So, Kintargo is a city of music. My players are putting on a play. What songs would NPCs sing as audition pieces? I'm trying to create some flavor for the opera side of this city.
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Marqel wrote a satirical opera called “The Rotten Ghoon” in our campaign, which the PCs were to stage (hire actors, find a venue, prepare for the one-time performance without the government finding out, etc). We didn't play it though, since we felt we had added more than enough of our own material and wanted to get on with the finale of book three (and we had included and ran the Six trails of Larazod from Council of Thieves so we had done the theater thing already).
It was an opera buffa (e.g. a comedic opera like Cosi fan tutte) about the conflicts between the ruling dogs and their bird subjects in a "fictitious" city. The opera became more and more silly as my players brainstormed it, which may come as no surprise to fellow GMs... but maybe you can get a title or an idea from my players juvenile ramblings :-)
Here it is in a nutshell (I blame my players for the bad puns): A city populated by birds, Titago, has been invaded by the Ghoon dog pack from Fleagorian. Their leader Barkzillion Ghoon now rules with an iron paw with the help of the prelate of the dog god Assniffious; bishop Drewlsteiner and his "friend" Madame Zhuck. A sparrow, Yilli, one day finally has had enough when she is forced by to pick up all the bird seed she has accidentally spilled in the street. She gets the help of a trickster figure, the White Crow, to take the fight to the mean canines and with the the help of the initially reluctant sea eagle Octo, she and her friends free the city.
Songs:
It's good to be top dog - Barkzillion, Pox, Octo, Drewlsteiner
Birds just want to be free - Yilli
Something shiny - the White Crow
Love that burns - Drewlsteiner, Madame Zhuck
Liberty, justice, birdiehood - the Crow & Yilli
I've been so blind - Octo
Beaks and fangs - All
I’m itching for Fleagorian - Barkzillion, Pox, Drewlsteiner
Free to fly the silver sky - Yilli, the Crow, Octo
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This is all kinds of awesome for populist theater! Great work by your table!