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1. |
Bio0 矮人
01:30
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Dwarves:
Hey wa no
Down here burning while the wheel is always turning and a
Hey wa no
Down here turning while the worlds always burning and a
Hey wa no
Newscaster:
... when informed of the news of the loss of Mars shuttle. Despite succesful attempts to launch other manned flights into space, the Mars shuttle disaster is a massive setback for the Sohanguk space program, long considered the most advanced in the world.
Attacks have begun by the city state of Cascadia against the fairy city of Avalon, mere days after Cascadia declared war on the controversial city. We have a special report coming up in just a few minutes.
In more disturbing news, a new study shows anti fairy violence is steeply on the rise across the continent, despite fewer and fewer public appearances by the troubled species. Experts warn that even New Albion, a long time oasis of tolerance, is now increasingly hostile and the few Fae residents remaining are urged to take extra precautions.
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2. |
Bio1 棚户区
05:40
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Han Mi:
Once upon a time, there was a shanty town in the center of a large park in the city of New Albion. Although it had started with a small group of back to nature enthusiasts, it was eventually joined by runaways and disenfranchised young punks, until eventually it evolved into a various mix of neo futurist hippies, crunchy cyberpunks and transfuturist modification junkies. Whatever digital body enhancements that existed under a certain legal radar could be acquired here, and thus amongst the colorful, close knit collection of societal strays were those with the most radical body modifications. Over time this odd collection had evolved into not just their own neighborhood, but culture and community.
Shanty Town Residents:
We’ve got bio cyber futurist transmutation robo-tech
We’ve got gadget doodad knickknacks some folks stick into their heads
Altercations artificial and organic you can buy
And cybertechs both punk and hippy who’ll jerry rig it for a price
We’ve got biotech enhancements, we’ve got chips inside the brain,
we’ve got tattoo art and body parts with feline dna
We’ve girls with cyber eyeballs seeing spectrums you can’t dream
If it’s the edge of biohacking then it’s here that you might seek
We’ve got shacks whose walls are motherboards, inside a VR world
Out resident biopunk grows tails onto paying college girls
We’ve got hippies growing veggies and punks with half a robot face
There’s a lot of folks with lots of limbs that all have been replaced
We’ve got body parts that plug in, liquid flesh both old and new
cyber eyes that let you see the world as an anime cartoon
We’ve got our own biopunk genius, a dropout so they say
Who makes all our toys here possible and they're just getting underway
We’ve got lights that light the park at night but the only way
You can see them is with an implant and those we rarely give away
Except to all the prostitutes who roam the park here every night
And for free we gave them tasers in their knuckles for a fight
If you want a pair of ears that look just a like an ocelot
That can hear leylines and astral winds and ghosts that roam the park
Or the sound of creatures cats stare at when looking at the wall
We can help you here, find all the things you wish you didn’t know
We’ve 2 sentient holograms on the run here from the law
For a string of robberies years ago they pulled when they were young
We’ve got Robodog and Luna with just a little fairy blood
She can turn your dreams to nightmares if you really piss her off
We’ve got cyber goths and Emo techs and rivetheads who will role play
Afro future anarchopunks who take furries out to raves
New romantic beatnik otherkin with neofolkish tastes
And the queerness here intensifies each and every day
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3. |
Bio2 赞德*卡诺尔
04:55
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Han Mi:
Xander Cael had gone to school for applied biology, but their unendorsed experiments in DNA splicing, hyper cell mutation, and flesh enhancement, when discovered, earned them immediate expulsion. Over their time at the college, however, they had secretly pilfered a range of lab equipment which they packed up along with the money they’d made giving the richer kids things like tails and organic breast and genital enlargements. A few years later you could find odd rumors floating around that for those interested in cutting edge cyber modification and trans human enhancements, there was a real life mad scientist working in the park.
