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ROUND SIX ASSIGNMENT Tyrion's Escape The Spider helped him escape, right? That creepy, spindly foreigner who knows all the underground passages. Or was something else going on? How do the singers interpret this? And Tyrion is a monster, right? Regicide followed swiftly by patricide? What more is there to this story? Is there an alternative viewpoint? Is there a songwriter with other ideas? How did this happen? Use one of the following acronyms to create a song title for a minstrel of your choice B R H O M F A S R I T D M F E Tuesday 18th May at 10pm is the deadline

ROUND 5 VOTING Let’s stick to FOUR votes. These are titles of songs about Wyman Manderly's revenge 1 - Feasting with leeches - By an unknown creator (A dark cabaret song to the tune of The fine art of poisoning by Jill Tracy) 2 - A Dish No Others Serve - (by Abel alias Mance Rayder, an eyewitness) 3 - Tart Humans Roast Hearts - Fat Rovers 4 - Fat Wyman’s Lessons - by a northern chorus 5 - A Dish Noted on Skagos - By The Fat Old Cannibals and Zero Finger Death Punch 6 - Then he roasted him! - written and sung by the White Harbor kitchen staff 7 - Fat Walda's Leftovers - by Abel the Bard 8 - Feast Well, Liege! - by Wyman and the Wailers Let’s say Tuesday 18th May at 10pm is the deadline More stuff coming.

ROUND FOUR RESULTS 1 - Our Wall Ain’t Moved - by The Black Crows ft Dareon Author - AssHat Ahai Points - 1+1 +3+2+3+1+2+3 +3 Total - 19 2 - Overcome with Ancient Magic - by Mance Rayder Author - Fragile Bird Points - 1+1 +1+2 Total - 5 3 - No True War or Grumkins - Trans Skagosian Orchestra Author - RhaenysBee Points - 1+1 +3+1+1+1 Total - 8 4 - Of walls and men - by the giants Author - a free shadow Points - 1 +1 Total - 2 5 - Outcasts, Wargs and Maids by Dareon of the Watch Author - rocksniffer Points - 1+1 +1+1 Total - 4 6 - Onward wights are marching! - to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers by White ('the mocker') Walker Author - Castellan Points - 1+1 +1+2+3+1+1 Total - 10 7 - Oh what a Mannis - Similar rhythm with December, 1963 / Oh, What a Night by Frankie Valli & The four seasons Author - Lilac & Gooseberries Points - 1+1 +1+1+2+3+1 Total - 10 8 - Onwards, Warrior! (Azor's March) - by Melisandre Author - Julia H. Points - 1+1 +2+1+2 Total - 7 9 - Of Wights and Men - by Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Author - Howlin’ Howland Points - 1+1 +3+2+1+3 Total - 11 1 Fragile Bird 63 + 5 = 68 1 AssHat Ahai 49 + 19 = 68 3 Julia H. 44 + 7 = 51 4 Castellan 38 + 10 = 48 5 Howlin’ Howland 32 + 11 = 43 6 RhaenysBee 34 + 8 = 42 7 a free shadow 33 + 2 = 35 7 Lilac & Gooseberries 25 + 10 = 35 9 rocksniffer 26 + 4 = 30 9 Jez Bell 25 Well how about that? Tied at the top! All to play for. Please do check my tallies in case I made any errors. Stuff coming. In the meantime, after the titles produced in this round I could not not think of this wonderful Icelandic band

Bear with me, my lovely acrophobes. Something came up yesterday evening. My fault. I'll get to this at some point today.

Missing a few players so I'm going to extend to tomorrow evening. Let's say 11pm UK time tomorrow (Monday 10th) Sorry for the delay

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ROUND 4 VOTING Once again, please vote for your favourite FOUR titles of songs about the battle at Castle Black in order of preference 1 - Our Wall Ain’t Moved - by The Black Crows ft Dareon 2 - Overcome with Ancient Magic - by Mance Rayder 3 - No True War or Grumkins - Trans Skagosian Orchestra 4 - Of walls and men - by the giants 5 - Outcasts, Wargs and Maids - by Dareon of the Watch 6 - Onward wights are marching! - to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers by White ('the mocker') Walker 7 - Oh what a Mannis - Similar rhythm with December, 1963 / Oh, What a Night by Frankie Valli & The four seasons 8 - Onwards, Warrior! (Azor's March) - by Melisandre 9 - Of Wights and Men - by Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Deadline at 10am on Sunday 9th May UK time

ROUND FIVE ASSIGNMENT Wyman Manderly’s Revenge A bit of forecasting here, as we don’t know everything that happens yet, but a song could be written about numerous points during his revenge plot. It could tell the entire story from White Harbour’s machinations through to the gruesome revelations at Winterfell. From a future vantage point, how would a songster tell this story and from what perspective? Use one of the following acronyms to create a song title for a minstrel of your choice F W L T H R H A D N O S Deadline at 10am on Sunday 9th May UK time R4 titles to be published tomorrow

