Rebellion
By Chama C. Fox
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Warning! This song contains the following bad words:
bitch, lust, whips, take, mate, blow, head and lover. It also
features the word BEEP. Sensitive people, to whom the
word BEEP is disturbing, should go watch a Bi$ney movie
instead.
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Narrator:
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As Roan took the stage to convince the other prisoners,
little did she know what would await her...
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Roan:
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Look at you, the sight is pathetic
Weary workers without will
From cradle to grave, you toil as a slave
Is that destiny you fulfill?
Let's just do the arithmetic
The guards are pitifully few
With a brilliant plan, it is certain we can
Overman them in one quick coup
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Prisoner:
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Hah! It's easy for you to come here and bitch
It's not your tail that's going to fry
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Roan:
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Oh, it's sizzling right along with yours
But don't you see, it's worth it,
It's worth every risk you can take
You're forgetting so much...
Roaming through the forest, free
No more whips or agony
Once more master of your fate
Hmm... what about your mate?
Think of lovers lost out there
Life and lust for bitch and mare
Yours to take with pleasure if
Once again you'll BEEP
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Cheer from the prisoners
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Roan:
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*sigh* Males... I knew it...
Oh well, think about it...
Think about it!
Stand with me and share my vision
(Of light and darkness)
There is freedom just behind the door
(Want to see more, want to see more)
It is time to decide, to stand up and with pride
Sound the drums of the final war
Time has gone for their derision
And it's time for us to vow
In life and lust, it is certain, we must
Follow in rebellion now!
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The prisoners chant "Rebellion, rebellion",
unaware of the fact that the guards silently appear...
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Catpain:
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Stop it!
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Roan continues trying to get the prisoners into action
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Catpain:
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Shut up, bitch!
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Narrator:
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Shouted the captain of the guard
As he landed a heavy blow with the hilt
of his sword on the back of Roan's head
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Catpain:
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And what's that chanting?
Did I hear "Rebellion"?
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The prisoners make embarrassed sounds, stalling for time
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Rag:
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Hmm... rebellion... we sell gin... We sell gin!
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Narrator:
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And then a grey shape stormed forth from the shadows
to rescue the day
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The prisoners quickly figure out the game, and start singing "We sell gin"
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Rag:
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We sell gin for most fabulous prices
What flavour entices your fancy or whim
Have no fear, we sell beer
And our ale isn't stale
There is more, better learn to swim
(Where your tongue will ride) Don't you think!
(On the golden tide) Just you drink!
(Our wine is best) Lift your cup!
(Put it to the test) Bottoms up!
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Catpain:
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Silence!
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Narrator:
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Yelled the captain of the guard again
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Catpain:
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That goes for you as well!
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An abrupt whip lash silences the poor musician.
The peaceful catpain obviously hates all forms of violins...
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Catpain:
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And who is that?
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Guard:
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Nah, it's just that no-good rag we picked up
Thought he'd be safe with us... heh...
Asked us to take him in
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Catpain:
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No really... seriously!
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Guard:
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*laugh* Yeah, he's been in...dentured ever since
Worthless but harmless... just a moron.
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Rag:
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(invoking special fool powers) A fool, m'lord, but perhaps not such big a fool as yourself...
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Rag unfortunately botches, and is silenced by a hard whip lash
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Catpain:
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Such insolence! I've never...
Hmm... very well, you can stay here with your
new friends tonight. I've just thought out
something very special for you in the morning.
Sleep well if you can!
Oh, and bring the bitch
She's up for some... treatment as well...
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The wolves chuckle cruelly as they drag the unconscious Roan away
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History:
Rebellion (We Sell Gin) is a cinematc sequence [sic],
tailor-made for
a certain scenario. It was quickly written and pre-recorded between gaming
sessions, as to hook into the current story line. It was performed with
Roan and Rag done live and the other voices pre-recorded.
The current party had ended up as prisoners in a mine. They were treated
very badly, and some feared they might perish.
Roan, a botch... er... bitch,
attempted a scintillating rabble-rousing speech to convince the other
rather lethargic prisoners that they really wanted to get out of there.
For a while, it seemed to succeed, but then she was stopped (in a quite
abrupt manner) by the guard.
Rag, another prisoner
(and a fool)
attempted to cover for her by convincing the guards that they
weren't really planning rebellion, merely selling gin, in an
"improvised" musical number that only can happen in cinematc sequences. :)
The outcome? Well, better luck next time...
Recording this song was a lot of fun. Since I didn't have to take the
task seriously, I had a lot of freedom to experiment and try things that
I'd never dare, normally. All voices were done by me (Chama, and my apologies
for bad voice acting :),
the orchestra by my trusty ol' synth, and special effects... er...
whatever was at paw. In this respect, this recording was rather "oldsk00l".
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The cavernous ambience was done by recording rummaging a hand through
a bag of chips for a long time and then wreaking havoc on the sample
with forwards and backwards reverb effects. As I'm writing this, my
hand still smells of the d*rned stuff...
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The whip was done vocally by making a swishing noise followed by a
loud tongue click (African style), and finally applying a bit of
distortion to it.
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I never thought I'd have any use for the "Record Stop" effect.
Well, I was wrong...
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Shame on me... I did't have any dice at hand... and I call myself a
role player! Oh well, where there's life, there's lus... logic. I
unscrewed a few screws from my computer case, and used those
together with a digitizing pad to come up with a decent sound.
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No Roans were harmed in the making of this song. The "sword" connecting
with the back of her head was the Win32 Superbible connecting with
a loudspeaker while recording. What didn't make it into the song were the
ensuing hectic seconds when I was trying to rescue the microphone and
computer from spilled orange juice after the loudspeaker hit the glass...
Finally, encoding Rebellion wasn't as easy as it would seem. Due to the high
complexity of the surround effects (such as the cavernous ambience), it
did not encode well in less than 256kBit as MP3, yielding a file of the
staggering size of 9Mb. Ogg Vorbis handles surround much better, and encoded
as OGG, it only took 4Mb. Therefore, I offer both versions for download.
The MP3 sounds slightly better but is quite a lot larger.
Original performance: Apr 21, 2002
This recording: May 26, 2002
Public release: Jul 4, 2002
Legal stuff:
You are allowed to copy
this song to any medium, spread, perform and broadcast, given that proper
credits are included. Public modifications of this song have to be acknowledged
though.
Since I seriously doubt that anyone else would be interested in performing
this song within a game, I won't release the "live" version of it (my HD
ate it, anyway). The mixture of
bad humour, s*x and violins is probably quite out of style for most Ironclaw
groups :)
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Regards: Chama
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