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New Life
03:18
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As you see the blinding light
Appear in sight
You think this might
Be the afterlife
Well you're both right and wrong
at the same time
Except you won't be floating
with clouds in blue sky
It's less an afterlife
than a second life
Before was "Used To Be"
And now's a second scene
You won't recognize your own body
Or anything else that you see
With a gush and a push
You see a new light
(feeling slimy)
The air you breath
Fresh air you breath
Welcome to your second life
Here in Erstwisle
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2. |
Foreword By The Author
04:55
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The book that you are holding
I have written as a hopefully helpful guide
To all the living beings, sentient or not
That have come to be known as the
"Here Already"
Creatures that inhabited Erstwisle
Before we arrived
All wet and slimy
The following are all the "Here Already"
I have observed and encountered
in my travels of the isle
From the Duggers below in the Cragmire
to the more mysterious phylum or fauna
I've happened upon while out on the
Headsea, sailing
[Page redacted and removed by the
Stead Board of Records.
All unsanctioned talk of the Headsea
is unauthorized in Stead literature
And only to be discussed
within the walls of the
Catheadral]
Knowing the S.B.O.R. that last page
will probably be excised upon review
But just know that I said a few things
about the Headsea you won't hear
outside of a pew
Before you could become dead
Now you're here and "head"'s
the new term for second death
The sea around Erstwisle
Is filled with the second dead
Who've become giant heads
Floating eternally,
Searching for whirlpools
To the next life
The heads are what you and I will become one day
And not the focus of the tome you're currently digesting
I hope that you enjoy it thoroughly
I urge you to read every word
Most carefully
Some of these creatures are harmless but some...
Are deadly
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3. |
Apropods
03:04
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Pick me up
I'm a living thing
But we'll get to that later on
Turn the page and let's begin
With the first creature here within
It starts with "A"
Have you ever had that kind of friend?
Who's silent mostly but then again sometimes
Chimes in
And he's always right on target
Well, that's Apropods
These little beetle-like things
With mouths on their shells
They crawl about the streets of Stead and
They chime in when appropriate
It's apropos always
Hence the name, Apropods
A is for Apropods
So let's continue without pause now
That was "A"
Pretty strange, I know
But wait 'til you see "B"
These things get weirder as we go
Take it from me
I can tell you wanna turn the page
So do it
Do it
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4. |
Birth Gourd
01:43
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You just popped on out
Of a sphincter spout
You're in Erstwisle
You feel like a child
Please provide me the name you used to be
In the "Used To Be"
If you're having any trouble understanding me
You may have died a baby
Or a non-English speaking being
Either way I'll alert the Education Sphere
You're a new thing now
You're a new thing entirely
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5. |
Cludges
04:29
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Like tombstone rows or giant's toes
Rocky, bulky and immovable
And as far as creatures go...
If you have not seen them
Well, soon you will
They stick out like spikes, you know
A "New You" would be best avoiding them
Even though they do have souls
And there's not a void in them
Like boulders by the seaside
Overlooking the heads below
Suddenly the mountain shifts
Over time grassy hills flow
Transforming
Into a face
Well, what do you know?
It was there all along in the first place
(Their jagged teeth do jut. They do jut.)
Masticating like a crusted earthen mandible
One of the oddest entries in this manual
Crushing and munching the grazing Hildges
Painful for a Solver to see this
I guess that Cludges are the mountain's mashers
Rumbling
Tumbling
Noshing
Nashers
Cludges will not budge
Even if you shove
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6. |
Duggers
02:44
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Duggers
Dig beneath the soil to find
Puzzle cubes
Then...
Take them back
To the Solvers in their
Puzzle Gardens
And they try to solve
Them with their
Strange machines
Oh how I wonder what those strange cubes are...
They are so ancient and they're so bizarre
Do you remember Rubik's cubes?
Well imagine that difficulty times a thousand
They're diggin' up the cubes
In the Cragmire...
Where secrets lie...
You better believe
That they are
Diggin' up the cubes
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7. |
Emitones
02:57
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Do you remember what a parasite looked like
under a microscope back in the "Used To Be"?
Some kind of geometrical diamond
With spider legs and things
(Like a drone with a tone, glide about)
Well the Emitones are similar
In shape but not in size and function
They float about the streets of Stead
emitting gentle notes instead
That signify the coming weather
Oh, yes, the weather is decided
By the Meteon
A dice-like cube that's thrown
by phantom hands
Then the result is transmitted
via spirit waves to the Emitones
Scattered about the land
You see, the town of Stead itself is living
A creature like the rest of these
We'll get to that creature later
But for now Emitones are the focus
of the melodies
Emitones
Emit. Tones.
