New Albion Tetralogy

* Original Covers
* Remastered Covers

Original covers by Stefan Paris
Remastered covers by PixelWayve

the New Albion Tetralogy is the first connected series by Paul Shapera, consisting of *The Dolls of New Albion**, The New Albion Radio Hour, The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness,* and *The Room Beneath New Albion**.*

 It tells the story of the major events in New Albion throughout the Steampunk, Dieselpunk, and Atompunk eras.

## The Dolls Of New Albion

*Main article*

The Dolls of New Albion is a four act opera that tells the story of four generations of The McAlistair family.

Act one follows Annabel McAlistair, a brilliant scientist who is working to raise the dead. She is successful in bringing back a previous deceased man, Jasper, and she putting his soul into a Doll. However, Jasper does not want to be there, so Annabelle destroys his doll form and hides her research notes in the attic and vows never to tell anyone.

Act two follows Annabelle's son, Edgar McAlistair. He had been dating a girl named Fay, but was heartbroken when he broke up with him. Edgar finds Annabella's formula for raising the dead, and uses it to build a business selling Dolls. Edgar's business is wildly successful, and he uses his power and influence to crush the man Fay left him for. He also brings back Fay's father, Jasper, as a doll, and uses that to blackmail Fay into marrying him.

Act three follows Edgar's son, Byron McAlistair. Byron rebels against the world his father built and helps form the Voodoopunk movement. Byron, Amelia, and the Voodoopunks run a campaign to elect Jasper as Mayor. The movement gains in popularity until Ameila commits suicide. The people grow angry and fearful of the dolls, and riots break out, resulting in a severe police crackdown and an implementation of a military state.

Act four follows Byron's daughter, Priscilla McAlistair. Owning a doll is a now a felony punishable by death, and Priscilla spends all of her time hidden away in her home. Jasper is her only company, and they pass the time by playing a never ending game of cards. Jasper loves Priscilla and is willing to continue his miserable existence for her sake. When Priscilla learns of how unhappy Jasper is, she calls the police to report a felony, so that he can be allowed to die. The police arrive and kill both Jasper and Priscilla. Soldier 7285 refused to shoot Priscilla, and her sacrifice prompted him to begin a rebellion to bring down the government, which would eventually escalate into a full fledged civil war.

## The New Albion Radio Hour

*Main Article*

The New Albion Radio Hour tells the story of three members of the O'Brien family, and how they determined the outcome of the civil war.

John O'Brien was recruited to be in the super soldier program after his wife was killed by rebels. His body was modified and enhanced with weaponry until he was half-man, half-machine. He constantly thinks about the daughter he left behind and feels guilt and sadness. He is ordered to a substation in The Crier's Boulevard, with clear instructions to dispose of everyone there, but he stops when he comes across his daughter, Constance.

Constance O'Brien is a thief who steals from men to support the women they abandoned. At a high class soiree, she steals a MCG and escapes when the police arrive looking for the device. She happens across her aunt Jacqueline O'Brien outside, who urges her to bring the MCG to the rebels underground. Constance is worried about her boyfriend Thomas, and leaves to go rescue him from the police. When she finds him, Thomas reveals that he is working with the police and asks Constance to hand the MCG over to him. She runs away to the underground, and Thomas follows her. Jackie finds Constance and Thomas in the underground, and she performs a Voodoopunk ritual to possess Thomas with spirits of the dead. Constance goes to hand the MCG to the rebels, and that's when her father arrives and they reunite.

Jackie and Thomas wait in the substation, and Jackie tells Thomas about her past girlfriend. The government soldiers, known as the Blood Red Dogs, were fighting the rebels when Jackie sabotaged their MCG and broadcasted Thomas' hypnotic chanting into the soldier's helmets. When Jackie and Thomas go up to the surface, they find that the only sane people are Constance and John, and the three family members unite. John and Jackie share regrets that they haven't kept in touch. Constance sings a song to dispel the effects of the first, much to the frustration of Lloyd Allen, the narrator who wanted an epic tragedy. In retaliation Lloyd threatens to kill Constance, but John and Jackie protect her from the awakening solders, both of them dying in the process. This battle does turn the tide of the war, and the Voodoopunks emerge again, and Constance and Thomas go to the mountains in the west.

## The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness

*Main Article*

The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness tells the story of the final chapter of the Voodoopunks.

Rachael has been trapped in an insane asylum for several years, to cover up the fact that she had a child with a city official. She can hear a love song in her head, a fact that was used to justify her incarceration. Rachael steals a key and escapes, and runs into Connor, who has been waiting for her and gives her an AI tablet, the Mascot 3000. Rachael and the Mascot 3000 hide and live in The Shopogopolis, until The Mascot 3000 reveals that the voice Rachael hears emits a traceable signal, which follow to an abandoned facility full of decrepit lab equipment. Connor is there, and he asks her to plug the Mascot 3000 into a console so that it can describe the past events that lead to the current situation.

