Ohh, I really like that! And that makes sense too if her royalty/bloodline has conferred upon her some of her powers, yeah?
That sounds good. I like the idea of the things being intertwined. Like, the collection of the pieces of music involved 5 different quests/fights that highlight each of our band members' strengths and some demon from the past we each gotta overcome or deal with. And agreed about successes and failures.
I'm not keen on the battle of the bands idea. At least not in a big multiple bands way. I originally thought of this idea where we are the ONLY musical mercenary group of monster slayers/adventurers, so, we're bringing this unique slant to this world where they normally just have straight up wizards and barbarians and stuff. Maybe we even get made fun of a little bit.
But if this eldritch entity needs a song to be perfectly performed in order to be summoned, it would make sense if the cultists were part of their own type of band, right? And I do like the idea of after we've had a few wins and a loss, we encounter another merc band out there who have copied our idea and think they can do it better, stealing some of our thunder and notoriety. Maybe that could be a battle of the bands type thing? Where we have some of the bits of song, the cultists have a piece or two and the rival band have a couple pieces and we have to play them for it, winner takes all.(and again, we would not be aware that the cursed music piece is a summoning device).
Understandable, I wasn't sure how to do such a thing anyway.
Oh, that could be fun and a way to see how each of our characters handle being on their own after being in the group for a while. And yes, I think it might be possible this cult being their own band.
I think that could go well.
I'm alright with option A.
Also, @dispatch99 Your boy's story is sad.
Yeah, I think so.