It’s fabulous that Cassie became an actual character in the game.

I definitely learned a lot more about the game and the video's nods to the various elements. Thinks! I'm a little surprised you didn't comment much at all about the actual scenes, as I hoped you would. A fair amount was filmed on-location at an authentic Victorian establishment (though some electrification upgrades had to be digitally removed in post-production). Stupes does include credits in their video description; as I recall many of Cassie's patrons were other KZfaq creators that Stupes knows

This song has some of my favourite lines Stupes has ever written: "In a ditch and out the picture, London's withering in walls which are far too steep a pitch to climb but steep just makes the tealeaf richer." Not just talking about London down in its hole, but also about the classist walls that make it impossible for those at the bottom to climb their way up to a better position (classic Stupes stuff), AND ALSO: "tealeaf" is Cockney slang for "thief", so what Bob is _also_ saying is that "steep times makes thieves richer." "Now the Masters are in charge, it's rather dark the things they've barred, but every market turns to black as soon as all the lights are off." Obviously talking about the darkness down in London, but also talking both about how, once the lights are off, the markets turn into black markets and the "dark" things the Masters have prohibited start being sold off, as well as alluding to the expression "being in the black", as opposed to "being in the red": When businesses are doing well, they can afford the back ink to record their profits. When businesses are doing poorly, on the other hand, well, guess you'll have to write down your losses in red. "If you came for documenting, tick whatever box you like, you've got Pages full of question but I left my lot behind", first of all both playing on Cassie not being very keen on sharing all too much about themselves but also alluding to them being gender fluid, hence "check whatever box you like", but also note the capital letter on the word "Pages" because we're not just talking about the pages of the census poll the pov character is running, but also their boss who's quite the inquisitive fellow. (Also, yes, Stupes is _so_ gender in the role of Cassie. Like, omg are they swoontastic. Pure magic.) I like how Byron's verse can basically be summed up "Okay, so let me get this straight: You have all fallen down here, you are quite literally neighbours with Hell, men with the faces of squid walk the streets, a race of alien bat merchants run your show, and yet your primary concern is, of all things, _finding love?_ Uhm, excuse me but ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS?!" (I also like how Byron has a bee brooch on his chest. _Really_ not caring very much for being subtle, is he?) Aaand Pages' verse is, of course, just an amazing collection of portmanteaus and subtle lore references that all together sound pretty much like a forgotten verse out of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

"Hunger does a number down in London Watch you'll get a darker taste instead" Mr Eaten reference??? If so I know which number they mean ehehe

I DESPISE musicals with a fiery passion, but if Stupes ever released a full on musical I would pay anything to watch it. This is a masterpiece.

Nice one ❤❤❤

6:56 Yep. I believe it’s worth around 400 echoes? Not sure. My soul is stained, so the Devils will not accept it.

I love musical shows a lot

Wonderful video! I'm honestly surprised though that you didn't point out the connection between the Devils and bees between all the other lore - not only does Byron Brimstone have a bee-shaped brooch on his left breast, but there's the line, "chance your wholesome little doldrum might just serve a spot of buzz?" Devils are the creators of Prisoner's Honey, and there are some other fun little bee-related lore things too. And good on you for catching the crab claw - I've seen this music video tons of times and missed that!

There is so much to this song, musical, play, epic performance lol. Kerp up the good work.

I alway thought the high and mighty in the Sky might be refering to the Judgements/Stars, that can't see below.

Future cities are in Flux, but sixth is leaning towards Paris and my character's visions of a potential future involve the seventh being Berlin.

Returning to the surface doesn't have anything to do with souls. If you die and revive in the Neath surface sunlight will register you as dead and kill you. But even just passively being in the Neath too long will have the weirdness seep into you enough that you can't go back without being killed by the sun.

So good♥️💯 really enjoyed ❤

An amazing video indeed. I learned alot!!!

so, cassie's line about "the high and mighty in the sky" isn't just religious. remember the liberation of night. it comes, ticking ever forward. the sun the sun the sun the sun the sun the sun..... for those who don't know what that means, the stars are alive and their light enforces laws of reality. neath-dwellers cannot last long on the surface because underground, they break the laws of the stars constantly, and the stars don't like that one bit. "the liberation of night" is a potential future where humanity kills the stars, "the sun" refers to a machine built to replace them in the sunless sea and sunless skies timeline.

"Musicam audi avis cosmicae" is "listen to the music of the cosmic bird"

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Superb

Nice one❤❤❤

Nice one

Gonna mention your Latin here at the beginning. "Avis" isn't visual, but rather "Bird". You're thinking of variations off "Video", which conveniently is also a word used in English. It's something to do with cosmic birds and hearing music. Maybe like "hear the space bird"? I'm not sure. Also, not used to seeing reactors familiar with the setting. I tend to be one of the people filling people in. It's nice to see. Refreshing, even. I will say that Hell is to the West of London. The Unterzee is to the East. ;) I'm going to guess also that you haven't played Mask of the Rose. You ought to. It covers the days after the Fall, before the city has managed to reorganize its resources and before it's received any resources (like food) from up above. Also before they've discovered that dead people don't stay dead in the Neath. I feel bad for that baby mentioned in the song that was found in the spider's web. We all know what the spiders in the Neath are after and it isn't the baby's life.

J: D