[pan-network text]

[singthesong]

Does anybody want guitar lessons? Or ukelele, banjo, or piano lessons? Discounts for rifties!

[They might actually just be entirely free, because the Balladeer's enthusiasm far outweighs his money sense.]

You can play with this too, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners.

[See attached picture. His enthusiasm FAR outweighs his money sense.]

Comments

[postictal]

[This is a bad idea.

This is such a bad idea.]

what kind of discounts are we talking about here

[Laying low, Tim. Especially now, you should be focusing on laying low.]

[singthesong]

Whatever! You don't even really have to pay me

[Honestly if anyone had asked him for lessons a week ago, he'd have just done it for free anyway. So why not now? Rifties gotta stick together!]

[postictal]

what really?

[singthesong]

Sure! We're all in the same boat

[postictal]

i mean i can pay you just not a whole lot. lifes been kind of hectic for me lately

[singthesong]

All the more reason not to worry about it. I know how that is

[Though possibly not to the extent Tim does.]

Are you new around here?

[postictal]

not really

been here about two months i think. are you?

[singthesong]

About the same! I got here early August.

[postictal]

me too
mid-august i guess

not really a musician but i have a ukulele. all self-taught. was thinking maybe of learning how to actually read music or something

[singthesong]

I could help you with that

[He was never taught. HE IS AS HE IS]

[postictal]

i might take you up on that
i've wanted to learn for a while

i'm tim

[singthesong]

I'm the Balladeer

That's actually my name, not some kind of weird music-teaching pseudonym

[god, wouldn't that be pretentious]

[postictal]

uh huh

[He's got more than a few reasons to be wary of 'noun-er names prefaced with an ominous the' but then, he doubts anything truly insidious would waste its time learning how to text.

...or maybe it would. His latest run-in with the unthinkable has definitely upped his paranoia.]

kind of a weird question but i've had some bad experiences with this sort of thing so
any chance you could confirm that you're like
human

[singthesong]

[...do humans normally spring fully-formed out of nowhere to wander through time as an extremely specific musical harbinger of death?

He'll just go with a loose definition. He feels human!]

Sure

[See attached selfie]

[postictal]

ok thanks
weird i know but i had to ask

[Picture's good enough. He's got none of the textbook totheark signifiers - and the thought lurches sickeningly in his gut.]

all right i'm interested

[singthesong]

Great! When do you want to start?

[postictal]

my work schedule's pretty flexible so i'm open this entire week
any day work in particular for you?

[singthesong]

I busk in the park, so I'm always free
Sunday?

[postictal]

sure
where and what time

[singthesong]

Two? You can just come to my place.

[Here is the address! It's in the same building as Greta and, let's face it, half the riftie population.]

[postictal]

[The text indicator flickers hesitantly before he taps out a response.]

yeah alright
thanks

i can pay

[singthesong]

If you want

[People are weird about money]

[biscuit_powered]

Are we talking magical music or regular kind

[singthesong]

The normal kind

Do you have magical music?

[biscuit_powered]

Not me personally no

[singthesong]

Shame

But isn't all music magical really? [It is literally impossible to tell if he's playing]

[biscuit_powered]

Not in a literal sense no but back home a lot of it is. You have to actually be good at music though, always put a damper on the whole prospect for me

[singthesong]

What does it do?

[biscuit_powered]

Make your friends fight better, make your enemies fight worse. most of the people who can do that know some spells too and they usually sing them instead of saying them, it's kind of fun to watch

[singthesong]

Sounds fun! I try not to get into fights though

Especially not with my instruments

[biscuit_powered]

I don't think they usually hit people with the instruments

[singthesong]

Of course not! But people like to hit the instruments

[rae_of_sun]

Do you have a license to carry that thing?

[also how much did that cost]

[singthesong]

Isn't it neat?

[You don't understand, he needed it]

[rae_of_sun]

It looks like you'd need an extra hand to play it.

[Speaking of needs]

[singthesong]

It just takes some practice! Really extends the bass range, it's got great resonance

[erratic_hematic]

...what kind of guitar?

[singthesong]

It's a steel-string acoustic.

If you're looking for the brand, I don't think it's anything that exists here. Brought it from home.

[erratic_hematic]

not an acoustic kinda guy

[singthesong]

To each their own

I don't actually have much experience with electric. It would've been too impractical back home.