Xander:
You try, you try, you try the best you can, You try until you die
You try the best you can
You try, you try, you try the best you can, You try until you die
You try the best you can
The shopogopolis where my mom grew up with her sister they despised
A life ofquiet desperation that they longed to leave behind
So one day when two boys showed up and spoke of space and souls
They followed them and that’s how they wound up inside a cult
The cult said angels coming soon to carry off the pure
Renounce all sex my children, out in space there’s bliss for sure
Leave your body on the floor
…
Procreation was with hoods and my aunt to a boy gave birth
Named henry but years later he’d run off back into the world
My mom had twins, macayla and me, but macayla soon grew sick
“Impurity” the cult screamed and forbid al treament
I begged my mom, we too must flee to save my sisters life
And so we left all the we had known one dark and fearful night
Leave your lives there on the floor
…
My mom unskilled she got a job in the shopogopolis she once fled
Doctors studied close my sister and then sadly shook their heads
A disease progressed so fast that my poor sister was locked in
To her body, she would never move or talk ever again
I swore an oath to save her but i knew i never would
I swore i’m tame biology by mind or hand or sword
Leave your body on the floor
…
My experiments in college went too far or so i’ve heard
Degenerate lost genius they said as they kicked me to the curb
My sister i would visit, but her mind it slowly bent
A sad, insane, flesh statue is all that’s left there of my twin
Here in the park my experiments continue with success
I’ll crack the code to redesign, reform, rebuild the flesh
One day when angels fly in space to save all that they find
Those angels they will be us in bodies redesigned
For something more
We’ll leave our bodies on the floor
You try, you try, you try the best you can, You try until you die
You try the best you can
You try, you try, you try the best you can, You try until you die
You try the best you can
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4. |
Bio3 生化人简
07:54
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Han Mi:
Thus one day a woman named Rebecca and a small, strange metallic rodent, a little meme, came and asked Xander if they could make them a child; a child made from the meme’s bioessence and Rebecca’s DNA, spliced together and placed in a robotic, flesh hybrid. Xander was thrilled to accept the challenge and pushed all other work aside for the next year. The wives moved to the shanty town and it was there that their daughter Jane, the little cyborg, was created.
The Little Cyborg grew up in the park and looked like a radically cyber enhanced human girl. She had originally been built with male attributes, but several weeks after becoming conscious, she informed her mothers that she was in fact a girl, and so Xander made the necessary adjustments. She bondly deeply with Xander, and spent most of her time helping them with their projects and surgeries, acting as eager assistant and trying to learn everything about the craft of bio manipulation that Xander was willing to teach.
One day, a skinny junkie came asking for a simple bio enhancement job when Xander was absent. The little cyborg knew she shouldn’t, but accepted the job and performed it quite admirably. The junky paid her with a pouch of sand. Upon seeing the sand, Xander insisted the girl get rid of it, but she secretly kept it as a momento.
Jane:
There’s a corner full of clutter, piles of burets and of notes
In the back of Zander’s tent and it’s the place I love the most
I like places with small spaces, I can read or watch them work
Solving puzzles of the body in our own sweet little world
And they let me help and teach me, we work straight into the night
In a world of wondrous science, full of puzzles and delight
And some times as we’re working, beads of sweat dripping like mad
They turn and smile at me and I love them like a dad
Here in my own little world
Here in my own little world
On the bed between my mothers, when the hours have gone low
In womb I never knew and it’s the place I love the most
And all the freaks around me, all the gorgeous cyber girls
Like my own sweet crazy family in our own sweet little world
And I love it all so dearly, and I fear to ever leave
And I’m scared of this big city that surrounds Zander and me
I’m scared of what lays out there, out beyond our precious pearl
And I’m scared that they will come and destroy our little world
Here in my own little world
Here in my own little world
One day when I was angry, screaming at my moms in rage
And I ran off in a tantrum swearing I would run away
I thought just once I’d leave the park, show that I could be brave
That I didn’t need nobody, that the world I could tame
And I stood there at the edge staring at the city cliffs
Looming, towering above me and I clenched my little fists
And after some odd minutes I just sat there and I cried
Then I turned around defeated and I went back with a sigh
Here in my own little world
Here in my own little world
Han Mi:
Over time the shanty town became a bit more closely guarded for its own protection. There was a palpable feeling in the air that this couldn't continue for much longer. Sooner or later the authorities were going to come crashing down. Everyone knew it. Everyone was right.
