Since I was late for yesterday, you get a double feature today! Then hopefully back to our regularly scheduled programme.
Opulence in a Mansion so vast
In preparation for a ball to last
Searching for a missing friend
Only to stumble into bloodsuckers' den
A single rope connecting ten
Clues uncovered, however, then
Lives began to fall away
First a girl, another heart she sways
Then a gunslinger, proud and true
Afterwards, a man whose hubris usurped love's hue
All that, his best friend's heart was left shattered
Leaving them, to pick up the pieces, broken and battered
Yet the night wasn't even halfway done
When sweets followed a vengeance hard won
Colours blinding
Clock starts chiming
Eventually he was pulled into a round
Where his life could be lost or found
Stomach, stuffed
Chest, puffed
But though they managed to commit murder
The price to pay was losing ardour
As the Victorian Era was of decadence and turpitude
And to cheat the game, none had the aptitude
Into the woods, steampunk mine
More lives fell, yet he didn't whine
He had to work for a chance to live
And so many sins, in exhaustion, one must forgive
Racing across the finish line
Sacrifices and friendships unbind
He was left with goo and blood in hand
But it very much beat being buried in the sand
Three were there to free purity
Yet as dark fantasy goes, the ending is gritty
The friend they came to find, dying on the floor
He had to step up and knowing what was in store
Golden crown on golden head
With a golden heart, the Evil fled
With nine lives lost in a night of mistakes
He was alive and glad and fortunate all the same
I swear I spent half of the time used to write this one on looking up rhyming words and searching for a good title… and checking TV Tropes.
DATE OF WRITING: 20 Jan 2020 (~1708-1735)
DATE OF POSTING: 20 Jan 2020 (1745)