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The Room Beneath New Albion (place)

art by MaskingTape

This article is about the location. For the album, see The Room Beneath New Albion. For the song, see The Room.

The Room Beneath New Albion is a location in the tunnels beneath New Albion. The room is built of technology capable of maintaining the processing of thirty AIs, and later became the home for other cyber creatures.

## History

The Room was created by Alice in *The Room Beneath New Albion*. The AIs required a location to escape to, as the government had them locked inside a warehouse after they returned from Elysium. The AIs sent a message to Alice's tribe saying they were angels who had a special task, and they gave Alice a Sandy Drug. The drug transported Alice to the steampunk era, and allowed the AIs to communicate with Alice and give her instructions on how to build the room. Alice spent years building the room out of bootleg Doll parts, and died shortly after she building the room. To thank Alice for her service, the AIs promised to protect the Albino Tribe who also lived in the underground beneath New Albion.

The AIs continued to live in the tunnels and corridors beneath the city. The Room is the location for Helen and Mary's discussion in *The Grand Cyberpunk Gala of Gabriella Gadfly*.

After Hurl eliminated most of the AIs and the Room became the home to strange creatures and cyber shistocerca. The events of *The Forgotten Meme* begin here, as this is the location that the Meme came to consciousness, in a scrap of what had once been a great metallic spider.
You Wouldn't Believe What Kinds of Bacteria Reside in the Most Familiar of Places

"You Wouldn't Believe What Kinds of Bacteria Reside in the Most Familiar of Places" is the second track of The Forgotten Meme.

## Lyrics

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Far under the city lies a room where once, great AIs lived and conducted experiments and journeys into time and other dimensions. Though the AIs are gone now, most of them lying in scraps and pieces around the dark cavernous room, there are things that glow even now, and odd, otherworldly energies hanging silently in the air, leaks from doors never properly closed.

Thus it is that little silicon and metal creatures crawl about the floor and walls of this underworld, this after life of forlorn and neglected cyber information.

[CREATURES:]

Crawling in the black, little larva writhing, gnats

And bugs of metal, plastic, that live out our lives in the black

We're born and grow attract a mate of silicone and brass

And die and generations pass down in our twilight vast

Life in vast dark caverns black,

A twilight world we try to grasp

We wish and long, until at last

We decompose, our moment past

In our vast dark room of night a world of our own

Species made of broken parts wake and crawl and hope

In our realm of shades and echoes, love and fear and war

Play out in abandoned room beneath the city's shores
The Path From (Lost Hollow to New Albion)

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* Alternate Cover

**The Path From (Lost Hollow to New Albion)** is a 2017 track composed and produced by Paul Shapera as part of The Ballad of Lost Hollow.

It is a mainly instrumental track with some background dialogue by Uncle Raven. It serves as a filler between Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival and The Grand Cybepunk Gala of Gabriella Gadfly.

The track follows the cast being led by Uncle Raven through the underground tunnels from Lost Hollow to New Albion.

## Lyrics

*(We hear the journey between worlds, from Lost Hollow to New Albion. RAVEN accompanies our protagonists, and offers some occasional commentary along the way.)*

RAVEN: You know...

Everyone who lives long enough eventually becomes a sociopath.

You know, if your powers were to bloom bright enough, you could become a narrator, too.

Many who awake don't make it. Self-destruction, insanity, some get lost in little recursive sub-realities. Trust me, you do not want to end up like Mother. Of course, I knew her back when she was still Sarah McKiggin. Oh, nasty bit of business that was...

Kate is a rarity. Ones like her are the exception, not the rule.

Farewell, my dears. This is where I get off. We are in the tunnels somewhere beneath New Albion. You just keep going on ahead, just down there. It'll take you right to where the action is. Until next time, children.

## References

* Raven is discussing the eventual side effects of Flowering; the process wherein a posthuman awakens within a narrative. According to him, posthumans grow to a point where they see the lives of ordinary humans as something akin to fictional characters. Lloyd has also exhibited an attitude where the individual lives are only important when they serve the story or can be used to help other people flower. Some posthumans disagree however and continue respecting the individual lives of the humans they work around.

## Cover Art

* The original cover art, found on Bandcamp, is by Mo\_Ali
Trouble Begins

"Trouble Begins" is the second track of Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Golden Pendant

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Michael"

Oliver Marsh as "Kevin"

Kiera-Marie Somers as "Abi"

Kerttu Aarnipuu as "Ryvyr D Goblin"

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

In the city of New Albion, you know this bit by now

There's a pair of friends named Abi, who’s a witch and Kevin the mouse

Agatha and Sam were their grandparents but don't pay no mind to that, it’s late atompunk era we’re in today

They’re currently in Kevin’s cab, he drives it in the skull of a robot in the front seat, once again, nothing you need to know

They’re in the city center near a gala that's being held

And up here our story starts as they’re just cruising around

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

I've got a new joke.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Oh dear goddess no.

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

No, this one’s really good.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

It's not. They never are.

What if my catchphrase is-

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

So a guy walks into a doctors office.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

please stop

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

and he says "Doc, you gotta help me!"

