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The Open Box

**The Open Box** is the twelfth track of Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun.

## Performers

Oliver Marsh as "Kevin" and "Santiago Winters"

Kiera-Marie Somers as "Abi"

Kerttu Aarnipuu as "Ryvyr"

Hayley Warner as "Alyssa"

Paul Shapera as "Geoff", "Zippy", and "Pixel the Fairy"

## Lyrics

Alyssa: I got it! It's open!

Kevin: Let's see what's in there.

Abi: It's completely dark.

Zippy: The sun is gone!

Kevin: Shush, let me listen.

Kevin: It's the same thing I heard before. It sounds like things are in there.

Zippy: Kem did it. He worked so hard. We must bring the sun back. For Kem.

Abi: So, you're talking about a literal light source?

Kevin: Wait, do you hear that?

Pixel:

Through pain and strife, we stand here and we fight

Until the day our people all are free

Through tears we cry, we fight until we die

We fight until our people are free

Kevin: Who is that?

Santiago: You again?

You're trespassing, you must leave

You're trespassing on private property

Kevin: Aaahhh! Not this again!

Ryvyr: Why are all the melodies on this case so annoying?

Alyssa: What does that mean?

Abi: She thinks people in this world randomly sing things.

Ryvyr: You all do it a lot.

Santiago:

You must leave here, I have a gun!

I will shoot you, I suggest you run

Kevin: Abi?

Abi: I'm on it. Spell from hell time!

(Thunderclap)

Santiago: My arm is frozen!

Ryvyr: Couldn't you do something more dramatic?

Abi: I figure this episode blew its entire budget on the Voodooverse graphics.

Kevin: Cute. Mr. Winters, there is some seriously weird stuff going on here and we need answers. And frankly, from what I'm piecing together, you aren't going to call the cops on us.

Abi: And this is my I'm-being-very-nice spell. So don't make me be mean.

Ryvyr: There's fairies in the whizz-whizz box!

Abi: The computer. How did you get fairies into the computer?

Kevin: Mr. Winters, you need to start explaining or my colleague here starts casting some very nasty spells that will shrink portions of your anatomy to the size of raisins.

Abi: I've got a really good one that will give you constant mouth sores for three years.

Alyssa: Ugh, that's horrible.

Abi: Or make your saliva taste like vinegar.

Santiago: Oh fine. Alright.
The Rhumba Club

"The Rhumba Club" is the seventh track of Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret.

## Lyrics

 [CORA:]

Each night the lights go down

The rhythm pounds and out here in the crowd the jungle howls

Some hunt and others scheme

Some things grin like sin and some things look so pure with knives for teeth

As they laugh, masks will slip for seconds falling

Deadly games will be resolving

For you see, to seem is not to be

Each night, the Rhumba growls

And in the masks beneath the masks, my people stalk and prowl

There's games inside of games

Roles and parts portrayed like Russian dolls that always twist and change

My sweet spies, eyes that always are deceiving

Masks in masks forever scheming

For you see, to seem is not to be

To our business let us turn

My pawn is compromised and yet for her it seems you yearn

Where she is, you seek

And information is my currency, the air I breath

So for me, there's a thing you must acquire

And I’ll tell what you desire

Though you’ll see, to seem is not to be
Zoe & Timothy 4

"Zoe & Timothy 4" is the tenth track of the third act of Slenderman, and the twenty-seventh track of the album overall.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Timothy"

Lauren Osborn as "Zoe"

## Lyrics

[TIMOTHY:]

We finally arrived

is this gonna be goodbye?

[ZOE:]

I have to get Claire back

And today's the perfect time

[TIMOTHY:]

What do we do about the slenderman?

[ZOE:]

He doesn't seem to want to murder people like he did beforehand

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

No, he just wants to have sex with everyone.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Which is a lot better.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

So we just let some ugly oversexed creature loose unsupervised?

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Men have been left unsupervised for quite some time.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Ha ha. We really would be letting a hyper aggressive supernatural lust - we'd basically be letting a rape monster run around.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Oh, Jesus. Think of him like an animal and train him. Maybe you could use electroshock until he's docile.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

So I'd be wandering the land, a boy and his pet slenderman?

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

It's kind of picturesque. Look, I've really got to go. I gotta get Claire home and it's important that it's today.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Alright, I'll manage.

[ZOE:]

Are you gonna be okay?

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Yeah.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

You can get the order to help you train him or something.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Or something. Don't worry, I got this.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Okay. Listen, Timothy, I'm serious, you're one of the finest human beings I've ever known and I promise to look you up before.. before I go.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Okay. You're awesome, Zoe.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Remember, girlfriends, homes and Friday night beer.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

You can find me right here.

[ZOE:] *(spoken)*

Take care.

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Looks like it's you and me, Slendy. I got a plan. Hey, hey, hey look - look over there. No, right there. You see that? Yeah, right over there. Yeah, that thing.

*(gunshot)*

[TIMOTHY:] *(spoken)*

Yeah, fuck you. I'm gonna get a good night's sleep for once.
Tale of 1,000 Trials

**Tale Of 1,000 Trials** is the third track of the second act of A Pirate's Tale, and the eleventh track overall.

## Performers

Jen Majetic

Layne Bailey

Zanna Fredland as "Cassandra"

Catherine Kolos as "Abigail"

Hope Anthony

## Lyrics

[ALL:]

There’s a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle.

