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nap time - a vagrant's odyssey EP: coming SOON.
New song: coming SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017.

-let us begin the first story.-

the first story has now begun.
a vagrant's odyssey ep - OUT NOW.

a vagrant's odyssey

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Before we begin the story, we must familiarize ourselves with the World in which it is placed. The year is 300X. Self-aware robots were not exactly invented; the World simply woke up one day (so to speak) and the robots were there. Living alongside the humans. Some humans didn't mind this change. In fact, they welcomed it. They embraced the robot phenomenon, and the World was ushered swiftly into a new era. However, there were many in the World who did not accept the robots. Some felt it unjust to have "mere piles of metal" as their equals. Others didn't like the change and unfamiliarity the robots brought upon the World. Conflicts arose. Chaos ensued. Less than 100 years after the robots appeared on earth, the humans had segregated themselves completely away from the robots. Each of the species took up a different half of the World, on either side of an enormous volcano which was visible from nearly everywhere. Regretfully, even this didn't relieve the tension - it instead continued to grow. 
This is where out characters come in. For this story, we will simply call them the Local (a human) and the Vagrant (a robot). Before the separation of humans and robots, these two were the best of friends. They did everything together - but that quickly changed when the two species were divided. The Local and the Vagrant were forbidden to even contact each other.

a migration of mechanical birds (intro)

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The Local and Vagrant are tired of the World saying they shouldn't even know one another. The Vagrant hatches a plan. She explains to the Local the the two of them could run away together; they could live together, away from civilization. Away from where the humans and robots dwell on different halves of the World.
The Vagrant explains her plans in detail, and the decide it's worth a try. They agree to meet each other the following night to enact their escape plan.

soaring freely (w/ Cherished)

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The Vagrant and Local meet at night, both prepared to leave civilization behind. But just as they begin to leave, a twig snaps behind them - and a group of humans come out of the brush. The Vagrant and Local run for their lives, but are soon captured by the other humans. They are taken back to the nearest human town and locked up behind steel bars. They try to convince the guards to let them go; that humans and robots can cooperated and live together. But the guards won't listen. However, there is still hope. The Vagrant came up with a brilliant plan before, so she begins to think of a new one - for escaping the prison.
Within only a few hours, the inattentive guards have fallen asleep and the Local and Vagrant are able to sneak away and escape. They are finally free! The two escape quickly but carefully into the night.
What they don't realize is that what they have done is the final straw - a catalyst for what will become one of the deadliest conflicts in a thousand years.

the prison

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The two have escaped, and are hiding in a secret safe place outside of the domain of both humans and robots, as far away from the World's central volcano as possible. Everything seems to quiet down again, until a few days later. The Local is climbing a tree and sees huge amounts of smoke coming from the robot cities. He warns the Vagrant, who is distressed by the news, but the two decide they should stay away from civilization. Days pass. The smoke comes from both robot and human territories now, and hasn't been ebbed. The Local and the Vagrant decide to go back to investigate. A miniature war has broken out. There is no real battlefield, but bands of humans and robots have been attacking and tearing down each other's cities for several days. The number of casualties is already alarmingly high. The Local and Vagrant discover that both sides thought the other had released the human and robot from their prison, and over a short time the sparks of this disagreement were fanned into a bonfire.
The Vagrant and Local frantically search about. They need to find a way to show both sides that neither is the cause for the war, and put a stop to it. After hours of searching and dodging the projectiles from the fighters, they finally find the robots' leader fighting the humans' leader at the top of the huge volcano that separates the realms. The Vagrant and Local run to their respective leaders, begging them to stop fighting, and explaining how the whole war was their own fault. No one will listen to them; all the fighters are too caught up in the war. The Vagrant and Local pull back to the edge of the volcano's peak to regroup. Suddenly, a stray robot projectile flies unexpectedly toward the two trying to make peace.
The Vagrant falls.

light/dark

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The Local collapses next to the dying Vagrant. The volcano shakes. The Vagrant's robotic circuits are fritzing, beginning to fade out. The robot leader pauses, staring at the Vagrant with another robot's projectile lodged in her chest; he realizes finally what the war is doing to his own people. The human leader pauses, staring at the pain in the Local's eyes for the Vagrant; she finally realizes this war will ultimately fix nothing between the two species. The two leaders look at each other, finally realizing what they're doing to each other's (and their own) realms. The two vow to each other that they will stop the war.
The volcano shakes and cracks, and parts of its cone begin to collapse. The portion on which the Local and Vagrant sit collapses inward, and they fall into the volcano. With the dying Vagrant next to him, the Local sings a song to her during the fall to their demise.

I wish I could truthfully say that these events caused the human and robot civilizations to realize their faults and come together in harmony once again, but the fact is, no huge change really happens that quickly. It would still be a hundred years or more before the humans and robots even lived together again; despite the Local and Vagrant's best efforts, resentment was still harbored between the races. However, they were able to do the most any two people had ever done in that World: they started something that would, albeit slowly, bring two entirely different species back into community with each other again. While the whole World didn't grow together that day, it started to, and eventually did. And thus, two unimportant people from different groups, lifestyles, and homes, were able to change their world.
Thus ends the Vagrant's Odyssey.

celestial tryst (don't let me go)

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