Constructus Corporation - Ripples in the Mesh - The Radioplay lyrics

[Documentary style commentator] They have visited us from the dawn of time. And one can always read the signs. Their rebirth into our world is always coursed with famine, plague and d**h. Their latest manifestation, which seems to have been the most powerful, happened in the midst of 20th century depression in Central America. A child suffers from terrible nightmares. Nightmares that was so fiercely overwhelming that they became, aware of themselves. And they could even experience our realm through a lucid state. They learn to manifest themselves. And they studied, and watched, and schemed. Then grew and grew stronger and grew greater till they finally announced their arrival to the world AS! ... …A highly successful multi-billionaire dollar soda pop industry. And their overwhelming success was so magnificent, so unnervingly final, that they soon heaved more power and capital than any country worth mentioning. And they were eccentric, and they would paint the clouds and grow strange things and even scoop proud cities from the Earth, made to float and follow the golden sun! The Constructus Corporation presents, the Ziggurat. [Narrator] The Ziggurat, a giant floating megalopolis of comfortable living, housed four autonomous societies and over a billion people. It was filled with more exciting personalities than a pomegranate is of pips! But for now, consider these two boys: First: Randomboy -- A tight young MC and a natural leader, who in time would change the world for ever. And secondly: his best friend, the Kidtronic. Now, when studying Kidtronic it is vitally important to consider the following: him and his sister were orphans, and were raised by virtual parent personalities supplied by Constructus. Uhm, now. At the age of seven, he had re-written their program instructions and changed the parental shapes from loving moms and dads into two big fluffy bears that generally just acted silly and entertained his baby sister Anika. At the age of 8 and a half, he was arrested by the Constructus a**istants for the first time. His crime? He had hi-jacked two sprinter wet-wires servers and was using them to embezzle third-decimal credit to his sister's favorite virtual celebrities. It was the first in a series of five arrests. Now, as you'd probably noticed, he was a complete genius with all the tech- and cyber-reality. Kidtronic also designed games for devices called "playgrounds," which covered your eyes and ears. He was also paid annual tributes by all the banks in the Ziggurat for not bankrupting them. Now c'mon! Let's see what he's up too. Oh! He's sleeping. Dreaming. Changing, into what he will soon become. [Kidtronic dream] ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz Wait were am I? Breakfast table. Before school. A Mom and a dad. Anika. She's feeding us eggs. I don't wanna eat eggs. My dad's on the table. ARGH! He's cutting my hand. ARGHGHGG! My Brain! Uh uh uh uh uh! [Narrator] Almost at that precise moment, thirteen years before, in a secret hide-away 3 kilometers under the Himalayas, the CEO of Constructus International, a certain Mr. Kiriaku was in a meeting with the eyeless, prophet-witch named "Next" [Next in “” and Mr. Kiriaku in ( )] “Ahhhhhhhhh” (Tell me what you see?) “Ah hahhafghghghha ! Lord. There will be danger ahg …” (Danger ?) “Ehh” (What? What is its source?) “Too much static uirghghg. Disturbance.” (Speak next. What is the threat?) “Lord it is fast. Thirteen years from this moment.” (Thirteen years...Thirteen years!? What is its face? Where will it come from?) “Lord, it seems to be invisible. All I can make out is... ripples. Ripples in the Mesh.” (Well then find it Next!) “I cannot, the pattern that the chaos weaves is too frantic, too - rand- AURGH” “One will rise that will earn friends… The [?] time [?], and your blood [?]” (Prophet enough! An invisible threat. Thirteen years from now. Capable of wiping Constructus off the face of the Earth? A mere random ripple in the mesh that threatens me a god! What created light, our light that cripples radiance! To be snuffed by a mere, random ripple in the mesh? Then I will create our champion. Hahaha. Our own hideous weapon. And send him up to dwell amongst the humans and seek and destroy the ripple-maker) [Narrator] And that very same day, two children were born on two different places on the Ziggurat. One, to loving family; and other to a multi-national corporation. But right now back to our story Kidtronic had woken up and was loading his new game "Long Street" onto his playground. He wanted to show it to his friend Randomboy. He was hoping that they might get a chance to play it on the way to the emceeing competition. He was feeling a little nervous because him and Randomboy had both entered the competition. It was very prestigious, and the biggest of its kind yet. At the moment, he was concentrating on the show, doing some breathing exercises when his sister entered the room, without warning. [Anika and Kidtronic] “BOO! “ARGH. Oh jeez, you scared the bejebus out of me. Don't do that.” “So, where you going huh 'Tronic?” “Nowhere.” “Yes you are! You're going to that emceeing competition aren't you?” “No I'm not.” “Ohoh ! Please can I come with you, PLEeeeeease!?” “No Anika, you're too young.” “I'm not! Please, I won't bug you I swear, I sweaaaaar!” “No” “I promise, I won't even stand close to you guys” “Anika stop, I said no and that's final. I'm leaving – Bye-bye” “Oh he's such a stupid