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

I will literally pay you to stop right now.

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

"I wake up one morning and I think I'm a w-"...

*[Scream]*

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

Woah!

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

What was that?

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

Was that a scream?

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

That was a scream, oh my god look! Is that a goblin?

[RYVYR:]

Please excuse me sir's, I need your help

You are Abi and Kevin the mouse

At the Griffin's Tail, we drank one day

My name’s Ryvyr and I have a case

There's a gala at the club there

For a new line in the monorail

But a murder has just now occurred

There is someone dead, you must hurry sirs

[ABI:]

Oh no!

[KEVIN:]

Yay, a murder! I love a good murder mystery!

[ABI:]

Here, climb in my shirt pocket.

[RYVYR:]

Come on, it's this club over here.

[MICHAEL:]

Ryvyr is a goblin, we met her once before

And across this street’s this club and they walk inside the door

It's all decked out, some big rich fancy party’s being held

The upper class is dressed up, letting loose and getting down.
The Show No One Saw

"The Show No One Saw" is the sixth track of the third act of The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness, and the nineteenth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[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 broke down the last mile

And the one time they smiled

Was when the sets were torn down and on fire

Come cry for the play

The bad lines and bad taste

There’s nothing here that you wanted anyway

Come cry for the play

The sad lives and the waste

It’s the show here that no one saw anyway

What a show you missed, they say

The band is done and left the stage

They played a gig where no one went

Their final one, they won’t play again

There’s no cat calls or fans

The one time that they danced

Was when the song stopped and silence began

Come cry for the play

The bad lines and bad taste

There’s nothing here that you wanted anyway

Come cry for the play

The sad lives and the waste

It’s the show here that no one saw anyway

[LEE:] (spoken)

Rachael, where are you going? You can't leave here! Those creatures are monsters, they're vicious. Rachael stop, you have to come back. Where are you going? You cannot go there, they'll kill you. They'll kill you! Stop, somebody stop her! Rachael, you have to get back here now! If you go out, you will die. They all die. Brutally. Just come back. Stop. Stop! Rachael!

[RACHAEL:]

Come, come get me

Come get me

Come, come get me

Come get me

Come cry for the play

The sad lives and bad taste

There’s nothing here that you wanted anyway

Come cry for the play

The sad lives and the waste

It’s the show here that no one saw anyway
Underture

**Underture** is the tenth and final track of Caravan. It was originally called *Recursion*.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Raven", "Alex" and "Kate"

## Lyrics

[RAVEN:]

And so, my friends, the spell is done

The curtains are all closed

Another story's purchased

By another neon rose

We invite you all here back next week

To this locality

To have a heaping helping of our...

Hospitality

Sit down a spell.

Take your shoes off.

[???] Hahaha!

[KATE:] *(spoken)*

I don't know if getting back is even an option.

Every couple of weeks, another caravan rolls by,

and I hop on for a while, but it never seems to get

anywhere.

I don't even know that I want it to.

[ALEX:] *(spoken)*

Finally, the rift opened.

It took me a while to reorient myself, but once I did,

I figured [???]

However, a couple of weeks later, it reopened, and

took me, and it's gone on like that ever since.

[ALEX & KATE:]

I believe the theater was an illusion.

Only the performance was real.
Wormy

art by Wormy

Wormy is a minor character in Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret, who operates at a club called The Balley.

He is the sleekest pimp in all of New Albion underground. He's got the finest bitches in all of New Albion. He's got tall bitches, short bitches, skinny and thick bitches, odd bitches, robo bitches, and bitches with legs for days.

He's been hustlin' and bustlin' so long that even Raven thinks his mind is gone.

In the Helen's Hell Hags adventures, Wormy is mentioned to be the employer of Maisel and Alyssa, although he is no longer Maisel's boss, and Maisel seems to have beef with him and Alyssa.

Paul made a song parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio named "Wormy's Paradise", which is a one-minute jingle about Wormy's operations at The Balley.
Xiao-Li Winters (Song)

This article is about the song from Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun. For the character, see Xiao-Li Winters.

**Xiao-Li Winters** is the first track of Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun.

## Lyrics

Xiao-Li:

For a girl, the key in life will be her marriage, this is true

So the wealth can be ensured on down her line

You can't get richer than my husband, so I guess I've won

And my son an angel, such the perfect life

I had boy in college, he was poor, we were in love

But in the student uprise, both of us in jail

My family said they'd see that he remained there, or was free

If by fall I wore their chosen bridal veil

My happiness instilled by mommy's little pills

My one delight in life aside from my son, why

Must Kem always brood, bleak and sad

He sits before that screen and never smiles at me

How I'd give all I have to make him grin again

Just one smile is all that I ask

Joy it will come one day in Elysium

'Til then we endure as we must

All our duties and cares, lonesome burdens we bear

'Til Elysium

My husband is cold one, business burdens fill his head

He and Kem don't see me here, I can attest

The online school he's built has cost a fortune and then some

And Kem the guinea pig on which it rests

My son I know is sad, a lonely life he has

You'll smile, I say, when you see Elysium

And now he will know what it's like

We do our duty 'til one day too many pills

My Kem has been released, in heaven we will meet

When soon I am free of this life

Joy it will come one day in Elysium

'Til then we endure as we must

All our duties and cares, lonesome burdens we bear

'Til Elysium
The Balley A-Go-Go

**The Balley A-Go-Go** is the third track of Nash Harding and the Secret of the Twisted Tower. It was released as a teaser on YouTube on September 12th, 2020.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Michael" and "Voodoopunks"

