NADS

## New Albion Discordian Society

current murder mystery themed server icon, made by PixelWayve

NADS (standing for "New Albion Discordian Society") is a fanmade community Discord Server surrounding the works of Paul Shapera, who is also a member.

The invite link to join the server can be found here: https://discord.gg/5JdgFYb

 The server has been the birthplace of many fandom memes, jokes, and events including:

* Ravoon
* The Lauren is Death Theory
* The Debate on the number of Mary's legs
* The Sun Conspiracy
* Sexy Edgar
* The A-paul-clypse

## References

NADS is referenced in the song "Sublimity" in the form of the following lines;

> *"In the deep of space there's a comet, where demon children play, and a bird of fire protects them as they fly through cold, deep space."*
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Here NADS is represented by a comet populated by "demon children", which is a term that Paul Shapera has commonly used to refer to fans of his work, particularly NADS members.

In Lost Fables From New Albion, the Discordian Society is a group of knowledgeable scholars who keep detailed records, and the phrase "Hail Discordia" is used in several instances. Kai and Nathan spoke the phrase in The Adventures of Pepper The Dog, and Isabela said it to Sam the Mouse.

## Member Namedrops

When Paul is looking for a name for a new character he often goes to the server and asks if any fan would like their name to be used. Thus, there are many NADS Namedrops throughout the Shaperaverse.

## Paul Kills NADS

*Main Article: Paul Kills NADS*

Paul Kills NADS is an informal 'musical album' consisting of audio tracks that Paul Shapera shared on the NADS server in July 2018. It consists of him and occasionally his child Luka making rough and improvised 'songs' based loosely around supposedly killing prominent members of the NADS server at the time. Every featured member dies in these tracks, with the notable exception of a member by the name of Gidget, whom Paul likes and therefore spares.

## Fan Groups

The official Shaperaverse discord server, **NADS**, has created many clubs that go by many different titles (formerly refered to as 'cults', but it was agreed to stop using the word due to it's negative connotations making users uncomfortable) either to show genuine affection towards a character or as a joke about pretending to love a character, and in some cases, both. these tend to be represented with emojis to put in your username to signify you are a member of that fan group, shown in parenthesis next to it's name.

### Sexy Edgar Commune (🎩)

The Sexy Edgar Commune was created for people to "simp" for Edgar McAlistair. The commune was started by Vadvivon and a server was created by a user named Red and grew in followers over time. The server and commune has gone through quite a lot of changes and strange events overtime.

For more information, see the "Sexy Edgar" section on the page for Edgar McAlistair.

### Church of Saint Priscilla (🔪)

The Church of St. Priscilla was created to oppose the Edgar Commune. The church was started by a user named Mage, who also made a server and the church grew with people who opposed the Edgar movement and expressed love for Priscilla McAlistair. Members of the Edgar commune were allowed in the server, but they were assigned the role "The Blasphemers" in order to shame them, and were given a special chat room called "exorcist".

The server can be joined here: https://discord.gg/7CyZySMY

### Dragon Lady District (🐉)

The Dragon Lady District was created for those who love the character Han-Mi, an opinion held by almost all fans of the series. The district's biggest supporter is PixelWayve, who shows her affection for Han-Mi quite often.

A Dragon Lady server existed for some time, before being taken over.

### Evil Kate Gang (😈)

The Evil Kate Gang started because of the Drama Llama Production of The Dolls of New Albion, in which normally non-interventionalist narrator Kate was a more manipulative and sinister character played by Hayley Warner, hurting the McAlistairs on purpose. The movement was started and supported by multiple, but mostly by a user named Katelyn (more often referred to as Kate), who was known for their love of Kate and Caravan and who cosplayed Evil Kate.

### Blood Red Dogs Brigade (🐺)

The Blood Red Dogs Brigade was started due to the amount of people on the server who loved the Blood Red Dogs motif.

### Radio Hour Subsection (📻)

The Radio Hour Subsection was started for fans of The New Albion Radio Hour, Dieselpunk, Jazz, Attempting to Destroy Cities, and Radio Shows.

The noun "subsection" was chosen because it sounds like The Substation

### Talking Mice Union (🐭)

The Talking Mice Union was started for people who enjoy the brilliant mice of New Albion, Sam the Brilliant Mouse, Kevin the Detective Mouse, Deacon the Mouse owned by Lora, and Nicholas the Hacker Mouse.

### Princess Lloyd Fanclub (👗)

The Princess Lloyd Fanclub is a thing that exists. apparently.

