《Master Of Music (may change)》
PROLOGUE
As far as I can remember I''ve loved music; the soft flow of a violin in an orchestral piece, the lovely voices of opera, the power cords of rock and roll, the intense bass of metal, the catchy rifts of pop, the silver tongue of the 50s, the sad soul of the blues, the bounce of electronica, and so so so much more, and I hardly got into anything international. Now before I get distracted, I have finally got ahold of the last items I needed to complete the collection. Holding in my arms is Prince''s, or the artist formally known as Prince for those of you still confused, is his lost and locked albums that he refused to release to the public. It took years of planning and tens of thousands of dollars to pull it off but as I bring it to my collection I can finally say I have every piece of music ever recorded.
How?
Simple, I used a computer virus, it would attach itself to an email and it would then connect to your audio and record everything you listen to then send it back. The FBI and NSA paid top dollar for that program and I didn''t even need to worry about them breathing down my neck when I told them what I wanted it for. Now I have petabites worth of audio and with an algorithm processing what is music and what is just useless noise, I can safely say I have the most complete music library in the world. Itunes would suck my left nut just to dream about the amount of songs I have from all over the globe from the most obscure to things coming out in real time.
The last ones I needed were from places that refused to share any information about what they had to outsiders without a hefty price. It was easy to get the Vatican to release what I needed when I had a few choice audio clips from the Pope using every curse word imaginable under his breathe as he received the masses.
Everyone else was fine for an extremely large sum of money, all except for Prince and that damned crazy tendency to hide everything like God made it a sin to create music.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.
But here it is, at last my full complete collection and as I stare wide eyed and happy about my accomplishments, it vanished, all of it, gone without so much as a trace.
I think I died, maybe from both the joy of having completed my life long dream and then having it stolen right from my very eyes.
And honestly I really couldn''t believe it, I refused to believe it, it was mine, it IS MINE,
"YOU CAN''T TAKE WHAT I LOVE WITHOUT A FIGHT!!!!"
And then I heard it.
Chuckles "ok then, here have it back"
I heard I gut wrenching roar.
"God that would be such an awesome metal scream" I thought, but then I realized it was me.
My mind felt like it was being drilled every which way, the holes filled with venom, then set ablaze. But then I realized I knew more songs than I ever did.
I was becoming my dream of being the complete human music library and I was happier than I ever could be.
After that I blacked out.
"Great, how can such a simple prank go so arwy" sigh "now what am I supposed to do"
"Well great, just great! We can''t leave him here now! We were already trespassing as it was, it was hard enough being stealthy without all the minor pranks you pull every minute and now that you''ve overloaded him with mana, this area greatly reduces the amount of time before we are discovered"
"Bahhh, it will be fine. We will come up with something, it''s not like we can just scrub the mana from here anyway. We just have to use it all up before HE notices. Hmmmm looks like there is enough mana for a transfer, you think he will go crazy like the others?"
"Not like it matters anyway. We need to get moving now, I can already feel HIM searching in this area. I can conceal it long enough to finish the transfer and then I''ll use up the remaining mana some how, now let''s go!"
"Ok ok don''t rush me" with a have of a hand thousands of runic symbols appear over the collapsed man "Well then, here we go!"
chapter 1
*splat*
The first sound I hear is of my body hitting mud and filth.
-10HP
What in the flying fuck is this thing!?!?!
I look at this floating blue box with red letters inside and I can say i''m thoroughly confused.
Although its slightly transparent, it is incredibly distracting. How do i make it go away?
And just like that it vanished.
Still stunned and confused from both what happened before and now, I take a look at my surroundings.
Just me, trees, mud and what looks like a narrow road.
Well at least I have something to follow and figure myself out.
I get up and brush off what I can, look around and see that nothing I look at is going to give me even the slightest hint of where civilization is so I just start walking down the road.
It gives me some time to reflect on what happened.
