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This month's challenge is to compose, pen, and/or record a TES themed Christmas Saturalia jingle! With or without accompanying string arrangements.
It's Christmas December 2nd and those of you enslaved by Coca-Cola Santa have probably already started decorating. Even our cold cynics can't deny that we all feel at least a little bit of a warm tingle around this time of merriment, and what better way to express our jolly spirits than through song! Let your festive-eager minds run wild and give me songs.
-Must be TES themed as always
Our schedule for the December event is as follows:
[02.12.2016]: Competition begins! Start planning and send in those submissions!
[22.12.2016-30.12.2016]: Voting period – vote for your favorites!
[31.12.2016]: Our winner is announced! Please note that all times are determined by me, Mars, and therefore will run according to GMT +1. (Click here if you’re unsure when, exactly, that is!)
Remember that the CotM is not possible without you, so please participate, contribute, discuss, and vote!
Oh, sounds fun, I really hope I remember to enter in this. I have no experience making music so anything I make will be terrible (especially if I sing it, which I might well do, so sorry about that) but it should be fun at least. I'll be TESifying an existing Christmas Song. Or make a non-christmas song a TES Christmas Song.
Anyone know how to pronounce Saturalia?
So we have come to solve every squabble in the village personally? The last thing you never see
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
First Bittercup and now my Masque
I give you artefacts
But you give them a pass.
Tell me mortal,
Do you recognize me?
Well,
I have countless forms,
So it wouldn’t surprise me
Rescued the Mutt decided to reward you
Got a Masque so folk would adore you,
Now I know what a fool I've been.
But if you summoned me now
I know you'd fool me again.
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
A crowded room,
Princes with tired eyes.
We were summoned by you
And you fed us a pack of lies.
Boethiah thought you’d be her champion.
But you put his mail in a chest and put your armor back on.
Masque make you a lover with fire in your heart.
Metal give cover but fights wouldn’t have to start, ooh-hoo.
Think helmets make you less cool but I’m a fool.
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
Last Saturalia
I gave you my Masque
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
Masque make you a lover with a fire in your heart
Metal give you cover but fights wouldn’t have to start
Maybe next year I'll give it to someone
I'll give it to someone special.
Special...
Ooh...
Yeah...
Clavicus Vile Out
So yeah, pretty self explanatory. It's a song by Clavicus Vile to the theme of Last Christmas by Wham! about the frustration felt when heroes accept your priceless artifacts only to throw them aside because they're jerks who can't appreciate them.
So we have come to solve every squabble in the village personally? The last thing you never see
O Siege Crawler, o great Siege Crawler
How lovely are thy cruel blades
O Siege Crawler, o great Siege Crawler
How lovely are thy cruel blades
Their screams so red in summertime
Stay bravely drenched in wintertime
O Siege Crawler, o great Siege Crawler
How lovely are thy cruel blades
Let us all remember
In their slaughter and fleeting screams
With their family and friends and loved ones
The real and true meaning of this Crisis
The destruction of all, as so Dagon commands
O Prince of Ruin, o Prince of Plight
How lovely are thy mighty plans
O Prince of All, o Prince Dagon
How lovely are thy bloody grasps
The pillars all please faithfully
Their pleas in Dagon unchangedly
O Siege Crawler, o great Siege Crawler
How lovely are thy most cruel blades
Ha ha ha ha ha
"I Seek Truth, Not For Power, But For Understanding"
Dashing through the snow
With my one horse bound to slay
Over the fields we go
Laughing, bound to slay
Dragon shout will ring
Oh what fun it is to sing a slaying song tonight
Dragon yells, dragon yells
'kiin will yell, 'kiin will yell
Shout it all the way
Oh! What fun it is to ride
For a one-horse dragon slay
'kiin will yell, 'kiin will yell
Shout it all the way
Oh! What fun it is to ride
For a one-horse dragon slay!
A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon my ally Odavhviing
Was gliding by my side
The horse was cheap unpatched
A bug-out seemed his lot
He got into a glitched-out skip
And I learned console commands
A day or two ago
This story I must yell
I went out on the snow
And on my patch I fell
A dev was riding by
Nerfed the one-horse dragon slay
He laughed as I lay flaming there
And quickly drove away
Now the snow is white
Go it while you're young
Take the spouse tonight
And shout the slaying song
Shout Fus Ro Dah all day
"Kill dragons" be your creed
Hitch them for a glorious slay
And crack! The game you've beat
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That's why I'm forum posting
On company time
And when it's cold and sharp, with dagger I'll make veal.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, I made it out of Steel.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, with dagger I'll make veal.
It has a lovely blade, with edge so sharp and thin.
I cut just right and then I go to the inn!
dagger, dagger, dagger, with edge so sharp and thin.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, then I go to the inn!
My dagger's always ready. It loves to dance and spin.
A lovely filet of meat, come now let's begin.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, it loves to dance and spin.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger. Come now let's begin.
I have a little dagger. I made it out of Steel.
When it's cold and sharp, with dagger I'll make veal.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, I made it out of Steel.
Oh dagger, dagger, dagger, with dagger I'll make veal.
That's what happens when you focus too much on hoarding UESP points.
If I win, I will be very surprised as I literally made it up as i went along. They say that it was the song that drove me insane. Others claim that if you hear this song, you best get out of the city. For Alduin is coming. The Nords fear the World Eater but revere the Dovahkiin. An immortal Dovah fights a mortal Dovah. Natural predators fighting to the very death. One, a Dovah that shrugged his duty away and enslaved the ancient races of man and beast. The other, Akatosh's fist. Both do battle. Both destroy more then the other. It is said that he will return but the other will not. For the other ate the first. The other burnt a creature of Bal to ashes. It was foretold that the battle of these two would happen but not on mundus. If you see these two in your town, you better not cry because you will be stunned by the awesomeness that is the Worldeater fighting The Dovahkiin.
Lock up your chickens.
Hide your swords.
For Alduin is coming.
Alduin is coming.
RANDOM SILLY STATEMENT AS SIGNATURE! Praise Sheogorath!
Kerr is a known synth and is likely hacking the poll to boost his way to victory! The wrapper in my hands says it is and it is true! Vote Dovah to make UESP's COTM DOvah again!
RANDOM SILLY STATEMENT AS SIGNATURE! Praise Sheogorath!
He is 99% machine and I saw him consume an entire toaster! How is that not evidence he is a synth!? He ate a toaster! And now he is lasering random people and I suddenly remember that Rooster Teeth Video. Basically, Kerr is that robot.
RANDOM SILLY STATEMENT AS SIGNATURE! Praise Sheogorath!
I'm nonbinary. Computers operate in binary. Ergo not a synth. Although some people would say that makes me more like a robot, hmm, better not mention that, they'll get suspicious.
So we have come to solve every squabble in the village personally? The last thing you never see
Kerr is a Synth! I've seen him do Synthy stuff! He is paid by Apple to win COTMs via cheating just to boost their Istuff sales by slowly assimulating UESP!
RANDOM SILLY STATEMENT AS SIGNATURE! Praise Sheogorath!
