Custom Traveler's Song
Custom Traveler's Song is a type of advanced spell customization that changes the messaging associated with the Traveler's Song (1020) spell. Pre-written custom Traveler's Song messaging is available at various festivals, pay events, and at Bayview Villa on Mist Harbor. Fully custom Traveler's Song messaging is a delayed service when the player is writing their own. Custom Traveler's Song is part of the Player Customization System and is managed via the CUSTOM verb.
Custom Traveler's Song messaging consists of first person messaging for when the spell is cast plus third person messaging for both the departure and arrival rooms.
Examples of custom Traveler's Song messaging include the following from Rumor Woods:
1P: Weaving mana through the notes, you whistle a tune that circles on itself, allowing you to harmonize with your own melody. The musical tapestry swells, and your surroundings blur into whorls of smoke that soon clear to reveal another locale entirely.
3P, departure: As {Character} whistles, her tune circles on itself, and she harmonizes with her own melody. Sinuous whorls of smoke rise, dancing about her and curling inward. The smoke swirls away on a swell of airy music and leaves nothing behind but a tuneful echo.
3P, arrival: Sinuous whorls of smoke twist through the air nearby, accompanied by an airy musical tapestry woven of whistled melody and harmony. As the music fades, so too does the smoke, dissipating to reveal {Character}.
1P: Through lips barely parted, you vocalize an otherworldy hum, modulating its resonance to produce a pure, flute-like melody that rides the fundamental pitch like a leaf adrift on a river's current. Your surroundings dissolve, and you are borne elsewhere.
3P, departure: Through lips barely parted, {Character} vocalizes an otherworldy hum and, simultaneously, a pure, flute-like melody that rides the fundamental pitch like a leaf adrift on a river's current. Her form fades away, leaving behind only silence.
3P, arrival: Light and vapor coalesce and give way to reveal {Character}, her lips closing on a final exhale of otherworldly polyphony.
1P: Pouring your heart into your song, you give voice to a mournful wail that soon rises to a piercing shriek! The air around you shudders, rent by your lament and shredding apart as you are swept away on a tide of wordless sorrow.
appearance is abrupt, and her lament cuts off with a sharp and silent reverberation.
3P, departure: Pouring her heart into her song, {Character} gives voice to a mournful wail that soon rises to a piercing shriek! The air around her shudders, rent by her lament and shredding apart as she is swept away on a tide of wordless sorrow.
3P, arrival: A mournful wail rends the air, rising to a piercing shriek as its source grows closer. Emerging from a shredded haze, {Character}'s
1P: A rumble begins deep in your chest, clawing its way up as a full-throated growl, raspy yet still melodic. Rising to your call, a frenzied sonic wind lashes up a storm of debris that obscures your vision. When it disperses, you find yourself elsewhere.
3P, departure: A rumble begins deep in {Character}'s chest, bursting forth as a full-throated growl, raspy yet still melodic. Rising to her call, a frenzied sonic wind lashes up a storm of debris that obscures her form. When it disperses, she is gone.
3P, arrival: Bearing the echoes of a raspy, rumbling growl, a frenzied sonic wind lashes through the area and deposits {Character} in its wake.
1P: You snap your fingers in a complex rhythm, guiding magic through the resulting vibrations. A latticework of shimmering lines ripples from you and obscures your surroundings. As your fingers fall silent, the lines part to reveal another place.
3P, departure: {Character} snaps her fingers in a complex rhythm, eyes narrowed in concentration. A latticework of shimmering lines ripples from her and envelops her in pulsating striations. With a shiver and a final snap, the lattice disappears, taking {Character} with it.
3P, arrival: A shimmering latticework shivers into view, its edges curled inward and pulsing with a complex yet perceptible rhythm. That rhythm slows, and the lines of visible magic separate and fade to reveal {Character} at their heart.
Additional examples of pre-written Traveler's Song messaging can be viewed in the character customizations category, such as with the Rumor Woods 2024 advanced spell customizations.