Just after I completed my Collection of all of the Music in the world it vanishes, and then I heard a voice and felt extreme pain. I remember I wasn''t going to let life or anything take away my obsession which I strived for years to complete.
And that''s it, I think I blacked out after that. Everything seems so fuzzy and confusing like a rapidly fading dream.
I assume I''m in a forest as I continue walking thinking about how I should get home from.... where ever the hell
*SNAP*
I quickly turn around and see this sickly green goblin thing, the kind you see in video games, with a dagger creeping out from behind a tree.
As I start to panic, I know how "weak" they are supposed to be in games and such but I haven''t even gotten into a fight before let alone a life and death battle with no weapon.
*snap* *crack* *pop*
I see 3 more start to surround me.
!?!? FUCK THIS!!!!!
Full on panic mode and I start to run and they give chase.
Some people laugh when they are nervous, scared, frightened, agitated what have you. I however sing when I''m nervous and the only song that was going through my head at the moment was the song
Run to the Hills by Iron maiden
Spoiler: Spoiler
Don''t own it Just incase we got some hardcore Iron Maiden legal team who reads my stuff (you can never be too careful)
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills, run for your lives
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White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills, run for your lives
NEW MAGIC DETECTED
DIVINE PRESENCE CONFIRMED NEW MAGIC APPROVED
MAGIC ACTIVATED DIVINE PRESENCEDISPERSING
WOAH WHAT IS THIS!?!?!
NEW SONG DETECTED
SONG NAME
??????
VOCALS
1
75%
INSTRUMENTS
0
0%
RANGE
100 Feet
AUDIENCE
5
As MUCH as I love pop-ups right in my face when I''m running for my life!!!!
And then I felt something drain from me, I don''t know what it was, and then I got much faster.
SONG NAME
????????
AUDIENCE
5
EFFECT
Speed boost 25%
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But not like I can even see with all these pop-ups crowding my view, and once again they vanish. Although it''s helpful i have my life on the line to even consider what that could possibly mean.
As they gave chase i happened to see salvation approaching, what looks to be an old time caravan with pulled wagons and horses. They also had a lot of men following them.
"Help ME!!!!"
As i ran towards them they drew their weapons. I ran almost full on into them when i realized i wasn''t being chased anymore.
Didn''t even see them shoot thier arrows and destroy my would be killers.
I realized what i mess i look like and how haggered i actually was.
As i was about to thank the men as I realized that only a few of them were looking at me while everyone else had their heads on down.
I could feel the tention increase as i looked further on to see chains on everyone who wasn''t weilding a weapon.
Slaves? Slavers? did i just run head long from death into chains?
i had better get going as fast as i can.
"ummm thanks a lot.... you look very busy i think ill get going"
Just as i was about turn around and leave as fast asI could and not collapse from exhaustion, a tall well built man gets out form one of the wagons and approches me.
I was still to shocked from death, fatigue, fear not too long ago, the bright blue pop-ups that are still really confusing, and the just how wrong everything felt, i failed to notice i was already surrounded.
Knowing that i couldn''t outrun them i summoned what little courage i had i had at the moment and realized there wasn''t any so i collapsed there waiting in anticpation for what would happen as the tall and obvious leader of these men approached me.
(Guard A) "Its N''often we ''counter somin'' ''lone in these here woods, Unar''ed, an'' ''n Dem'' fancy'' clothes."
Stumbling over my own words as i seemed to recognize a southern like accent that is both familiar and errie "ummmm, errr, I, uhhhhhh, don''t, mnmnnnn, where..... I.... am."
