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Kevin: So Kem built a forest for the fairies

Abi: A haven from the looks of it

Geoff: Where’s the code?

Alyssa: Enough with the stupid…

Geoff: Seems to me you stand to gain plenty

Pixel: Hello outsiders

Kevin: Hello there. We are detectives

Pixel: You are from the outside

Kevin: Yes, we’re trying to find what happened to Kem and what’s going on here.

Pixel: You are friends of Kem?

Abi: We are

Pixel: Kem was a friend of my people

Kevin: And you are?

Pixel: My name is Pixel

Kevin: Pixel, can you explain all this to us?

Pixel:
My people we innocent, minding our own business when
A mage named Robert Stillwell laid a cold and fiendish trap
Soft sprinkle sugar cookies, it’s like crack but once we took these
We were trapped and so began our long lament of woe and black

Kevin: Wait, the mage who trapped you was Rob Stillwell?

Abi: So, they used to be partners

Kevin: I bet their falling out is a hell of a story. But please continue

Pixel:
Our souls they were uploaded online they were encoded
This Voodooverse is powered by our magic and our sweat
The only one who cared was this boy Kem and this boy dared
To find a way to help us in our fight to find our freedom yet

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 all free


Kem, he built this forest, an escape from our endurance
And one day he would join us walk away into the net
He loved us yes, he did, hated the world in which he lived
And so, to come with us he wished, he is a true and valued friend

We knew something had happened when our sun it went all black and
Our friend zippy didn’t check on us as he did every day
Kem is like my family and his plight i promise touched me
And to free him is my duty, it’s the promise i have made

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 all free

Santiago:
Oh you little lazy twerp get back to work
I’m afraid the Voodooverse doesn’t run itself
It’s gonna be the next big thing I’m gonna be its mighty king
Gonna dominate the market, how its gonna sell

You were lazy yes it true, look what all i made of you
You’re productive little workers with purpose yet
The time to rest is gone we gotta getta movin on
There’s money out there waiting to make and spend

Everybody wants the ring that is worn by the king
And they cling and they think they can take him down
Everybody thought that they got a shot at the top
Be the boss get a piece of that golden crown

Santiago I’m a fan, you the man with the plan
Help us understand how you stay the king
How you rock on top, you a bop, never stop
You the smooth walk, king cock, diamond ring



Xiao-Li:
Joy it will come one day in Elysium
Til then we endure as we must
all our duties and cares, lonesome burdens we bear
Til elysium
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Alyssa:
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 second hand, protecting Geoff
a home with moms’ stale cigarettes
And scratch cards that don’t win

I never got the lucky break
If luck exists, it makes me wait

Geoff:
I wish that Kem had seen me, that he’d seen how much i cared
I never really told him, but you see for years and years
It’s been me and Alyssa, huddled out here in the rain
But with Kem i feel my heart will burst each time he spoke my name

Kevin: Abi! Make it stop!

Abi: I’m on it! Spell from hell time!

Kevin:
Thank you all for shutting up. I’ve heard everything i need to hear. Take a moment to collect yourselves and then I will reveal who the murderer is.

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from Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Stolen Sun, released December 20, 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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