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[fiddlestick]

Name: Elliot Craig
Date: July 1st
Format: Text

Hello everyone!

My name's Elliot Craig, and I'm to announced that starting today, I'm offering music lessons through my business, VII Notes! So if you've ever wanted to learn a music instrument, now's the perfect time! Music can be a great tool to help you get through stressful time. And for you witches, it can be a pretty good channeling tool for magic!

The instruments I'm currently offering are:

Piano

Violin

Guitar

Singing

Recorder (great beginner woodwind instrument!)

My going rates are affordable as well! Standards rates are:

	30 Minutes	45 Minutes	60 Minutes
Solo Lesson	2500c	3000c	3500c
Group Lesson*	1500c	2000c	2500c

*No group lessons offered currently for piano

And now's an even better time to try out music, because the first lesson is free! Discounts are also available for those with lower incomes. Music lessons will take place either in the barracks or the Aoide Foundation school of music, depending on the instrument. Thanks to the Aoide Foundation for loaning of instruments!

Finally, for those who're interested in just hearing some music, you can find me performing in the Entertainment district on Weekend Evenings at

[insert popular street corner] provided there's good weather! In the meantime, please check out a recording of one of my original songs, "Beneath the Bright Sky", featuring piano accompaniment by one of the fine students at Aoide Foundation. [He attaches an audio recording done via the communicator] This song and more will be on my new album, which is currently in the works!

Thank you for listening!

[OOC: All actual lessons will be handwaved, as while Elliot is musically gifted, his player played one (1) clarinet badly]

Comments

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[haillenarte]

Hello, Elliot.

[there's a lot to get through here, particularly with regard to music lessons, but for now, francel's first question is:]

However did you obtain such helpful contacts within the school?

[fiddlestick]

Hello Francel! It's nice to hear from you again.

Haha, well, I donated a lot of instruments. I've been trying to work on conjuring magic that'd let me conjure instruments, and well-

Because of that, I have a LOT of recorders and simple percussion instruments. Which incidentally, are perfect for beginning music students!

[haillenarte]

Ah, yes. The recorder. The sweetest voice in the hands of a master troubadour... A terrible curse in the hands of a lout.

[some things are universal, it seems... like the sound of recorders being played badly in unison.]

I would love to take you up on a free lesson — that being said, outside of that arrangement, do you suppose you might ask them if I could borrow one of their "pianos" sometime? It has been too long since I last sat down at the keys.

I don't know that I could recompense you, save perhaps with sweets or a warm meal.

[fiddlestick]

Eheh, yep. Teaching recorder classes is something of a pain endurance training, alright.

Oh, I don't think that'd be an issue at all! If you'd like extra play time, I can schedule you to be the last lesson of the day so you can play as much as you like. And I don't think the school minds so long as there's not one of their classes happening.

Someday I hope to be able to conjure a piano myself, but...that's probably a ways off.

[haillenarte]

Ah, that'd be ideal! I hope the last lesson of the day is not too late... though I suppose if it is, well, my Bonded can make his own dinner every now and then. In fact, he might be glad for it.

With sufficient practice, it seems nothing is impossible in this realm when it comes to magic. I am certain that you may manage it before long.

And... thank you again, Elliot.

[fiddlestick]

Oh you have a Bond?

Let's see...if you come on Tuesday, I could probably have it be 7 or 8 o'clock, depending on what's better for you.

Yeah ... it does seem like the power of magic here is pretty vast. And coupled with the power of music, maybe it's very possible after all.

Hey, you don't have to thank me. I'm happy to work with another musician.

[haillenarte]

I do, and live with the same man. It works well enough that I don't expect to fall into a feral state.

Tuesdays at 7 sound excellent. It shames me to say that I may not be of as much help to you as you have been to me, but I hope someday to return the favor.

[he seems a little insistent upon this particular point, but perhaps that's just the way he is...]

[fiddlestick]

Aw, yeah. It sounds like you have a very nice relationship!

Don't worry about it, really. I'm just happy to hear you play.