
Grabbers About [New Draft][DOMS:ACT:2 Song: 7]
[Intro] [Alien, math-driven soundscape fades in: glass harmonica drones, waterphone glissandi, and hollow stone clacks in an irrational 7/8 rhythm. A low, subsonic pulse thumps at prime-number intervals.] [Verse 1] [GRABBERS CHORUS] [Layered, robotic, polyphonic voices, perfectly in sync but on different pitches] "Tilde Cee-Oh-Cee, Actor I-Dee. invalid we register no referent Iterate! Tilde grabbers-group dot move-to... [The number sequence is chanted in a cold, liturgical monotone over a rising synth drone] fourty-one, seventy-three, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, six-Dee, sixty-one, seventy-three, sixty-nine!" [We appear as we mean, estimated average chance of abduct success, Three, entities read here, subtract the six-rays walks one, divide the two undefined seems walks on twos. Cero cell bounds our equation, Ha-Note awaits outlier set," [Refrain] [The rhythm becomes a driving, mechanical 4/4, punctuated by sharp percussive stone clacks] "Advance one step! [thump] Pause! Advance two steps! [thump] Pause!" [Verse 2] [Music shifts, becoming warmer and more organic. Low insectoid drones and soft marimba underscore the Dew Matron] [DEW MATRON] [Sly, maternal contralto, whisper-sung] "Twins-seems, shuffle quick away! These be things best unseen, old foes of dew-slaked we, Grabbers named once, who steal not grow, Long past Hive stacks took to adorne grab-father's face, Hurry away dun-ones, abacus teeth they keep within, by which would count apart mer-flesh and bones." [The organic music is cut by the sharp, uncanny sound of a single glass harmonica note] [MASIASHI] [Spoken, full of awe and fear] "These shapes, they do not bend as moves, ever face to face they stay, uncanny as if paints on eyes." [ASHIMASI] "Masiashi! Hurry we must try to stop their advance. How can such things be real?" [Refrain] [The mechanical 4/4 rhythm crashes back in] [GRABBERS CHORUS] "Tag has stuck, Aye-Dee acquired! Enity reads Error! Undefined! Pause! Iterate! Advance one step! [thump] Pause! Advance two steps! [thump] Pause!" [Bridge] [Music drops to just a low synth drone and faint, calculating clicks] [GRABBERS CHORUS] "Deduce! Two Aye-Dee share, where ought be one. Hypothesize! Outlier command executes forbidden order! Error! Error! Error!" [ASHIMASI] [Singing defiantly over the drone] "Error!? What ever do you seek? Seems confused, perhaps is best to simply leave? Your orders err, there is no task! Best we think, you let us past." [Outro] [The full alien soundscape swells back in, louder and more menacing] [GRABBERS CHORUS] "Error! Input argument has insufficient permissions to alter function! Ha-Note book reads, advance one step! [thump] Pause! Subtract extraneous entity, reads probable source of abnormal readings." [The song ends abruptly on the word "readings," leaving the audience in suspense as the Grabbers move to capture one of the three figures]

