"Hey pal. You just blow in from Stupidtown?"

"BOO, YOU STINK!!!"

"Oh no, he's/she's/they're hot!"

"We paid nine dollars for this?"

"The nerve of that guy and his driving eyeballs."

"I've never felt such a strange combination of pity... and indigestion."

"You took my ONLY FOOD!!! Now I'm gonna starve!!!"

"BACKING UP! BACKING UP! BACKING UP!"

"Your ceiling is talking to me!!!"

"What am I running here, a nuthouse?"

"It's not just a boulder...! It's a rock!"

"You have no skills and you're a LOSERRR!"

"I have a really bad feeling in the pit of my wallet."

"Liar liar, plants for hire."

"THE MANIAC'S IN THE MAILBOX!!!"

"Did you see my underwear? ...Did you want to."

"I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning... without any milk."

"You'll never catch me, ___! Not after I shift into... MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!"

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?"

"WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIIIS!?!"

"I'm ugly and I'm proud."

"I don't need it... I don't need it..."

"IIIII NEEEEEEED IIIIIIIT!!!!!!!"

"This is a load of barnaclllleeees..."

"Pull your pants up, ___. We're going home."

"You think this is funny???"

"WELL, mister FUNNY MAN... IS THIS HOW YOU GET YOUR SICK KICKS?"

"That thing's green! BAHAHAHA... GREEN!!!"

"Just you, me, and this brick wall you built between us."

"Fiiirmly grasp it."

"FLAPPIN'-FLOTSAM, WHAT'S THAT?!?!?"

"Just do what I do when I have problems. SCREAM!!!"

"Would anyone else like to enter the "Fly of Despair"?"

"I'M THE OPEN-WINDOW MANIAAAC!"

"We should have bought the whoopie cushion...!"

"Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets."

"I believe that... EVERYBODY I KNOW IS A GONERRR!!!"

"Where's the road? Road? Road? Road? Road? Ro-- ...Sorry."

"No, no, it's not GAAAAAAWAAAWAAAAA."

"I'll give 'em eleven minutes."

"I CAN DENY IT NO LONGER...! ...I am small."

"THE ROBOTS ARE RUNNING THE NAVY!"

“Good guess, but wrong.”

"What are you trying to prove here, anyway?"

“We’re close on this one, I can feel it.”

"This reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head, do you remember that?"

"This is big, this is very big, there's definitely something here?"

"I hope we can clear this up quickly and quietly."

"Are you habitually using drugs, stimulants, alcohol?"

“Are you menstruating right now?”

“Back off, man. I’m a scientist.”

“I’m gonna take back some of the things I’ve said about you.”

“This is a major disgrace.”

"Have you or any of your family seen a spook, spectre or ghost?"

“Call it luck, call it fate, call it karma, I believe that everything happens for a reason.”

“I believe we were destined to get thrown out of this dump.”

“Where are we gonna get the money?”

"You don't act like a scientist."

“Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night?”

“Do you have any hobbies?”

“I collect spores, moulds, and fungus.”

"You actually eat this stuff?"

“We should stay here tonight, sleep here. You know, to try it out!”

“Are you sure you’re using that thing correctly?”

“We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!”

“Don’t move, it won’t hurt you.”

“I feel so funky.”

“He slimed me.”

"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

“You gotta come in here, you’re missing a classic party.”

"Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekenetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?"

"If there's a steady pay cheque in it, I'll believe anything you say."

"You don't look good. You've looked better. You didn't use to look like this."

"Are you the keymaster?"

"Are you the gatekeeper?"

“You said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for?”

"You will perish in flame, you and all your kind!"

“I’m afraid you’re gonna die.”

"My friend, don't be a jerk."

"I am the keymaster."

"I am the gatekeeper."

"If he does that again, you can shoot him."

"Something terrible is about to enter our world."

"I have seen shit that will turn you white."

"This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions."

"Well, what do you mean 'biblical'?"

“Are you a god?”

“When someone asks you ‘are you a god?’, you say ‘yes’!”

"Funny us going out like this, killed by a hundred foot marshamallow man."

“I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.”

"There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive."

“I love this plan, I’m excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!"

“I’m sorry, I just… I just forgot.”

Lyric starters from New Order’s album ‘Substance 1987.’ Adjust pronouns / phrasing / context as desired!