### Catboy Lloyd Fanatics (😽)

Catboy Lloyd Fanatics was created by NADS user Spice to honor the concept of "catboy Lloyd Allen", especially in a maid dress. Why there are 2 groups for this very specific thing has boggled the minds of everyone, even The Gods

### Team Hurt Michael (🍷)

The Epic Tragedy Team was started when the cover art for Kevin & Abi and the Secret of the Golden Pendant was revealed, and Michael was seen in the bottom left corner about to drink something red and looking sad. Elsewhere on the cover, a red liquid seemed to be a cause of death (we now know it was representative of poison). Some then speculated that Michael would drink poison in an attempt to commit suicide, so "Team Epic Tragedy" was formed by people who wanted to see Michael die for the sake of the tragedy, some even suggesting that members of the August Sky Playhouse would find him just after and try desperately to save him. The movement was created and supported mostly by the user Thea, and more sadistic users followed.

### Team Protect Michael (💪)

The Protect Michael Team was started when the Epic Tragedy Team was created and people who were angered and saddened by the attempts to make poor Michael even sadder. The team wanted to have Michael be happy for once. and the movement was created by Fayzart who vehemently defended Michael and wanted him to live and have his tragic life turned around.

In the end, this team won the battle, as Michael was saved from suicide because Han-Mi stopped him and told him that Jill was still alive.

### Mary Legs Factions (🕷)

Due to the rampant debate about how many legs Mary has, there are multiple factions for the numerous theories about said topic. The images are used for "emoji roles" on the server that add a lovely custom Mary to a user's name

For more information, see the "Leg Debate" section on the page for Mary.

#### Six Legged Mary Faction ()

The Six Legged Mary Faction was started because of drama over the amount of legs Mary has, and for people who believed that Mary had 6 legs, the movement was started by multiple.

#### Eight Legged Mary Faction ()

The Eight Legged Mary Faction was started by NADS users who believe that Mary has 8 legs, rather than the 6 on the cover. The effort was started and supported by Wormy.

#### Ten Legged Mary Faction ()

The Ten Legged Mary Faction was started when due to the intense arguments over the amount of legs Mary had, the cover artist for The Ballad of Lost Hollow albums, Sarah DeBuck made an alternative cover and explained that Mary has 10 legs.

#### Seven Legged Mary Faction ()

The Seven Legged Mary Faction was started because the idea of Mary being lopsided is considered very funny.

#### Two Legged Mary Faction ()

The Two Legged Mary Faction was started because of people throwing out funny ideas about Mary's legs. The idea here is that Mary didn't want to change her number of legs from when she was a human.

#### One Legged Mary Faction ()

The One Legged Mary Faction was started because of people throwing out funny ideas about Mary's legs. The idea here is that Mary pogo bounces on her one leg.

#### No Legged Mary Faction ()

The No Legged Mary Faction was started because of people throwing out funny ideas about Mary's legs. The idea here is that Mary rolls around everywhere. vroom vroom.

#### Splizard Mary Faction ()

The Splizard Mary Faction was started when Theo suggested that Mary is a lizard and that Han-Mi needs glasses. Along with this, Helen and Henry do not know the difference between a lizard and a spider and Hank believes they are all horses.

You cannot get any more information on this anywhere.

#### Marypede Faction ()

The Marypede Faction (also referred to as Centipary) was started when Vadvivon made a drawing of Mary as a centipede with a sun as to make PixelWayve angry, due to her firm stance on the sun not existing and Mary having 6 legs. This was then made into an emoji and role with the description "there is no logic for this one it only exists to bully pixelwayve".

#### Anti-Mary Faction ()

The Anti-Mary Faction was started after all the Mary leg roles and emojis were created, and Eurydice suggested and Anti-Mary emoji. The cult is both for people who are against the leg debate or just against Mary in general.

### No Sun Society ()

The No Sun Society was started by users who theorized that the Sun doesn't exist, it was started, partially unintentionally, by a user named BahamutLithp after starting the Sun Conspiracy. The emoji is a server emoji

For more information, see The Sun.

### Sun Society (☀)

The Sun Society was started by people who believe in the existence of the sun.

For more information, see The Sun.

### Witch Bitch Division (🔮)

The Witch Bitch Division was started by the user Tea, as the title implies, it is for Witchy people and *also* people who love Agatha and her other witch descendants, such as Abi.

### Arson Guild (🔥)

The Arson Guild was started because NADS really loves to commit arson on the server (perhaps a concerning amount). The guild is co-parented by Pumpkin and fellow user Thea. Arson sessions are usually quite brief, as to not spam the chat and usually include use of fire emojis, use of a custom discord emoji and/or sticker that is a GIF of fire called "yesfire", and on occasion sharing pictures of fire pits.

It should be noted that the Shaperaverse Wiki does not condone commit arson in real life as it is illegal.

