Tentative test CYOA thread

[robkelk]

Something to do with the moon. Be it tying your power to it, or drawing new powers from the phases…. I dunno. I just want moon powers. And nothing to do with the Senshi.

Drink Down the Moon, by Charles de Lint, offers a possibility. Dance under the light of the full moon (outside, not through a window), for the entire night of the full moon, and you "drink down the moon", gaining its luck until the next full moon. But the dance needs to be lead (not accompanied, actually lead in the dance) by somebody who plays the songs that you dance to, knowing that you're intending to drink down the moon, and who does this knowingly and willingly and voluntarily without recompense of any kind and not under the effect of any magic at all... which means you need to be on good terms with a musician who's able to play while dancing (which lets out pianists, harpists, and such) and is willing and able to play for you for an entire night - sundown to sunup - for free. The musician can lead the dance for as many people as can hear the music, and everyone in the group who dances for the entire night drinks down the moon's luck.

Of course, this means you have to be well-rested and in top physical shape. No "five minute break every hour" the way Guinness lets you take when trying to set a world record; you have to dance all night. And the musician has to be just as rested and healthy in order to play all night, too.

This also means no waltzes or line-dances or other dances where you can lean on somebody else in the last hour - the musician can't hold a partner and play an instrument at the same time.

As many of Lindsey Stirling's music videos show, fiddlers make excellent dance leaders for this sort of dancing.

Cloudy or stormy night with no moonlight visible? Lunar eclipse cuts off the moonlight for a few minutes partway through the night? Too bad - no luck for you that month. (Or, if you're a charitable game master, a pro-rated reduced amount of luck.)


Can't suggest a song for this, though. EDIT: Well, maybe... "I Want To Rock and Roll All Night" by KISS, or "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra? Neither is a great match, but thematically they aren't completely wrong either.