And we’ll dance, and we’ll sway and we’ll slice our way

Through a tale of a thousand trials.

[VICTORIA:]

A marriage to young, aye, the butcher’s son

Which was planned since the day I was born.

At the alter to wed I left him instead

Better death than to live that bored.

[ABIGAIL:]

Abigail, it’s absurd, at the shock of my word,

You can’t live with your girlfriend, Kate.

All the neighbors will talk, oh they never shut up

Now I sail the seas of my own fate.

[ALL:]

There’s a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle.

And we’ll dance, and we’ll sway and we’ll slice our way

Through a tale of a thousand trials.

[TESS:]

Yes, I once walked the streets. There were mouths there to feed

Then they sins can be washed away.

But they’ll always keep track if you’ve worked on your back

So the sea on my feet’s where I stay.

[VICTORIA:]

At sixteen, I swore if you come once more

To my room ,you won’t walk away.

But he did, cause he swore girls just can’t use a sword

And he learned something new that day.

[ALL:]

A golden place, so far away

From fools and rules they say we play.

A golden place, so far away

From fools and rules they say we play.

[CASSANDRA:]

Every woman you see on the ship of dreams

Has two things that you want to attend.

Both the blade that they hold and a tale to be told

On the isle of a journey’s end.

There’s a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle.

And we’ll dance, and we’ll sway and we’ll slice our way

Through a tale of a thousand trials.
The Albino Tribe (Song)

"The Albino Tribe" is the first track of The Room Beneath New Albion.

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as "Alice"

Paul Shapera as "Alexander"

## Lyrics

(Indistinct conversation)

[ALBINO CHORUS:]

You go one day

You go one day

You go one day alone

[ALICE:]

The red endless sky in the trail of the wild

Where the child still can dance unafraid

Of shame or of lies only whispers of fire

Stroke the night and to sleep gently lay

The Grace with her speed and her wild, sweeping teeth

That you race to the sisters you love

The brothers who cry, calling out to the sky

Through the woods in whose womb you are one

The red endless sky, where the trails of time lie

As the paths where your spirit will roam

The child and her tribe and the kiss of the wild

'Til the fires of friends beckons you home

[ALEXANDER:] (spoken)

One day the angels sent stranger with a message and gift. The message was that the Angels needed a Chosen One to perform a Great Task. Only one of the healthiest from the tribe had the constitution to complete the task and the special blood that would allow their gift, a strange sandy drug, when taken to move them through time to where the Angels needed them. Thus was the princess Alice chosen. Finest in mind and body to accept the angels' calling.

[ALICE:]

A stranger now come from the Angels above

With a task for the daughter, the girl

And thus, it is I who the red endless sky

Must be gone for a strange future world

[ALBINO CHORUS:]

You go one day

You go one day

You go one day alone

[ALICE:]

You go one day

You go one day alone

You go one day

You go one day alone

[ALEXANDER:] (spoken)

So Alice took the sand, a drug she must always be on in order to stay in the future time. Every six hours, without fail, she must take more until the task is completed. Thus, Alice was propelled through time to a strange, foreign place called New Albion.
The Floozies

## The Floozy

art by  EcstaticNek

The Floozies are a group of backup singers, performers, and managers at Raven's Carnival.

## Biography

The Floozy showed up at Raven's Carnival one day. Several weeks later, there was two of her. Then a couple weeks after that, three, and then eventually four, and five. Currently there are twelve of her.

In Uncle Raven's Storytime Theatre: Never Never Land, a fan named Kirby posed a question asking why there are so many of her. The floozy responded with a song about believing in each other and yourself: *"And when all those people believe in you...then maybe even you yourself will start to see what everybody sees in you"*

The Floozy also made an appearance in Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival, providing backup for Raven's performances and antics.

## Trivia

* The Floozy has a twitter account run by Paul Shapera
* The Floozy, Shira, and Buffy Rabbit have formed a superhero group called Helen's Hell Hags, which is dedicated to bringing justice to abusers. This superhero group is "not not canon" and is largely depicted on twitter.
* A collaborative fan theory gave the names to the twelve original floozies, as well as describing thrity-nine other "honorary floozy" members working at the carnival. Paul posted about this headcanon on his blog
Vadvivon

Fursona by Vadvivon

Slenderman

Lost Hollow

Vadvi is one of the most prominent artists in the Shaperaverse Fandom. He's drawn nearly every character and more than once has been noticed by Paul.

## Gallery

FayEdgarSexy EdgarConstance and ThomasConnorLee and AdrianHankHank and LupeHank and LupeHan-MiMaryGabriella GadflyThe Mayor and Meme
The Adams Arc

**The Adams Arc** is a three-part series written and produced by Paul Shapera. It gives backstory for Kate and other lesser characters in the series.

The trilogy consists of *Justacorp*, *Shadows & Flames* and *Caravan*. Justacorp and Shadows and Flames follows David Adams as he flowers and becomes a Post-Human. Caravan follows the flowering of Kate, which occurs in a show put on by the Second Playhouse.

All albums were created much before their actual release and together make the collection of Paul Shapera's *Early Works*.

The albums were officially released in 2017 and 2018.
TanSan

TanSan is a sandy drug that has hallucinogenic effects and in rare cases can cause people to travel through time and other dimensions. The drug is snorted up the nose, but can be sprinkled on a cigarette for a light dose.

