but the bard's song will remain

If there is a reply, you cannot hear it. Instead you feel something building within you, aching to come out. From a wellspring deep inside you it comes, pressing on your diaphragm, fighting to escape, rising and rising and rising until- -hic! Oh no, Korbin has been cursed (again!). For the next 3 weeks OOC, in addition to being deaf, he will have uncontrollable hiccups! Hmm, it's almost as though making multiple shrine threads in rapid succession has a negative effect on your luck....