The Ballad of the Ludicrous Feast

(Verse 1) Oh gather ye close, with a goblet in hand, I’ll tell of a night, both unplanned and grand— At Kastellos Tharos, with ghosts in the halls, Where secrets wore masks and danced in dark ballrooms. (Chorus) At the Ludicrous Feast, they dined with the dead, Spoke lies over wine, wore gold on their heads— The Shadows of Ash came to crash through the gloom, With laughter and plots that could darken the moon. (Verse 2) There stood mighty Grimshank, a warlord of woes, Who dreamed not of bloodshed, but marriage and rose. And Cantus, with charm like a shimmering blade, Whispered of love, and the plans were unmade. (Verse 3) The ghosts, oh they howled in their haunted old den, Tossing chairs like insults again and again. While Vasuki’s gambit at spectral chess play, Won silence, then speech, and kept terror at bay. (Bridge) In towers of bone, where the ravens did roost, Geekaat-Brrrixt found friends with a beaky boost. They perched on his wings, they cawed in his name— The castle would never again be the same. (Verse 4) Karolina the fanged, in silken attire, Offered more than a dance—and perhaps a small bite. They flirted, they fled, with dignity thinned, While her hunger for drama grinned. (Verse 5) And Kaluulah, sly as a cat in the dark, Found Theron the medusos and lit up a spark. A tryst on the floor, by moon’s gentle gleam, While mimics looked on, and furniture screamed. (Final Chorus) At the Ludicrous Feast, the masks fell like leaves, Revealing the hearts tucked up each silken sleeve. They schemed and they swooned through that long, cursed night, And vanished by dawn’s hesitant light. (Outro) So toast to the rogues, and the ghosts in the wall, To oaths made in secret and dances at balls. For what’s a masquerade without danger and flair? Just a dinner, my friend—without scandal to spare.