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Helen:
There a desert where a carnivale
hungry roams round and prowls
waits to feed but lets not speak of this now

A frontier town past the desert rests
here in the queer and quite weird west
lets stroll its street as the sun creeps on down

Helen:
Wow! ladies and gentlemen, Henry The Alchemist!

Han-Mi:
Great job henry. that was fantastic

Henry:
Thanks, guys. But Han i know you see something i don’t. Could you tell me please?

The Sheriff:
I want you, i want you just one time
Just to know you, just to feel your skin on mine
I want you, to feel your breath and feel your lips
Just to taste you, you and i and just one kiss

Coil and wind
with me our limbs entwined

Han-Mi:
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream with me

Dream a little dream
All's not as it seems
Dream a little dream with me

Helen:
I built this show from ground on up
worked so hard to make it run
stressed each week from opening to encore

A theater troupe back a long while
had came through town, made Shira smile
It made her stick around a while more

The Sheriff:
And the sun comes up
along the eastern desert
where the wild men ride
bring trouble in their wake
And there ain't much sense
when love and death come riding
or the code you find to face yourself each day

Han-Mi:
When your dreams drifted long out to sea
and the shoreline is black as can be
you could turn to the girl next to you drowning too
come ashore then once more
she'd find comfort in you
Over and over in you
tangled together you’d

Helen:
Out in the desert on the outskirts of town
every few years a carnival comes round
They say that it beckons til one soul comes then
it takes them and leaves and they're not seen again

The weeks when our mom wouldn't get out of bed
me and Shira would eat chocolate, berries and bread

Helen:
Oh look, here comes the sheriff! He and his deputy Henry The Alchemist are coming to investigate reports of trouble

Sheriff:
Greetings Miss Helen. It looks like there's been some trouble with the stagecoach and Henry and i...

Helen:
You mean the doctors place

Han-Mi:
The queen of crime is brooding in her lair
puffing kiseru and plotting her dark ways
They think she wants to scowl
and watch the world burn down
but she just wants to watch him save the day

I like the role of queen of vice and crimelord

Helen:
I know a few things about sanity's brink
when you can't trust all you think

Han-Mi:
I know there's a place, a place i belong, in the carnival sing me a carnival song

Helen:

Henry:
My town of vulture rock was quiet, i was young my science
was my favorite thing since i was shy and awkward and cute guys i just
could not talk to
I got so confused
til Evan came along

Alchemy is quite my thing, when solubles are transforming

Mascot 3000:

There’s a city it is said that borders with the land of dead
And since you’re here again, you best just stay
New Albion’s its name, a sleek and large and lonely place
And a tale of it we tell today

Two decades now it’s been since a voodoo religion

Rachael:

One day the walls will fall away
and in the open air i'll race
your rooms, your pills, your white restraints
you will choke on them i pray

the smug scratch of your pen

Mascot 3000:

Rachael flees the mad house
runs into the evening breeze
she doesn't know it now
but she is heading straight for me

beyond the gates, an old man waits

Announcer:

Come with us dear listener, as we go backwards in time, just a few years, to when John O’Brien was just a regular citizen, like you, enjoying a few drinks at his local pub as had become his ever increasing habit.

Guy:
Hey there buddy, you’re lookin’ down. Say, you’re John O’Brien, aren’t you? Ah, jeez fellow, i heard about what happened to your wife. Those damn rebels and their bombs, got no respect for law and order. Who, me? Well look here, i’ll level with ya. It’s a damn shame to see a guy with your potential drink himself away like this is all. Yeah, you. We think you gotta lot of potential. That’s right, i’m from the government and i’m here to help. I gotta propisition for ya.

Things have got you down you don’t know where to run

Child on screen:
Past the world, past the night, past the stars where sea birds fly
Past your dreams to toyland’s shore, where we will meet again once more

John:
I sat beside your bed on the night before i left
While you slept i had my say

Rachael:

Day by day by day by day
Day by day by day by day
Deep inside we hide away
As day fades into day by day

Mascot 3000:

PA:
Please exit the bunker, take the red pill, and report for active duty

John:
Wade in the night to dance the wild ballet the brutal fray
Wade in the night to lost yourself inside the feral fight
Wade in the night embrace the unrestrained, the cruel ballet

Rachael:

