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So here's a test post CON MUSICA just to see how it feels in action. The post isn't tied to any RP in particular, but context isn't particularly important.

Further note: If you recognize the music, and the scene to which it is originally applied, I apologize, I use this music and this post because it's easiest to experiment with a working formula, so I'm taking the visual aspect and converting it into text to see if I like the results.



The Red Wings - Tokyo Philharmonic, Nobuo Uematsu
Ckcht.
"All ships prepare for descent on Ellifarne VI. Viper Intercept Squadron Sierra, you're on point. Lead the bombers in. Intercept Squadron Bravo, follow them in. Confirm."
Ckcht. The radio clicked silent Waiting for Glenn's response.

"Delphinus Actual, this is Sierra Leader, orders confirmed. Sierra group, form up on me." Several lights on Glenn's Heads Up Display winked green, silent confirmation from his squadron that they'd received and understood the order.

"Sierra Lead this is Bravo Lead. Watch yourself out there, we'll keep the back door open."

"Thanks Vicks. Be safe."

"You too Glenn."

Glenn looked down on the lush green surface of Ellifarne VI. Around him eleven other Viper Mk II Multipurpose Intercept Fighters took their places in formation, and he could faintly hear the clacks of the nearest ships unlocking their weapon safeties. From where he was sitting, it was almost beautiful. The formations and radio communique were all pomp and circumstance. There was no real need. The fleet could easily crush Ellifarne VI's anti-air defenses, and the planet would be left helpless to a merciless bombardment. To them the fleet sitting in orbit was imminent doom.

With almost a hundred sub-capital ships, thousands of fighters, fourteen capital ships and three super-capital ships, there wasn't much that could stand up to the awesome might of the fleet, but all the same, they went through the same practice every time. Squadrons of fighters escorted hordes of single man bomber craft over the planet's surface until the defenses were enough for the super-capital and capital ships to begin firing orbital bomboardment lasers. It was a clean, efficient practice, and they never lost. But it was the unfeeling apathy that unsettled Glenn. It was almost gruesome. He had no doubt he preferred it this way, it kept his pilots, his friends, his countrymen safe, but the hammer of justice was a little too unflinching for him sometimes.

Glenn shook off his thoughts. It was time to work.

"Jackknife Squadron this is Sierra Leader. We are weapons free and on approach. You boys ready to do your thing?"

"Confirmed Sierra Lead. Jackknife Squadron is ready to light the fires and burn the pyres. Hit it."

Glenn could already see the inferno scorching the planet's surface. Ellifarne VI was doomed.

This is brilliant!

For those of you who don't recognize the music or forgotten the scene to which it accompanies I would like to explain that this particular post and this particular song have a natural synergy.

The tune is The Red Wings, performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic, and composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

As Lykus noted, it's played in Final Fantasy IV, wherein a fleet of airships (known as the Red Wings) commanded by the game's main character mercilessly destroy a kingdom in pursuit of a crystal which is one of the focal points of the story. The main character comes up against defenseless little mages and basically mops the floor with them, and has obvious pangs of guilt afterward.


That being the case, shifting the setting from fantasy to sci-fi wasn't much of a challenge, and with literally zero rewriting done in the action (hell I even stole the name Vicks from Final Fantasy who stole it from Star Wars) the post and the music are obviously going to mesh very well. The trick becomes doing this on an original post using only a selection of about 15 or 20 thousand songs.

Clearly, I can't do it for every post, and the goal is to have every post accompanied by music be this effective. But that becomes a tall order when I realize I just took a scene and a piece of music that a genius like Nobuo Uematsu wrote, and then try to mimic it.

I'll try another one now using a scene that isn't preformed for my convenience with music that wasn't originally intended specific for the scene. Check back later for the results.

*never played Final Fantasy in his life and isn't a big Star Wars fan*

The stolen names are Biggs and Wedge and (once or twice) Piet, whose name was written as "Piette." The name "Biggs" was mistranslated in Chrono Trigger as "Vicks" though. I mentioned this to Soloist so that's probably why he remembered it. It occurs during a "Which cup has the ball under it?" minigame necessary to win Crono's Clone.

Also, "Glenn" is a character in Chrono Trigger.

OMG SO UNORIGINAL

All I needed to know about writing, I learned from Zero Wing.

Question:

Did they even have the word '********' in medieval times?

Meh. I don't have any music that doesn't have words.