## History

During the dieselpunk era of New Albion, it was discovered that the power generators beneath Districts 7, 8, and 3 excreted a sandy dust that leads to a pleasing, dreamy high. This drug was called TanSan, and The Albinos and The Red Haired Lad fought over the control of the drug until Cora helped broker a merger between the two which united The Red Haired Lad and the Albino princess in marriage.

## Notable Uses

In The Room Beneath New Albion, the AIs gave Alice TanSan to allow her to move forward in time so that she could build a room for the AIs to live in, using doll technology from the steampunk era. Alice needed to take the drug every six hours in order to stay in the correct location and not be transported back in time to her original village.

Theoretically, the use of TanSan could transport the user to any place in time. However, the AIs and Alice's repetitive use of the drug created a link between New Albion and the prairie that Alice's tribe was located in.

In Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret, after he stole a folder of government plans, Ramon got high on TanSan to celebrate. He was teleported to a prairie place, and he dropped the folder and left it there. In order to retrieve their folder, the police began rounding up druggies and force feeding them TanSan hoping that one of them would blip away to the same location and return with their folder. Eventually they captured Katy and forced her to take the drug, and she teleported to the prairie. But instead of bringing the folder back, she grabbed it and started walking for two hours until the drug's effect wore off, coming back in New Albion in a different location where the police would not be waiting for her.

The police had a warehouse of five floors full of junkies in an attempt to find someone who could get their folder back. It is rare for people to be transported in time using TanSan, and Ramon and Katy were able to do so because they happened to have a distant albino ancestor. The time traveling effect is diluted for them, as they were only gone for two hours compared to Alice's six hours.

In The Broken Cyborg, the Shanty Town refugees use a very small dose of TanSan to go through a dark stone gates, and be transported to visit the Albino tribe and the Fairy Realm.
The Hajduk (Song)

"The Hajduk" is the fifth track of the first act of Janissary, and the fifth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[BOGDAN:]

On the outskirts of the occupation

Of a beaten, bitter nation

Where retaliation's dreamed by everyone

Desperados plan salvation

From their dire situation

By the karma of the gun

That’s how fate gets done

When tides of trouble come

In the hills high elevation

Camps of desperados stationed

Loading guns in expectation

Every one

Drinks a bit too much libation

For some old wound or some damnation

And waits for what will come

Scores to be restrung

That's how fate gets done

The karma of the gun

You may ask what agitation

Led them to the abdication

Of the life and social station

They had once

Well, patriotic inclination

With a grudge induced fixation

Towards the karma of the gun

How fate gets done

When tides of trouble comes

The karma of the gun
The Online Fairy Forest

**The Online Fairy Forest** is the fifteenth track of Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun.

## Performers

Oliver Marsh as "Kevin"

Kiera-Marie Somers as "Abi"

Paul Shapera as "Pixel the Fairy" and The Fairies

## Lyrics

Kevin: It looks like a forest.

Abi: A forest made of pixels.

(A whole bunch of fairy shenanigans)

Fairies:

Bang, bam, boose, 'cause the moose is on the loose

Poor, poor goose with the ragy, mangy moose

It's ugly and it's fugly with a butt like a caboose

Bang, bam, boose, 'cause the moose is on the loose!

I treat my baby

Like a bongo, a bongo on the butt

Like a bongo, a bongo on the butt

I treat my little baby like a bongo on the butt

Bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo on the butt

Here I am, just me and the sand

Talking 'bout what to do

The Riceman cometh!

You ask so many questions

What answers should I choose?

Is this schizoid paranoia

Or just existential blues?

Girl, you are a dream today

All your sin is just wiped away, wiped away!

It's a pasta rigatoni, it's spaghetti, it's a cold

It's a holy, it's stromboli, carbonara superbowl

But I kinda got a weakness for the drugs and for the white

Endless powder, endless whirl for the wild, endless nights

Boom shaka laka laka shaka laka boom

Boom shaka laka laka laka boom boom

Pixel:

Through pain and strife, we stand here and we fight

Until the day our shackles are released

Though tears we cry, we fight until we die

We fight until our people are free
The Hamlet Wheel

Hamlet Wheels are powerful objects tied to any given narrative. Although the full scope of their power is currently unknown, they seem to play a role in both maintaining any given narrative and controlling key aspects of any given narrative.

In the narrative which Asha comes from, the Hamlet Wheel first appears chronologically in William's story, described as being made up of three large wheels and many smaller, intricate parts. Years later, a group of gnomes attempt to take over The Hamlet Wheel, seemingly to gain control of the narrative. Asha and her family attempted to warn the dwarves of this, but were unable to, and the gnomes attacked Asha's family in retaliation. Asha herself was the only survivor of this attack.

In the New Albion narrative, The Hamlet Wheel is first mentioned in The Broken Cyborg, in a latter from the dwarves to The Mayor, warning her that The Hamlet Wheel has begun to shift cycles, and a major upheaval is on the way. As the dwarves had only messages New Albion before to warn of the creation of the Dolls, and the generations of chaos that would ensue, The Mayor takes this warning seriously, which leads to the attack on The Shanty Town.