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If you seek gnosis
Seek out the noses
That is, the Filnosses
They fill the nostrils of their noses
With the moss as it decomposes
They're all-knowing
Everybody knows this
If you feel chosen
A visit you owe them
Filnosses
Filnosses!
The moss they gather
They spread like lather
Upon the stones...
You know. I'd rather
Not go into that part so much
Let me tell you about how they touch
The laid out moss with their nose tips
They make little dots and lines
On its surface area not unlike sheet music
You see, the noses are in fact...
Composers
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9. |
Golooms
03:02
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We've yet to make up words
To describe how it feels
To stand inside the blur
Of the vibrating fields
When all alone out there
It can spiritually heal
The Golooms glow out there
And their glow is quite surreal
Green and sprouting
With fuzzy halos
Iridescent like anemones
Back in the "Used To Be"
We pick 'em, sell 'em
On the market streets
It's how "New You"s eat
It's how Golooms feed
The Golooms glow
It often shows
you where to go
This is your home
Did you ever believe
Could you ever conceive
This kind of glow?
I know I didn't before
But now I surely know
I stood out there myself
And I saw it glow
And did you know?
The glow it shows
This is my home
This now your home
Hope you enjoy the glow
of the Golooms and what they show
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Hildges
02:41
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On the path to The Education Sphere
They look like steer and should not be feared
They feed on crunchy morsels called Ogumbuh
Hildges have no known purpose
But are a thing of some interest
If you consider the fact
The Solvers seem to worship them
Consider the fact
The Solvers seem to worship them
Do you remember cows?
Well picture them
But Hildges are larger and red
Do you remember bison?
Well, think of them
Just larger and red
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11. |
Intristics
03:50
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To travel to and from
The isle plateaus high above
We load onto Intristics
Bipedal, white and intrinsic
To all transportation here in Stead
They strap above your head
And while you’re nestled in what resembles a bed
They hover motionless in the dark, purple sky
Do Instristics have feelings?
Well, my friend, they are living things and
If the thing is living the thing is, well, you should treat it as a live thing
Intristics are like featherless albatrosses
Wings white, except for no wings
Just legs that go for miles and miles
These legs go for miles
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12. |
Jelonomi
03:22
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I feel so lubricated
By the jelly that rises up near my feet
I’ve become encapsulated
By the jelly that engulfs my whole body
I’m a Jelonome
We are Jelonomi
At the bottom of the Headsea
Us Jelonomi do rise
We are gelatinous
Please do not flatten us
It's quite a feat avoiding your feet
Flowing and globular
The only job we learn is
Combing the Headsea seafloor for Rizwees
I feel so validated
Because you saw me and picked me out for your book
Will I be illustrated?
If so, do please give me a rather cool look
Rise jelly
Rise jelly, rise
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13. |
Kigangs
01:06
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Angular
Oblong
Zig-zag along
Underfoot
Like a root, twisted
Kigangs pick up soot
"Like little centipedes they crawl across the ground.
Try not to trip over them as you walk around.
Strangely enough they move to and fro.
Crooked head to toe."
Kigangs
Step into a crag
And your foot will snag
It's Kigang Kigangs
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14. |
Loshnongs
04:56
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Solvers with their puzzle cubes
Out in their gardens
After they're done
They shed their robes, revealing
Underneath a carapace that's hardened
Wrapped around an uncoiled eel thing
Oh, so that's what they are
Solvers really are just Loshnongs
And Loshnongs do retire
To little holes in Stead's walls
Don't you want to know how they do it?
Don't you wan to know what's going on?
Don't you want to know the esoteric secrets
of the Loshnong?
Their secrets are their own
And not for us to know
But with their true selves shown
At least we now know a bit more
About them
Now what is it with cubes here
Have you noticed?
How the Meteon was one
And now this
I sense a strange geometric purpose
But after all, mathematical spirits
Are the crux of it all
And maybe just like Loshnongs
And Loshnongs often crawl
In a straight line, single file
Don't you want to know where they're going?
Don't you want to know why they're so long?
Don't you want to know the old hermetic knowledge
of the Loshnong?
The pages now must end
But we've only just begun
For this is only Book One
Half of a whole
A-L
But the Alphabestiary continues
In Book Two....
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