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5. |
Bio4 市长
04:11
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Mayor:
It’s somewhere past midnight, my office the sole light
The weight of the city is perched on my back
Disputes and decisions, the mad circus deafens
And troubles in piles crash down on my lap
It’s 3 am and once again the lonely nightime never ends
Like pills i chew all day, my ulcer kept at bay
This city exists one step from the abyss
And some days I’m all that can keep it still sane
My son the school says is disturbed in his head
As if i can take one more straw on my back
My marriage is empty, my family resents me
No friends just agendas all perched to attack
His nanny cares for all his needs he loves her now far more than me
He asks for her when it’s just us all alone
You forfeit your pleasures to keep this city together
I tell myself he’ll understand when he’s grown
What few people know is there’s dwarves down below
Far under the city where membranes dissolve
They live down there still, work their damn hamlets mill
The wheel round which eras and epochs revolve
And It’s very rare the few times when they somehow decide they will send
Some strange baffling warning way up to our stead
The last time they did, that mccailister bitch
Unleashed her plague of dolls voodoo and dead
And now here they warn, the aeon is turned
And cycles repeat and some dire change comes
The Merlin’s appeared, in the park it is clear
His Arthur, his Edgar will soon be along
The task it falls falls on my back to keep this city safe, intact
The hard job that cost me my family and son
He’ll never know this, that I do it for him
The time for the difficult choices has come
Spoken: Operation eradication is a go. Unleash the dogs.
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6. |
Bio5 简在实验室
03:25
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Han Mi:
The more Xander worked and studied the more they despaired that their dream of wildly sculptable flesh and body shapes might not be possible. Upset and obsessing, they would sometimes go on long evening walks, leaving Jane to happily mind the lab for a few hours.
Jane:
I dream that one day Xander will just turn to me and say
As i’ve done something that’s remarkable and fine
They’ll say then “Jane i love you and im proud of you and nothing
You could ever do will make me change my mind”
…..
One night she wandered in, this pretty college girl looking
for a tale but xander cale was out
I thought that i would show how useful i was so
i said “don’t go, sit down, i can help you out”
Id been studying and practicing and learning and was
Desperate to impress, to give my best and eager try
And so the girl she sat, i told her just relax and that
In fact I’d help her grow a tale that very night
I thought i knew just what do and was not confused
But that wasnt true cause it went wrong real fast
She grew a tail i guess also two more out each breast
And out her hips her forehead and her back
She screamed and so i gave her seditives which made her dazed
And seem real drunk while i tried frantically
To fix the problem then but i just screwed it up again
And giant hair grew covering all of her you see
Stumbling round a shambling mound, hair to the ground with six tails
Sticking out and howling like a fiend
Then Xander walked inside, and i wished that i could have died
And they just stood there as the poor girl screamed
Then they sighed and they worked right on late into the night
And fixed it all and i just sat and cried and cried
And they said “jane, i love you and im proud of you
And nothing you could ever do will make me change my mind”
Xander:
Jane, i love you and im proud of you
And nothing you could ever do will make me change my mind
Wait...
there's something out there
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7. |
Bio6 突袭
05:22
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Brd:
Lock and load let it go the loathesome sideshow
is coming down up on the town
blaster in your hand it's a bedlam jam
we'll be kicking it up all around
Fire in the hole, it's a breezy stroll
we'll have tea in hell today
when the blood red dogs come and do a job
and send you on your way
Basheq Latef:
We’re the party you should pray you never find yourself at
When we show up even lucifer pisses his pants
We eat havoc for breakfast, mayhem for lunch
We Wash down our dinner with a bucket of blood
When you hear that we’re bringing our sweet party to town
Say a prayer for your knickers cause theyre gonna be brown
Bringing people to their maker you could say is our gift
We’ve met great Cthulhu and we made them our bitch
Brd:
Lock and load let it go the loathesome sideshow
is coming down up on the town
blaster in your hand it's a bedlam jam
we'll be kicking it up all around
Fire in the hole, it's a breezy stroll
we'll have tea in hell today
when the blood red dogs come and do a job
and send you on your way
Han Mi:
They descended one night in force, the blood red dogs sweeping in with bullets and bombs. Jane watched as her mother, Rebecca, was shot, mowed down along with everyone else sitting in her circle. Her mother, the Little Meme, was small and thus escaped damage. The Meme’s wife was badly injured but still alive, so she begged Xander to take the girl and run, while she stayed and desperately tried to keep Rebecca alive.
Basheq Latef:
Your orders say dogs take this whole park down
Everyone you find in here you take them all out
they’ve cooked up a plague and our city is doomed
Unless someone steps up and that someone is you
Theres a kid who’s name zander who invented this plague
We’re gonna need to confrim he’s taken two to the head
All these other scum lets show them the love
The sweet sweet kiss of our sweet sweet guns
Brd:
Lock and load let it go the loathesome sideshow
is coming down up on the town
blaster in your hand it's a bedlam jam
we'll be kicking it up all around
Fire in the hole, it's a breezy stroll
we'll have tea in hell today
when the blood red dogs come and do a job
and send you on your way
Han Mi:
Xander and Jane took off, running through the war zone that used to be their home. Unfortunately they were spotted by a soldier. The girl’s obvious cyborg enhancements marked her as a target and the soldier sent a hail bullets into the little cyborg, shattering her legs and left arm.