### Tiger Association (🐯)

The Tiger Association was started by NADS user Flora Longtail, to quote their words "Tigers are grrrrrrreat"

### Shrimp Enclave (🦐)

The Shrimp Enclave was started when the user Rye Bread Witch posted a picture of her hand as a shrimp leg. Them and another member, Crimes/Rosie then had the idea to make shrimp into it's own fan group. The "enclave" grew to an impressive amount, with many prominent members adding a shrimp emoji to their name

It should be noted that the word "enclave" doesn't actually make sense for this context, but it is the name used for shrimp fans

### Strawberry Theft Organization (🍓)

The Strawberry Theft Organization was started by user Flora Longtail, one day they announced the new organization and while it didn't catch on quite as much as the Shirmp Enclave, it did indeed gain a fair amount of members.

### Insomniacs United (🌙)

Insomniacs United was started by Thea for all the insomniacs and night owls of **NADS**, it apparently functions as an insurance fund.

### Possum Department (♻)

The Possum Department was started by the user Eazy. on April 1st, 2021, NADS replaced the #posi-vibes channel (for positive images and vibes) with #possum-vibes with pictures of possums diligently added months in advance while the channel was hidden. People felt somewhat attached to this channel and thus used this department to commemerate it

According to Eazy, Possums are pro-recycling (hence the emoji) and the department houses rats and raccoons as well. The department also apparently has no structure and regularly partakes in 'screaming into the void' and as such is complete anarchy.

### Kneecap Stealing Incorporated (🦵)

Kneecap Stealing Icorporated was started by NADS users Theo, Niko, and other friends of these two. The company was started when Theo said he wanted to make his own group, and suggested the "niko niko's knees" corporation. The group was made, and Niko added a leg emoji to their username.

### BB Copper Squad (👮‍♂️)

The BB Copper Squad began when one average NADS discussion got a bit out of hand. Kerttu Aarnipuu decided that as president of the world she would "outlaw all beans except toe beans". Later, Fireknight asked what beans Zakle used in his coffee. Crimes/Rosie put forth the proposal of pinto beans and Fireknight tried to arrest her for it. She called Fireknight a "Bitch Boy Copper", so Fireknight changed his name to that. Then, in an attempt to make more work for the editor of this page, Silent Iris, Mage wanted people to make new fan groups (yes, this is going to get a bit meta, but you listen to the Shaperaverse so you can handle this.). Fireknight suggested the BB Copper Squad, but made clear that despite creating it he was not a part of it as to distance himself from these strange fanclubs

### Ace Council

The Ace Council was started when PixelWayve made a gif emoji for the server of various pride flag heart icons flashing in a loop. User Mage then noted that she forgot the Asexual Flag. The Ace Council was then started, in which the asexual members would attempt to claim things as canon without PixelWayve telling them they were wrong or spouting nonsense. PixelWayve then revealed that she herself identified as asexual, in which she was then banned from the council. The emoji was fixed to include the ace flag, however PixelWayve remained banned from the council. PixelWayve was reinstated into the council on July 9, 2021, which was described as an honor.

Whether or not the Ace Council has ever decided or "canonized" (canonize in this context means to make a claim and pretend it is true despite Paul Shapera's own words) anything is debatable. Some would argue that the members of the council disagree on every matter they discuss, preventing anything from being "canonized"

### Trans Council (🥚)

The Trans Council was started when Crimes/Rosie heard about the Ace Council and wanted to make her own version of it.

The use of an egg as the emoji is because the term "egg" is used in the transgender community to refer to either someone who hasn't realized they aren't their assigned gender, a young transgender person, or a closeted transgender person.

### Keets Appreciation Society (🌻)

The Keets Appeciation Society was started by fans who loved the singer Kerttu Aarnipuu who sang on multiple albums and wanted to make a fan group for her, Kerttu did not ask for this, nor did she want it, but it happened anyway because Kerttu added a sunflower to her username because she liked it, and it was turned into a symbol. She swapped it out for a sparkles emoji, seemingly just because she liked it.

### Pumpkin Appreciation Society (🎃)

The Pumpkin Appreciation Society was started due to people liking singer and NADS admin Marjolein Nijsten and wanting to make an appreciation society for her, Pumpkin was at first confused, but then liked the idea and added the pumpkin emoji to her username after being told she was allowed to join her own appreciation society.

### Very Special and Important People Club

VSIAC was started when Psyche Chimere came on to the server and declared that everyone on it was part of VSIAC (Very Special and Important Club). She did this by popping by the server and saying "hello you are all in my club now". The unanimous response was "thank you Psyche". No matter what, there is no way anyone can ever leave this club, but no one really minds, we all love Psyche anyway.

All NADS members are part of this club, thus it does not need an emoji. It is for special and important people and all of NADS is special and Important, even if you leave the server you can never leave this club. ever.