▶ Ceremony

"This is why events unnerve me."

"Notice for whom the wheels are turning."

"Oh, I’ll break them down."

"No mercy shown."

"Heaven knows it’s got to be this time."

▶ Everything's Gone Green

"Help me, somebody help me."

"I’ll hurt you when I can."

"It seems like I’ve been here before."

"Won’t you show me?"

"Please, show me the way."

▶ Temptation

"It hurts me to treat you this way."

"Tonight, I think I’ll walk alone."

"I’ll find my soul as I go home."

"I’ve never seen anyone quite like you before."

"No, I’ve never met anyone quite like you before."

"It’s the last time."

▶ Blue Monday

"How does it feel to treat me like you do?"

"I thought I was mistaken."

"I find it so hard to say what I need to say."

"But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me how I should feel today."

"I can and shall obey."

"I thought I told you to leave me."

"Tell me, how does it feel when your heart grows cold?"

▶ Confusion

"I’ll tell you something I think you should know."

"Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies."

"You’ve caused me some problems."

"You’ve taken my place."

"Why can't you see what you mean to me?"

▶ Thieves like Us

"It's always the same."

"You were always so vain."

"It's called love."

"It belongs to us."

"When it dies, it dies for good."

"It belongs to everyone but us."

"It's the only thing that's worth living for."

▶ The Perfect Kiss

"I knew it from the start."

"Let's go out and have some fun."

"I know you know."

"Tonight, I should have stayed at home."

"He has always been so strange."

"I'd often thought he was deranged."

▶ Sub-Culture

"I like walking in the park when it gets late at night."

"What do I get out of this?"

"I always try."

"You won't even notice that you are alone."

"In the end, you will submit."

"It's got to hurt you a little bit."

▶ Shellshock

"It's never enough."

"It's never enough until your heart stops beating."

"Don't give up the game until your heart stops beating."

"You left me all alone."

"That's the way I can win."

"You've lost the hold you've had on me."

▶ State of the Nation

"I don't kiss when you're around."

"Even now, I'm all alone."

"I think about where we have been."

"I know it all could be worthwhile."

"There's no sense in telling me."

"The wisdom of the fool won't set you free."

▶ Bizarre Love Triangle

"That's the way that it goes."

"Every day my confusion grows."

"I'm waiting for that final moment you say the words that I can't say."

"Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday?"

"I'm not sure what this could mean."

"I don't think you're what you seem."

▶ True Faith

"I feel so extraordinary."

"Something's got a hold on me."

"I don't care if I'm here tomorrow."

"They're afraid of what they see."

"That's the price that we all pay."

"I can't tell you where we're going."

because i love rabbitology, she's an underappreciated artist, and so stinking much of my lore is built based on vibes from her songs.

Two Head Hare

those eyes, they know too much

this two-headed hare must be a lucky omen

you ask me where my soul will go once this body dies

what makes a warning?

I pray wherever i end, I'll still want to begin with you again

We say nothing to each other

We know everything

Hold my hand tighter

Preybirds

birds of prey spiral above my head

I've watched it happen again and again

I shouldn't play with fate

What if once, I could make you safe?

If you'd just look up I could be your guide

Why can't I catch your eye?

You're all I see. Won't you look at me?

You're blind to all my warning cries

One day I'll come reckoning

Bog Bodies

Please, love, never leave

I have hands for building altars

I was made to be a devotee

Won't someone teach me to love without it swallowing me whole?

If to love is to be changed, I'm only worsening

He only loves me when I rot with him

I'm my father's stubborn daughter

I am no gentle lover

Wolfhouse

You hope she tastes what she smells of

Touch her and I'll hack you raw

Come on, sink your teeth in me

Rip us down in the heat of your fever

You're the reaper

Drink my blood

My spit'll be the chaser

Watch my hands blink the glint of my cleaver

I am a first born daughter

I'll wear your fur

I will bear this lupine curse

Sweet Death of Me

I meant to impress you, not distress you

I guess I'll see you around, my lover

I was once a dancing man

I slipped further towards the cliffs side end

Your song grasped my body

I slipped straight off the edge and into the coughing sea

You don't need to read my palms or my tea leaves

In every life I live, you'll be the sweet death of me

Its like we were written in divine comedy

I don't care if with you I can never be saved

This love may be cursed from the very beginning

A life without you's not a life I'd like living

Millie, Warm the Kettle

What have you done to me, my friend?