Lauren Osborn as chorus vocals

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

Now sure Nash is a bit bothered by his memory being crap

But he's decided he don't care about the future or the past

He's embraced the whole just live in this here moment kinda code

He just wants to party at the club each night: let it all go

‘Cause if you think these clubs where the hippies come

To drink coffee all day long are colourful and wild

Man, just wait till the sun goes down

‘Cause at night these beatniks party like boy you can't believe

It's a psychedelic spaceship to a cosmic future dream

[VOODOOPUNKS]:

Dollay, oh we come dollay

Oh dollay, oh we come dollay

Dollay, oh we come dollay

Oh dollay, oh we come dollay

Dollay, oh we come dollay

Oh dollay oh we come dollay

Dollay, oh we come dollay

Oh dollay oh we cooome doollaay

The cosmological wheel the ontological feel

Is set to turn and so emergent cognizance will reveal

The neurological gears of our terrestrial spheres

Emanate to the next state of consciousness up from here

The revolution of evolution

Kiss the bliss the psychedelic solution

The execution of absolution

Retrain your brain the psychedelic solution

Telluric consciousness as the sixth circuit will have

Of imprinted gravitational reality maps

Humankind will expand to meta programming and

The conintelligence of rapture manifests here at hand

The revolution of evolution

Kiss the bliss the psychedelic solution

The execution of absolution

Retrain your brain the psychedelic solution

The seventh circuit, the neurogenic circuit, allows access to the genetic memory contained in DNA

It is connected to memories of past lives, the akashic records, and the collective unconscious

It allows for an essential immortality in humans

The eighth circuit, the psychoatonomous circuit, is concerned with quantum consciousness and non local awareness and post physical space migration

It is a metaphysiologcal contellegiance within the quantum projection [reach?]

It allows access to a intergalactic form of consciousness outside of space time and the constraints of relativity

The graduation of cognitation celebrates the psychedelic migration

The immimentation of emanation celebrate the psychedelic migration

The revolution of evolution

Kiss the bliss the psychedelic solution

The execution of absolution

Retrain your brain the psychedelic solution
Soddan Reprise

**Soddan Reprise** is the second track of the second act of A Pirate's Tale, and the tenth track overall.

## Performers

Ray Cygrymus as "Sebastian"

Zanna Fredland as "Cassandra"

Hope Anthony, Catherine Kolos, Josh Reardon and Tim Tolbert as the ensemble

## Lyrics

[SEBASTIAN:]

My friends, at last, the time is nigh

To take our place, to rise or die

Forgotten.

[CASSANDRA:]

The game is on and pieces set.

The board is ours. Beneath our boots,

Betrodden.

[SEBASTIAN:]

Minions who no longer bow.

[CASSANDRA:]

The servants who no longer cower

[BOTH:]

The time is now to wipe the slate. Be gone, then

[CASSANDRA:]

The day is here.

[SEBASTIAN:]

Our will is clear

[BOTH:]

And your fate comes a callin’!

You’ve fallen

In Soddan.

[ALL:]

There’s a pit, the blackest hole

The darkest hell

[CASSANDRA:]

Where damned men fall.

[ALL:]

There’s a pit beneath the drowned

The blackest hole in ocean’s ground

And I will cast you down.
The Hall of Mirrors

"The Hall of Mirrors" is the fifth track of Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival.

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as "The Floozies"

Paul Shapera as "Raven"

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

## Lyrics

[FLOOZIES:]

Whacha wanna do, Raven baby?

Whacha wanna do with these chumps?

Ya wanna get some time with the lady?

Ya want we should give 'em the dump?

[RAVEN:]

The time has come for me and Miss Helen here to be alone

Have a little date night, take her to the show

These three, take to the hall of mirrors, the pathology maze

They'll get lost in their own sadness for at least a couple days

[HAN-MI:]

I'm a lost, lost child

I'm a lost, I’m a lone, long lost child

Forgotten what I seek

A ghost upon the street

I'm a lost, lost child

I'm a lost, lost child

Swallowed whole by the wild

The soft embrace and song

Oh my memory of it’s gone

I'm a lost, lost child

The pain of the world

And the cages made of time

The loss and the tears

And the path you don't find

Lost out in the night

Left out in the wild

With the young girl's smile

She's a lost, lost child

I'm a lost, lost child

I'm a lost, I’m a lone, long lost child

An old picture of home

That was burned down long ago

I'm a lost, lost child
The Hippiepunk Overture

**"The Hippiepunk Overture"** is the first track of Nash Harding and the Secret of the Twisted Tower.

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

In the city of new albion after the civil war was won

The rebels now victorious, a golden age begun

The voodoopunks rejoiced, it was all groovy peace and love

As they set out to build the future, a new tech boom now had come

Arcadia Corp was their flagship, the future it would bring

New science, new frontiers, experiments with stuff you won’t believe

It’s peace, love, dope, and hippies, even district tensions start to ebb

Cause everybody’s hooked on them papaver cigarettes

There’s a kid who goes by Nash and we’ll meet him in just a sec

He don’t remember nothing past a few months ago and yet

Arcadia Corp they want him, they’re looking hard for him they say

They’re putting this fresh young agent name of Amber on the case

[VOODOOPUNKS]

