Battle of the Bards

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Battle of the Bards
Original Air Date: Febuary 6th, 2016
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URealms Side Quest: Battle of the Bards is the 2nd campaign of URealms Side Quest , and it started airing on Febuary 6th, 2016. In this campaign, the crew play as performers in a a competition of performers called the Battle of the Bards.

Characters

Players

Character	Race	Class	Player
File:Happy Porc.png Popo	Gravehoof Porc	Theurgist	Justin
Lance "Tone Deaf" Briggs	Nobleborn Elf	Bard	Roamin
Vanessa Squishwitz	Spellblade Elf	Bard	Rob
Gear Man	Tall Dwarf	Magician	Coestar

NPCs

Character	Race	Class
Duncan	Okagnoma Gnome	Unkown

Summary

The adventure begins as the party find themselves in front of the auditorium where Battle of the Bards is set to take place. In front of them is a long line of both spectators and performers, nervously waiting to get inside and show the crowd what their talent is. Lance "Tone Deaf" Briggs is worried that they don’t have their routine prepared and calls a practice together before they enter. In order to get the attention of Vanessa Squishwitz, the star of the performance, Popo launches a practice signal which consists of throwing a dagger into an Icebolt. While this originally seems to fail, it somehow gets Vanessa’s attention. Meanwhile Duncan, the annoying gnome assistant, goes off towards to line to see if he can buy some drugs. Their performance consists of three acts. Act one is planned so that Vanessa is singing in the front, Gear Man is on percussion, and Popo is dealing with special effects. In an attempt to make Vanessa seem sexier, Lance removes two buttons from Vanessa’s shirt. The group approaches the security at the front gate and is met with some resistance. The guard remembers that Lance was famous during his career, and Lance tells him that he is managing the band called “Future Winners”. The guard also lets the group know that they need to get security runes before entering the auditorium. In an attempt to get past the security guard, Lance uses Puppet Master, but is only able to mildly suggest their plan to him. They call over Vanessa in order to use her “feminine charm” to convince the guard to let them pass. Next Vanessa gives the guard a kiss on the cheek to charm him. This works and the guard lets them in past the first security checkpoint. At the next security checkpoint they find another guard, who will not let them pass without runes. Lance, in an attempt to get past this guard, uses Storyteller in order figure out what the runes look like. Vanessa tries to use disguise to make it seem like she has a rune, but this sadly fails.

Vanessa attempts to flirt with the guard, but once again fails. The group then finds out about a famous contestant named Tiefa’ni who is a big deal in the Battle of the Bards. Lance tries to disguise into Tiefa’ni but ends up looking more like Vanessa than Tiefa’ni. In an attempt to get past the guard, Vanessa uses the Copycat ability on Lance’s Storyteller, to tell the guard the naughtiest story he has ever heard. This fails, and the guard puts the rune on Lance and Vanessa. On the way to the tent area the group confronts a guard who gives them the wrong information that the tents are all taken. The group proceeds to demean the guard, while Gear Man has a positive conversation with him. The group heads towards a nearby tent where they find a jacket containing 500 gold and white face paint.

While waiting for the show to start, Popo goes to a nearby tent and speaks with Porc performers, where he gets a bag of gunpowder from one of the members of their group. The group plans out their routine once again, and find that Gear Man has crystalline authentic whisper lake bottled water that can be used to summon Popo's Ice Elemental. Lance tells a story with special effects done by Gear Man. This story explains the why the idea of Vanessa wearing an ice dress would not work. A guard enters the tent and recounts the rules of the competition. When the competition starts, you pick a color: blue or red. The votes are based on audience reaction, and which ever color they vote for is the color that their runes will turn. The color that has the most votes wins. The guard then informs the group that their name is not on the list. When trying to cast puppet master on the guard, Lance gets shocked, but luckily he recognizes Lance. They give the name Lance and the Future Winners. Vanessa wakes up and the group heads toward the green room. In the green room the group finds two gnomes, one who seems to be in a magicians outfit, and another who is wearing white facepaint and a jumpsuit.

In an attempt to grab a smoke from Duncan, Vanessa punches his eyes out. Duncan gets abused further by Lance due to his levitate, and Popo by spitting in Duncan's eyes. The damage is somewhat stunted by Gear Man's dirty rags which are used as makeshift bandages. Gear Man, while looking through his gear looking for a lighter, breaks some a bottle of gasoline near the bottom of the gear. After lighting the cigarette on a nearby lamp, the group hear a message from the loudspeaker. The first act is "Lance and the Frankfurt Wieners" and Marcel. On the way to the stage, Lance and Gear Man levitate Marcel, and Popo spits on his face, melting his makeup.

Trivia

• This is the first canon campaign of 2016

External Links

Campaign playlist on YouTube