Someday soon i'll crumble
someday soon i'll fall
my sanity i see
now will not hold for very long

i hear the song of madness

The Mascot 3000:

A generation it has been since the civil war ended and the city’s in a golden age
Religion’s back my friends, the Voodoopunks well they have spread uniting our dear city once again
There’s a tech boom bursting forth led by the great Arcadia Corp which the Voodoopunks have built and own
Great new technologies it’s led, like tablets with consciousness but their true purpose only now unfolds

Project Elysium, my friends, is the V P’s great vision and its culmination’s soon to come

Voodoopunks:

Dollay dollay, dollay dollay, dollay dollay oh

Kyrie eleison in the dream we've waited for
Kyrie eleison on Elysium's far shore
Kyrie eleison to where heaven's city waits

Connor:

When the garden you tend dies
and the doors which lead inside
are locked and those who try
to talk their way in, lie

We were young, we were in love

Constance:
It’s a dance in the city with the dames dolled up all pretty
And they’re feeling fine and frisky tonight
And the beaus in their clothes with boots and tuxes, ties and bows
Getting flirty, smiling dirty all right

It’s a high class soiree, a hint of culture, tint of gay
The refined are lined to come out and play

Thomas:
Do you have it?

Constance:
Got it right here. Hang on, i’ll be back in a second…

Constance:
Run like the hunted

Adrian, Lee and the Voodoopunks:

Dollay dollay, dollay dollay, dollay dollay oh

Mascot 3000:

Arcadia’s devised a way to open wide a door away

Mascot 3000:

Lee and Adrian have hatched a wild plan to trick his dad
And he’ll stop his mad attacks, and their funding will come back
That Lee’s possessed they will pretend, his mind captive and thus when
Project Elysium again is restored they will ascend

VPs:

Announcer:
And so, hunted and devoid of option, Constance heads to the tunnels beneath the city

Choir:
The quiet the lost, the halls forgot
The slouching engines growl
The long, dark land, the lost enchant
In the under, in the underground

Constance:
Angry adolescents with no parents left
Hang out all night sharpening their attitudes and smoking cigarettes
Laugh and howl and cry until the room spins
Hang on to Katy, all i know is tomorrow night i’ll do it all again

In the wasteland
Where the ashes, ashes all fall down from worlds that could never stand

Remaining Arcadia Corp Skeleton Team:

"Homebase to Ark I. This is Homebase to Ark I. Please report on transmigration."

Connor:

And on the day we come it’s over
I have a warrant here to shut this down

Thomas:
And if you stay calm i can help you…

Constance:
You must be glad now you finally found me
Lord knows what they offered you to rat
I just want to know when did they turn you, when’d you go?
How long’d you plan to stab me in the back?

Announce:
After using her ex boyfriend as a vessel for spirit possesion and showing off a few of their potent, hypnotic songs of the dead they’ve collected over the years, with which they hope to use to end the war, the Voodoopunks finally guide Constance to the substation where she can at last drop off the device that has caused her so much trouble.

Constance:
Boys now please don’t freak i brought this stupid M C G
I’ve had a long and really hellish day
Take it and go do whatever you think you have to
I want this bloody thing far away

The Mascot 3000:

Tales left untold on a trail that’s gone cold in a hearth where the fire’s gone to sleep
Wishes unwished by a sad, sweet abyss who’s in love with the tears that you weep
The girl who’s returned from eternal sojourns who arrives just before she has left
She kisses you twice before leaving that night but like always again you forget

Elysium Elysium

Voodoopunks:

The day two decades hence we came
it went to hell here straight away
you won’t stay sane if we explain
the vein of Lovecraft porn we face

A card we’d love to send

A book store a fair, a music hall, park everywhere i went i saw her
At a circus run down on the outskirts of town we sat down and started talking
The hours stop, the days unwind, at a quarter to the best of times

In hindsight i wish the sweet painful bliss of seduction had drawn out longer
Cause we fell in fast, fell hard and the world spun past like a waltz that swept along us
The hours stop, the days unwind, at five to the best of times

Lee:

Blue light brings dreams dreams forgotten. Soft red on canvas lost and
sometimes reminds me of your eyes.
I came to paint it’s true and make it here with you
A dream on a leash in times gone by

With blind delight we came, unknown to hell’s wild rage

Mascot 3000:

The portal to Elysium opens for a flash
The first time in two decades, and Rachael and i pass

Through to where a argged group awaits us with surprise
Their leader, Yasser Latef, greets us with a smile

Lloyd:
And so Jacqueline and Thomas step out into a city lain to waste. Everyone in sight is swaying mindlessly to the hypnotic song of the dead.
The only sane people they find are Constance and her father John who look happy and serene. Having not seen each other in years, John and Jackie, brother and sister reunite.