Dollay oh oh dollay oh oh dollay oh oh dollay oh oh

Dollay, dollay oh oh

(dollays repeat in the background as the Arcadia Recruiters start speaking)

[Arcadia Recruiter 1]

Hey all you groovy hip cats

The revolution has been won and a new age has come

The flower power has arrive to shower

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

The future has never looked brighter and we here at Arcadia Corp are going to bring it about

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

Empower the glorious children of the golden dolls

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

We're experiencing nothing less than a technological explosion led by our incredible scientific researchers

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

Man we're getting into the most far out things you've ever seen and dreamed

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

Into the most innovative areas ever undertaken by mankind

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

A psychedelic wonderland full of magic is manifested now

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

Things we've been dreaming about in past generations

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

We're all going to be part of it, whatever the next step of evolution is

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

Things we've been dreaming about in past generations...

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

The beautiful cosmic thing we're all moving forward and

[Arcadia Recruiter 2] (overlapping)

The narrative fabric...

[Arcadia Recruiter 1] (overlapping)

Arcadia is going to lead us into a new age...

[VOODOOPUNKS]

Dollay, dollay oh oh
The House of Children

"The House of Children" is the fifth track of Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries

## Lyrics

The house loved the presence of children. They were the only thing that could satiate its deep

ever malingering loneliness. It already had two children, when it appeared down the street from

Emma. The townspeople eyed it carefully, and waited. Emma, and her friend Conner were

curious about that old house that just appeared. It had a lovely garden, and one day while

playing in its yard, they met the two children already living inside. Eventually they were invited in

to eat. And on the dining room table was a wonderful feast of every food a child could want.

They ate ravenously, then were shown to an upstairs bedroom where they fell asleep. The

house having happily gained two more children moved to another street across town, taking

Emma and Conner forever with.

Little by little the house collected a menagerie of bright children. They ran about playing games,

screeching eating and always obeying the one cardinal rule the house imposed upon them:

never open the basement door.

The townspeople watched the house carefully, and waited. Emma learned all kinds of games

would often take care of the younger children. Some nights, when the others were asleep, she

eyed the basement door carefully, and waited.

The primal forces that propel life can only be held at bay for so long, thus it was inevitable, that

someone would open the basement door. Someone always did. This time, it was Emma.

The basement wasn’t the funland the rest of the house was. The basement was... cool. They

started hanging out down there. The changes happened fast. Conner began looking at Emma

differently, furtive glances, size, growths, curves, crushes, eventually cries of passion and cries of

rage and sorrow. Within two weeks, the children had become wolves. The wolves howled and

prowled and cannot be contained, and they broke through the cellar doors and ran out into the

night air.

When the townspeople heard about the wolves, a cheer went up through the town. The great

hunt had begun, and they grabbed their guns, and headed into the woods.

Three days later the last wolf alive crept unseen back into the house. It was Emma- she had

been shot twice, she was bleeding and whimpering. She was also pregnant. She crawled her

way to an upstairs bedroom where she lay. She gave birth to two human babies and died.

The house loved the presence of children, they were the only thing that could satiate its deep, ever malingering loneliness. It already had 2 children when it appeared down the street from Vicky.
Taken

"Taken" is the first track of the first act of Janissary, and the first track of the album overall.

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as Brija

Liel Bar-Z as Danijela

## Lyrics

[BRIJA:]

This tale not all will attend

For some, here the story ends

In a spot no one else knows

The spot their heart just broke

And not all heals again

The sun late in the day

In soft light the bedroom paints

For hours now she's been

Beside this empty bed

And tears and tears cascade

This tale not all will attend

For some right here the story ends

[DANIJELA:]

Lay my body down

Lay me in the cold, dark ground

Cover me with dirt and stone and spread some roses 'round

If years and years it takes

There's no need for us to wait

Since the day the lights inside went out

Lay my body down

Lay me in the cold, dark ground

Kiss me once and tell me sweet goodnight

Just like I've always done for my baby who is gone

Taken so, so far now from my sight

Lay my body down

Lay me in the cold dark ground

Too many days to wake and walk about

A ghost lost in the grind, just marking out my time

Since the day the light inside went out

Lay, lay my body down

I cannot bear this, my heart is ripped on out

My baby, my baby she is gone

Today's the day the light inside went out
The Carousel

"The Carousel" is the third track of Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Raven" and "Hank"

Lauren Osborn as "Miss Helen"

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

Rhys Owen as "Henry"

