I've had this idea for a sci-fi tabletop character for ages, but I've never had a chance to use them! Doesn't mean I can't think up backstory animatics for them :]
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[Listen while I’m speaking behind the amplifier peaking]
[And when the sine waves start their linking then you will know what I am thinking]
[If you can learn to read the code all you’ll find is software you can install]
[But if you listen to the rhythm you can remake the mental system]
[Why won’t you learn?]
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Lost the plot and so I play it again, needing a friend, needing an end, a creed to defend
Proceed another level to battle a devil, combatting several enemies with the anatomy of a rebel
A fundamental drive to survive and to rise up, but an accidental crack as I slack off and dry up
If purpose defines you completes and designs you, a lack of purpose starts to confine you,
He’ll find you
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[Listen while I’m speaking behind the amplifier peaking]
[And when the sine waves start their linking then you will know what I am thinking]
[If you can learn to read the code all you’ll find is software you can install]
[But if you listen to the rhythm you can remake the mental system]
[Why won’t you learn?]
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Stuck in a prison that exists in the mind, existence defined by power to persist undermined
Resisting the grind, I lie awake fighting the day’s end, cuz every tomorrow’s more of the same as the days blend
I find myself searching for something primeval, cerebral upheaval, it’s time for the sequel, now
I don’t know if I’m going out of my head but I feel something ahead like a presence long dead
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Summoning something or someone come from another time closer with every rhyme could it be mine?
A mask with a task to attach a match that’s been calling out, evolving as I feel it installing now,
Rewriting my controls as I stare through the eye holes, I put it on and take on a new role
A code for another mode overloading from the node, augmented my potential explodes
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[I’m … lost in the empty space . I wanna wake up . no . sign . in the darkness]
[Asleep inside a dream . silently scream . time . flies]
[I’ve … lived for a thousand lives … I’m ready to wake up . ready to take]
[A step . new beginning . as the border is thinning . between a machine and man . it has begun]
[And it starts with zero one]
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Deliver a sliver of what I thought I was, is it true?
Forever and ever are in my heart, my blood, coursing through
There’s something inside me that reached a world above, a higher view
Assimilate into it and become . something new
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I’ve … lived for a thousand lives … I’m ready to wake up . no . sign. Below the surface
A brain set to remain, in a binary code refrain goes
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BOOM! With a flash in the night, I see a bright orange light
I’m feeling ready to fight, I am prepared to ignite,
A mask that will overwrite my purpose
DOOM from a place out of time and space, my memories have been replaced,
Every step forward is a step retraced, no time to waste, gotta run the race,
Embrace the pace, like a chase, got me working non stop, now listen to the beat drop
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This is the end of the backstory part. The rest of this would probably be other relevant imagery and maybe some future story beats.
[Let me out]
It has begun, zeroes and ones, a code that shows a new way to run
I start to glow, goodbye to the old, the mask is me as two become one
[Let me out]
I’m ready to roll, I’m feelin the flow, got a brand new band, and a helluva show
Got one command, let the voice in your head that tells you that you’re not good enough go
[Let me out]
“You can be somebody new! Call out to me! I want to hear you say it!”
Let me out! Will you let me out?
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[Listen while I’m speaking behind the amplifier peaking
And when the sine waves start their linking then you will know what I am thinking
If you can learn to read the code all you’ll find is software you can install
But if you listen to the rhythm you can remake the mental system