The leader motioned to one of the people behind me and they grabbed and pinned me down
(Leader) "seems like we have a spy here boys, perhaps we should see what the Guards are doing all the way out here and kill the lot once we got all the info from him"
I shudder at the thought and see how much more enunciated his words are compared to the rest of everyone else
(Guard B)"hah, a spy? run''ng fr''m a lv''l 3 ''n'' 3 lv''l 4 ''orest gobbies? ''narmed?, mine as well call him a dwarf and ask for his gold"
(Guard C)"no w''at we g''t ''ere ''s merch or rich ''ancy boy, dn''t t''ink he w''rked ''ard see'' ''s scrawny as he is, pro''ly read ''n'' ot''er ''ancy shit"
read? i thought illiteracy was almost non-existent now? Am I somewhere in a 3rd world country?
i look around and see the greed in thier eyes, the hopelessness in the slaves and the dead goblin corpes on the ground....
(Gaurd F) "''ow a''out we g''t on wit'' it, feet ''ill ''urt f''om k''cking dem on''s ''n da back dere dat ar'' too slow i ''anna nap a''ready" a big fat one said off to the side on a wagon
i''m not going to delude myself anymore i''m not on earth, not with those goblin things that were so obviously alive not too long ago, no prank CGI or special effect can replicate the smell of blood and sweat of those ghastly things along with such an elaborate set up just to kill me? make me cry? spill my secrets? no nothing like that.
(Leader)"well what about we just interigate him later we are wastin day light and we still need to get our last batch up to par before we sell them"
everything i''ve seen so far is real and that includes everything that has happened to me so far.
so i do the only thing i can think of
I try to look at my status
and like magic that blue pop-up appears
Status
Name
Level
1
Race
Human
Class
?????
Health
90/100
Mana
50/100
Strength
10
Dexterity
10
Vitality
10
Agility
10
Wisdom
10
Intelligence
10
Woahhh
WAIT A MINUTE
Why is my name blank? is it cause i haven''t been named yet?what happens if someone else names me before i get to!?!?!?
Hold on, this could be an opportunity i never liked my name anyway, i can change it to any artist i like!!! I''d freak out if they called me Freddy Mercury.... but since there is magic in this world what if i end up gay??
not that i have a problem with that but i love tits way too much to do that...
Micheal jackson? nahhh what if i end up having to moonwalk everywhere and go crazy....
(Leader) "who wants duty on the new one, we can''t just leave him unguarded on the off chance he escapes and is a spy, last thing we want is to be chased by the army, we lost almost all of the slaves last time"
this is harder than i thought, how does anyone come up with a name for themselves
Kurt Cobain!!!
wait suicide..... god damn it !!!! can''t i have someone normal
wait a minute, Dave Grohl hasn''t done anything too crazy and outragous and i love the foo fighters fuck yeah!!!!
(Guard B) " ''ell i d''n''t ''ant to be ''atchin'' som'' fancy boy"
"MY NAME IS DAVE GROHL" i say but nothing happened
oh no what happens now ???
(Leader) "so your name is Dave Grohl, where you from? i haven''t ever seen clothes like yours before"
*ting*
Name updated
SWEET!!!!
Status i say in my mind
Status
Name
Dave Grohl
Level
1
Race
Human
Class
?????
Health
90/100
Mana
50/100
Strength
10
Dexterity
10
Vitality
10
Agility
10
Wisdom
10
Intelligence
10
YESSSSSS
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
(Leader)"whats wrong with him"
(Archer 4) "might have eaten a laughing shroom out of desperation, seen them laugh themselves to death"
I must of had a weird look on my face cause they were all making comments like that, ahhh i must of been laughing out loud but really how can i take it seriously?
I JUST NAMED MYSELF AFTER SOMEONE FAMOUS
its so cool
hahhahaha
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
(Leader)"knock him out, cant have him kill himself just from laughing we still need information from him"
after the leader said I felt some pain
-2 HP
(Blow to the back of the head)
Rendered unconscious for (13) hours
chapter 2
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(0 sec)
Removing Unconscious state
From within the slave camp I awoke in a cold, damp and dark room. Completely obvious signs of torture littered the room. Tied up and with nothing to do, I go over my status.
Status
Name
Dave Grohl
Level
1
Race
Human
Class
?????
