[Dragaera] Filk: Seventeen Nights Drunk In Adrilankha

[David Dyer-Bennet]

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.  
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> 	Do Dragaerans smoke? 
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> 	I thought that was strictly an Easterner/Serioli thing... 
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> 	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."  
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> 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.
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