punk. I hate him! He never takes me, anywhere! But I love you Mr. Rockadopolis” [Anika and Mr. Rockadopolis] “Uhm, yeah. I love you too Anika. I whip that kid's a**.” No! You musn't Mr Rockadopolis. They shouldn't know that you're real. I hate him. Did you know that he suffers from epilepileptic... ehhhpelepileptic ... E-E-EPILEPILEPTIC seizures?! No, you wouldn't. Only me and Randomboy knows that. He doesn't want anybody to know. When they happen, he makes himself disappear. And I especially hate it when he disappears. Ah, forget him! I`m going. [Narrator] On the way to Randomboy house… [In Kidtronic's mind] "He suffers from seizures" [repeats many times,] “I am inside of you” “Jeez, what was that?” “I feel fine” “What is he becoming?” [Narrator] Randomboy opened his front door, and there stood Kidtronic, ridiculously punctual as usual. [Kidtronic, Randomboy, Anika, Narrator] “Yo, Randomboy,” said Kidtronic through his electronic telepathic interface. “Yo” “Check this out,” he continued, whilst downloading a game into Randomboy's playground. “I made this last night. It's called ‘Long Street'. I am the Ju-Ju man. You are Snufflegruff, which I still think is whack. You should make up your own-“ “Hey man, interrupted Random Boy, we've been through this already.” “Yeah, well anyway, You must try and defeat me. Biter.” “Boo!” “Don't do that Anika!” “Yo, Randomboy! What's up? Hey!” “Hey ‘sup Anika!” “Go home.” “No! I come with.” “No, go home. Go play with your dolls.” “I don't play with dolls!” “Then what is this. Hahahah.” “Mr Rockadopolis is not a doll! HE'S A MONSTER!” “Don't be so mean. Give the doll back to her.” “Hey look, Anika. we're gonna be performing so you can't hang with us. An' there's gonna be too many people so, you can't go by yourself. But I know my grandma and some friends are going so...I mean, you can go with them.” “I can look after myself.” “No you can't.” “They're old! And I want to hang with you guys.” “No! No buts. We're leaving. I'll see you later [?]” [Anika singing] “Those these guys think that I'm just some stupid little girl. I mean, Kidtronic wouldn't even let me play with the new game he made last night. Bong street or something. And now he won't even let me to come with! It's not fair! I take those punk dicks out any day at emceeing Yeah, watch me flipititititit...” Some of the characters in my dream had nightmares, And took it upon themselves to trick me into believing they're real now taking them out, one by one, [?] their play with pay just for fun Here we come! Three strange meta-morphing hoodoos ‘bout to rearange, the realm of the nulus Everybody doodoos, undo the voodoo Cookoo heh b**boo, good morning We got up with the frequencies, squeaky clean, [?] of me Creep sneakily through your dream machine Sunny got the snuffling, chuckling, bubbling, tumbling snuggling, plugging, [?] duckling, ugly s**ing. Moving in out of bodies freely, no-body can see me. Creepy crawly, heebie-jeebies, [?], touchy feely La la la la la [Unknown character singing] “What the hell is that? Something strange is going on? Get away.” “I don't want you going in the woods again, yeah, I'm warning you.” The people of Long Street lived very simple lives They had wonderful natures, they were never impolite Up until the day the Ju-ju man, came to town now check it out, as I break-it-down. Mrs. Lekkerlegs. Was busy hanging her washing on the line So, what happened next was definitively like the last thing on her mind An unfamiliar voice behind her said: "How do you do?" Erhm "I'm very well thanks" she replied "but now, who are you?" The strange character in a top hat and a long black coat Introduced himself politely, and then said "on that note I'd like to show you another something that I doubt you've ever seen Take a look at this, beautiful machine The strange little gadget started changing like magic And cleverly made its way up to the clothes line And in a blink of eye it removed the clothes, and span them around 'til they were dry And they all folded very neatly, in no time Eummh some Mrs. Lekkerlegs was quite taken back Very curious about this mysterious character in black Very soon the whole town was making the scene About the Ju-ju man and his amazing machine Something very, extra ordinary, is going to happen at the Long Street carnival Don't wanna tell you “what gives you that impression, he's crazy” Something very, extra-ordinary is going to happen at the Long Street carnival “Wh-what you talkin' about?” The next day the Ju-ju man went walking through town Unaware of what everybody was talking about He had some time to k** before his appointment a little later with the mayor. So he took this opportunity to socialize a bit And just between you and me the most surprising sh** It's about that spark, that strangest things have a habit of coming out the dark But just when you expect them least umumu Lies never rest in peace, anyway Today was kind like, quite an important day Oh everybody has come to see the Ju-ju man special present for the mayor He greeted crowd with a bow that open, his big fat sack. And that tack. Presented the mayor with a black backpack. Everybody standing round went oohhh ! Mayor put it on, and I was like "ummhh. What does it do?" All of a sudden two long white arms with red bu*ton at the end, Extended at the end of the back-pack Grab a ‘hold of them my friend. The mayor follow this instruction and felt the power surge As the special metal wings emerged And everybody cried out with glee as The mayor