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* {{Badass}}: Constance, Jacqueline, the voodoopunks, and the Blood Red Dogs are all very badass.
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*** In the third act, Jacqueline gets into two arguments with Lloyd. [[spoiler: The first is when he wants her to execute Thomas but she refuses. The second is when Constance saves New Albion, but Lloyd finds this stupid and thinks the story would be better as a tragedy. She's the only one who can see his narrative, aside from Constance on occasion]]

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*** In the third act, Jacqueline gets into two arguments with Lloyd. [[spoiler: The first is when he wants her to execute Thomas but she refuses. The second is when Constance saves New Albion, but Lloyd finds this stupid and thinks the story would be better as a tragedy. She's Jackie's the only one who can see his narrative, aside from Constance on occasion]]



* Delinquent: Constance is only in her late teens or early twenties, but she's a mastermind thief.

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* Delinquent: {{Delinquent}}: Constance is only in her late teens or early twenties, but she's a mastermind thief.



* Interactive Narrator: Lloyd Allen interacts with Constance in "The Underground", and Jacqueline several times.

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* Interactive Narrator: InteractiveNarrator: Lloyd Allen interacts with Constance in "The Underground", and Jacqueline several times.



* JerkassHasAPoint: There's awhile there where Thomas doesn't seem so great, but Constance still can't deny that he's right in "The Bust"

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* JerkassHasAPoint: There's awhile there where Thomas doesn't seem so great, but Constance still can't deny that he's right in "The Bust"Bust" and "The Discussion 2"



-->'''Jackie:''' All that's left to do is run ("Reunion")

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-->'''Jackie:''' All that's left to do is run ("Reunion")
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*JerkassRealization: Subverted. Constance is never a jerkass, really, but she can be a bit selfish throughout most of the album. Towards the end of the third act, she realizes this and also that she can't keep running from her problems and, as the opera puts it, living in a world of dreams. She has an IAmBecomingSong, "Storyville Station", which details this development.

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*ArcWords: Anything have to do with dreams and being asleep--mostly used to describe Constance always "dreaming" and only seeing what she wants to see up until her CharacterDevelopment. Also, running away is a common theme, ending when Constance refuses her teammates decision to run.
*{{Badass}}: Constance, Jacqueline, the voodoopunks, and the Blood Red Dogs are all very badass.



*BelievingTheirOwnLies: Constance blinds herself from the world around her to the point that she doesn't see what's right in front of her. This changes after her CharacterDevelopment.



*BreakTheBadass: This happens to Constance when Thomas betrays her. But she doesn't let herself stay broken for very long.
*BreakUpSong: "Discussion 2" for Thomas and Constance [[spoiler:They get back together at the end of the album, though]]



*CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: Constance finally has to choose a side in the war



*DrowningMySorrows: John does this after losing his wife and abandoning his daughter Constance.
**Constance herself did this when she was in her early teens after losing both her parents in one way or another, but she's stopped by the time the the opera takes place, when she appears to be in her late teens to early/mid twenties.



*EmergingFromTheShadows: Jacqueline does this in the "Discussion 2"



*ForGreatJustice: The reason why Thomas betrays Constance.
*GoneHorriblyWrong: Jacqueline's plan to save New Albion.



*GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Jacqueline is willing to let the entire New Albion government's army be possessed forever if it means ending the war.



*HeartbrokenBadass: Constance, after being betrayed by Thomas.



*HiddenHeartOfGold: Constance is truly very selfless and brave, although you wouldn't have thought so at first.



*ItsAllAboutMe: Constance is like this, a little bit, before her enlightenment. She despises the war because of the way it destroyed her family, and therefore tends to ignore the greater good.
-->'''Constance:'''I don't care about your plan, I only care about my man!



