As Aiffe sings, the other red headed deck hand, -this one Cad-, jumps up on a large crate. He begins dancing in the traditionally popular style in the Northmoor. The dance is pretty intricate and fast paced, and Cad keeps up extremely well with Aiffe's song. The dance involves a lot of kicking and stamping, the sound of the dancer's feet providing percussion for the singer. The rest of the men stop their work to watch the spectacle.
As the song continues, Cad begins to drive the pace. His quickstepping rythm slowly increases it's tempo, until the pace of the song is quite brisk. Several of the other men begin to clap to his rythm. It crosses your mind that Aiffe might have a hard time keeping up with the bouncing rythm of the melody when pushed to this tempo, but her singing is flawless, and makes a simple work song seem a masterpiece.
At the last note of the song, Cad leaps from the crate and flips head over heals to land in the muddy water. Raucous cheers and laughter greet the performers. Cad is splashed by several of his appreciative fans.
"All right you lazy dogs, back to work! This raft won't free itself." Maegers gruff admonishment stops the splashing and horseplay, but doesn't stop the laughter. As Aiffe turns to look to the work, Maeger interrupts her. "Not you Lass. I have seen you try to work a bargepole. You've done better things for my boat with your voice than you could ever do with that pole!" A great gafaw from MacLynn says that he is in total agreement with Maeger.
"Sir Turman of Rinton..." The first few words of the The Baker and the Knight signal that MacLynn thinks that music is just the thing to keep his crew's spirits high in the chill of the river. His deep voice echoes across the water, relating the familiar tale of how a simple baker managed to convince a famous knight to trade his horse, a farm, his arms, and the freedom of all the indentured servants in his barony in exchange for not telling people how he ended up naked at the bottom of a well with a pig and a basket of sweets. It is always a very popular song with commoners.
[SBLOCK=OOC]I think that we may have lost a player. I am not sure how we should handle it. We have not heard from Nac Mac for a while. I am writing him a note to check in, and I will be happy just letting him fade into the background for a bit, but when combat happens, I would like to know how you guys would like to handle it. Let me know what you think.[/SBLOCK]