[Dragaera] Filk: Seventeen Nights Drunk In Adrilankha

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net>
> Lang, Douglas (Contractor) wrote:
> > Lang, Douglas (Contractor) wrote: 
> >> The Gods!  I'm sure I'll hear that in the background of a Vlad movie someday, 
> sung by a Teckla with the Minstrels' Guild in some smoke filled little inn.  
> > 
> > 	>   
> > 	Do Dragaerans smoke? 
> > 
> > 	I thought that was strictly an Easterner/Serioli thing... 
> > 
> > 	Majikjon 
> > 
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> > 
> > My textev was from Orca (paperback, pg 195), where Vlad made his way into "a 
> small, smoke-filled little inn, in amongst a large crowd of mostly Teckla, with 
> a couple Orca and Chreotha surrounded by the entourage the minor nobility 
> invariably attracts in such places, and, at the far end, a middle-aged Teckla 
> playing a fretted gordstring as softly as such a twangy instument can be played, 
> and actually fairly well."  
> > 
> > That's the scene I'm envisioning, with the Minstrel in the middle of 
> "Seventeen Nights Drunk" - which probably plays better *outside* Adrilankha than 
> in, though some may miss the Valabar's refernce.
> 
> A "smoke-filled" inn could simply have a defective chimney.

A point. It doesn't change the fact that the inn would be smoke-filled, but it doesn't actually say anything about certain Dragaeran habit-forming activities.

I suppose Dreamgrass is a smokeable... but we've seen very little indication of how socially acceptable this practice is, or whether or not a customer at an inn would be at liberty to put some in his pipe and smoke it... 

And I do not recall a single reference to tobacco in the Dragaeraverse. There might have been something in passing, however. Does anyone else recall a reference to this?

Majikjon