*MeaningfulEcho: Several. Most notably,"Storyville Station"references "The Bust"
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***In "The Bust"
-->'''Constance:''' Run like the hours, the days all when counted, run like they passed while dreamers sleep

***Later in "Storyville Station"
-->'''Constance:'''...And everyday just goes by like a dream
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***In "The Bust"
-->'''Thomas:''' And on this day, the party's over. It's time to wake up, there's a war to win!
***Later in "Storyville Station"
-->'''Constance:''' Storyville Station can never take, the one who's here now and awake
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***"The Bust"
-->'''Constance:''' Run, taste the rain, run from mistakes you've made
***Later in "Reunion"
-->'''Jackie:''' All that's left to do is run ("Reunion")
-->'''Constance:''' We will not be running
*MinorCharacterMajorSong: The Blood Red Dogs don't play a major role in the story, but their song is one of the most epic and intense.



*NotQuiteTheRightThing: Thomas realizes this about his betraying Constance. He did believe it was saving the city, but it still wasn't right. Plus, he also starts to see that the rebels might be in the right after all.



*ParentalLoveSong: "Daddy Left"



*PluckyGirl: Constance to the extreme.
*QuarrelingSong: "Discussion 2" is all Constance and Thomas arguing



*RebelliousRebel: Constance's refuses her aunts offer to join the rebellion. To be fair, she refuses the government as well.



*ResignedToTheCall: In "The Substation" Constance still doesn't want to be involved with the war but agrees to help the rebels anyway, if only so that she can get rid of the MCG and go home.



*RunningGag: They frequently bring back lyrics about dreams and being awake. Also Constance's "run away" verse is sung by several characters. And of course the police's catchphrase for the entire trilogy is used, twice.
**Both times are in "The Bust"
-->'''Solider:''' And on the day we come, it's over
**And again, later:
-->'''Thomas:''' And on the day we come....it's over.

*ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: The rebellion in general.
**Also, Constance's career as a thief. Sure, she's breaking the law, but she's JustLikeRobinHood, since she does it to help the women of New Albion.
*SettingIntroductionSong: "New Albion 5" sets the theme for the whole opera, and "The Thief" sets the theme for Constance's character and the second and third act.



*ThisCannotBe: Constance's reaction to finding out Thomas betrayed her.
-->'''Constance:''' This isn't real, this isn't happening.
*TookALevelInCheerfulness: Jacqueline comments on how much happier Constance is after being reunited with her long-lost father.
*TookALevelInKindness: Constance again; she loses her selfishness and risks her life to save the city.



* UnreliableNarrator: Lloyd Allen turns out to be this, but he starts out as an AllKnowingSingingNarrator

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*UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Thomas]]
*UnlikelyHero: Constance, a Delinquent thief, saves the city.
* UnreliableNarrator: Lloyd Allen turns out to be this, but he starts out as an AllKnowingSingingNarratorAllKnowingSingingNarrator
*WellIntentionedExtremist: Jacqueline's attempts to save New Albion nearly destroy it.
*WhatTheHellHero: Jacqueline and Thomas feel this way about Constance, and her occasional selfishness, throughout the opera until the end when she does the right thing.
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*CoolAunt: Jacqueline to Constance
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*CityNoir: New Albion.


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*FilmNoir: It has many elements of this; CityNoir setting, a Mafia of some kind, a MacGuffin, a baddass hero, etcedera.


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*IronicName: Constance is anything but constant.


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*LovableRogue: Constance.


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*TheSmartGuy: Constance is the smartest member of their team, which is saying a lot.
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*AnotherSideAnotherStory: The rebels briefly become the villains in the Blood Red Dogs song.
*BadassArmy: The Blood Red Dogs


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*Delinquent: Constance is only in her late teens or early twenties, but she's a mastermind thief.


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*IWantSong: "Discussion 1" is about Constance's desire to leave New Albion with Thomas.
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*BreakingTheFourthWall: A very odd example. They break one of the walls. It's a ShowWithinAShow, but the players want to change the narrative.
***First, where the second act opens, Lloyd has a conversation with Constance O'Brien who will be "playing the part" of the lead role in that act. However, as it turns out, the lead character in the second act is, in fact, named Constance O'Brien. After that, it starts to become clear it might not be as much of a ShowWithinAShow as it seemed.
***In "The Underground" Constance hears Lloyd Allen narrating and starts asking him who he is. He's able to get her to "slip back into character."
***In the third act, Jacqueline gets into two arguments with Lloyd. [[spoiler: The first is when he wants her to execute Thomas but she refuses. The second is when Constance saves New Albion, but Lloyd finds this stupid and thinks the story would be better as a tragedy. She's the only one who can see his narrative, aside from Constance on occasion]]


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*EleventhHourSuperpower: At the end of the third act, [[spoiler:Constance suddenly gets the ability to save New Albion by singing a song. Lloyd Allen does not appreciate this]]


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*Interactive Narrator: Lloyd Allen interacts with Constance in "The Underground", and Jacqueline several times.


