Does Spellsong work with Archaeologist bard archetype?

[Crimeo]

Bardic Performance is replaced by Archaeologist's Luck, but can I still take this feat and then combine a spell into a perform skill check to mask it being cast? Using up one round of luck?

[Melkiador]

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Archaeologist’s luck is treated as bardic performance for the purposes of feats, abilities, effects, and the like that affect bardic performance.

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You can combine your bardic performance and your spellcasting in two ways.

First, you can conceal the activity of casting a bard spell by masking it in a performance. As a swift action, you may combine your casting time of a spell with a Perform check. Observers must make a Perception or Sense Motive check opposed by your Perform check to realize you are also casting a spell. This uses 1 round of your bardic performance ability, regardless of the spell’s casting time.

Second, as a move action, you can use 1 round of bardic performance to maintain a bard spell with a duration of concentration. You can cast another spell in the same round you are using bardic magic to maintain concentration; if you do this, your concentration on the maintained spell ends when you end the bardic performance the spell is part of.

Technically, I would say you can do this, but it does feel really wrong.

[Vanykrye]

I agree with Melkiador's assessment. It completely works from a technical standpoint. It just doesn't have the correct feel - you can picture in your head what this looks like when you're talking about bardic performance, but it simply doesn't translate properly when you change it archaeologist's luck.

[Crimeo]

Well I would argue if challenged about the flavor of it that I am doing a performance (hence the perform check), and I'm using up some of my luck to make it actually have a chance to pass off as a means of hiding a spell.

Likely a performance relevant to an archaeologist, like a quote, joke, limerick, etc.

For example, maybe for all we know, Sean Connery's character in the Last Crusade, when he quotes "his Charlemagne" with relation to scaring birds into the sky to down a plane -- it seems to the audience that this is just a sentimental quip, but maybe he was actually casting Fear in doing this, and the birds wouldn't have been scared mundanely?

(In the movie he says that after the fact, but whatever)