I....am going to bed. I hashed this out in the shower, and at work, probably subject to change, but here it is for now. All comments welcome.

 

 

The ballad of 218K -

Dedicated to those who never gave up, and everyone else besides.

(Think "The Times they are a Changin" by Bob Dylan, mixed with

"Scarborough Fair" - the Simon and Garfunkel version) With a dash of the Space Quest 1 theme thrown in for relief. :) 218K is pronounced two-one-eight-K)

COME! Gather around and I’ll tell you a tale

Of brave Women and Men who all Pledged to prevail

Over fantastic odds, and the trolls in their way,

As they reached the great slowdown of 218K

 

Space Pope was assembling an army to fear

Yes the Two Guys would come, but they were not yet near.

The Andromedan cavalry, riding our way

In the deafening silence of 218K

 

But the trolls did besiege our poor garrisoned mound

Well, the total went up, and the total went down

Oh they toyed with emotions and got in our way,

In that terrible struggle of 218K

 

Yes, we fought and we bickered, we knew it was bleak

Seemed we wouldn’t reach 500K in two weeks.

There would be no Space Venture, and nothing to play

If we just couldn’t win against 218K

 

But, in that darkest hour, hearts heavy with dread,

Our adventure games future, it hung by a thread..

Out of sheer desperation, with no more to say

We clawed out of the trenches of 218K

 

Now if we stood a chance, heck, we just couldn’t tell

With the cone on our side, though it wasn’t, as well?

Oh the Trends, and the Triangle fought us that day

As we clashed, worn and weary, with 218K

 

All adventurers rallied to put out the word

On the forums, and tweeted (though not like a bird)

And then, ever so slowly we pulled from the fray

And we gained some momentum through 218K

 

So! With 42 bullets and 5 guns apiece,

The Xenon Special Forces, they led our release

With the power of Polycheese, and Douglas A,

Slowly scaled the great mountain of 218K

 

*tempo slows*

As we drew near the crest, there was hope in the air

For we knew it would all be downhill beyond there -

With one final full-Nelson, pushed over the line...

…..And we gazed on green pastures of sweet 219

 

Friends! This story impassioned, is one of renown -

Tell your children to pass-down our tale to their own,

Of the Quests that we went through to be here today,

And to look back in wonder at 218K.

 

Yes we look back in triumph at 218K.

 

So. Who’s good with an acoustic guitar? :P

I can thing of one person :)

Sweet :-)

Got a tear in my eye. :-) I read it to the Ballad of Jed Clampett (Beverly Hillbillies for those that don't know Jed) and that would work too.

It would be cool if it was in Margaret Atwood meter but that's a lot of changes as I don't know if I want that. *tears up as he reads it once again* :')

Lovely :-)

 

Btw anyone have any infos on why we haven't been charged by KS yet? I hope the "Andromeda triangle" is not involved in the delay...

Bravo! Bravo! ENCORE!

I.. Am. Stunned.. at how good that is, Mr. Oh!!!!!

Check the latest comments on the KS page for info on payment. Basically, they haven't accepted it yet. Just be patient :-)

Excellent work, really good and funny :)

Great stuff!

Holy crap, 291 views?

 

Thanks for the compliments all :)

Well, 338 views, last I looked... I can't speak for others, but I'm pretty excited to put a specific melody to the lyrics, and to hear Nelson's guitar work!

 

Perhaps cover versions are in it's future, as well.

I think I just nutted out the chords, melody and structure, more or less. :P I wish I could play properly. Maybe I'll lay it out in guitar pro for a giggle. Oh hey it's raining. Must be bed time.

Guys, this is just freaken epic! Plans to make it into a youtube video? Flash animation video maybe? Good chance, this would be blasted out of every promotion stream we got if you guys put it together. Make sure there's credits on it if there's a video. :)

Space Pope, we are trying to put together a video collage of fan art, fan video content, fan poetry, both of the promotional fan games, and another special thing I've been bouncing around, over at this thread: http://www.spacequest.net/index.php/topic/467-tgfa-kickstarter-fan-art-project/

 

It would just be so awesome if we could set the collage part of it to music from Ohverture's ballad :)

 

My video production skills are extra weak though...

I can set it to music if I have music ;)

Bahahaha this is too cool...love it.