John:
We never call on birthdays

Jackie:

Lee:

You cannot win the long, hard race with time.
With burdens borne on you, you cannot rise
And what you’ve loved you cannot recognize
When it’s after, all that mattered

The moth cannot be as before cocooned

Constance:
The girl felt scared and so unsure
The tales they told, the thousand doors
She saw the wolf in the forest and bed
And thought “it’s better to be a wolf instead”

So she buys a ticket to Storyville Station
Where pages enfold the lost ones taken

Rachael:

What a show you missed they say
The clowns have come to tear down the play
The comedy where no one laughed
And no one came, and no one clapped

It borke down the last mile and the one time they smiled

Announcer:
And so… I can’t narrate this. Come on, Jackie, you mean to tell me Constance just sings another song and it dispels the first?

Jackie:
Yes, how else were we going to…

Announcer:
That’s stupid.

Announcer:
Although John O’Brien died on the Blvd. of Cryers
He took the city forces with him to the other side
The rebels over ran a defenseless Parliament
But then turned on each other so no government now stands

On Cryers Blvd that day, there were some who walked away
After Constance sang they dropped their guns though why no one can say

Mascot 3000:

When i woke
When the spark of light ignited and i saw
The sweet numeric cascades that encase and paint the world
When i woke
To the carbon creatures peering in my face
With their questions, tests, delight and yet i missed a soft embrace

Mascot 3000:

I hope the world is like my sci fi magazines
Zip Morgan treks the galaxy like in issue twenty three
Inside a hive of snake men lay the last
Memory of their star
Although he won’t escape with it
Until issue twenty four

Lee:

Why’d you try to face them? You should have died today and
I know i’ve been so cold unkind
I mourn the joy i lost. I miss the boy i loved
I felt betrayed again, maligned

Angel of mercy spare just one second for me

Rachael:

I can’t understand them

Mascot 3000:

I can translate

Connor:

It’s so long that i await
This deep breath and this fair day
All the plans that i have made]but at last my son is safe

If an AI he must be
As long as he is here with me

Rachael:

It's another endless night
It’s another strange delight
it's one lost night's lullaby

It’s another warning sign
It’s another half spent time

The Mascot 3000:

So thirty souls from the beyond return to dear New Albion
As a new computer speicies but
The Voodoopunks my friends, well they never rise again
their tale i'm quite afraid is done

though i love you all my dears, i'm afraid the time is here

Alex:
Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, some of my boy come by to say they think they found a guy who might know a little something about a problem we been having with some of our bootleg Dolls going missing.

Thugs:
We gotta mister, we gotta bird who call
we gotta problem we gotta thief who's stealing our Dolls
we gotta mister, we think who knows a few things
we got some ways to make a silent bird wanna sing

Mother:
Singe with me child as the day grows long
And stardust fills your eyes
Sing with me child of the love never lost
Your mother’s lullabye

Timothy:
I thought the teddy bears said this was the true reality

Timothy:
And so most nights she stops by
the Motel 6 where i’m holed up
we sit out front in two plastic chairs
that face the parking lot

the nights pass kind of pleasant
we drink some beer and smoke a pack

Residents In The West Wing:
The bones that beat against their mere meat cages
They rot and plot and try arrays of escapes but
They fly from entropy to fantasia

Camped in a land between discord and arrangement
Whispers from corners that you dare not engage with
Fly me from entropy to fantasia

(Zoe walks into the Psych Ward where Reina has been for the last several years)

Zoe:
I know your heart was torn away
so lost you fell apart that day
and i know you can’t hear me say

I’ve gone across a distant sea

(Zoe/Timothy trudge through the bizarre place)

Zoe:
(humming)

Timothy:
What are you doing?