Later, in The Lost Fairy, Jane and Symbel encounter the dwarves, who tell the duo that The Hamlet Wheel is what keeps their world together. They also mention that they have built the wheel, and it is their duty to keep the wheel turning, as it stabilizes the narrative. The wheels allow evolution and change to happen more frequently in narratives which contain them, and also seem to cause a greater number of post-humans to emerge from these narratives.
We Bid the 1st Generation Adieu

"We Bid the 1st Generation Adieu" is the sixth track of the first act of The Dolls of New Albion, and the sixth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[NARRATOR:]

So Annabella destroys her
Doll, her beloved toy boy
And takes all the notes that she made and packs them away

Thus Annabella vows that she
Won’t tell a soul so lonely
And defeated now she sadly creeps back to her lab

Thus friends we bid adieu to
The 1st generation, but don’t move
We’ve 3 more Acts to get through, so come let’s ensue

The future beckons and won’t wait
The next generation’s on its way
Dead things and broken love stories for us await
Tour Our Grounds

"Tour Our Grounds" is the fourth track of Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival.

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as "The Floozies" and "Miss Helen"

Paul Shapera as "Raven"

## Lyrics

[FLOOZIES:]

We gettin' dolled up here, Raven, baby

We dustin' on off all the fun time gin

The night is poised and it's salivatin’

The carousel is cranked and is set to spin

They gettin' riled up here, Raven baby

The midway’s bein’ lit like good old times

The bally’s bein' blared by the barker

Baby it's all set up all down the line

[RAVEN:]

We’ve got this woman with a tumor

That thing's bigger than her head

They say it laughs and loves to drink

And even smokes in bed

They say it swears like a sailor

They say she wants to die

They say the tumor won't let her

It makes her stay alive

There’s freaks and geeks aplenty

With souls that're so grotesque

They'd make the timid vomit

And that's just you in the mirror, my friend

We've got many here in transition

To some kind of animal, but truth?

I'll tell you a little secret

The only freak show here is you

[FLOOZIES:]

Take the tour and ride the rides

What sweet thrills we have inside

Where the unchained laughs reside

What sweet sounds and such strange sights

And the show goes on all night

All you want awaits inside

[RAVEN:]

Over there we have a mermaid

Who in a tank of vodka stays

In that tent, the clowns will pay you a magic coin

To let them have their way

We've tents containing mazes

And mazes made of tents

We build them out of discarded dreams

That folks here in their old lives left

See, there's those with thirsts and hungers

That mundane life cannot fill

So they search inside a bottle

Or try to find it in a pill

But the solution’s like a piece of math

An equation they can't speak

If they solve it they would end up here

We 're the answer that they seek

[FLOOZIES:]

Take the tour and ride the rides

What sweet thrills we have inside

Where the unchained laughs reside

What sweet sounds and such strange sights

And the show goes on all night

All you want awaits inside

[RAVEN:]

All who come are welcome

You may feast on every vice

And I saw what you did back there

Set the narrative on fire

Your'e so confused, my darlings

They really did a number on your minds

You know, you're not in the real world

You've left that long behind

You've heard of the collective unconscious?

Well that's where we are now

You and I are trapped here

And yes, your whole fake town as well

But we both know they're coming

Coming for you and when they do

There'll be a door that's open

And that's our ticket through

These little nasty computers

Who've been messing with your lives

Don't think I haven't noticed

They've been studying Lloyd for quite some time

Yeah, a few of these fair tricks

I certainly know well enough

[HELEN:] *(spoken)*

Wait, who's Lloyd?

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

The only man I ever truly loved...
The Creatures

**"The Creatures"** is the fourth track of Nash Harding and the Secret of the Twisted Tower.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Michael" and "Nash"

Jessica Singer as "Mary" (Surprise appearance)

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL]: *(spoken)*

The Balley- A-Go-Go is where Nash mostly hangs out

With its wild, psychedelic parties and beatnik, hippy crowd

He doesn’t sleep much cause of dreams that’re violent and bad

He’s always real tired, but he does the best that he can

He’s gulping down coffe one day when approached

By a young teenage girl some of you may know

[MARY]:

I have seen you here for the past few weeks, in the wild nights and the wandering streets

And i’ve seen the things you can do with paint, and i envy you the worlds you makе

And i know i don’t even know your name, but you’rе young like me, with nowhere to stay

But we need your help, there are things like us, things that hide away, adrift and lost

[NASH]: *(spoken)*

Ok... I’m Nash. Hi. Why do you guys always sing everything ?

[MARY]: *(spoken)*

My name is Mary. What are you talking about? I never sing

[NASH]: *(spoken)*

You guys really dont hear yourselves?

[MARY]: *(spoken)*

You are an odd one. You dont have a home, do you ?

[NASH]: *(spoken)*

No, i dont. But i’m ok. I get by

[MARY]:

I have seen the things that you do with paint, and it’s magic, please, you must come this way

There’s a basement here where lost things dwell, like both of us, and they need your help

You can come here too to sleep or stay, you look so tired, do you have a place?

