Chapter Five: "Rather What’s Left Of Our Hands"

Explicit content warning

12/05/23 • 41 min

Who deserves salvation when the dead assault the living?

The Fall of Monticello has begun, and the blight runs rampant across Jefferson's estate.
As the survivors regroup and fortify, Jupiter must hatch a plan to get everyone out. But not all of them will make it.

CAST & CREW

Aloysius, Jupiter Nameless - Eric Austin
Allela, Fiona Pratt, Gertrude Redd - Kate Piatti
Lillian Method, Carmela Kaine, Veronica Delmonaco - Hannah Schooner
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Arch Porter - Ryan Knowles
Other roles played by the cast.
Original Music Arrangements - Jackie Presti
Lyrics and Lead Vocals - Ryan Knowles
Guitar and Mandolin - Bob Rose
Chorus Singers - Robin Campbell, Jackie Presti, Lindsay Rose
Audio Production and Sound Design - Alex Sterling
Assistant Audio Engineer - Colin Bryson
Executive Producer - Nadine Welch
Writer - Kevin Likely
Producer and Director - Justin Heyman
Special thanks to Prof. Elizabeth Ellis-Marino
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Who deserves salvation when the dead assault the living?

Previous Episode

Song: Ballad Of The Blight

A storm gathers near, regardless of place,
A tempest is toss’d in each brothers face,
The birth of a land is the birth of the storm,
The weather is cold and the war is too warm.

Derry Down Down
Hey Derry Down

The front marches forth in both weather and war,
Each battle is fought, though there isn’t a score,
But more than their lives are lost in the fight,
For after the war, they must battle the blight

Derry Down Down
Hey Derry Down

The skells overtake each village they cross
All shells of themselves, their souls are now lost,
They spread ‘cross the land like the armies up North,
Devouring hope as the their blight goeth forth.

Derry Down Down
Hey Derry Down

But other things spread, through the body and mind
Diseases and Greed will both vanquish in kind,
A fight for the wealthy is fought by the poor,
And no soul is healthy when saddled with war.

Derry Down Down
Hey Derry Down

Home is the reason all battles are fought,
The horrors they wrought are not soon forgot,
But a home built on bondage will never stand tall,
And a land lost to Blight is certain to fall.

Derry Down Down
Hey Derry Down
Original Music and Arrangements by Jackie Presti with Lyrics by Ryan Knowles.

Next Episode

Song: Galloping To Freedom

Beginnings are formed when something else ends,
A skin that was torn, with healing, now mends,
The scars of our past are now etched in stone,
A map to the future when trav’lin’ alone.

A home without peace makes a child want to fight,
A life spent in shadow won’t recognize the light,
Though gray skies may gather, seek shelter from the storm,
Just rise above those dark clouds and the sun’ll keep you warm

The rivers are running, both faster and red,
Now water flows scarlet with the help of the dead,
Break free from the present, with fury and force,
And run like the river with haste from the source.

Free of the duties, and free of the shame,
Free of the people that gave you their name,
Freedom to see a better day ahead,
The freedom of death without being dead.

Now left all alone, with the pain of the past,
The trials of present are not meant to last,
When your’re left with nothin’, hold onto what counts,
Cause the harder they hit you the higher you bounce.
Original Musical Arrangements by Jackie Presti with Lyrics by Ryan Knowles.