Can't you see I slide planchettes with my wake?

I'm tossing, turning in an open grave

Catch me walking with the ghosts again

Must be on that double dose

Can't you stop them?

Like exhaling, it never ends

Can't you see I made a walking stick out of my stake?

What be this omen?

Please be a kind old dearie just for me

Warm the kettle's tea once more

Magnanimity (Bigger Man)

Can you hear her calling?

You say its best to forgive

I writhe in my grave and you never lost sleep

I'll cry for 40 nights and days

Mercy is not a word that I know

How dare you beg for maturity?

I'll never exhale it all, it never ends

Who's the bigger man now?

Butcheress

This church was once a barn, they say

Your past never scrubs away

God birthed me cursed

I asked the Father how I could be saved

My heart is tethered and I think we're soulmates

You better repent every day

Cut my heart out for a taste of claimed saintliness

I became a butcheress

Could this church ever be a barn again?

Could a girl unlearn false cries to sin?

Could a butcher shed her lambs bloodied skin?

... new girl, old ghosts

Replaced me with a new girl, I see

He never means it when he says he's sorry

I pray she won't forgive easily, like me

He taunts my spirit every day

I wanna raise the dead just to play with his head

I wanna set her free, say she's not alone

Foxcry

You just love to see a woman suffer

You hate it when I sing but you love it when I scream

Food is scarce, take what you keep

Don't heed a hand thats willing to feed

I can feel those eyes sinking into me

Who Shot the Bird Boy?

Where did you find this meat?

The silence in the woods felt wrong

Which of us is next?

Where will the barrel be pointed?

Candleburn

They'll put an apple in your hand, but don't you dare bite it

A match and a wick, but don't you dare light it

Temptation is a sin, don't look any more behind it

That's just how it is, don't you dare fight it

Life's only meant to live, don't fill it with excitement

Sorry, man, it's way too late

Abstain, restrain, forgive... or something like that

Stranger

There is a stranger wearing your face around

Let me find you

Are you hiding somewhere inside?

Where did it hide your soul?

I cannot tame it with salt, holy water, or sage

If you love me, you'll let me inside

Have I found you?

Wildfire (Gone, Gone, Gone)

You say you didn't mean for this to happen

Your nose crinkles up when you lie

Once set in motion, it cannot be stopped

A lifetime we built, curled to ash in an instant

You cut my wound deep, how dare you try to kiss it

We knew this love would swallow us whole

Joanie

Do you not tremble at the thought the we could both go up in smoke?

Is it the first breath or the final gasp that hurts the most?

Intro (Living Ghost)

Why am I bleeding?

Does this wound hurt?

Why did you leave me?

You think that you've killed me, but watch my chest rise

Skeleton Appreciation Day

"To cut down on my silhouette, my favorite foods are smoke and hearts."

"All nightmares start as dreams, and I can hear my subconscious screaming."

"They saw that beauty's just skin deep."

"So naturally, please show me your bones."

"Let me see your bones."

"Well, I don't wanna know if the feeling follows home."

"Hell, we're all alone."

"If I come home, baby, will you show me your bones?"

"A selfish book is always open."

"And some of the best liars only want the truth."

"All love starts as a scheme."

"So, wake me up, I'm tired of sleeping."

"Give me all your LSD so I can feel my mind unweave again."

Akido! (Neurotic/Erotic)

"I apologize for playing with your eyes, but I'm obsessed with you."

"Rolling out of bed is morning in my head, cause I'm obsessed with you."

"Rose mirages into vases, I don't stand a chance."

"Quiet girls with wrist corsages, cordial silence, I can't dance."

"My insides cry "try thy finest" why then am I at my brink?"

"So we can touch instead of feel."

Cover this song

"Say you're still them, the person you were, and you haven't turned into someone who could never love me again."

"Cause you never broke my heart, no you fixed it and now it works."

"But only just enough to suffer that hurt.'

"What can I say to convince you to slip back into my arms again?"

"I won't do you no harm again."

"Lemme tell you that I'm sorry."

"I'm just a little bit crazy about you."

"Please come back and be just a little bit mine.'

"I never thought, and if I did, I forgot while blacked out in love, that what's only starting would come to an end."

"But now I'm hungover and hung out to dry, and I'm giving it time."