## Lyrics

[RAVEN:]

The carousel goes 'round, forever whirling

King becomes the beggar, becomes the clown

And when the clown, he weeps

The crowd all come then to their feet

And applaud him as he falls the long way down

Long ago the sounds of crowds and madness

Howled throughout the long and wild eve

What I wouldn't spend

To hear those sounds again

And oh then, what a sweet sound that would be

Oh then, what a sweet sound that would be

We used to be a legend spoke with reverence

Inebriates would worship at our feet

The place they'd long to see

To embrace all their extremes

Oh then, what a sweet sound that would be

I cannot tell how long we have been trapped here

And now the way out lands here at my feet

Another whirl around, another game, another clown

One quick cut and sleep the dreamless sleep

One quick cut, how simple it would be

[HELEN:]

Where do you go now

When all that you love

And all of your world is broken

All of it's gone

All that you lived for

All you believed and you hoped

Where do you go when it's over

From where your heart broke

Where is my sister?

She came through this way

She's all that I've left

She's all that I got

She's all that remains

[HANK:]

There's a place for us, I know

Past this strange and awful show

Past this mad land and these dogs upon our throats

There's a place for us, I swear

If I only knew just where

Somewhere far away we'll find another home

All I've left is just this gun

And I will take out anyone

Who comes to take or harm you, this I know

[HAN-MI:]

This carnival is all we have to run to

This nut is all we have help us through

The voice who froze our town

Is coming for us now

We're all we have to help ourselves on through

[HENRY:]

Where are we going

And why even try?

They'll gut you and smile and gut you some more

In a world made of lies

Clutching our memories

That are untrue at best

Lies and illusions and sadness and loss

These are all we have left

[RAVEN:]

Bring to me your pain, your bitter bondage

Bring to me the tears that cut your face

The lost here bid you come

Ah, dear Helen, my lost love

What a mad last bedlam we could make

One of you has got the gift, I’m certain

It must be you and you must be my queen

To see that one more time

Is almost worth staying alive

Oh then, what a sweet sound that could be
Time Door 1

"Time Door 1" is the sixth track of Kevin & Abi and the Secret of the Golden Pendant

## Performers

Kiera-Marie Somers as "Abi"

Oliver Marsh as "Kevin"

Paul Shapera as "Michael"

## Lyrics

[ABI:]

Tears come in the autumn

As loss comes to your door

And breaks you, but what saves you

Are old friends once more

[ABI, KEVIN:]

The child and the lovers

Fade on winter shore

And empty, is your heart yet

Old friends keep warm

Laying cross your lifetime

Holes across the floor

But I will catch you always

Old friends keep warm

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Where are we?

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

I think where are we is the question.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Oh my goodness! This is New Albion, but... It looks exactly like it did when I was a little girl.

[RYVYR:] *(spoken)*

Isn't that the Balley?

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Oh my god Kevin! Look who's going inside!

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

Uh... weird people?

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Those are Voodopunks, I haven't seen a Voodopunk since I was a little girl!

[RYVYR:] *(spoken)*

Yeah... I have mixed thoughts about them.

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

Wow, they really did dress like this.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

Yeah, It was an odd time for fashion.

[RYVYR] *(spoken)*

It was the best time for fashion.

*[Scream]*

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

There we go.

[ABI:] *(spoken)*

That came from the Balley.

[KEVIN:] *(spoken)*

Alright, let's go to the Balley.

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

So Kevin, Abi and Ryvyr have all gone back in time

To somewheres abouts 20 years ago, when the Voodoopunks were flyin’

Their partying at the Balley, bout a week before they leave

And look who’s stepped up to the mic, a 17 year old, named... Lee.
Voodoopunk (Song)

"Voodoopunk" is the third track of the third act of The Dolls of New Albion, and the fourteenth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[AMELIA, VOODOOPUNKS:]

Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey
Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey

[VOODOOPUNKS:]

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

[AMELIA:]

Anwen open, Anwen open to me
Anwen open, come oh Sidhe

[VOODOOPUNKS:]

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

[AMELIA, VOODOOPUNKS:]

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

[VOODOOPUNKS:]

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

[AMELIA:]

Anwen open, Anwen open to me
Anwen open, come oh Sidhe

[VOODOOPUNKS:]

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

The Sidhe are coming over
The Sidhe are pass back over
The Sidhe will come back over
Doll-ay doll-ay

[AMELIA, VOODOOPUNKS:]

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

[VOODOOPUNKS:]

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

[AMELIA, VOODOOPUNKS:]

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay
Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey
Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey

Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey
Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh
A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey
Shiejmdh

"Shiejmdh" ("Xandoria") is the second track of the second act of The Lost Fairy, and the fifth track of the album overall.

## Performers

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

Paul Shapera as "Xandorian Chorus"

## Lyrics

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Xandoria had for some time been unresponsive to outside inquiries. Strange and perplexing rumors circulated about bizarre things that were happening inside. The few reports that had emerged made no sense, speaking of indescribable changes occurring to both the denizens and nature itself.