The girl lay gasping on the ground when Xander picked her up, tucked her under their arm and ran desperately to the outskirts of the burning shanty town.
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8. |
Bio7 出埃及记
07:12
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Xander:
im sorry that i failed you one more time
im sorry that it broke down in a blaze of pain and fire
and when in that one moment you needed that last line
im sorry that i failed you one more time
Han:
Nearby in the park was a covered hole leading underground. It had existed long, long before the shanty town, and the park’s denizens knew to go to it in just such a situation. They had just opened it when Xander arrived, and they all threw themselves into the hole, down into the darkness.
Jane:
One day you will wake
not knowing what is coming
not knowing how the day will end that day
When it's done, ruin comes
and loss it will surround you
there'll be tears in the dark
and all you fear will hound you
and you'll cry away
you'll cry, you'll cry today
Lloyd:
I wouldn’t go that way if I were you. That way leads to dwarves and a wheel and I doubt you want to mess about with them. I once lived in these tunnels for some years and if you’re open to advice, if you go down that way you’ll arrive at a dark stone gate. Past that..... Well, I’ll admit, the faerie realms are not for everybody but you seem to be functioning under limited options.
That pouch of sand the girl is carrying, you’ll need that when you reach the gate. All of you will need to ingest a small amount, but once you do, you’ll be able to cross through. I sincerely wish you good luck and I’m sorry things have to go the way they will.
Han Mi:
The refugees staggered through the tunnels, soldiers behind them. As they neared the stone gate, Jane, the broken cyborg, finally passed out. The remains of her human limbs were mangled and drenched in blood and she could take no more.
Xander:
im sorry then i failed you one more time
all the things i love the most, i cannot keep alive
and just to see you kept from hurt id rather id have died
im sorry then i failed you one more time
Han Mi:
And so, 30 ragged and desperate refugees passed through the dark stone gate, into the faerie realm.
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9. |
Bio8 白化族
07:25
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Han Mi:
The battered group of refugees staggered to the other side of the gate, where a different world awaited them. They soon encountered an otherworldly forest, full of glamours and strange colors.
They followed the sounds of drums until finally, some hours later, they reached a settlement where an Albino tribe greeted them and granted them audience with their red haired queen.
Lillith, The Albino Queen:
Elysium is not the end my children
There are places still above it you must know
And in these far away ultra dimensions
There were two gods in love once long ago
To show her depth of love unto to her lover
To pick a living jewel the goddess pledged
That glowed with such exquisite bliss and wonder
But which sat above a well that downward led
...
Alas, in her attempt the goddess stumbled
And she and the fair jewel they both fell down
That well went through realms and through dimensions
And she shattered when she hit our world’s ground
The pieces of this goddess still they linger
They are the souls of our albino tribe
And bit by bit we all then will reform her
Once all of us have been born and have died
...
Our tribe it will survive millennium til
The goddess once again has been made whole
But still we must then make our way back upward
And for that the goddess she will need that jewel
It falls on us to build our sacred tunnels
Through all the far wide cosmos if we must
The wheel has turned the era is upon us
The time to seek the well and jewel has come
...
Our task can only be achieved through magic
And thus technology we all must shun
Lest our ways and powers be forgotten
And the fate that we all strive towards be undone
One day then our tribe reforms the goddess
And back up to our true land we will go
To join our love who even now waits for us
And weeps in bitter grief and loss and woe
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Han Mi:
The tribe tended to Jane’s wounds as best they could, but could not revive her. They gave the refugees 3 days to rest, after which they sadly insisted they could not stay and must travel onward. Xander wept as they walked on, carrying Jane day and night and refusing to let anyone else share their burden.
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10. |
Bio9 仙子之歌
08:48
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Han Mi:
Some time later the wandering refugees came within sight of the fairy city of Victoria.
*Whole bunch of fairy shenanigans*
Faeries:
Far, far in the past, a god mournful and sad
Came to this world from a far place, alas.
so hard he tried to find his fallen bride
But he knew not where in history she lies
He searched far and wide but hadn't much time
For if he stayed too long and he’d break and he’d die
He’d shatter and roll like ice in the cold
And he’d dissolve back into thousands of souls
.
