Deep Rock Galactic Song
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bn_songbookDeep Rock Galactic is one of my favorite multiplayer games — a class/squad based co-op miner/shooter with missions just the right size for a casual play session, and a truly friendly online scene. I highly recommend it (unless you balk at enclosed spaces, chasms, darkness, or swarms of creepy crawly things).
Anyway, you play as classic-RPG-trope Dwarves mining a hostile planetoid on behalf of a heartless sci-fi megacorp — or, as the song puts it: Dwarves, workin' for the Man... in spaaaaaace!
Of course I had to write this as a parody of that most famous of Dwarven ballads, from The Hobbit, and it was the animated movie's setting of it that stuck in my head first, but for this I went with the setting from the Peter Jackson film.
listen to this song
Anyway, you play as classic-RPG-trope Dwarves mining a hostile planetoid on behalf of a heartless sci-fi megacorp — or, as the song puts it: Dwarves, workin' for the Man... in spaaaaaace!
Of course I had to write this as a parody of that most famous of Dwarven ballads, from The Hobbit, and it was the animated movie's setting of it that stuck in my head first, but for this I went with the setting from the Peter Jackson film.
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Misty Mountains" by Thorin Oakenshield & Co., as recorded by J.R.R. Tolkien
set to music by Plan 9 and David Long
Far under the crust of Hoxxes IV
Lie glittering gems and veins of ore
Morkite and gold, fair to behold
From Fungus Bogs to Magma Core
Deep Rock Galactic staked their claim
Sent in us Dwarves, these caves to tame
The pay is fair, but they don't care
How many employees they maim
The Driller and the Engineer
The nimble Scout, who knows no fear
The Gunner bold, will mine for gold
And other crap we find down here
Against us stands the glyphid swarm
Great crawling bugs of hideous form
And dangers found far underground
From poison gas to icy storm
Whether we mine with teammates or alone
We delve into the dark unknown
To every class, we raise a glass
We raise our picks for Rock and Stone!
Most stalwart of the Dwarven race
We're sick and tired of this place
You get the gist — time to enlist!
Dwarves... workin' for the Man... in Space!