[XANDORIAN CHORUS:]

Philosophers and science analysts and priests

Have argued and debated and may not agree

When separating nature, magic and technology

Where the line may be, that line may be

Negation and obliteration of that line

Is our credo, manifesto to which we’re resigned

We are changing into something man has never seen

We are heading towards the singularity

We’re tinkering with things that some might cause some unease

We’re refurbishing some physics and biology

Renovating bits of nature and there's some who see

Blasphemy, a bit of blasphemy

A blowtorch to the fabric of reality

Using nature, magic, science and technology

We are changing into something man has never seen

The singularity, the singularity

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Disturbed and uneasy, the mayor nevertheless pressed on until she finally arrived for council with the surreal colony’s current leader, the forgotten meme.
The Ballad of the Gambler and the Monk

"The Ballad of the Gambler and the Monk" is the first track of the fourth act of The Dolls of New Albion, and the nineteenth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[NARRATOR:]

You remember at the start, the Gambler and the Monk played cards?

Years before, a Monk and Gambler embarked

On a long trek right through the great lands of the North

They had a debate about God, chance, and fate

And agreed it be settled through just one card game

Day after day, they sat there and they played

As the weeks and the days and the months passed away

Travelers came in just to watch and drink gin

And bet on which one would eventually win

As a whole town was then slowly built round them

The Gambler's pot rose and the Monk’s pot went down

And thus came to pass, the final hand came at last

But before it was played, the Gambler’s heart, it gave way

He hollered and cried right out ‘fore he died

A curse from his lungs: the game was not done

He swore they’d be back to finish at last

And fist to the sky the Gambler died
The Voodoopunks

This article is about the song from The New Albion Radio Hour. For the religious movement, see Voodoopunk. For the song from The Dolls of New Albion, see Voodoopunk (Song).

"The Voodoopunks" is the eighth track of the second act of The New Albion Radio Hour, and the fourteenth track of the album overall.

## Performers

#### The New Albion Cabaret

Courtney Ellis as "Jacqueline O'Brien"

Lauren Osborn as Voodoopunk Chorus

Oliver Marsh as Voodoopunk Chorus

Jessica Singer as Voodoopunk Chorus

## Lyrics

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

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

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come to play

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

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come to play

[JACKIE:]

All one, tonight we call, spirits come
All one, tonight we call, spirits come

Oh no Policeman you can be the vessel
Spirits come and they take possession
They bring us songs from Elysian Night
They sing songs, make you lose your mind

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh
Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come to play

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come to play

[JACKIE:]

All one, tonight we call, spirits come
All one, tonight we call, spirits come

Oh Policeman we collect these songs
Brought from the dead and we sing along
All who hear, they sing and cry
It takes control, you lose your mind

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh
Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh

[JACKIE:]

All can, tonight we call spirits dance
Policeman, tonight you’re the vessel and
I promise you we’ll make you a new man

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

I promise you we’ll make you a new man

[JACKIE:]

I promise you we’ll make you a new man

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

I promise you we’ll make you a new man

[JACKIE:]

Policeman, years of dead we call
We find the songs that they bring us all
The ones that no one can deny
The ones that make you lose your mind

The ones that though you’ve never heard
Make you sing and know each word
Policeman, it is time you know
The spirit comes and now you go

[VOODOOPUNK CHORUS:]

Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh
Dollay, dollay oh
Dollay, dollay oh oh

Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come dollay
Dollay oh oh we come to play

Mortus re-de-unte ad nos
Reditum ad can-ta-re
Mortus re-de-unte ad nos
Reditum ad sal-ta-re
The Balley (Katy Shaw)

This article is about the song from Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret. For the club, see The Balley.

"The Balley" is the third track of Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret.

## Performers

Candice Price as Katy Shaw

Kerttu Aarnipuu as Sheila

Marjolein Nijsten as Police Officer

## Lyrics

[KATY:]

The joint is set to jump, the band is warmed on up

The crowd is getting juiced, getting loose enough

Fear and dread gets parties fed

When your ticket might be up

The men, they all pretend that they’re a big deal but

They're shady and the ladies know what is what

The beat it thumps, the show lights up

All the Jack and Jills go jump

Me and Sheila wheelin', dealin', case the place

Sippin’ hooch, got dough to make

The Dutchman's got some stuff to shake

We schmooze and booze and trade

Sheila stuns, my heart is shot

Her boss the cigarette girl’s got

Agendas that I just cannot

Players play and plot

I got a sense of doom that I can never shake

Like walls closin' in, trouble's on its way

I live with it day after day

All the shade I cannot face

But at night when the tunes and the groove’s just right

I lift and sway and feel just fine

For just a moment all’s all right

Swingin' at the Balley tonight

[SHEILA:] *(spoken)*

Wormy’s come into some cash and is looking to buy. Let’s head over.

[KATY:] *(spoken)*

I heard his brother got nicked by the fuzz. They're pickin' up all the junkies lately.

[SHEILA:] *(spoken)*

Nah, I heard it’s just the tan san druggies they’re scoopin'. Come on.

