilling out at his computer with an awesome set of headphones on. It makes me happy.

[Chipper173]

I could totally imagine the Light Warriors getting together with Another's insturment assignments and playing Europe's The Final Countdown. And after the song BM would Hadoken the stage.

Just seems in character for them.

[Derek]

Well, there's that one song TLF uses for the 8 Bit Theatre Flash movies you can see here (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/285899), I belive that's the best example of 8 bit theatre music.

[Amake]

Interesting thread, this. I haven't pictured the gang as a band before.

I think Fighter would play the bass, the very ground the music treads on.

And Thief would have the drums, because his is the beat the others are bound to follow.

Red mage favors the synth, for its versimilitude and ability to create sounds out of this world.

And that leaves Black mage with the 'lectric guitar, being the raw force and the face the crowd loves.

And then they fight over what music to play. More than the obvious death metal, I think BM likes the classics. As in Wagner. RM could never be into anything other than techno; the more artifical and mathematical the better. Thief, I think, knows the indie scene better than Jeph Jaques (http://www.questionablecontent.net), because of its freedom and subversivity. He's tricky, at first glance you might think he's into whatever makes the most money, but you know, in his heart of hearts, Thief is a thief. And Fighter, it just hit me, he's all about rap. Old stuff, bordering on African tribal music, although he secretly digs Eminem.

[Skit]

Oh god, why did I do this?!

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/197/ohnobc3.png

I bet he's got his fingernails painted black, too.

Indie Rock Thief might be better than Emo Thief. Maybe.

[DavidG]

More than the obvious death metal, I think BM likes the classics. As in Wagner.I've always imagined him having the Imperial March from star wars on a CD somewhere.

[Vaij]

I believe that RM would probably also listen to some J-Pop. There's gotta be some otaku in him. Fighter possibly may believe that Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys are a gift from God. And Sarda would probably listens to music that doesn't exist yet. :P