[NASH]:

I don’t sleep much, i have real bad dreams

They’re violent, cruel, i try not to sleep

[MARY]:

Walk with me beneath

Down, below the streets

Come with me to see

The things hidden underneath

There’s goblins, gnomes and creatures down

In basements underneath the town

They hide these creatures lost and worn

Running from Arcadia Corp

The mob would like them all to sell

To wealthy clients somewhere else

Arcadia would like them back

So hunted down here they stay trapped

Lost in places never known

Lost and far away from home

Hidden from the sight of sun

Rest before its time to run

Lost inside surreal parades

That pass by laughing every day

Dream of stray and misplaced suns

Rest before it’s time to run

We’ve seen you paint amazing things

Windows into worlds undreamed

Doorways into magic lands

Their providence is now at hand

They’ll describe a place, a world, to you

You’ll paint it and when you are through

They’ll step inside that window pane

And thus the lost at last escape

Lost in places never known

Lost and far away from home

Hidden from the sight of sun

Rest before its time to run

Lost inside surreal parades

That pass by laughing every day

Dream of stray and misplaced suns

Rest before it’s time to run

[MICHAEL]: *(spoken)*

And so Nash agrees to help the poor creatures escape

By doing that miracle he can do with his paints

They describe him a world, he paints it best he can do

And for a time its alive and they pass through into
The Creatures Speak

"The Creatures Speak" is the fourth track of the fourth act of The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness, and the twenty-third track of the album overall.

There is a hidden message in this song. If played backwards, the following statement can be heard:

*"They are all wrong. Adrian is never reincarnated into Rachael. Adrian was reincarnated as Connor."*

## Performers

Lauren Osborn as "Rachael"

Kayleigh McKnight as "Mascot 3000"

## Lyrics

[ANGELS:] (spoken in reverse)

They are all wrong. Adrian is never reincarnated as Rachael. Adrian was reincarnated as Connor.

[RACHAEL:] (spoken)

I can’t understand them

[MASCOT 3000:] (spoken)

I can translate

[MASCOT 3000:]

The mad cry and seek

For a road that will lead

From Asylum to world of the free

But death is not how

You can find your way out

Only those who go sane then may leave

The body, the host

In health living, although

When a virus from outside infects

White blood cells descend

To defend and then cleanse

Wishing truly no ill or sad ends

Elysium

Elysium

You’ve come yet again

Once more welcome as when

Dear Priscilla and Constance you were

Invited, alas, you did choose to go back

To save those who you thought that you could

The more time you spend

In asylums, well then

You could fall back again locked away

Stay here beyond

Where you know you belong

A vast cosmos before you awaits

Elysium

Elysium

Elysium

Elysium
Scratch Cards That Don't Win

**Scratch Cards That Don't Win** is the ninth track of Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun.

## Lyrics

Alyssa:

I never got the silver spoon

A dad that stayed, a front-row view

Or choices that you'd ever choose

Just wishes in the bin

I never got a wealthy dad

A tutor or a private class

Dining rooms, VIP pass

Just scratch cards that don't win

All alone into the night

Music loud to give me life

I study by the midnight light

For lives worth living in

I never got the winning prize

Second place was always mine

No one holds me when I cry

My kitchen smells like gin

I never got to be the best

Just secondhand, protecting Geoff

At home with mom's stale cigarettes

And scratch cards that don't win

All alone into the night

Music loud to give me life

I study by the midnight light

For lives worth living in

Weeks to months to years to life

In retail jobs that make you die

Exhausted in a run-down flat

That smells like mold and beer and cats

I never got the lucky break

If luck exists, it makes me wait

No bus is coming, yet I wait

For wishes on the wind

I never spent the unpaid loans

Broken mothers, run down homes

Dads and dreams that never phone

And scratch cards that don't win

All alone into the night

Music loud to give me life

I study by the midnight light

For lives worth living in
The Battle (Pirate's Tale)

This page is for the instrumental track from A Pirate's Tale. For the song from Janissary see The Battle (Janissary)

**The Battle** is the eigth track of the second act of A Pirate's Tale, and the sixteenth on the album overall. It is fully instrumental.
A sped up lemotif from the song Blood Red Dogs can be heard during this song
The Fallen

art by Scott Flood

**The Fallen** is a multi-media theater show written by Paul Shapera and choreographed by Shaun Rolly. It is part of the Early Works.

A 1997 performance of the show can be found on YouTube. The original performance also includes parts of what will later become Shadows & Flames.

## Characters and Credits

* Paul Shapera as The Demon and Raven
* Jen Folden as The Angel
* Cover by Scott Flood

## Soundtrack

Fall,Fall,
The Rise of Avalon (Kevin Smith)

"The Rise of Avalon" is the eighth and final track of Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries

## Lyrics

All I ever longed for was a world where I belonged,

And someone with a smile like yours to share it

Though once I could have simply sat and watched the world burn,

When we first met, with you, I knew I'd bear it.

For a thousand years the changelings in your cradles have been placed,

For a thousand years they do the tasks all gave them.

For a thousand years they carve their sigils in the city's bones,

And for a thousand years the fae watch and are waiting.

And you knew I was different, never fit right in the world,

And I knew you were wistful, and elated.

Together then we spun and wove a story of our own,

And for a while we lived in adoration.

For a thousand years the infants have been softly whisked away,

And babes like me are put there as replacements.

And onto me it falls the task to carve the very last,

Sigil that will cause the city's desolation.

All I ever longed for was a world where I belonged,

And someone with a smile like yours to share it.

Together we were fairytales, and poetry and wine,

Until you slept with him and I can just not bear it...

I would have saved the world for you, I would have let it go,

I would have kept your heart, so sweet, protected.

Instead I wonder whether I should carve the final mark,

And all that we have loved, it will be ended.

