Service Orientation - FFA Post #315
Do you have suggestions for changes (that would make meme easier to navigate or understand for nonnies old, new, or equine) to the text rules & links section of the header part of each post? Do you have recommendations for changes/updates/clarifications to the information we provide in the personal and rules posts
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I would also suggest Lackey's Bardic Voices (The Lark and the Wren). The main character Rune leaves home (a small village inn) to make a life for herself as a musician, and much of the book deals with her new life in a large city where she hopes to become a bard: exploring the city, making friends, getting music lessons, finding work as a musician. The second half introduces more serious conflict into the story, but a lot of it is still enjoyable slice-of-life portraying Rune's travels with her new bardic mentor.
The other books in the series also contain some fantasy slice-of-life stuff. I didn't really care much for the second book (The Robin and the Kestrel), but the third book, A Cast of Corbies, has a bunch of Free Bards setting up a theater, which was a lot of fun, although there is a larger overreaching plot involving the Church trying to ban magic and music.
The Eagle and the Nightingale is actually the fourth book in the series, although it's listed as the third--perhaps because Corbies was co-written by another author, so it's not considered part of the official series? In any case, it takes place after Corbies. Much of the plot involves the title character Nightingale becoming a performer at a place called Freehold (a warehouse filled with the medieval fantasy equivalent of nightclubs and restaurants), while her non-human counterpart T'fyrr (the "eagle" of the title) becomes the High King's personal musician. Again, there's an overreaching plot/quest in which the two are supposed to figure out why the king is neglecting his duties, but there's a lot of enjoyable slice-of-life stuff as they settle into their new lives and positions. I should warn, though, that Nightingale (a human woman) has a romance with T'fyrr (a sort of birdman), and there is a non-graphic sex scene (more alluded to than actually depicted) that some people might find squicky. (For what it's worth, I wasn't squicked or offended, although I didn't want to dwell too much on how that would actually work.)
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