Episode description
This episode carries content warnings for distorted and layered vocals, discussion of civilian death and mass destruction, description of being bound, tight spaces, compulsive thoughts and mind control
After the calamitous encounter at the Isle of the Broken Key, the Bilateral Intercession finds itself on the back foot. Key intelligence assets compromised. A flagship, along with its crew and commander, lost to the sea. Insurgents capturing resources from the Diadem’s train lines. A snare closing around on Stargrave Elcessor. Something must be done. Something must be done.
This week on PALISADE: How It Always Looks Pt. 1
in case i'm not around
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Opening
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Broadcasting live from the caves of Sinder Karst. That's right, we'll tell you where we live 'cause you can't reach us, not in a way that matters. It's your boy, Baldwin Home, a.k.a. Black Screen, Concrete Front, you already know what it is. Hitting you with another missive from the frontlines, giving you an update on their missiles and known crimes, so you can move under their noses and know where they sharpen their knives, so you can recognize it by sound [OVERLAPPING: Bank to Church. I'm at Position Alpha.] and get your own honed too, cause they need to be! What did I say? Play it back, play it back! They're-they're-they’re moving on us now.
Bilateral Intercession yet they got three heads so I gotta break it down for you. It's like this: Stel Kesh, they'll try to confuse you with half-true museums and the shine of gold and silver, so let's keep it simple. They wear a lot of fancy shirts. I'm not kidding, you should see they closets. And that's fine by me, you should see mine! But I know who made my shit and I know they didn't make it at gunpoint, direct or indirect. Kesh, Kesh only know what's on the label, with Kesh it's always about labels. For as long as there's been a Kesh [OVERLAPPING: He has no idea. Listen to him go.] they've been breaking everybody and everything down so it fits into little drawers, little boxes. They've been the same since before any of us were living here on Palisade.
Next up, Stel Nideo, they run the churches and the schools, and the cameras and the swords, and the blood-coloured jewels. What can I even say that they haven't said themselves? Their little prophet and their big Divines treat words like prison cells. It's a prison faith, it's a prison ideology. They locked up they own selves with a warden psychology. They preach fields into gardens but turn lands into landmines. They practice [OVERLAPPING: You gotta give it to Connadine. They all speak on rhythm.] metaphysical arson and replace homes with confines.
Which leaves us with just one more head on the Hydra, one more round in the chamber, one more villain inside the Intercession war procession. Exanceaster March, you're worth half a bar, lightweight, but fuck it, I'll give you eight.
You're the [OVERLAPPING: Roger. Executing now.] ideal mosquito, bloodsucker supreme.
Turned your back on your people so you could follow your dream
of monopolizing the future, 'cause fuck it, you want more.
Well, so do I, which is why I rhyme, and why we'll knock down your— [GUNSHOT]
[Kill confirmed.]”
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- Baldwin Home (intro only)