All I ever longed for was a world where I belonged,

And someone with a smile like yours, to share it.

And I can never not love you so deep with all my heart,

But this love for you at last, I cannot bear it

The fall of the human city of Victoria was the saddest day in its residents' history. As if

some arcane button had been pressed, almost overnight, it simply faded away, replaced by a

strange and perplexing place, its denizens would refer to as Avalon.
Ride The Hemp

**Ride The Hemp** is the sixth song of the second act of A Pirate's Tale, and the fourteenth track on the album overall.

## Performers

Darrel Whitney as "Tristan"

Michael Moats and Shaun Rolly as the other pirates

## Lyrics

[PIRATES:]

Yo-ho yo-ho yo

See your bones in Davy Jones'

Blown and thrown and all alone

[TRISTAN:]

Aye, you poxy scurvy dogs

Will end up slain and hacken.

An appeal beneath the keel

Is dinner for the kraken.

All the rest can meet jack ketch

And be my cannon fodder

Because now, my son, your journey's done.

Come kiss the gunner's daughter.

[PIRATES:]

Call they all and all they fall

And call they all today

All the men, they meet their end

And on the rope, they sway.

Yo ho yo ho

C'mon mate, let's play.

Call they all and all they fall

Come ride the hemp today.

[TRISTAN:]

I've seen them lined with cat-o-nine's

Across their pretty backs

And wail and flail beneath my sail

With gunnies in their sacks.

If you wish to feed the fish

Then dance with me today

I'll see you home in Davy Jones'

And wash your deeds away.

[PIRATES:]

Call they all and all they fall

And call they all today

All the men, they meet their end

And on the rope, they sway.

Yo ho yo ho

C'mon mate, let's play.

Call they all and all they fall

Come ride the hemp today.

[TRISTAN:]

A swing and a swish, a dying wish.

The swift gift of a cutlass' kiss.

Feeling down? Just come on 'round.

We'll rest your crown fifteen leagues down.

Rut and strut and where's your guts,

You maggot munchin' meullin' muts.

So c'mon boys, let's set 'em straight

And send 'em to a watery grave.

[PIRATES:]

We'll see your bones in Davy Jones'

Blown and thrown and all alone.

We'll see your bones in Davy Jones'

Blown and thrown and all alone.

We'll see your bones in Davy Jones'

Blown and thrown and all alone.

We'll see your bones in Davy Jones'

Blown and thrown and all alone.

Call they all and all they fall

And call they all today

All the men, they meet their end

And on the rope, they sway.

Yo ho yo ho

C'mon mate, let's play.

Call they all and all they fall

Come ride the hemp today.

Call they all and all they fall

And call they all today

All the men, they meet their end

And on the rope, they sway.

Yo ho yo ho

C'mon mate, let's play.

Call they all and all they fall

Come ride the hemp today.

Hey!
The War Song

**The War Song** is the seventh track of the second act of A Pirate's Tale, and the fifteenth track on the album overall.

## Performers

Ray Cygrymus as "Sebastian"

Darrel Whitney as "Tristan"

Zanna Fredland as "Cassandra"

Pirate's Tale Cast

## Lyrics

[SEBASTIAN:]

The time, my friends, is now at hand

To fall or crawl, to fight or stand

Along us.

The knights and rooks and pawns are set.

The board is full and judgement comes

Upon us.

The plotters and the players, all,

The schemers who await the call

The deadly rise. The weak will fall

Be gone thus.

The time to take the king is now.

His castles, queens no longer bow

And reckoning and ravagement

Befall us.

[TRISTAN:]

Fate, you'll find, isn't kind at the end of a blade.

It's a friend to the men who hardest and brave.

Come along lad and follow me.

We will run red the seven seas.

Call they all, all will cry 'fore they fall and they die!

[CASSANDRA:]

There's a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle

And we'll dance and we'll sway

And we'll fight our way

Through the tale of the thousand trials.

[CASSANDRA:]

There's a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle

And we'll dance and we'll sway

And we'll fight our way

Through the tale of the thousand trials.

[TRISTAN:]

Fate, you'll find, isn't kind

At the end of a blade.

It's a friend to the men

Who hardest and brave.

[CASSANDRA:]

There's a path through the sea for a lass like me

And it leads to a golden isle

And we'll dance and we'll sway

And we'll fight our way

Through the tale of the thousand trials.

[TRISTAN:]

Come, we carve out our path

With the bones of their lives

At the end, they will bend

Or they'll swing from the line

[SEBASTIAN:]

There's a pit

The blackest hole

The darkest hell

Where damned men fall

[ALL:]

It's a pirate's life we weather!

On the seas in our quest for treasure!

It's a pirate's life we chose!

See you in Davy Jones!

[CASSANDRA AND TRISTAN:]

It's a pirate's life we weather!

On the seas in our quest for treasure!

It's a pirate's life we chose!

See you in Davy Jones!

[SEBASTIAN:]

There's a pit

Beneath the drowned

The blackest hole

In ocean's ground

[ALL:]

And I will cast you down!
The Old Trunk in the Attic

"The Old Trunk in the Attic" is the third track of the second act of The Dolls of New Albion, and the ninth track of the album overall.