Far, far in the past, a creature was sad
Her mate he was dead and sweet unborn lass
Was certain to die, and so there she cried
Until this wandering god there passed on by
In mercy he gave, some of his flame
And mother and sweet unborn baby he saved
this baby now had the magic he’d passed
And faeries and humans split in separate paths
.
Our prophets have warned, when that wheel it turns
Drought into Faerieland comes and it burns
The humans will rise, the dark in their eyes
Upon our race they will wish us to die
But, they say there's a tribe, with which we align
And it is with them that our future will lie
And here you arrive, come stay for a time
And let us see what kind of fate hereby lies
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11. |
Bio10 赞德的突破
07:00
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Han Mi:
Jane woke up a long time later in the strange faerie city of Victoria, where a sheen of sparkle and unreality permeated everything. The human population seemed to float about listlessly, at any moment only a step away from senselessness.
Jane was in perfect health and even had a pair of wings. She set out to find Xander.
Xander had arrived at Victoria and immediately set about trying to heal the girl. Desperate for new insights and techniques they consulted the faeries and began studying fae magic in hopes it would provide them with new insights.
It did.
They approached fae magic like learning a new programming language. But in order to master the language you must master the logic, and the logic was not meant for the human mind. The more they understood, the more they had to twist their sanity. It drove them incurably mad. Furthermore, in order to give the girl new flesh without waiting the long time it would take to grow it, they had get it from somewhere. So they took it from themselves. Xander was now a laughing, insane torso, devoid of legs and all but their right arm.
Xander:
best you can
best you can
And i swore that i would save her but i knew i never would
I cannot hold the patterns of the things i’ve understood
Your mind is what you sacrifice to peer behind the cracks
Too much to grasp but you must, you must, you must bring her back
And you must, this once, save the girl that's crying
All your strife, your whole life is wasted if she’s dying
And you cry away
And you cry lord you cry today
You try and try you try the best you can you try until you die
You try the best you can
You try and try you try the best you can you try until you die
best you can
Jane:
im sorry that i failed you one more time
im sorry that you broke down in a blaze of pain and fire
just to see you free from harm id rather id have died
im sorry that i failed you one more time
im sorry then i failed you one more time
of all the things i loved you most, the sun within my life
and when in that one moment you needed that last line
im sorry then i failed you one more time
im sorry that i failed you one more time
im sorry that you broke down in a blaze of pain and fire
just to see you free from harm id rather id have died
im sorry that i failed you one more time
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12. |
Bio11 回归
08:38
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Han Mi:
Although now beyond help, Xander had written down this new bio-science in carefully explained chapters with a word of caution to never study beyond chapter 7. The notebook solved the riddle of extreme flesh and body manipulation and after careful study, Jane could now alter human form in ways previously unimaginable.
The refugees meanwhile, were increasingly disturbed by the effects staying in the fairy realm were having upon them and were worried for their long term sanity. After careful deliberation they decided to head back to New Albion, but first, each was bio-altered according to their wishes, creating a fantastical, mutated army dedicated to retaking and claiming the park.
Jane:
Home, i wish i was home again
Somewhere i could lay my head on down
Home, i wish i was home again
Somewhere safe, to set my burdens down
Shanty Town Residents:
We’ve got flesh that's been remodeled
Bodies you will not believe
We’ve got claws and wings all kinds of things
grotesque and odd and sweet
We’ve got bones in shapes unheard of
Tech that you could never hack
And someone’s been sleeping in our bed
And we’ve come to take it back
*Whole bunch of mayhem*
Han Mi:
A group of soldiers surrounded Jane. She knelt down on one knee, hand touching the ground.
She looked up at them. And smiled.
*Mayhem times heccery*
Jane:
Home, i wish i was home again
Somewhere i could lay my head on down
Home, i wish i was home again
Somewhere safe, to set my burdens down
You cannot have it
you cannot take our home
you cannot have it
you go one day alone
You cannot have it
you cannot take our home
you cannot have it
you go one day alone
Shanty Town Residents:
We are flesh that is the future we are hybrid and tech and bone
This park is sovereign country and its borders they are closed
We are made of flesh and magic and a little part machine
We will paint right here a new land such as you have never seen
We are bio evolution we are science gone insane
We are things you couldn't dream of nor the gods to which you pray
We’re the next step of the species, we’re the future being born
And this border you don't cross unless your children want to join
...
Han Mi:
Thus, did the victorious refugees form the independent colony of Xandoria within the borders of the central New Albion park, led by their warrior cyborg princess, Jane.
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Paul Shapera Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more
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