It’s likely many players have already met this and other NPCs I want to feature, but I’m way behind on these videos and the actors deserve to see their work.

Similar to Prompt-But-Bashful, Sixby is loosely inspired by a Nexus troll who claimed the mod destroyed his game and could somehow manage to travel through time and infect his older saves. Luckily, this occurred about a week before the release of version 3, giving me ample time to write the lines and SageHalo to voice them.

TurboDelgado suggested the bard have an option to completely fail at the duet. It was an awesome idea and pretty easy to implement, even without additional voice options. Still all very experimental, but I think it really helps give this feature an added dimension of joy.

I changed the pitch and tempo, then rearranged portions using a cut-paste method to make the tracks. The result is pure, wonderful crap. William S. Burroughs would not be proud. Oddly enough, this would be the first shitty bard in the game, as it occurred to me that Lurbuk the Orc Bard can play as well as anyone, even if his singing is a little off.

One of the things I’d like to incorporate into the next release is more band options. I’ve figured out how to get the player to join in, as well as get your follower to play along with. The only issue so far I’ve encountered is lag, and if one person lags it’ll throw the timing off for everyone. So I think I’ll have to cut up the files into smaller and smaller pieces so the game isn’t taxed. I’ll fiddle with it some more tomorrow.

So while the pictured experiment was a bit of a mess timing wise, duets seemed to go pretty smoothly. Here’s a video of the PC and Alassea playing Tears of the Hist, a cover by Ronja Monto of Arisen1’s song.