Zee Shanty Competition!
Delicious friends, our first writing competition is here!
It’s Sunless Sea’s first birthday on 6th February. Inspired by the phenomenal Sunless Sea Rap by Dan Bull, we are asking for your finest Zee Shanty.
The shanty can be on any Fallen London/Sunless Sea topic that you please. Life and death, romance, fear, relief, cannibalism, the longing for home.
Bear in mind that shanties are usually sung by a crowd, and often involve call-and-response. Entries will be judged on how well we can imagine them being sung by your crew, their overall Neathiness, and the writing (and rhyming).
It must be no more than 100 words long. We can’t stress this enough. No more than 100 words. We will word count all of them and discard any which are longer. Consider it a challenge of constraint!
How to Enter
Post your creations anywhere on the internet which suits you (tumblr, our forums, reddit, your blog/website).
Send a permalink to us at competitions@failbettergames.com, with the subject ‘Zee Shanty Competition’.
You may perform your shanty and submit a video if you fancy! But you must also submit it in writing.
The competition will close at 12 noon GMT on 4 March 2016.
We will review all the entries and put together a top 5 for community vote until 12 noon GMT on 11 March, with one winner receiving the prize:
The Prize
- Your choice of Fallen London merchandise
- A piece of Exclusive Fallen London Exceptional Hat jewellery (either a brooch or a necklace)
- 100 Fate and 3 months of Exceptional Friendship in Fallen London
- Two copies of Sunless Sea (one for a friend), plus two copies of the official soundtrack
Full guidelines below the cut! Good luck!