ROUND THREE RESULTS 1 - Viper's Imploding Melon: Tyrion's Lament - by Butterbumps Author - Howlin’ Howland Points - 1+1 +1+1+1+1+1 Total - 7 2 - (Dwarf's original) "Regurgitation!" - sung by the Red Hot Chili Peppers ...to the tune of Californication Author - rock sniffer Points - 1+1 +1 Total - 3 3 - Duet - Oberyn's Revenge - by Tyene Sand Author - Castellan Points - 1+1 +1 Total - 3 4 - The Serpent and His Bite of Poison - by the Sand Snakes Author - Julia H. Points - 1+1 +3+2+1+3+2+3+1 +2 Total - 19 5 - “Venom Is Might!” Temerity Lied - R.A.B Author - RhaenysBee Points - 1+1 +1 Total - 3 6 - Viper’s irritability mix Tyrion Lannister - by ‘Revenge against the lions’ a Dornish heavy metal, grunge band Author - Lilac & Gooseberries Points - 1+1 +1 Total - 3 7 - Thwarted Sun (Ash Has Blown Over Pompeii) - by a madman who came from the West Author - a free shadow Points - 1+1 +1+1+1+3+1+1 Total - 10 8 - The strength at hand breaks Oberyn’s plan - by Patchface Author - AssHat Ahai Points - 1+1 +3+3+2+2+1+1+2 Total - 16 9 - Too soon, alas, he bragged! Oh Prince! - to the tune of The Dornishman’s Wife Author - Fragile Bird Points - 1+1 +2+2+3+2+3+2+3 +2 Total - 21 1 Fragile Bird 37 + 21 + 5 = 63 2 AssHat Ahai 28 + 16 + 5 = 49 3 Julia H. 20 + 19 + 5 = 44 4 Castellan 30 + 3 + 5 = 38 5 RhaenysBee 26 + 3 + 5 = 34 6 a free shadow 18 + 10 + 5 = 33 7 Howlin’ Howland 20 + 7 + 5 = 32 8 rocksniffer 18 + 3 + 5 = 26 9 Lilac & Gooseberries 17 + 3 + 5 = 25 9 Jez Bell 25 Please check my tallies in case I made any mistakes

Bear with me Acrophobes, I'll do the score count today and publish results but I will probably publish the new titles tomorrow so enjoy a little extra time to fine-tune them if needed.

ROUND THREE VOTING Vote for your FOUR favourite titles about the Viper and Mountain fight in order of preference 1 - Viper's Imploding Melon: Tyrion's Lament - by Butterbumps 2 - (Dwarf's original) "Regurgitation!" - sung by the Red Hot Chili Peppers ...to the tune of Californication 3 - Duet - Oberyn's Revenge - by Tyene Sand 4 - The Serpent and His Bite of Poison - by the Sand Snakes 5 - “Venom Is Might!” Temerity Lied - R.A.B 6 - Viper’s irritability mix Tyrion Lannister - by ‘Revenge against the lions’ a Dornish heavy metal, grunge band 7 - Thwarted Sun (Ash Has Blown Over Pompeii) - by a madman who came from the West 8 - The strength at hand breaks Oberyn’s plan - by Patchface 9 - Too soon, alas, he bragged! Oh Prince! - to the tune of The Dornishman’s Wife I don't know if a 10th entry will come in late. Deadline at 10am on Saturday 1st May UK time

ROUND FOUR ASSIGNMENT Mance Rayder and his forces attack the Wall, Stannis rides to overwhelm them. The people of Westeros don’t much care for the Night’s Watch these days. At war with each other, catering to this band of ruffians seems counter-productive. But of course Stannis bucked the trend. With Mance uniting his horde to take them south of the Wall away from the icy demons that haunt them, how would a song about this battle go? What perspective could be drawn from this event? Use one of the following acronyms to create a song title for a minstrel of your choice O W A M N T W O G K I C T L S Let’s make the initial deadline on Saturday 1st May at 10am UK time. So you have a week. New voting round coming at some point today. Just awaiting something.

ROUND TWO RESULTS 1 - Woops! Our Drunk Royals Misfortune - by Symon Silver Tongue Author - Howlin’ Howland Points - 1+1 +1+3+1 Total - 7 2 - Rootin’ My Day Away - by Boss Hog Author - rocksniffer Points - 1+1 +3+1+1+2 Total - 9 3 - Tried Loving Cersei - sung by the Common Folk Author - Fragile Bird Points - 1+1 +2+3+3+1+1+2 +2 Total - 16 4 - Robert Made Drunk Again - by The Irish Rovers Author - Julia H. Points - 1+1 +2+1+2+1 Total - 8 5 - Wildebeast of Death (re—mix) - by Slayer Author - Jez Bell Points - 1+1 +1+3+1+1+3 +2 Total - 13 6 - Then Lyanna Called - by Robert Baratheon (16 years in advance) Author - a free shadow Points - 1+1 +2+2+1 Total - 7 7 - Rather Marvellous Dinner Announced - by Sweet Cersei’s Sirens Author - Castellan Points - 1+1 +3+1+3 +2 Total - 11 8 - Wounds of Deceit (Robert’s Monody) - by Bolo Brown Author - AssHat Ahai Points - 1+1 +1+1+1+1+2+1 Total - 9 9 - When our dear Robert mounts - by The Westerosi Weird Al Yankovic Author - Lilac & Gooseberries Points - 1+1 +3 Total - 5 10 - Whore’s Ode: Dear Robert’s Memory Author - RhaenysBee Points - 1+1 +1+2+1+2+3 Total - 11 1 Fragile Bird 21 + 16 = 37 2 Castellan 19 + 11 = 30 3 AssHat Ahai 19 + 9 = 28 4 RhaenysBee 15 + 11 = 26 5 Jez Bell 12 + 13 = 25 6 Howlin’ Howland 13 + 7 = 20 6 Julia H. 12 + 8 = 20 8 a free shadow 11 + 7 = 18 8 rocksniffer 9 + 9 = 18 10 Lilac & Gooseberries 12 + 5 = 17 Excellent stuff all round again, as Fragile Bird rises farther above the chasers but lest we forget these are still early days and the creativity is already flourishing. You know quality is high when genuinely excellent entries acquire single-digit totals. More 5-point boosts may be in order if this level continues. Please do check my tallies in case any mistakes occurred. I don’t function well early on Saturdays New voting round and assignment coming sometime today

Deadline approaching in 12 hours

I've had an extension request so let's say Saturday (24th) morning 10am UK time