|| No Safe Bite In Sweepstakes
Overview
No Safe Bite in Sweepstakes is a serialized narrative structured across three arcs. It reinterprets themes and elements from Hans Christian Andersen’s Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren (The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep) and Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne (The Little Match Girl), as well as William Blake’s paired poems The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
The story is set in Cabinet, a fictional Victorian-era industrial city modelled on 1840s Sheffield. Cabinet is defined by its hazardous 3D (dirty, dangerous, demeaning) industries, including but not limited to cutlery, matchstick manufacturing, and chimney-sweeping. It is fractured by class conflict and labour exploitation. The narrative tracks the escalating class struggle between three core factions: the Stokers (upper-middle-class vampire hunters), Smokey Manor (upper-class vampire elite), and the Strikers (working-class vampires, underclass, and exploited labourers). It asks the question—if vampirism thematically represents the parasitic upper-class, then how is class mobility framed within this structure?
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Chronology
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Narrative Arcs
|| Act I: Sign The Dottle Line
|| Act II: A Smoker's Coffin Needs Syrup
|| Act III: Ash Above, Soot Bellow
Required Reading
|| Dreadfulness
|| Egregores
|| User Roles
|| Cabinet
|| Ol' Smokey Bogey Tale
Recommended Further Reading
|| Vampires
|| Lunar Eclipse
|| Solar Eclipse
Central Groups
|| Griggs' Crew
|| Smokey Manor
|| The Stokers
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