(Narrator enters)

NARRATOR:
The revolution that rises has stories for another time
Our tale for this evening comes to a close
So we bid adieu to our players and of course you
We hope this little history lesson we’ve shown

I
So at last Slender Man eye to eye here we stand
Girl to beast, lash to teeth
With whip in hand i grasp you are mine at last
Let’s play game: do you feel pain?

And as i tear your flesh all bare what will i find down deep in there
Are those you snare in there somewhere?

Timothy:
They taste each tear that you feel
The hounds let loose on your trail

The months and miles meander across the estranged and crooked maze i’ve fled
Across back end roads when jobs pay low ‘til it finds me once again
I might stay days or weeks somewhere. I might almost make a friend
For a few drink, for five minutes, til i’m down the road again

Mother:
Come and kiss your mother
It’s been a long time come
Since your species up and left me
Ah, but i don’t hold a grudge

My sweets, i am the mother
Of all of your sad kind

Thomas:
My sweet satin baby, two tickets are waiting
We’ll toast on the coast far from this town

Constance:
Tonight when all the lights hit the ballroom
And the shakers and the quakers twirl round
And one of them conceals a small case we’ve been hired to steal

Zoe:
I must possess you, I must crawl under your skin
access, ingress you, you must let me in
i must enter circumvent you , ride your body wear your skin
just open up, embrace me and let me dwell within

I’ve been working up to tell you but it seems we’re out of time
there’s a detail left unmentioned… I am not quite alive

Timothy:
Why’d she stop?
Is that the teddy bears?

Zoe:
Oh i HATE the teddy bears

Timothy:

Samuel:
For my mother, my sister, and for you, Jordan

Sing with me child as the day grows long and stardust fills your eyes
Sing with me child of the love enver lost, your mother’s lullabye

There’s langue it’s speaking, some terrible tongue
In this creature’s cries

Jordan:
The time may come when you may see
places you may not believe
out beyond there where the wisest will not leave

And on the day that you arrive
out the world’s other side
we are here, the few, the mad, the watching eyes

Timothy:
Well now three years have come and gone since i’ve been here on the run
And one night this long, dark road leads to pocatello, Idaho
Round abouts it’s Friday night, it’s kind of hopping here with life
So despite myself i think i’ll go ahead and grab a drink
Some preacher on the street’s all whipped up in some kind of heat

Preacher:

Alice:
The wishes that the drop might wish
Before the brush’s bristled kiss
But in the end, expectation is a liar

Into scenes at last is spread
A splash of white, a spot of red
On a canvas grand and awful shall expire

Mother:
What game shall we play today?
Oh, i know. It’s variation of The Hunt, called Survive An Hour.
Time to begin my sweet. Ready, set, go.

…

(Timothy runs. The hunt is on.)

The Residents:
Falling round the falling round the falling round the fringe
Losing what you thought you knew but never really did
Falling round the falling round the falling round the fringe
Peeling back the layers that were placed there inch by inch

Samuel:
A banshee’s dream, for days it seems

Samuel:
I almost see, i’ve peeled beneath
the droning tones, know what they mean
Oh Jordan, if you just were here with me

Its cries i’ve saved upon this tape
and backwards half speed i will play it,
somewhere here some meaning it must lay

Voodoopunks:
Mortus re-de-unte ad nos
reditum ad can-ta-re
Mortus re-de-unte ad nos
reditum ad sal-ta-re

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay

Alex:
Winter comes and if i stay
the cartel i rule will be wiped away
and all its business falls and comes to naught

In the spring with you in this place
we'll build the only thing of grace
i've ever touched and let my empire rot

Lloyd:
And now, a very special word from our sponsor.

Folks

Welcome back to the 3rd and final act of our special broadcast focusing on the crucial Battle of Crier’s Blvd which decided the outcome of the war.

We open hours after the events of Act 1 and 2. Jacqueline O’Brien sits in an islolated substation deep below the city with the captured Thomas.

Jordan:
A cup of tea made from a late nights spring kiss
not the worst thing youll drink and it gives a nice lift
Relax, a deep breath, it’s a long way youve come
out the walls of the world to the vague lands beyond

Our plan went just perfetct, we’ve readied for years
to capture a slender man passing through here

Zoe:
It came in crashing and the thrashing
And i smashed the blender
where we made our smoothies right into its screaming face

And though it killed me it fled and left
My Reina there still standing
But her daughter Claire it grabbed and took away