[Requiem of the Gods] (Omens and Portents) The Phonograph of Infinite Noise

[Thorn Darkblade]

Artifact: N/A (The Phonograph of Infinite Noise)


Long ago, when Creation was whole and the Chosen of the Sun had not yet vanished, a curious item appeared in Yu-Shan, in the office of an unremarkable Sidereal who shared space with a God of loud music, drunken brawling, and philosophy.


It bore a passing resemblance to trinket owned by many who could use essence, a small engine that would reproduce a recording, usually music. Except this one had no visible means of adding music, or anything else for that matter, which wouldn't have bothered anyone that badly, except it played music that none, not in Creation OR Yu-Shan, had ever heard.


Of its own volition.


Eventually, a series of hilarious misunderstandings and a Solar/Siderial couple having an extremely embarrassing meme named after their sexual habits later, it was discovered that the Phonograph of Infinite Noise (as it had come to be called. Hell if anyone knew what a 'phonograph' was though...) played music that directly related to a Celestial Exalt's current situation and disposition. The majority of Yu-Shan wrote it off as a curiosity, and left it be.


However, the curio was something far, FAR more than a useless bauble.


Contained within the housing of the device was a force beyond reckoning; an ancient Raksha, confined within an arcane container after it greatly annoyed a Twilight artisan and sorcerer. The Fae followed her about for months, singing the same song, over and over, mostly because it amused the Raksha to see the variety of colors the Chosen could turn and the epithets that spilled from her mouth. Finally, her frayed temper snapped, and she went on the warpath, fueled by righteous anger and irritation more potent than a thousand suns, rampaging about until the Raksha was all-but dead.


...Well, would you be any more charitable if someone followed YOU around for a year and a half singing variations of "This is the song that never ends" at all hours of the day and night?


However, instead of merely destroying the creature, the Chosen indulged her inner sadist. "If it wants to sing," she was reported to have said, "Then let it sing. It will certainly be better than what it was warbling before." Thus, the Phonograph was born...but it's maker knew not what she had created. The Phonograph resonated with the fragments of divinity that lay within the Celestial Exalted, that much went as planned. However, what followed was totally unforeseen; as a creature of pure chaos and probability, the Raksha had a literally infinite well of music to draw from, an endless procession of singers, languages, instruments...even from those outside of Creation itself, far beyond the borders of what even the Primordials could conceive.


It plays music none have heard before, because the Phonograph is literally reaching across realities to build a playlist. Let's see your iPod do that.


The downside is that it can be tuned to only one Celestial Exalt at a time, Solar, Lunar, or Sideral. That...and that the Raksha has a playlist for the Exalt all laid out in advance. The Phonograph is a more accurate predictor of future events for Celestial Exalts than even the Loom; after all, dead air is the greatest sin a DJ can commit, and despite the circumstances, the Raksha within rather enjoys it's work.


Now, if only the bureaucratic nightmare that was Yu-Shan hadn't forgotten where they put the damn thing...


Meanwhile, a Sidereal with a penchant for slacking (and in possesion of the same shard as the Sidereal that found it the first time, and in the same office with the same God) comes into work every day to something different playing, and rather enjoys the unique sounds.


It would be one of the few things he truly missed about 'work' after he cut a deal with the Pattern Spiders and fled Heaven and the reach of the Forbidding Manse.

 

[Blackadder]

Re: Strike up the band!


Black Leopard's Theme


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[Maus]

Re: Strike up the band!


Rijin's Theme


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[Ebon_Arbiter]

Re: Strike up the band!


Ishiro's [Ebon Ghost's / Obsidian Harbinger's of Silence] theme.


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[Thorn Darkblade]

Thread renamed as appropriate to Maus's awesomeness.


Also, theme song to this game:


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[Maus]

I'll just leave these here...


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James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine


For those moments when you need to bring out your inner pimp.


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Zircon - Warhead


Fantastic battle or action sequence track. THE BRIDGES, DUDE, THE BRIDGES!


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Zircon - Depth Charge


Nice high energy track, good for chase or battle.


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Zircon - Nitronic


Oh man, this so totally the best Crafting song EVER! So busy~ I wanna take apart a warstrider and put it back together~ ...Also, DAT SAX


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Clutch - Power Player


Hmmm...this was originally a 'PC-mischief-making' leitmotif...maybe Leopard? Gotta be a wheeler-dealer, fast-talker type, the use 'em and lose 'em kinda guy.





Overseer - Supermoves


BOSS MUSIC. GG, NO RE.

 

[Thorn Darkblade]

For Rijin


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[Maus]

I'll just leave this here...


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Because you can NEVER have too much walking guitar.

 

[Thorn Darkblade]

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[Thorn Darkblade]

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