"Does not knowing turn my words into lies?"

"What can I say to convince you or do to make you agree with me?"

"I don't need you to be with me, just try to remember what you see in me."

"Whether it is or isn't the end, who cares? God knows I could use a friend."

Red Moon

"When will your shadows break?"

"Tell me the truth, what are you hiding behind that face?"

"If matter's in, then I might space out."

"Why can't I take in what you've been dishing out?"

"Why do I reject, while you endlessly reflect?"

"Teach me to make moonshine and we'll get drunk on the spirits of the air."

Jimmy Mushroom's Last Drink

"Is there anything left to escape but life?"

"I didnt sign up for this."

"May today lost what yesterday won."

"Hope that tomorrow I'll get something done."

"I'm gonna run out of time."

"But, I'll tell you what, I'm not afraid to die.'

"I'm more afraid of what might happen first."

"Either way it's not like we'll get out alive."

"I can't say that I know which one is worse."

"Everything's useless, especially songs."

"I think the truth is that everyone's wrong."

"I might keep looking for nothing to find."

Include context as preferred! Obvious violence implied.

[GRIP] - Sender grips the receiver’s chin, forcing them to look at the sender.

[GRAB] - Sender grabs the receiver’s arm to pull them closer.

[FORCE] - Sender forces the receiver to sit in a chair.

[PUSH] - Sender pushes receiver forward roughly.

[PULL] - Sender pulls the receiver’s hair or a part of their body (specify for bald or nonhuman characters).

[CHOKE] - Sender grabs the receiver by the throat.

[PIN] - Sender pins the receiver against the wall.

[RESTRAIN] - Sender forces the receiver’s hands behind their back.

[PIN DOWN] - Sender pins the receiver against the floor or bed.

Alter wording as needed for maximum fit!

“Hey, we thought of everything—except for an alibi and an escape route, but we’ll figure it out as we go.”

“For all we know, you three are in the bad place, and I’m up in the good place, where I belong, being tested.”

“We couldn’t hear you, but I am an expert in non-verbal communication, and it is clear. You are in conflict.”

“Diamonds are literally carbon molecules lined up in the most boring way. They’re worthless space garbage.”

“The point is, don’t be sad. Honestly, I’ll get kind of annoyed if you do get sad, because it’s been a very long day.”

“It literally took dying and being around a bunch of good people to realize that I was kind of a nightmare.”

“I took something great, and I ruined it a little so I could enjoy it more. I frozen-yogurted the neighborhood.”

“I have spent every second in this place worried I was going to get caught, but if we go down right now, that’s on you!”

“I know it sounds crazy, but if it weren’t crazy, they wouldn’t call it a leap of faith! They would call it a...sit of...doubting.”

“You know, every single detail of your life is deeply disturbing, and yet I envy you. I was never allowed to goof off.”

“Look at what you’re asking me to do—make a deal with an actual devil so that I can then do homework in secret.”

“Okay, I’ve hacked into the mainframe! ...Kidding. I can’t ‘hack into the mainframe’; technically I *am* the mainframe.”

“If you steal a loaf of bread, it’s a negative seventeen points. Twenty if it’s a baguette, because that makes you more French.”

“I’m gonna take your relationship and put it under a microscope and dig and poke and prod until you are back to soulmate harmony.”

“We don’t put people in jail. It’s just a room where you have been put in the interest of public safety as a form a punishment and from which there is no exit.”

“You guys are so fun, just relentlessly fun. I keep thinking, ‘When are they going to stop being fun?’ And the answer is never. You are never going to stop.”

“Dude, if you do the thing where you have to reexplain the entire world before asking a question, we are both going to grow old and die again. Out with it!”

“Do you eat? I can never remember. What do you eat? Babies? Want me to get you a big fat baby? What flavor baby? Ohhh, what about a cool ranch baby?”

“Just shove your feelings way down deep, plaster on a fake smile, and pretend you’re having fun, okay? Just like I used to do when someone started talking about their kids.”

“Alright, let me just get into the mindset of a human. … Huhuh, ohhh, I’m a human, and my breathing tube is next to my eating tube! Oh, and look, my arms end in stupid little sticks!”

“I wish we were in Florida, kissing outside, near a swamp with some old tires in it, watching a flamingo trying to mate with somebody’s old gun. I want us to have the life we deserve.”