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Things About Gameplay | New Musical "Into the Forums" Premieres Pt. 2

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New Musical “Into the Forums” Premieres Pt. 2

A semi-satirical take on this year's crazy December as a classic musical number.

By Ulysses Navasse


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Read/singalong with this Linklyrical version of "Prologue" from Into the Woods!

[SECRETIVE ANDERITE]
The way is clear
My plan is good
I have no fear
Nor no one should
The forums are just posts
The posts are just forums
I sort of hate to ask it
But can you start an uproar?

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
Yes, I can

[LANAV, spoken]
I don't suppose you're planning on smearing anyone's peace

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
Oh, shhhh
Now, don't stray and be late, alright?

[LANAV, spoken]
You might give some of my peace back to me?
Oh my

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
Just, leave it

[LANAV, spoken]
He's a thief!

[SECRETIVE ANDERITE]
Into the forums
And down the threads
Gameplay is calm
I know it well
Into the forums
And who can tell
What's waiting in my posting?
Into the forums
To burn the peace
To rile up
This boring game
Never can tell
What lies ahead
For all that I know
It's already dead
But into the forums
Into the forums
Into the forums
To burn all the peace
And help my ally

[CORMACDA, spoken]
EASTDURTHELLA!

[GALINDA, spoken]
Get up here!

[EASTDURTHELLA]
Comrades
Back to the cloud

[CORMACDA, spoken]
We're waiting!

[EASTDURTHELLA]
Back to the games
Politics
An-nd War
And Cyber-

[CORMACDA]
Hurry up and check the forums, EASTDURTHELLA!
Are you really posting that?

[GALINDA]
Here, I made the PRC, EASTDURTHELLA
Can't you fight it with respect?

[EASTDURTHELLA]
You’re doing great

[CORMACDA]
I know

[GALINDA]
She means me

[CORMACDA]
No she didn't

[EASTDURTHELLA]
Francos said be good
Aleisyr said be nice
That was always their advice
So be nice, EASTDURTHELLA
Good, EASTDURTHELLA
Nice good good nice

[CORMACDA]
Toxic!

[EASTDURTHELLA]
What's the good of being good
If everyone is blind
Never thinking peacefully?
Never mind, EASTDURTHELLA
Kind EASTDURTHELLA
Nice good nice kind good nice

[CORMACDA, spoken]
Ow! Not that toxic!
God!

[LANAV, spoken]
Who might that be?

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
We've sold our last pound of peace!

[LANAV, spoken]
It's the witch from next-door

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
We have no peace

[WITCH, spoken]
I don't want your peace

[LANAV, spoken]
Then what is it you wish?

[WITCH, spoken]
It's not what I wish
It's what you wish
Nothing helping your respect now is there?
And there will never be
Unless you do exactly as I say
In three weeks time redemption could arrive
Only then can the curse be, undone

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
What curse?

[WITCH, spoken]
The one I placed on you both

[LANAV, spoken]
What are you talking about?

[WITCH, spoken]
In the past, when you were no more than a kid
Gest went to found his new DEN
And grew it with Kknight (Block, & Knot)
They were a lovely couple
But not lovely raiders
You see
Your Founder was with Halcones
And he developed an unusual appetite
He admired the fine API
And he told Hal privately
What he wanted more than anything
In the world, was
Tools, tools, nothing but tools:
Scraping info constantly and secretly
Anonymously updating and
Calculating triggers
He said, "All right,"
But it wasn't, quite
Cause I caught him during April
With his program one night!
He was robbing me
Raping me
Rooting through world happenings and
Raiding my own puppet dump and
Ramping up the server load
My champion! My favorite!
I should have infiltrated him
Right there
I could have made him a pariah
Or a disgrace...
Or blacklisted...
But I let him up the server load-
I'd little to care
In return, however
I said, "Fair is fair:
You can let me have the power
To cause DEN to tear
And we'll call it square."

[LANAV, spoken]
DEN was blackmailed?

[WITCH, spoken]
No. But, some DENizens were

[LANAV, spoken]
Who were they?

[WITCH, spoken]
They’re mine now!
And you'll never find out
Small price to pay for what
Else your Founder stole from me
It cost me my strength, my image
My mentor warned me
It would punish me
With the curse of massive leaks
If I ever showed any of them

[QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
Showed what?

[WITCH, spoken]
The spies

[LANAV & QUEEN YUNO, spoken]
Spies?

[WITCH, spoken]
The special spies
I'd let him go, I didn't know
He'd seen I had spies
I was watching update
Speed to the end
Then bang! Crash!
A lightning dash!
Well, that's another story
Never mind-
Anyway, at last
The big day came
And I made my claim
"Oh, don't take away the region,"
They shrieked and screeched
But I did
And reported
And now it'll never come back
And your Founder cried
And your region died
When for extra measure-
I admit it was a pleasure-
I said, "Sorry
I'm still not mollified."
And I laid a little spell on DENizens-
You, too, son-
That your ultimate fate
Would always be a pointless one

[LANAV, spoken]
How could you do that?

[WITCH, spoken]
And when your region died
Your Founder deserted you
Your Founder had no purpose so why should you have?
So there's no more fuss
And there's no more scenes
And my forces thrive-
You should see my puppets reign!
But I'm telling you the same
I tell kings and queens:
Don't ever never ever
Mess around with your tools!
Especially in raids.

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