A generation ago, The Voodoopunks were at the height of power, and at the forefront of scientific innovation. Connor had once been a Voodoopunk and used to be in love with Amber, until the day that she used their newborn child for scientific experiments to create an AI tablet. Connor became a member on the city council and had a son named Lee, while Amber rose in the ranks of the Voodoopunks and had a son named Adrian. The Voodoopunks were working on Project Elysium, but before they could complete it, Connor cut their funding. Adrian and Lee pretend that Lee is possessed to blackmail Connor, and he returns their funding. The Voodoopunks emigrate through a gateway and travel to Elysium, where they hope to live in paradise. Connor shuts down the machines behind them, so that they cannot return. He goes home to find Lee, unaware that his son had left with the Voodoopunks.

Elysium is not the expected utopia, instead it is a hellish psychedelic landscape full of horrific creatures that seek to purge them from the dimension. The pilgrims have been fighting for their lives for twenty years, greatly aided by the Blood Red Dogs. Lee is still alive and sometimes sings into the broadcast equipment. Connor opens the portal and sends Rachael and The Mascot 3000 through. The leader, Yasser Latef, greets them and describes that everyone that they had tried to send back through the portal had died, including Adrian. They suspect that Rachel could hear Lee's song because she is the reincarnation of Adrian. Rachael goes to meet Lee, eager to meet him after hearing his love songs, but he is disappointed that she is not Adrian and says he cannot love her. Heartbroken, Rachael runs off into Elysium, ignoring the warnings that she is going to be killed out there.

The Mascot 3000 describes her story, how she was Connor and Amber's child turned into an AI tablet, and compares her journey so far to the sci-fi magazines she likes to read. Lee and the survivors go to rescue Rachael, and are surprised when the creatures do not seem interested in attacking her. Mascot 3000 tells them that there is two options for them to escape: reincarnation or be uploaded into AI. Connor has requested that Lee become an AI, and he agrees but wants to be the last one. Before Lee can be uploaded, the creatures come and kill him. The creatures try to speak to Rachael, and the Mascot 3000 translates. A backwards message reveals that Adrian did not reincarnate into Rachael, Adrian reincarnated into Connor. The creatures say that they did not have any ill will against the Pilgrims, they were simply fulfilling their purpose as the guardians of Elysium. Rachael, however, has been to Elysium before, as she was the reincarnation of Priscilla McAlistair and Constance O'Brien who kept going back to save others. They offer her the opportunity to stay this time, which she accepts. Back in New Albion, Connor is waiting for Lee to arrive. Rachael and The Mascot 3000 stay in Elysium and travel together in the new dimension. Thirty of the survivors returned to New Albion as AIs, and the Voodoopunks never rise again.

## The Room Beneath New Albion

*Main Article*

The Room Beneath New Albion is the fourth album, a bonus act that takes place largely during the third act of The Dolls of New Albion.

In the past, an albino tribe received a message from angels, saying that they needed the princess Alice to perform a great task. Alice was given a Sandy Drug that transported her in time to the place where she was to perform the task, taking the drug every six hours to remain there. Meanwhile, Alexander is a gangster who is running a business selling bootleg Dolls. Alice's task involves her stealing pieces of the bootleg dolls, and when Alexander hears that it's an albino girl who is stealing his goods, he goes into the tunnels to hunt her down. He leaves behind orders that the rest of the mob is to come down into the tunnels and exterminate everything they find if they don't return in six hours.

Alexander and six of his toughest men find Alice, but she takes out his men with ease. Alice tells Alexander that when the rest of the mob comes down to the tunnels, the albino tribe will destroy them. Alice shows Alexander what she has been working on, a magnificent room, and she has finally completed the task. Alexander chooses to stay with Alice, allowing his empire to be destroyed when they enter the underground. He tells Alice to stop taking the drug, as it's killing her, but she wants to hear the angels one last time.

The angels are the thirty AI that were transported back from Elysium. Upon their return to New Albion, the city council locked them up in a warehouse. The AIs needed a place to transport themselves to in order to escape, and so they utilized time, and contacted Alice to build the room so that it would be ready by the time they arrived. As a thank you for her service, the AIs promise to protect the albino tribe.

## Characters and Credits

* Paul Shapera as Jasper, Lloyd Allen, Thomas, Lee, and Alexander
* Lauren Osborn as Annabel McAlistair, Fay, Amelia, Priscilla McAlistair, Constance O'Brien, Rachael, and Alice
* Jason Broderick as Edgar McAlistair, Byron McAllistair, and Soldier 7285
* Kayleigh McKnight as Kate (the Narrator) and theMascot 3000
* Courtney Ellis as Jacqueline O'Brien
* Oliver Marsh as Connor
* Darrell Whitney as Yasser Latef
* Cover art for all four albums by Stefan Paris