[KATY:] *(spoken)*

Im in, I - I just gotta.. I just gotta feed the monkey. The shakes is coming. I’m headin' to the fire escape, I’ll meet you at Wormy’s table in 10.

[SHEILA:] *(spoken)*

Just keep it light, we still got all night.

[KATY:] *(spoken)*

Don't worry, I got ya.

[POLICE:]

On the day we come it’s over

Everybody here against the wall

This is a raid so be compliant

We’ve got a list of names, we want them all

Please show your ID when we search you

If you don't have it then you’re coming in

And if you try to run we’ll shoot you

Just do your duty as good citizens
The Silver Key

Cover by Buckner Sutter

**The Silver Key** is a collaborative album by Paul Shapera and Matthew Broyles. The album is a musical adaptation of some of the stories by H.P. Lovecraft. It is the first album in the Ah Pook Duology.

## Cast

Paul Shapera - vocals, keyboards, percussion

Matthew Broyles - vocals, guitar, bass, vocoder

Beth Brown - vocals on Experiences in the Dark

Buckner Sutter - Cover Art
Rachael

art by Vadvivon

This article is about the character from The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness, for the song see Rachael (Song)

**Rachael** is the main character to The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness, which is the only album where she appears. She is voiced by Lauren Osborn

## Biography

Rachael grew up in Miss Idle's Home for Orphaned Girls. When she was fifteen years old, she caught the eye of an Alderman who was running a Save Orphans Now campaign. She became pregnant and she refused to get rid of the child despite his demands.

The Alderman had her locked up in an insane asylum. She lost her child and was subjected to drugs and electric shocks. She occasionally heard a radio song in her head, which they used to justify her presence in the insane asylum. At some point in her time at the asylum, Rachael talked another woman, Kyla, out of suicide.

Using a swallowed key, Rachael escaped and met Connor, who gave her a tablet, The Mascot 3000. She goes to the Shopogopolis and hides there until The Mascot 3000 traces the source of the radio song in her head.

The song is coming from an abandoned Arcadia Corp factory. Connor is waiting for her there, and says that the tracing of the signal is proof that she is the one they have been waiting for.

Connor shows Rachael how to plug in the Mascot 3000 to replay a summary of past events, describing how the Voodoopunk pilgrims left New Albion to go to Elysium. The song she's hearing is being played by Lee, Connor's son, who is trapped in Elysium and is looking for a way to return.

Connor sends Rachael and The Mascot 3000 through the portal, and they become the first new arrivals in Elysium in two decades. Elysium is a hellish, intense, and psychedelic landscape, and the pilgrims there are constantly hunted by murderous creatures. Rachael is believed to be the reincarnation of Adrian, Lee's lover who had been lost eighteen years ago in a failed attempt to open a portal back to New Albion.

Rachael finds Lee. Rachael is eager to meet the lover whose songs she had heard in her head for so long, but Lee is disappointed that Rachael is not Adrian. Heartbroken, Rachael runs away into the Elysian landscape, ignoring the cries of danger.

The creatures do not harm Rachael, much to Lee's surprise. The Mascot 3000 describes the escape plan, and the tablet helps the pilgrims either reincarnate or become AIs. Lee volunteers to go last, and tries to make amends with Rachael for the earlier rejection, but with no one left to protect him, he is killed by the creatures.

The Creatures speak to Rachael, and through The Mascot 3000's translation, they tell Rachael that she has been to this place before. She is the latest reincarnation of the Savior Soul; previously she had arrived to Elysium after her previous lives as Priscilla McAlistair and Constance O'Brien. Rachael is accepted into Elysium, and she chooses to stay there.
Priscilla Contemplates

"Priscilla Contemplates" is the fourth track of the fourth act of The Dolls of New Albion, and the twenty-second track of the album overall. Due to a typo, the track was actually called "Prisiclla Contemplates" on listening and dowloading platforms.

## Lyrics

[PRISCILLA:]

Some speak about love in a sweet way
Enchantment, romance, and dizzy dream states
And some just wait and pace their cage

Some speak about love as a passion
As rapture and cries and sighs and gasps and
Some resign to yearn inside

These odes of tear stained banter and dew eyed candor
That wither in the world, the world that
Just deceives you and beats and bleeds you
And leaves lonely little girls

And some sacrifice anyway
And some sacrifice it all away
Ah, the fallen and the burdened
And the wreaths upon their grave
When they’re broken, there’s no assurance they made a better place

Some speak about love in a kind way
The friend that won’t leave and makes your day sane
As you bide and cringe and hide

Some wait for a stranger to touch and fill them
Some wait for the stranger who will kill them
And some just pace their lonely cage

With one dear doll who keeps you from crying but cries too
Silently inside
Some speak of love and kindness and clutch in blindness
And take and hoard and hide

And some sacrifice anyway
Some sacrifice it all away
Ah, the fallen and the burdened
And the wreaths upon their grave
When you’re broken, there’s no assurance you made a better place

Hello, police
Hello, police
A felony you need to see
The Posthuman Playhouse

Cover art by PixelWayve

**The Posthuman Playhouse** is a book written by Paul Shapera, and tells the origin stories of the August Sky Playhouse. It includes flowering backstories for the Post-Human characters (Michael, Jill, Asha, William, Lloyd Allen and David Adams/Raven) as well as the tale of the Gnome War.

