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BA S5 The Hunt

from The Room Beneath New Albion by Paul Shapera

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Alex:
Well i can tell you that for some time indeed tensions had indeed been building between my organization and that albino tribe who lives in them tunnels. For one thing, them tunnels are a real spooky place and half my guys'll piss themselves before they'll even go down there. And not us, not the City Council, i mean no one seems to be able to touch that damn tribe, which is a shame because when you're running a smuggling operation, access to underground tunnels would be reeal convenient. There has been talk for some time about runnin' a little "extermination operation".

So i decide to take five or six of my toughest, most fearless guys down there and my entire organization waits above armed to the teeth with orders that if we're not back in six hours they're to come down there like the hordes of hell and exterminate every gawdamn thing they find.

The hunt begins where half mad prowl
in the caves below in the underground
The quiet, the lost, the halls forgot
we've come to deal the fate they've wrought

Down here they say the walls between
what's real or not are thin and weak
the strongest, viscious of my crew
come down now for the blood pursuit

We make it right. We make our way,
perhaps make war at end of day
I've made naught but blood and fear
and all i'll leave is a trail of tears

Alice:
Heads will roll as you lob them off
The work of the Angels never stops
Nick em off, bring em round, pile them, feeling down?
Get naked, roll in them all around

Heads will roll as you laugh them off
The mad sad carousel never stops
Snort the sand, steal a knee, cheek chest hand
Build the room, Angels whisper their plans

Alex:
The hunt goes on the hour at hand
the long, dark land the lost enchant
where theives think they can sneer and sneak
and steal, make us look fool and weak

In six hours if we do not return
a war begins, belowground burns
the albino tribe we long mistrust
will shed their blood, be rendered dust

I've made my vow. I've made my mind.
I make my way through caverns blind
All i've made is blood and fear
and all i'll leave is a trail of tears

Alice:
Heads will pop as you drop them off
The mad house fun ride never stops
Steal a knee, steal a head, body parts your only friends
Talk, cry, weep, sleep, laugh with them

And the mad house never ends
The dark walls laugh and curse and when
A few more lines each lines, head bakes, it takes
Another piece, a little more of you away

Alex:
I had the exact dialogue of what happened pretty much all written out and i was gonna do a whole thing, like where my guy says "oh Al we found her in here" and i say "oh who, that? She's a crazy junkie she couldn't possibly be the thief" but honestly, it sounded terrible so just to sum it up for you: we find this crazy junkie chick, she's got the Doll parts, she fits the description, so i tell my boys: Okay. Put her down.

Alice:
Fuck you.

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from The Room Beneath New Albion, released November 24, 2014

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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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