Transcendation (Song)

"Transcendation" is the third track of the first act of Slenderman, and the third track of the album overall.

## Performers

#### Cast Album

Paul Shapera as Timothy

Winston Wald as Infodump

Jeff Simms as Redneck Greek Chorus

## Lyrics

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

It was a massive multiplayer GPS RPG with an augmented reality paradigm distribution model STEAM, sci-fi crowd sourced open narrative backstory and we ran about, hung out, played the game and smoked some weed.

[TIMOTHY:]

Abed got the game was the first one to play

And showed us all how one late spring day

Soon every afternoon the five of us met

To play Transcend until sunset

When summertime came we played every day

Running round town with our phones in our face

Latices linked, game events unleashed

Beacons sparked, hunts embarked, racking up Prestige

James was the first to crash and burn

Dream from game he could not discern

First tics then shakes then wild eyed rage

He was pulled from school and then put away

We carried on though unbeknownst

We were playing without the app or our phones

Our brains rewired to see the game

But something saw us and came one day

[CHORUS:]

Let your world just fade away

Tune inside and play the game

[TIMOTHY:]

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Transcendation, yeah

[INFODUMP:] *(spoken)*

Hey, this is Infodump with 5 interesting things about the game Trancsendation. The hit game Transcendation, which has groups of players running all over towns across the world is said to be based on a combination of Enochian magick, chaos magick and Heka, an ancient Egyptian religion.

4: The spooky mystical bits were brought in by the game’s main architect Jordan Lane who has been quoted as saying ritual magick is the hacking code of reality.

3: Even spookier, both she and the game’s other founder, Sean Foucault, who was also her lover, both disappeared under mysterious circumstances right around the release, some say testing game configurations.

[TIMOTHY:]

Irina was the next of the five to get

The tic then sick then one day left

But right before dropping out of sight

She called me in the deep of night

She said something about the game

Something bout cracks and something came

Something thin and faceless dark

And of the five twas I he marked

[CHORUS:]

Let your world just fade away

Tune inside and play the game

[TIMOTHY:]

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Transcendation, yeah

[ABED:] *(spoken)*

We played all day, right?

[MICHELLE:] *(spoken)*

Yeah.

[ABED:] *(spoken)*

But our phones are right here.

[ALISON:] *(spoken)*

Does anyone actually remember having their phone or pad at any point lately?

[MICHELLE:] *(spoken)*

You can’t play the game without your phone. You can’t play the game without the app. You guys are just being idiots and fucking with my head.

[ALISON:] *(spoken)*

We need to stop.

[PERSON 2:] *(spoken)*

Aw come on, stop freaking out, you’re all overreacting.

[ALISON:] *(spoken)*

It’s too late.

[MICHELLE:] *(spoken)*

It’s not too late.

[ABED:] *(spoken)*

No. No, it is. I’ve seen the man. The one James saw.

[MICHELLE:] *(spoken)*

James had a latent condition triggered by over-stimulation of his ---

[ALISON:] *(spoken)*

Bullshit. There was nothing wrong with him.

[MICHELLE:] *(spoken)*

He’s in the nuthouse!

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Guys. Bed’s not kidding. I saw the thin man too.

[ABED:] *(spoken)*

Where’d you see him?

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

He’s right there.

[TIMOTHY:]

It gutted and sliced and sucked and ate

Flesh from bone and blood from brain

Like a spider on a mad and meth-fuelled drug

It took from me those that I love

I survived, I turned and ran

I never stop, I never can

I left my home and all I know

The hunted down the dark night's road

[CHORUS:]

Let your world just fade away

Tune inside and play the game

[TIMOTHY:]

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