Health
100/100
Mana
100/100
Strength
10
Dexterity
10
Vitality
10
Agility
10
Wisdom
10
Intelligence
10
Blue and white now staring me in the face like always, but this time I smile. I have something I can use, I think back to all those games I''ve seen people play.
I was never much of a gamer myself but I''ve seen enough movies like ''Lord of the Rings'' to know what kind of fantasy setting I''ve found myself in, goblins and slavers where my first encounters. Most certainly though they won''t be my last.
It was enough to scare the shit out of me already. Tough people who see life and death, rule over them with an iron fist when they can and strive to live as long as they can. I''m sure that''s how it is for every living thing here, just a struggle to survive in a world where everything is trying to kill you before you get strong enough to kill it.
And now I''m here too, a struggler along with the slaves at the bottom of the food chain.
But I have knowledge that can help me.
I seem to have magic but no spells like fire and the like. Maybe I never will get to have those cool spells but I think I got something better and something that fits me perfectly.
I think I''m a Bard.
Bard classification accepted
Congratulations you are the first to discover this class
For being the first to discover this class you have recieved Bonus Special Skills
BONUS SPECIAL SKILLS
Perfect Pitch
Absolute Audio Memory
Current Song List
Accessing Memory*ERROR* UNABLE TO ACCESS SONGS LIST OVER FLOW OF INFORMATION
Accessing Memory*ERROR* UNABLE TO ACCESS SONGS LIST OVER FLOW OF INFORMATION
Accessing Memory*ERROR* UNABLE TO ACCESS SONGS LIST OVER FLOW OF INFORMATION
Requesting Use Of Prolonged Extraction
Permission Granted
Time Estimate To Extract Song List DATA
2,350,532,569,932,989 years, 7months, 12 days
And my jaw dropped. God fucking damn it, I have to wait that long?!Is there anyway to stop it or have it take the songs I sing first as priority and have it go back to doing what ever it is doing while I''m not using it for anything else?
Parameters approved
Memory access set to background state only will complete approximately
99,999,999,999,999,999 years, 99 months, 999 days
Oh my God, how fucking long is that going to be, 99 quadrillion years?! No wait 99 months?! Yeah looks like its longer than even this blue box can calculate.
Current Songs
Not Named
Effects
Speed Increase
?????????
?????????
"That''s got to be ''Run to the Hills'' by Iron Maiden" I thought. Its the only song I''ve sung since I''ve been here.
Current Songs
Run to the Hills
Written by Dave Grohl
Performed by Dave Grohl
Effects
Speed Increase
?????????
?????????
WHHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!???!?!?
The blue screen thinks I wrote the song and sung it? But it was written by Iron Maiden back on earth and sung by Steve Harris.
Euphoria over took me as I realized I will be the creator of every wonderful and amazing song that millions have sung about and will sing about ever, EVER IN THIS WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!
I have my goal now: to bring and spread the music from earth into this world and show everyone what an amazing place I once lived in and maybe one day, all the amazing things that were there too.
Excessive obsession and determination detected
Special Skill Granted
IRON MAIDEN WILL - Passive - MAX LEVEL
With the goal of showing the prowess of your otherworldly music and captured the hearts of the people of this world you are now immune to effects that would silence you and inhibit the abilityto play any musical instrument.
Now that I think about it, what are these Special skills? I''m sure I have a skill list or something along those lines.
SKILL LIST
Special Skills
Complete Audio Record From ????????If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.
UNABLE TO USE
UNABLE TO USE
Dimentional Traveler - Passive - MAX LEVEL
Retains knowledge of a plane unlike that of our own.
Unable to Calculate stats, set to level 1, set to base attribute of an average human male.
Stats adjusted to level 1, Base 10 to all attributes
Iron Maiden Will - Passive - Max LEVEL
With the goal of showing the prowess of your otherworldly music and captured the hearts of the people of this world, you are now immune to effects that would silence you and inhibit the abilityto play any musical instrument.
