[Dragaera] Filk: Seventeen Nights Drunk In Adrilankha

[Jon Lincicum]

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.
>
Hmm. Well spotted.

Majikjon