Wednesday 15 February 2017

Sunless Skies Shanty

I really, really like the Fallen London universe. For those people who don't know, Failbetter Games - one of my favourite developers - wrote this amazingly intricate series of stories for their games Fallen London (a free online RPG) and Sunless Seas (an eldritch horror 'em up in a gigantic underground sea).

London gets stolen by space bats and stowed in a gigantic underground cave. If that doesn't pique your interest, you've probably not got a pulse.  Which can actually be a problem in this universe.




I'll just leave these here. Go and look at them, right now. I'll be here when you get back.





Sunless Sea



Good. Now that you've got them both, let's talk about Sunless Skies. Failbetter are doing a sequel of sorts to Sunless Seas (one possible future of it) in which Victorian London escapes from underground to colonise space.

Victorian. Horror. Space. Space steam locomotives.

I am ridiculously excited by this.

Failbetter Games are insanely good at writing and I can't wait to start playing (if a time ever comes when my two daughters are asleep simultaneously). The Kickstarter is over here - it got fully funded after only four hours (!) and I'd strongly recommend getting involved. I'm always very wary of Kickstarter, but I've backed it because this is a great company and they write great stories. You should back it too.


Anyway, part of the whole Kickstarter event are some social goals to unlock more content. One of those social goals is to compose a space shanty. Lyn is obviously the one in the household with actual musical ability, but I've given it my best shot. It's only supposed to be 70 words maximum, but I couldn't stop! Here is my space shanty "How Shall We Hide From A Wrathful Judgement?" - to be sung to the tune of "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?".

How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
Since that we're in space now?


Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
'Scaping from the Neath now


Pull us into dock and paint t' hull irrigo?
Pull us into dock and paint t' hull irrigo?
Pull us into dock and paint t' hull irrigo?
'Scaping from the Neath now

How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
Since that we're in space now?


Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
'Scaping from the Neath now


Get the Navy to move the Dawn M'chine?
Get the Navy to move the Dawn M'chine?
Get the Navy to move the Dawn M'chine?
'Scaping from the Neath now


How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
How shall we hide from a wrathful Judgement?
Since that we're in space now?


Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
Hooray, up we're rising!
'Scaping from the Neath now


Do something darker and kill it stone dead?
Do something darker and kill it stone dead?
Do something darker and kill it stone dead?
'Scaping from the Neath now

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