Performer

Performer is a charisma based skill that allows you to play instruments in order to get gold or items from NPCs. Instruments include the grand piano, harmonica, harp, horn, lute, pan flute as well as the <Stradivarius>. Performer is directly related to the Party Time! quests. At the higher skill echelon, Performer can net a player extremely large amounts of money for absolutely no risk. It is very difficult to raise at first, but the payoff is tremendous if you stick with it

If you plan on using the performer skill, you should kill any bard you see (there's no Karma penalty) since they very rarely drop the <Stradivarius>, which increases the rewards that your audience gives you. (Stradivarius is a Precious Item, and as such will always drop if the bard has it.) Better yet, just steal their (regular) instruments. If you merely kill a bard, it will respawn with the same instrument. If you steal the instrument, the bard will get a rerolled instrument.

Performing

When you perform, NPCs will tip a percentage of their gold and will throw random items at you as gifts. A NPC can't give a tip that is higher than the amount of money they have.

Citizens who are higher level than you are "stuffier" and demand better performance; what might appease the common riffraff will earn you a swift ticket to hell when playing near a shopkeeper. A high level citizen can usually kill you in one hit with a rock. Until you have a high performance skill in ranges of 30+, always check the strength of the people around you. Someone who is twice as strong as you will very likely throw a rock at you.

To train your performance you just need to perform. Your skill raises for each person who hears it and if they enjoyed it, though its possible to just play for yourself to train it. Until your performance is lvl8 it is recommended to only play for yourself and your pets. Note that pets who are higher level than you will mercilessly throw rocks at you.

The value of your instrument may have an effect of your performance, but no test has revealed any differences. The skill required to perform in front of others effectively means that you will be getting all that they can give.

Performing near a sleeping NPC will wake them without any loss of karma, although there is still the risk of getting hit with rocks.

Where to perform

Other than in Party Time! quests, good places to perform are in high ranked museums and shops (for items) and in front of high ranked shopkeepers (for money). There's a grate tile you can place in your museums and shops that blocks movement but not sight, so you can use them to make a clean space around where you want to perform (if you don't know what tile this is, it's the one acting as jail "doors" on the left side of the fighter's guild). If you have a small castle full of high ranked shopkeepers, you can place them next to each other and perform to them for some really fat tips.

Technically anywhere crowded with NPCs is a good place to perform, but if your performing skill is really low you can try performing to miners and citizens in Vernis or you can spawn an army of younger sisters in their mansion (by aggroing the younger sister who sells lunches then teleporting her away). Or you can try assembling a gear with plenty of +performing skill and go to low level Party Time! quests. As long as you can get a crowd of people to watch your performance to the end, leveling it is ridiculously easy (and so is getting rewards).

Trained skill

You may learn Performer from the trainers in Port Kapul and Derphy.

Races

• Juere
• Slime
• Frog
• Hound
• Bear
• Cat
• Dog

Classes

• Pianist

Wishing

• skillperf will increase Performer by 1 level and train its potential.

Instruments

• grand will create a grand piano.
• harmo will create a harmonica.
• harp will create a harp.
• horn will create horn .
• lute will create a lute.
• pan f will create a pan flute.
• tradi will create the <Stradivarius>; this will only work in wizard mode.