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HERACLES
“It ain’t gonna be me…”
OEDIPUS
“I’m not going down.”
ARIADNE
“I won’t let you kill me.”
ORPHEUS
“Oh, please no!”

OEDIPUS
I will escape this world
Leave its rotten edifice behind

HERACLES
I’ll buy myself forgiveness
My family to avenge

ARIADNE
My family will rise again

ORPHEUS
I’ll buy my true love back

ULYSSES
All right, Daedalus. You want to know what’s in the vault? I’ll show you.

“And with that Ulysses casts the eye of the Cyclops high into the air and fires the last shot of his laser. The beam hits the spinning diamond and it splits across twelve axes, cutting the suits down. Daedalus takes one in the shoulder and one in the leg. Oedipus gets a beam in each eye. Never saw it coming. Heracles takes the lion’s share as three beams slice through him. Another one slices through Orpheus’s pretty throat. Even Ariadne gets one right in the heart. Which leaves three for Ulysses. One. Two. Three.”

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from Ulysses Dies At Dawn, released July 16, 2013

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The Mechanisms: a band of immortal space pirates roaming the universe in the starship Aurora. Some say they’re from a steampunk future, others claim they’re from a cyberpunk past, a few even whisper that they may be from a dieselpunk alternate now. They are all correct. ... more

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