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*ShowWithinAShow: It's all told as if it's a radio broadcast. [[spoiler: Until it turns out the players are real and they "change the narrative"]]
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*ActionDad: John is Constance's father and a super solider.


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*BadassFamily: The O'Brien's.
*TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Both the government and the resistance know where Constance lives.
* TheCaper: The first few songs in the second act detail Constance and Thomas stealing the MCG.
* CharacterDevelopment: John goes from a regretful drunk to a heroic solider, and Constance stops ignoring her problems and the world around her.
* TheCult: The Voodoopunks are also the rebellion.
* DefectingForLove: Thomas starts out as an undercover police officer, but he ends up joining the rebels to protect Constance. John does the same thing, although it's for a different kind of love.


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* DisappearedDad: John is this to Constance.


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* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Storyville Station"


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "The Bust" foreshadows Constance's CharacterDevelopment


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* GriefSong: "The Green Room Pale", "The Wasteland", and "The Best of Times" all apply.
* HeroicNeutral: Constance is this until she can't be.


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*JerkassHasAPoint: There's awhile there where Thomas doesn't seem so great, but Constance still can't deny that he's right in "The Bust"
-->'''Thomas:''' And on this day, the party's over. It's time to wake up, there's a war to win!
* JustLikeRobinHood: Because of the unfair laws in New Albion, Constance steals from the high-society men who have left their wives and gives the goods to their ruined spouses.


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aunt Jacqueline tries to save New Albion, but nearly destroys it.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Thomas isn't evil, just misguided. He betrays Constance, but he is trying to do what's right.
* OutlawCouple: Thomas and Constance seem to be this. [[spoiler:but Thomas turns out to be TheMole]]


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* RecruitingTheCriminal: The voodoopunks hire Constance to steal the MCG
* RefusalOfTheCall: Constance does this to Aunt Jackie in "The Bust"


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*DarkAndTroubledPast: All four main characters have had pretty rough lives.
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*IAmBecomingSong: "Storyville Station" is this for Constance when she decides to "wake-up" to the world around her.
*IdiotHero: Subverted. Constance is far from stupid, but she is clueless. [[spoiler:To the point that she doesn't realize her aunt runs the resistance and her boyfriend works for the government.]] She loses this by the end, though.



* TruthSerums: Putting it in the water supply under Parliament is what kicked off the revolution.

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* TruthSerums: Putting it in the water supply under Parliament is what kicked off the revolution.revolution.
* UnreliableNarrator: Lloyd Allen turns out to be this, but he starts out as an AllKnowingSingingNarrator
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* GuileHero: Constance. She even refers to herself as this in "Storyville Station"
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* PhlebotiniumRebel: [[spoiler:John]] becomes this by the end.

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* PhlebotiniumRebel: PhlebotinumRebel: [[spoiler:John]] becomes this by the end.
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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 3-Act opera composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 3-Act opera composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, ''AudioPlay/TheDollsOfNewAlbion'', and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].



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** [[spoiler: Except for when Jackie hears his narration and has a moral disagreement. She gets into a second argument with him in the Finale over his actual role of either telling the story or creating it.]]

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** [[spoiler: Except for when Jackie hears his narration in Blood Red Dogs and has a moral disagreement. She gets into a second argument with him in the Finale over his actual role of either telling the story or creating it.]]
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** [[spoiler: Except for when Jackie hears his narration and has a moral disagreement.]]

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** [[spoiler: Except for when Jackie hears his narration and has a moral disagreement. She gets into a second argument with him in the Finale over his actual role of either telling the story or creating it.]]
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**[[spoiler: Except for when Jackie hears his narration and has a moral disagreement.]]
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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 3-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 3-Act play opera composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].
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!The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Brought to you by Papaver Cigarettes!"]]



