Unbeleevable Episode 2 #
Under a pale moon, Strassburg, Dallus, and their assistant Ro meet up with Skys.
This episode features Dr. Lee M.D. going even deeper into Skys’ and the Cult of MANTRA’s story from Unbeleevable Episode 1. We also learn more about Dr. Karl Strassman and Dr. Dallus Lauren.
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The video was first made available on the access card before being uploaded onto the ARG website and later YouTube. It’s behind the sliders puzzle on the website.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCE ANALOG PROGRAMMING
Lee [reading a book called ‘How To Start A Cult’]: [unintelligible mumbling] “I’ll be honest with you, I can see the appeal in being a cult leader. I mean, what’s not to like? Money? Just a bit. Sex? Pwhoar. Drugs? Ooh ah. Sounds like a right laugh don’t you think? Well think again! Cos if you want to be a modern day guru, you’re gonna have to work harder than a bloke with one leg in an arse-kicking contest.”
[Opening music plays]
Lee: “Welcome back to Unbeleevable with me, Dr. Lee M.D. Where we’re delving back into the whacky world of GENXSIS. In 2004, a young lad named Skys returns to his homeland of Novosovia with his new band. They’re called Skys and the Starjammers, and they’re hot shit. But before he found success, things were bleaker for Skys than a bog with no bog roll.
“Recovered pages of his journal detail how he legged it from Novosovia to escape persecution from his motherland. He ends up in Inglaterra where he stumbles upon a bunch of seemingly kind-hearted travellers. Apparently these bell-ends practiced an ancient order called the Law of Velama and even had magical powers. It were a bit like Hogwarts if Gandalf was a nonce.
“You see, the groups leader, Alby, took a shine to Skys, and let’s just say Alby was a bit too keen to show off his vanishing act (The dirty git). Skys eventually snaps and kicks the shit out of him. (ooh, that’s gonna sting in the morning). After that he does a runner and hides out in an abandoned asylum.
“He dies his hair black with toxic leech blood (as you do) to conceal his identity. He gets off his head on drugs and winds up with chronic sleep paralysis. He’s plagued by entities he calls mares. These things could make a grown man cry, uglier than a munter in the morning. As you can imagine, after all that shite, Skys was a few eggs short of a benedict.”
[Cuts to footage from a 2004 interview of Skys:]
EARLY ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF SKYS
INGLATERRA, 2004
Interviewer: “Tell me in a sentence who you are.”
Skys: [moves erratically while making noises] “I’m nobody.”
[Cuts back to Lee:]
Lee: [imitates Skys] “And even though most of Skys’ ramblings sounded like something you’d find written in shit on a looney bin wall, one man was taking him seriously. Novosovian scientist Dr. Karl Strassman, founder of Neurospiritualism and a grade A boffin. It’s said Strassman caught an interview with Skys banging on about concepts that he’d only encountered in theoretical physics and speculative discussion. Yet, here was Skys, a man with no formal scientific training, espousing ideas that mirrored Strassman’s own cutting-edge research.
“Where others saw madness, Strassman saw potential; he had to meet him. Strassman finds out Skys is back in Novosovia and secures a meeting. He convinces his tech-wizard partner, Dr. Dallus Lauren to join him. Hesitantly, he agrees.
“So picture this, it’s a dark and stormy night in a magical forest. Under a pale moon, Strassburg, Dallus, and their assistant Ro meet up with Skys. The scientists were thinking they’d just come for a chin wag, but Skys had other ideas. Turns out he’s having a do at a historic building known as the October Palace.
“But this weren’t your typical soirée, and although these nerds weren’t exactly gonna be getting a bag for the afters, they agreed to attend. And I’ll tell you what, it was likea bloody fever dream. Everyone was sniffed off their box, swinging off fxcking chandeliers, shagging about, and the rest. It’s here Strassmn meets one of Skys lady friends, Ava.”
Someone off camera [in an american accent]: “Ava.”
Lee [mimicking the american accent]: “Ava.”
Lee [back to his regular british accent]: “Ava’s calm confidence and otherworldly beauty were magnetic. “For Strassman, it was love at first sight (big mistake). While Strassman’s trying to get his willy wet, Dallus has had enough and tries to do a runner. But before he can get to the door, Skys cuts him off and tells him he’s got something to show him. Some accounts claim that Skys used the scientists assistant Ro to demonstrate that pain is a pathway to transcendence. Or maybe he did what my Dad did to convince me he were magic [mimics finger magic trick].
“Whatever he did, Strassman ate it up like a Maccys after an all night bender. And even though the scientists thought Skys were a proper nobhead, after what they saw that night, they knew there were no going back.
“Now here where things get proper mental. These nutbars shattered the boundaries of human understanding. Together they tore through the veil of reality itself, fusing science and spirit into a single Earth-shaking revelation. However, once the god bothering government of Novosovia heard this, they say one thing: nyet nyet.”
[Cut to a woman on TV speaking Russian:]
Woman: “This unholy trinity is defaming the ideals of our nation. They’re threatening our God, religion, monarchy.”
[Cuts back to Lee:]
Lee: “Still, even with the government painting Skys as a proper wrong’un, his message of transcendence and hope was striking a chord with Novosovia’s young’uns. To top it off, Skys was pumping in the club scene full of his own dodgy drug called MANTRA. These bible bashing kids were suddenly meeting a new kind of God, getting a taste of Heaven on Earth and they were hungry for more. And just like that, the cult of MANTRA was born. (ohh look, I’ve got pink hair again)
“So, how the hell do you bring down a cult more powerful than the government? From the Inside. Enter Medea. That’s going to have to do, I need a shit.”
[Credits roll]
UNBELEEVABLE
WRITTEN
DIRECTED
PRODUCED
EDITED BY
DR, LEE M.D.
ANIMATIONS
HENRIQUE HERRERA
(BASED ON INITIAL DOODLES CONCEPTUALISED BY DR. LEE M.D.)
I.A. RENDERING BY DR. LEE M.D.
THEME BASED ON MELODIES ORIGINALLY WHISTLED BY LEE M.D.
[Cuts to Lee:]
Lee: “And for my premium beLEEvers, I’ll be testing the new street drug upamine that’s hooking the nation’s youth to see what all the fuss is about. [Lee snorts the drug] Can’t feel nowt.”
[Lee makes weird faces and noises]
[Final cut to black]
Transcription by Alec
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