## Lyrics

[NARRATOR:]

The old trunk in the attic
Where grandmother’s broken heart was tossed
In a box with a ballet shoe
And dead soldier’s cross

The old trunk in the attic
With the candlesticks your great uncle saved
From the girl in the market
Whose mother he once paid to go away

The old trunk in the attic
With a dress for a child but hardly worn
Stained in the memory and tears
For a name you’ll never learn

The old trunk in the attic
Where your grandfather’s glass eye lays to rest
Your sweet aunt’s nostalgia

And Annabella’s formula for raising up the dead
Annabella’s formula for raising up the dead
Clever mother Annabella with her clever head
Oh, Annabella’s formula for raising up the dead
Ruin's Road

"Ruin's Road" is the third track of the third act of Janissary, and the thirteenth track of the album overall.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as Bogdan

Lauren Osborn as Brija

Liel Bar-Z as Danijela

## Lyrics

[BOGDAN:]

Ruin’s road, through lowlands grim and wild

Winds beneath a sky of ash and trials

The greens of leaves remembered from your youth

Are faded now, all the colors mute and subdued

I saw the ghosts along the road to hell's bordello

I saw the shades that line the way to desolation's ghetto

They said look back on the trail that you have sown

I saw the the ghosts on ruins road

Ruin’s road won't get you what you lost

The toll is steep, it's you who are the cost

But with some luck, it leads to just one place

Where blood will lick along your hungry blade one day

I saw the ghosts along the road to hell's bordello

I saw the shades that line the way to desolation's ghetto

They said look back on the trail that you have sown

I saw the the ghosts on ruins road

[BRIJA:]

It's weeks that Bogdan walk as

His color slowly fades

He see the dead around him

One day at last he nears the gates

Specters pass before him

But one it lingers, stays

The wife he left so long ago

The woman he forsake

[DANIJELA:]

Where was my angel

In my time of need?

Where was the man who

Swore he'd be there for me?

I lost my baby, my heart

Then you left, walked out the door

You'd swore that you would make it right

But who'd you make it right then for?

Where was my angel

Right by my side?

Who could I lean on

When I broke down and cried?

Where was my angel

When I was in grief?

Where was my husband

Who swore he truly loved me?

You talked a lot of justice

What the people, they deserve

I didn't know you didn't mean

your wife, no help for her

You surely meant your mates down

At the hole where you would drink

The girls you leered and flirted with

Whose perfumes left such a stink

And the memory of your father

And the country you believed

Each and every person that was

That was in it, 'cept for me

Where was my angel

When I hit my low?

Who tried to mourn me

When I died all alone?

[BOGDAN:]

I am sorry my love

I was fiery and young

So swept up and in love

With my own bleeding heart's blood

All that drama I craved

Well, it roared through and came

And left nothing else

But this last road to hell

Ruin's road leads to just one place

When all that's sweet has long since gone away

Nothing came of anything you did

Except this one last score to fix, this one last sin

I saw the ghosts along the road to hell's bordello

I saw the shades that line the way to desolation's ghetto

They said, "look back on the trail that you have sown"

I saw the the ghosts on ruins road
Postie Bear

*"Please don't start talking about postie bears. The bear is not a postie."*

- Paul Shapera, August 2, 2021

## Biography

The ~~Postie~~ Bear was befriended by Kate. When she found the motherless cub, Kate took it in and raised it to adulthood. The ~~Postie~~ Bear would roam the forest nearby Kate's ranch, until rampaging mole people invaded. Kate slipped out of narrative by dipping down to level two, and to her surprise the ~~Postie~~ Bear followed. Kate had tried for years to get animals to narrative hop with her, and this shouldn't be possible, but somehow the ~~Postie~~ Bear just did it. The ~~Postie~~ Bear is still wandering around the level two tunnels.

Kate lost track of the ~~Postie~~ Bear, and got really afraid when she couldn't find it, worrying that it might be causing havoc somewhere. Eventually she found the ~~Postie~~ Bear with Mucklepuck. Mucklepuck loved the ~~Postie~~ Bear and made sure it got fed, and was given an enormous amount of food in the ziggurat to take care of it.

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CSFaUCIJBRz/
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cback1zt3qZ/
When Your Mom Wants You to Cut Down on Video Games It's Because She Loves You

"When Your Mom Warns You To Cut Down On Video Games, It's Because She Loves You" is the eighth track of The Forgotten Meme.

## Performers

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

Kerttu Aarnipuu as "Meme"

## Lyrics

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

The longer the meme stayed with the girl, the more she noticed the girl, Rebecca, was unplugging less and less. In fact, she was slowly wasting away and would eventually die. The little meme entered the net to follow Rebecca and try to lure her out.

Online, Rebecca spent most of her time in an elaborate, expansive, online gameworld set in an Arabian Nights scenario.

Rebecca had an avatar named Tess, so the little meme created an avatar named Vadvi and slowly befriended the girl. The two of them became very close, traversing the mythical gameworld together.

One day, the two girls professed romantic love for each other. The little meme was unspeakably happy, but she also knew that if Rebecca were to ever see her in real life, her ugliness would destroy their love.