* TruthSerums: Putting it in the water supply under Parliament is what kicked off the revolution.

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* TruthSerums: Putting it in the water supply under Parliament is what kicked off the revolution.
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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 4-Act 3-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].
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* DescentIntoDarknessSong: [[spoiler:The Pitch]] starts out with a very catchy and upbeat tune. Then, about two-thirds of the way through, the music cuts out into a brief interlude that calls the dark nature of the super soldier program into the forefront before going back to the happy upbeat music.
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* Fanfare: The Pitch from Act I.

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* Fanfare: {{Fanfare}}: The Pitch from Act I.

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The Dieselpunk Opera occurs some number of years after the events in Dolls of New Albion, and the featured family is the O'Brians. The story is told by an all-knowing {{Narrator}}, who describes a New Albion torn apart by war.

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The Dieselpunk Opera occurs some number of ten years after the events in Dolls of New Albion, and the featured family this time around is the O'Brians. The story is told by an all-knowing {{Narrator}}, who describes a New Albion torn apart by war.


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* Fanfare: The Pitch from Act I.


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* IAmSong: The Green Room Pale. Doubles as a GriefSong.


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* PhlebotiniumRebel: [[spoiler:John]] becomes this by the end.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Jackie]] turns out to be one.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized


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* TruthSerums: Putting it in the water supply under Parliament is what kicked off the revolution.
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* SuperSoldier: Freedom Corps will make you a new man! [[spoiler: By replacing various bits and limbs with iron parts. John is apparently the only one left]].

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* SuperSoldier: Freedom Corps will make you a new man! [[spoiler: By replacing various bits and limbs with iron parts. John is apparently the only one left]].who survived the process]].
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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsofNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsofNewAlbion, TheDollsOfNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].
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AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Of the Radio Broadcaster variety.
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HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:John and Jackie do this to protect Constance at the Battle of Cryer's Boulevard]].
MacGuffin: [[spoiler:the MCG serves no other purpose]].
TheMole: [[spoiler:Thomas, Constance's boyfriend, is an undercover cop]].
ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:John left Constance with his sister Jackie to join the war effort after his wife is killed in a bombing]].
SuperSoldier: Freedom Corps will make you a new man! [[spoiler: By replacing various bits and limbs with iron parts. John is apparently the only one left]].

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[[spoiler:John and Jackie do this to protect Constance at the Battle of Cryer's Boulevard]].
MacGuffin: *MacGuffin: [[spoiler:the MCG serves no other purpose]].
TheMole: *TheMole: [[spoiler:Thomas, Constance's boyfriend, is an undercover cop]].
ParentalAbandonment: *ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:John left Constance with his sister Jackie to join the war effort after his wife is killed in a bombing]].
SuperSoldier: *SuperSoldier: Freedom Corps will make you a new man! [[spoiler: By replacing various bits and limbs with iron parts. John is apparently the only one left]].

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ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:John left Constance with his sister Jackie to join the war effort after his wife is killed in a bombing]].

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AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Of the Radio Broadcaster variety.
{{Dystopia}}
HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:John and Jackie do this to protect Constance at the Battle of Cryer's Boulevard]].
MacGuffin: [[spoiler:the MCG serves no other purpose]].
TheMole: [[spoiler:Thomas, Constance's boyfriend, is an undercover cop]].
ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:John left Constance with his sister Jackie to join the war effort after his wife is killed in a bombing]].bombing]].
SuperSoldier: Freedom Corps will make you a new man! [[spoiler: By replacing various bits and limbs with iron parts. John is apparently the only one left]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera

The New Albion Radio Hour is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsofNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

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The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera

The New Albion Radio Hour
Opera is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsofNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].
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!The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera

The New Albion Radio Hour is a 4-Act play composed and written by Paul Shapera. It is the sequel to TheDollsofNewAlbion, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[http://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-albion-radio-hour-a-dieselpunk-opera here]].

The Dieselpunk Opera occurs some number of years after the events in Dolls of New Albion, and the featured family is the O'Brians. The story is told by an all-knowing {{Narrator}}, who describes a New Albion torn apart by war.

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