A treatise on Tomb Colonist poetry

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From: The Editorial Voice


You can get away with this sort of thing when you're the editor. And of course, your own work is always splendid.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 122

  • 84 - very chancy (41%)
  • 104 - chancy (51%)
  • 125 - modest (61%)
  • 145 - very modest (71%)
  • 165 - low-risk (81%)
  • 186 - straightforward (91%)
  • 204 - straightforward (100%)

Success

BANDAGED PASSION - THE POETRY OF THE TOMB-COLONIES!

[…]'Little bandage, my only clothing now

Your humble fashion befits these dreary times

Blots of my body's decay your only decoration...'

Ah. You put the bandages back on the table, wash your hands and find a pair of forks to handle them with[…]

Description summary:
The rambling words written on a single long bandage are actually quite eloquent, until they become too passionate to print.

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Failure

The passions of the dead

You've finally got hold of some genuine tomb-colonies love poetry. As is their fashion, it's written on bandages, in long rolls. The passions of the dead are... profound. Sordid. Unprintable. D__n.