took off clumsily, like a bumblebee Something very, extra-ordinary is going to happen at the Long Street carnival “Wh-what you talkin' about?” “Keep an eye about that [?]” “You know whatever, I'm trying to do my work. Shut up” Something very, extra-ordinary is going to happen at the Long Street carnival “Wh-what you talkin' about?” “Hey, hey, I'm here. How many times am I.. C'mon. C'mon man. Have some consideration.” Now meanwhile in the woods Now Snufflegruff called an important meeting with a boom-band Something's fun is going on, we better do something about it soon man There's a humongous metal thing that's spreading and everyone's acting weird I'm just trying to think of all this We're the only ones who can see it We've gotta do something to get everyone's attention and Hit them with our supernatural frequencies selections We can to build thing in the back of my Grandpa's Donkey-Kong. And take a nice cruise through town with a fat beats bumping hard But we can call it, ummh, wait, the Long Street carnival Cause I know that Ju-ju man is definitely up to, something horrible Ok, we got, quite a lot of stuff to do so, c'mon let's get busy The big fish is about to get taken out by some crazy little fishes “Get ready, let's do this” The big day arrived as advertised and everybody goes with the festive vibe If the sun rose, the best the sky was shining extra bright. Snuffing [?] his mind mesmerized these humans with his magnificent vibrations Even some visitors from afar were like "man, isn't this amazing" The speakers bumped, as the boom-band freaked the funk And all the smiling people feeling the song Singing along, without a care in the world all shouting and clapping All entirely unaware of what was about to happen. Something very, extra-ordinary is going to happen at the Long Street carnival “Oh listen old man, c'mon man you're being a pain in the a**” “Can you please just, for one second” Something very, extra-ordinary is going to happen at the Long Street carnival “Get out that, quick get out. I can't work with you here.” “That [?] please leave. Gaurds!” “Huh. Goodness Gracious” The Boom-band blew beautifully that sunny afternoon The day the machine stopped working was the day no one will forget it soon A terrible,dreadful cry pierced through the Long Street carnival As the Ju-ju man emerged from his brand new house on the hill The crowd took on a new alien voice As the Boom-band's physical vibe revealed his true form People screamed as the evil fiend morphed into some kind of [?] monster with and excruciatingly high-pitched screech like when you cook a lobster But the boom-band just kept on playing And the creature rose up into the air and started spraying This disgusting yellow smelly stuff as it flew back to its master With his tail between his legs and everyone lived happily ever after The End. [Assistant, Randomboy, Kidtronic] “Come on guys! How many times am I gonna have to tell you. No play-grounding in the yellow zone" “Thank goodness and a**istant!” “So it looks like I'm gonna have to confiscate them, so uh.. do the right thing and hand them over.” “No, you cannot remove my friend's playground from his face!” “Who's gonna stop me?” “Well obviously not me. I mean, just look how big you are. You must work out? Isn't that right Kidtronic?” “Oh random boy, I don't feel well” “You cannot remove my friends playground face. You see, there was a random chi surge a while ago while we were playing a game and it seriously messed up Kidtronics [?]. I mean, just look at him. If you remove it now, you might do some serious damage to my friends' eyes and ears. That is why I too am wearing my playground. Not just to look cool. No, but to rather let Kidtronic hack into my head, and well, soothe my sense to stop the pain. Oh- the unbearable pain. Isn't that right, Kidtronic?” “Ack- it's a seizure” “No man, just look we really have to go now. You see, it's to go see uh..” “Snufflegr-“ “Yes! Dr. Snufflegruff. Would you be so kind as to handcuff yourself to that tree, just look over there- Yes, please. Okay. Okay, thank you very much. We're going now.” [Narrator] And off they went… [Randomboy, Kidtronic] Oh, few. That was close. Good acting Kidtronic. Man- hey, yo, you can stop acting like that now, yo he's gone. Yo 'tronic, what the hell is going on? Do you hear me or something?” “Get away from me… Randomboy! Ow!” “Just Breathe” “Open the door. Just do it. Stop it!” “No, no, don't do that.” “There is something inside me. Help me. Random. Random Ripples in the mesh.” “Wha..Why?” “Come closer Snufflegruff. Randomboy get back. Stay Randomboy. My name is Kai.” “Kai, hmm.” “I have lay dormant in the mind of Kidtronic for 13 years. He is a mere vessel.” “Hmm.. oh” “And he has fulfilled his task beautifully, to seek out the ripple maker. To find him, attach himself to me who weaves the random chaos pattern that could undo all that Constructus had done. And this final threat, this natural abomination, this ripple in the mesh...is you Random boy.” “Oh, far out” “See? We are the same. We were destined to collide. My very purpose was to make you. For you see, random boy, you are life, and I am d**h. And this, is our beautiful union!” “That sounds like a cool game. What's it called?” “Die Random Boy! Die!” “'Die. Random Boy. Die?' Isn't that..?” [Laser and sound effects] [Narrator] And so Random Boy's shadow gets knocked the f-*bleep* out of him. [Watkin Tudor Jones] Cool, that's cool. And put that *bleep* in. And we should even leave in the ……………