Silly question that keeps bothering meFollow

In the Plane of Knowledge, SSE of the main bank, the sidewalk goes through arches, almost like a tunnel, opening out into an area with some vendors. Stay there, and you will hear a song, presumably from a nearby tavern. Anyone know the name of that song? Anyone managed to get the lyrics? Seems like several of the stanzas end with "smiling at you" or something like that.

I've listened to it a bunch of times (it's in the taverns in Katta as well... maybe other Luclin places) and finally decided that it's either scrambled or backmasked. Either way, it's nothing intelligible. Same as the various voices in the LDoN themes. You can sort of make things out but only because you're expecting to hear something intelligible and so your brain fills in "That sounds kind of like '..at you' so the rest must mean something!"

You ever read the Far Side collection where Gary Larson talks about a cartoon labelled "Cow Tools"? He drew a cow standing next to some nonsensical items and labelled the drawing "Cow tools". One of the items looked like a handsaw so readers went insane trying to figure out what the rest were because, if one was a saw, the rest must be something!

Kind of the same thing.

scabber there not talking about gaining skill.. there talking about a song..

The problem is the sound is only around 10 seconds long and it loops over and over and over. I had to shut off my sound to keep from going insane while doing some brewing there.

Edited, Wed Aug 4 02:43:15 2004 by SiberianGuard

You also hear the song when standing and dealing with the three NPC merchants on the North side of the building. Mostly, it sounds like a German drinking song to me, but I can't quite understand the words. It also kind of reminds me of the old song *Birth Of The Blues*.

There is also a snippet of conversation before/during the song that sounds like German and includes the word *wasser*, (water)?

I had shut the song out of my consiousness because it just about drove me crazy due to the length of the loop and the shortness of the repeat, but now you have my interest piqued. I will listen again the next time I am in PoK and report back!

Yuck, kinda makes me not want to use that brew barrel anymore, with him standing right next to me being all...creepy.

Mulamen says 'Hey, c'mon... could you stop for just like... 5 minutes? I have about 300 Minotaur Hero's Brews to make and you're really distracting me.'

this is horrible in PoK, but was of GREAT use in a visit to the LoY harbour recently. I did not know where the tavern was, and my group was running around looking for it and fighting off baduns. Suddenly one called out "over here" and when we found him, he had his ear pressed to a building... yup... the tavern sound theme! We headed 'round to the door and ..well, something started flowing like wine but it wasn't wine.

Aye lol....Was in Thur the other day and noticed an NPC that was thrown through a window!He was layin down next to a broken window and a stool was on the ground next ta him....amusing really

The bar 'soundtrack' is only active in PoK during the night hours. I can't stand the repetition of that song so I just avoid using that merchant building at night.