While Playing Music And/or Singing
Immune to Silence
Immune to Paralyze
Immune to Petrification
Immune to Confusion
Immune to Stun
Immune to Fatigue
Immune to Poison
Perfect Pitch - Passive - MAX LEVEL
Ability to Never be off Key while Singing
Can Hit any note able to be heard with human ears
Absolute Audio Memory - Passive - MAX LEVEL
Automatic Memory of everything you can hear
Perfect Memory of Any Auditory Sound
Bard Knowledge - Passive - 25 LEVEL
As a bard you have a basic understanding in all Musical Instruments And Singing
+ 25 level on all Musical Instuments And Singing
Musical Knowledge - Passive - LEVEL 25
As a bard you have basic undestanding on how to make, tune, and care for all your musical instruments
+ 25 level on Creating, Repair, Enhancing to all Musical Instruments
Mana InfusedBody- Active- LEVEL 10
With Mana Infused Body you can withstand more damage than normal
+ 10 to defence when using Mana Infused Body
Why does it have to take up everything I see? Can''t I have a simplified version of everything I see?
ABBREVIATED MODE ACTIVATED
Well that was easy, what does it look like?
Status
Name
Dave Grohl
Lvl
1
Race
Human
Class
Bard
HP
100/100
MP
100/100
Str
10
Dex
10
Vit
10
Agi
10
Wis
10
Int
10
Thats all neat and tidy I guess, can I add skills to that list as well? A quick overview of everything I have?
Parameters Aproved
Adding Special Skills to Status Screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Skills to Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Inventory to Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Complete Music List From ??????
*ERROR* UNABLE TO ACCESS SONGS LIST OVER FLOW OF INFORMATION
Adding Simplified Music List to Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Defenceto Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Regento Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Attackto Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Elemental Defenceto Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Adding Jobto Status screen in Abbreviated Mode
Wow that is a lot I have to look into now, ''Status'' I thought.
Wow that is a lot to take in, but more information is more helpful than no information.
As I sit and ponder what I should do with all this info, I hear multiplefootsteps coming from outside my cell room.
As they approach I try to think of a way to escape.
(Leader) "Should be soon that Dave Grohl character wakes up from his being knocked unconscious. I want you to stay here and watch him, as soon as he wakes up come get me"
(Gaurd K) " ''ome ''n boss he ain''t gat nuffin on ''em, just s''me strange man out ''n'' ''bout far as I c''n see, tis just free money"
(Leader) " I don''t care what you think, sure it might seem like it''s easy free money but one wrong move and we are off and running from the patrols again after we just set up out here. And If I find out that it''s your irresponsibility that lead to this the first person who''s head is going to roll, IS YOURS!!!"
(Gaurd K) "Sorry ''bout it boss, I ain''t mean nuffin by it, ''ll watch, ''ll watch"
(Leader) "See that you do"
As I hear the footsteps fade away, I wait in silence. A few moments later I hear the guard walking closer, and just as he is about to open the door to my cell, I hear a faint but strong strumming of a Lute. Startled by the sudden noise I realize that he was walking away.
(Gaurd K) " ''ey knock it off, a''ready ''ave troube ''n'' I ain''t ''bout to be yelled at ''gain"
(????) "sorry, sorry just thought it was so dull, dark, and dreary that a little music would cheer it up"
(Guard K) "Don''t go sta''ting nothin'' w''ile ''m ''ere, you ''eard t''e boss it''s my head so keep it down...."
(Old Man) "Then here, how about something soft"
As he started to play I heard how off every string was. Probably an old Lute. I don''t even know how I know that, probably from my bard knowledge or something. It''s quite eerie knowing that you shouldn''t know this information at all, hell I shouldn''t even know what a Lute looks like. But as he playes it I can see the instrument take shape, its bowl like bottom worn out from wear and tear, its 15 strings needing love and care that hasn''t been provided in months on the verge of snapping. But it plays none the less, a soft and soothing old time tune from ages long ago.
And as it plays~~
*DING*