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Nora Sonneborn as Jill
Abilene Olson as Asha
Bradley Johnson as Michael

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Jill:
We’d experiment and play in dimensions far away
But a toll was being taken on our minds
We didn’t notice for so long but bit by bit things they went wrong
And in our ardor had ignored important signs

We were cracking but the worst was pure Asha who broke first
little tics has multiplied and piled up
til at last she broke its true, we didn’t know what we should do
and the days of innocence were finally done

sometimes i dream magazines, smiling starlets
glamour and haze how they wave from the days that are now long since swept
dazzle and shine, lost lives once upon a memory
til sad old ladies alone in a dark home is all that is left

Michael:
It’s been weeks since the gnome war

Jill:
Weeks, it’s been months

Lloyd:
Jill, Michael, it’s been years, we’ve been here for years

Jill:
I think somethings happening to our minds

Michael:
have you noticed our tics are...

Raven:
come quick, its Asha

Jill:
Asha!

Lloyd:
Asha!

Michael:
What’s happening?

Jill:
It’s a seizure. Make sure she doesn’t bang her head

Lloyd:
We should get her to a hospital.

Raven:
Her seizure is causing a small reality storm around her. Look.

Michael:
It’s stopping

Lloyd:
Asha, are you okay?

Asha:
you try and try, you try the best you can, you try...... the best.... best...

Jill:
we need William

Raven:
how do we even call him

Lloyd:
I’m going to find him and bring him back

Jill:
Lloyd, the places he goes, its too dangerous

Asha:
Best you can... best you can...

Lloyd:
I’d die for her. Happily. i’d die for any of you. I’m going.

Raven:
Lloyd, i beg you, i’ll go mad without you

Michael:
David, he’s right. We need William. He has to do it.

Jill:
Good luck.

.....

Michael:
David wasn’t kidding, he’s going crazy without Lloyd.

Jill:
William warned us not to stay here any longer. He said itd mess with our minds. I think we’ve changed in ways we can unchange. David’s not even David anymore. He’s raven all the time now.

Michael:
i wonder how Lloyd’s faring

Jill:
Oh no, Asha’s having another seizure.

.....

Michael:
David, are you okay?

Raven:
my minds unraveling and I’m spiraling and unfurled
Without Lloyd all is existential isolation
I crave for sex and wild abandonment, to scream
and drown myself in chaos and hyper stimulation

Only noise and mad indulgence can disguise
My slow descent from tears to empty degradation
And all i’ll ever know is desperation as
I try to find distraction to avoid stagnation

When the story of your life becomes unfurled
And you find that it was just a fabrication
And all you loved or thought you had or thought you lost
Was just an exercise in baseline exploitation

Whatever hero’s noble journey that you’re on
Is just a drunken run from tears to degradation
And all you’ll ever know is desperation as
You try to find distraction to avoid stagnation

Michael:
We’re all unravelling its all, becoming so unfurled
our paradise is crashing into desolation
We lived in Eden full of love and full of dreams
and now its capsizing in bombs of desolation

Jill:
We’re all unravelling its all, becoming so unfurled
our paradise is crashing into desolation
We lived in Eden full of love and full of dreams
and now its capsizing in bombs

Jill & Michael:
We had love and the groove
we had mojo and moves
we knew Eden for just a short time
and now its all crashing down
paradise spinning round
requiem for the time of our lives

Michael:
Transcendent stupendous hyperdelic consensus
We got the groove movin through in our hearts
We’re shaman in lands past where last signposts stand
We got the love holding us in our hearts our hearts

Jill:
But at long last Lloyd returned
With William looking so concerned
And he took Asha, cradled her within his arms
He said i’ll take her now with me
He said im going to try and see
If i can heal her if she hasn’t gone too far

He said its time you all must leave
You must go back to level three
Find some narratives and get your heads aligned
The time will come for you at last
To set upon the higher paths
But for now you all must rest and stabilize

All (sadly):
Comin with the love and the groove we got mojo and moves
We got magic like you’ve never seen
We got wild things all happenin’,you cannot imagined
We got love and we got us a dream

Jill:
Sometimes i dream magazines, smiling starlets
glamour and haze how they wave from days that are now long since swept
dazzle and shine, lost lives once upon a memory
til sad old ladies alone in a dark home is all that is left

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from The Posthuman War Act 1: The Playhouse, released January 31, 2022

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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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