ArmageddonMUD Tuluki Charmstrings

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While the Tuluki charmstring system employed by bards may vary slightly from bard to bard, there are some standard meanings. It should be noted that a bard is attached to his or her charmstrings, some of the more superstituous believing they contain some measure of the bard's soul. While a bard may give away charms from a string, they will never dispose of the string itself.

The following list partially details the significance of some of the bardic charms. It is a serious breach of protocol for a bard to wear charms to which they are not entitled. Some non-bards may wear charms as adornments; this is considered more than a little gauche.

Charms for instruments a bard has mastered:

• a cylini wood ukelin
• an agafari lyre
• a cylini wood mandolin
• a tortoiseshell tambourine
• a moonstone whistle
• a ceramic ocarina
• an amber drum
• an ivory flute
• a ceramic goblet-shaped drum
• a fatbellied wooden drum
• a tortoiseshell horn
• an agafari harp
• a set of tortoiseshell castanets

Charms for year markers:

• a white feather ring (1 year)
• a blue feather ring (2 years)
• a green feather ring (3 years)
• a yellow feather ring (4 years)
• a red feather ring (5 years)
• a purple feather ring (10 years)
• a red and silver feather ring (20 years)
• a white and silver feather ring (30 years)
• a purple and silver feather ring (40 years)
• a black and silver feather ring (50 years)
• a silver and grey feather ring (60 years)
• a yellow and silver feather ring (70 years)
• a gold and silver feather ring (100 years)

Arcs of languages:

• a green and gold feather ring (sirihish)
• a yellow and gold feather ring (allundean)
• a red and gold feather ring (mirrukim)
• a white and gold feather ring (cavilish)
• a blue and gold feather ring (bendune)
• a purple and gold feather ring (anyar)
• a black and gold feather ring (heshrak)

Charms for places the bard has traveled:

• a tiny obsidian city (allanak)
• a flat grey disk (sea of silt)
• a tiny glass doll (Cenyr)
• a wooden halfling (Grey Forest)
• a black and red feather ring (desert elf outpost)

Houses the bard has worked for:

• a tiny ivory alnon blossom (Dasari)
• a tiny red crescent moon (Jihaens)
• a leather moneybelt (Kadius)
• a white ceramic scale charm (Kassigarh)
• a tiny spice-pipe (Kurac)
• a tiny white crescent moon (Lirathans)
• a tiny, grey spiked mace (Lyksae)
• a tiny onyx quill charm (Negean)
• a tiny coffer (Nenyuk)
• a blue and silver feather ring (Reynolte)
• an obsidian sword (Salarr)
• a tiny hammer (Tenneshi)
• a wylrith plains-ox charm (Uaptal)
• a tiny kenku (Winrothol)
• a red and white feather ring (have played at Lucky Ghaati)
• a blue and white feather ring (have played at the Silver Wheel)

Competitions the bard has won:

• a tiny drinking horn - drinking contest
• a yellow glass pepper - Luirs annual tall tale contest

Tribes with which the bard has had contact:

• a black and grey feather ring (Al Seik)
• a purple and yellow feather ring (Anyali)
• a red and blue feather ring (Arabet)

Experiences:

• a red and grey feather ring - fought gith
• a yellow and green feather ring - fought mantis