[MEME:]

The sweet swirling spells in the desert

The glamours and genies we meet

The carpet that flies in the twilight

Her smiling and here beside me

The curses we work to unravel

The lands of enchantment we seek

Immersion in storybook forests

Her smiling and here beside me

Late into the night we lay talking

We comfort and laugh and we weave

A quilt of connection, desire

Her smiling and here beside me

And if we are lost in illusion

And all is enchantment we see

A wonderful world of delusion

So sweet is the lie to believe

I’m often surrounded by strangeness

Realities hard to believe

Longings I haven’t the words for

Sadnesses most will not see

All this might pass in a moment

All might be gone next we speak

But for a brief time there was magic

And her smiling here beside me

And if we are lost in illusion

And all is enchantment we see

A wonderful world of delusion

So sweet is the lie to believe

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

Despite the little meme’s bliss, she couldn’t help but become aware of the game’s sinister undercurrent. The game world functioned as a subtle psychic vacuum, drawing some in further and further until there was no return. Rebecca was almost at this point. The little meme begged the girl to stop the journey before it was too late, but Rebecca just laughed. She passed a gate too far and as the meme watched, her love slid away from her. She called out, but her voice was fragile and small. So she too leapt past the gateway, to follow her love to their doom.
Sentient Room

## Sentient Room (Fuck House)

### Relatives

N/A (biologically)Sam the Mouse, Simon the Albatross, Others (created through the same process)

### Affiliates

AgathaThe Gang of Four

Daniela

Raven (formerly)

Lloyd Allen

## Character Depiction

### Pronouns

He/it

The **Sentient Room**, also known as Fuck House, is a character and location in New Albion.

## Background

The Sentient Room began life as a laboratory room in Beltane Industries, in which experiments had been conducted regarding inducing sentience in inanimate objects. One day, an escape attempt was made by animals Beltane had also experimented on in hopes of making them speak. On their way out they came across the Room and the inanimate objects living in it. When the objects invited themselves along and attempted to escape with the animals, the Room also wanted to join. And so it was that the animals, the objects, and the Room made an escape from Beltane. Though the Room would eventually learn to teleport, this was the first time the Room had moved in its life, so it instead awkwardly squirmed its way out. Leaving the building led to massive property damage, and, since there were floors above it, deaths owing to the collapse of the building's east wing.

Soon after escaping and parting with the other Beltane experiments, the Room, afraid, alone in the world, and inexperienced in its ways, hid out in alleyways where it would be used by drug addicts as a place to get wasted. This continued for some time until Agatha, a librarian witch, approached it, began talking to it, and befriended it. The friends would correspond a few times each week, and one day, Agatha introduced the Room to Lloyd Allen and Raven, two men who were looking for a space to set up a theatre. And so for a number of years, the Room would serve as the men's Second Playhouse, and out of it, run the production called Caravan.

After this, the Room would wander for a while before it befriended the prostitute Daniela after saving her from her pimp. They developed a symbiotic relationship, and soon the Room would become Daniela's place of work, as well as a place where her friends could come over and enjoy the company of the Room and each other. One day, Agatha sent a distress call to the Room and Daniela, being chased for helping Pepper the Dog by the underlings of the elder Son of the Red-Haired Dwarf, with the Son and his Uncle in tow. The Room promptly picked her up and teleported away. The Room later saved Agatha and Pepper from the Uncle again, this time sustaining a good deal of gun-inflicted damage, before teleporting into the New Albion library to take shelter. It was, for a time, party to the plans of the Gang of Four to deal with the Uncle, but eventually parted with them to go receive repairs from a carpenter it knew.

Some years later, the Room was approached, yet again, by Lloyd Allen. Lloyd, this time in the body of a Doll, and powerless to do much of anything, began broadcasting the New Albion Radio Hour from the Room. In the early days of these broadcasts, the Room and Lloyd would sustain conversation, talking about a wide variety of subjects.
Zoe & Timothy 3

"Zoe & Timothy 3" is the seventh track of the third act of Slenderman, and the twenty-fourth track of the album overall.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as Timothy

Lauren Osborn as Zoe

## Lyrics

[TIMOTHY:]

I must play the dark, cruel game

I must run the deadly race

And you must step aside

Please, you must be who survives

I can face if it's my day

I've run a good and well-fought race

And you, I'm glad I've known

It was good to not be all alone

I'd have never made it through

I'd have never made it through

Alone

I hope we live some years from now

With some nice girls in some nice town

And you and I have lives and homes

And on Friday nights

In some bar we always meet

Have some drinks and laughs and see

We're still friends down the road

We have our backs, we're not alone

I'd have never made it through

I'd have never made it through

Alone

[ZOE:]

I’m glad you’re with me too

I never would have made it through

And I would love your dream

To all come true, but don’t you see?

I was dead when we first met

There’s no life for me here when

This ends, it’s only you

Who has a future to run to

I'd have never made it through

I'd have never made it through

Alone

[TIMOTHY:]

But I’m a gamer and here's a game

I'm the best chance we can save

The girl you've come here to atone

And bring back home

I can face if it's my day

I've run a good and well-fought race

And you, I'm glad I've known

It was good to not be all alone
The Lowdown 5

"The Lowdown 5" is the eleventh track of Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret.

## Lyrics

[MICHAEL:] *(spoken)*

So Katy goes to Cora, who’s delighted, pleased as punch

And Cora's way of saying "thank you Katy, very much"

Is to give our girl an address - well, an address and a name

The name is Mark, the guy who knows what's up with Sheila’s fate

Mark's been hard to find, for reasons which we’ll see

He’s holed up and a wreck and there's some stuff he’s seen

At first he’s scared of Katy but she slowly calms him down

And he spins a tale of just what's going on all over town