It is a collection of the stories told in the Astonishing Tales of the Highly Improbable podcast in book form, without Lloyd Allen's intros and outros. Listening to the podcast is not necessary to read the book, or vice versa. Both mediums are meant to be standalone, and while there are minor details that may appear in one but not the other, fans can choose their preferred medium and will be able to enjoy the main story and know all the important events after reading/listening to only one.

## Table of Contents

* Part 1: Michael
* Part 2: Jill
* Part 3: Asha
* Part 4: William
* Part 5: The August Sky Playhouse
* Interlude: David Adams
* Part 6: The Gnome War
The Voodoopunks' Ascension

"The Voodoopunks' Ascension" is the sixth track of the second act of The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness, and the twelfth track of the album overall.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Lee"

Kayleigh McKnight as "Mascot 3000"

## Lyrics

[LEE:]

I wonder if my dad will even know I’m gone

[MASCOT 3000:]

And so the time has come

The Voodoopunks all gather up

The portal to Elysium is opened wide

And now they’re ready to march through

The VPs and our lovers too

To build a city bright and new

On the other side

[LEE:]

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

[LEE, ADRIAN:]

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

[LEE, ADRIAN, VOODOOPUNKS:]

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Oh we are coming over

Yes, we are come back over

Oh we are coming over

Doll-ay doll-ay

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Oh we are coming over

Yes, we are come back over

Oh we are coming over

Doll-ay doll-ay

Dollay oh oh we come dollay

Dollay oh oh we come dollay

Dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay dollay oh

Oh we are coming over

Yes, we are come back over

Oh we are coming over

Doll-ay doll-ay

Dollay oh oh we come dollay

Dollay oh oh we come dollay

Doll-ay, Doll-ay, oh, oh

Doll-ay, Doll-ay, oh, oh

Kyrie eleison

On the dream we’ve waited for

Kyrie eleison

On Elysium’s far shore

Kyrie eleison

To where Earth and Heaven meet

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay

Doll-ay doll-ay, hey

Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay

Doll-ay doll-ay, hey
The Lowdown 7

"The Lowdown 7" is the sixteenth track of Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as Michael

Candice Price as Katy Shaw

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

They take our dear girl Katy into a room with windows closed

And make her take the tansan, what I'd call a heroic dose

And sure enough, 10 minutes later she disappears, and hell

I swear all them government jackals all start just about peein' themselves

[KATY:]

A thousand little slaps

A thousand kicks when you are down

The stabs with daggers as

You just begin to turn around

The blithe offhand abasements

'Til there's tears upon your face

A thousand days that casually

Just make your poor heart break

A thousand little slanders

Slap the ice cream from your hand

When you were tear stained and defenceless

That's when the real insults began

The glee with which a thousand

Petty cruelties are adhered

Your defilement is something

They either love or do not care

I hope you bleed and rot in places

Where the sun will never shine

And the stench makes all around you

In disgust, recoil and cry

I hope you all start choking

'Til you beg for one last breath

I hope your lives all spiral

Into pestilence and death

You can all go burn in bonfires

Where you shriek in ghastly pain

And I hope I live to see it

I hope I get to light the flame

I am done being your victim

Watching all your heartless deeds

Your death, I hope's asphyxiation

On excrement in extreme

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

Well, this is all years ago now, in a place that's far away

A place about which other people like me have had lots more to say

Ah, there's been big ol' grand sagas and sweeping, epic regales

Some that have sat and heard it even say it's all just characters in tales

But each one of them characters is a world, each one's a big deal

Every passion and longing and heartbreak and doomed struggle, they’re all real

I - I just tell their stories; I cry every time

And drown myself here in, I know, much too much wine

But whether or not I wonder, you know, how much longer I can take

Telling these tales, so many stories and so much goddamn pain

All right, all right, but this tale’s about Katy, whose taken that damn drug

And finds herself transported to a prairie in another time and thus

She sees that damn folder that caused all this fool fuss

And so she goes ahead and just picks the thing on up

But then she starts walking 'cause she figures shes got

About two hours more 'til this drug wears itself on off

She aims to keep walking as far she can get

Far from that warehouse, the police, and the life that she has led
The Battle (Janissary)

This article is about the song from Janissary. For the song from A Pirate's Tale, see The Battle (Pirate's Tale)

"The Battle" is the fourth track of the second act of Janissary, and the ninth track of the album overall.

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as Brija

Paul Shapera as Bogdan

## Lyrics

[BRIJA:]

Thus it comes that one dark day

The Vizier leads a fierce cadre

Of men to ambush Bogdan's band

And kill them all to the last man

[BOGDAN:]

When the bodies hit the ground

Embers falling all around

And until now, you thought you've seen

The worst that it could be

But that's all over now

When the bodies hit the ground

When your friends are going down

The dream you fought and shared

Is fading as you stare

And it's all over now

When the bodies hit the ground