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[Opening Voiceover]
Know now there is no time, space between the Well & Unknowing. Our story starts there. Well into our future, yet far beyond our past. In a romance between a pair of Unheavenly Creatures.
The Five Houses of the Star Supremacy have privatized the detention zones of the galaxy. These planetary prison pits reassembled from the cracked worlds of the Great Crash. Which brings us to our stage. Where the light must learn to love the black. The Dark Sentencer.
It begins with them, but ends with me, their son, Vaxus.
[Lyrics]
Here, emotions behold
You've entered a Hell where the Devil is made of gold
Please, don't run your mouth
The questions before have no place in this haunted house
Reveal your selfish pleasure
One more time run for good measure
In the answer you hold
Time would be better off if our souls had been sold
Here where the light only dies to remember
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Welcome home
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
Here, dig me a grave
And toss in the lives that you can't be bothered to save
With their blood on your hands
You enjoy the sun while you shit in the purest sand
Kiss your lover with that filthy mouth you fucking monster
Here as evil now gropes
It's caught us off guard with its hand reaching for our throats
Here where the light only dies to remember
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Welcome home
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
There's no telling when the truth is clear
Pay it no mind
Lines were drawn for us
For all sides
In the afterglow
Echoes of time unfold
Give me your word my dear
And promise you won't let go
It's a shame I fear
From end to start
We walk their lines
All to play the fucking part
Shame I fear
From end to start
We walk their lines
All to play the fucking part
I fear we've got all we had wanted
Close your eyes and believe it didn't happen
Now shut your mouth beyond your lies
The world knows to stay away from you
In the blood you let run
They march as you lead
We laugh in the sun
Maybe that's all we need
I, and I, and I'm sorry
You can't escape
Here where the light only dies to remember
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Welcome home
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
Welcome home
Welcome home
You've entered a Hell where the Devil is made of gold
Please, don't run your mouth
The questions before have no place in this haunted house
One more time run for good measure
In the answer you hold
Time would be better off if our souls had been sold
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
And toss in the lives that you can't be bothered to save
With their blood on your hands
You enjoy the sun while you shit in the purest sand
Kiss your lover with that filthy mouth you fucking monster
Here as evil now gropes
It's caught us off guard with its hand reaching for our throats
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
Pay it no mind
Lines were drawn for us
For all sides
In the afterglow
Echoes of time unfold
Give me your word my dear
And promise you won't let go
From end to start
We walk their lines
All to play the fucking part
Shame I fear
From end to start
We walk their lines
All to play the fucking part
Close your eyes and believe it didn't happen
Now shut your mouth beyond your lies
The world knows to stay away from you
In the blood you let run
They march as you lead
We laugh in the sun
Maybe that's all we need
I, and I, and I'm sorry
You can't escape
In a place where the blind truly can see
Hear my voice dearly departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease
Shed your skin and expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can't get back
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Submitted by
ncc74656m On May 31, 2018
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Years ago, chaos cut through this atmosphere. The fractured worlds that inhabit this space were once locked in a force of uncontrollable destruction. Gravity was lost. Their planetary trajectories conjoined in one catastrophic collision, choking to remain viable even as the dying glow of their cores peek through the cracks and scars of those impactful moments. Yet a gasp is a sign of life and the planets that many might have cast off as annihilated space continued to show a pulse across the hopelessness. This discarded earth is still very much alive…and made profitable by the 5 Houses of the Star Supremacy, an elite society who looked to the sky and saw potential in the wasted planets. The opportunistic approach could hardly be considered an act of empathy for the human condition, as the decision to convert the dying planets into private prisons meant another type of life sentence awaited those shipped off to their remote reaches. Here, the desolate and derelict would burn away slowly, trapped in a race to death with the very ground they stand on. In this space, between the Well and unknowing.
Our Story Starts there. Into our future, yet far beyond our past. In a romance between a pair of Unheavenly Creatures.
Weaving through the blacked out space toward the freckling of cracked planets, The Gavel moved like a funeral procession. In many ways, it was the end of life for the two prisoners being transported within its unmitigable walls, to the most deplorable and prized of the doomed prisons, known simply as The Dark Sentencer.
Two apprehended criminals, Nostrand (a.k.a. Creature) and Otto (a.k.a. Colossus, a.k.a. Hanging Judge) are being sentenced to life imprisonment in The Dark Sentencer, a "prison pit" comprising multiple levels inside of a dead planet. Once partners, the two men have become estranged as a result of their last major job gone wrong and want nothing more than to kill each other. The men are dropped from the judgment ship The Gavel into the pit of The Dark Sentencer and wake up inside the planet after being separated in the descent.