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The Cost of Doing Business

by Ryan Buell

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I. -PRESS START- (0:00) After a familiar clink, the title screen fades in, pulsing through an ominous color pallette. After a short period the words press start illuminate in a n unassuming font. II. -SATISFACTION GUARANTEED- (1:32) We open on Suburbia, where we follow a distribution node shaped like a floating garbage truck down to a central point. Dozens of small compartments open and the personable delivery drones are dispatched, each zooming off in different directions. We follow our protagonist, 808, to its first stop. After a hearty knock and a salute to the patron, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged. WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE? The exchange concludes, and 808 zips off to its next delivery. This process continues, with the pace hastening until it becomes untenable, and the act concludes with 808 inadvertently hitting a person, who explodes in a cloud of blood and visera. Having encountering a human, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged. WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE? III. -MAINTENANCE REQUIRED- (5:26) 808 is quickly whisked from the scene of the accident, and taken to the the vast Distribution Center for repairs. We enter the facility and follow 808 as it is pulled along conveyors and scanned into inventory at regular intervals. The drone eventually arrives in a dark corner of the facility, and out of the shadows a foreboding figure emerges. IV. -SINISTER PLOT- (7:40) A disgruntled quality assurance representative cackles nefariously as they spell out their dastardly plan to engineer the downfall of the company that has neglected them so. As 808 is reprogrammed, its eyes haze from a calm powder blue to a menacing magenta. V. -GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE- (10:52) Blood now registers as a 5 star satisfaction rating, and 808 begins by disemboweling the quality assurance rep. Pleased by its excellent satisfaction rating, 808 goes on a killing spree, starting with distribution center employees, and backtracking to its suburban route from yesterday, with each kill becoming more gruesome and bloodthirsty than the last. The Corporate Security Forces are dispatched, and 808 is forced to fight 4 giant mech warriors, after which 808 amalgamates itself with each of the mech warriors' signature weapons. The earth is soaked in blood as it starts to rain. VI. -THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS- (13:49) A deathly quiet is followed wrenching quakes as the demi god mech warrior SOZEB claws is way from the depths. The tentacled robot behemoth boss fight takes absolutely forever, even if you spent ages farming exp during Gratuitous Violence. SOZEB is finally defeated, engaging a nuclear self destruct and decimating what is left of the world. 808 is miraculously still alive, and limps off into the sunset of the toxic hellscape. Roll Credits
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I. -PRESS START- After a familiar clink, the title screen fades in, pulsing through an ominous color pallette. After a short period the words press start illuminate in a n unassuming font.
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II. -SATISFACTION GUARANTEED- We open on Suburbia and follow a distribution node, shaped like a floating garbage truck, down to a central point. Dozens of small compartments open and the personable delivery drones are dispatched, each zooming off in different directions. We follow our protagonist, 808, to its first stop. After a hearty knock and a salute to the patron, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged. WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE? The exchange concludes, and 808 zips off to its next delivery. This process continues, with the pace hastening until it becomes untenable, and the act concludes with 808 inadvertently hitting a person, who explodes in a cloud of blood and visera. Having encountering a human, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged. WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE?
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III. -MAINTENANCE REQUIRED- (5:26) 808 is quickly whisked from the scene of the accident, and taken to the the vast Distribution Center for repairs. We enter the facility and follow 808 as it is pulled along conveyors and scanned into inventory at regular intervals. The drone eventually arrives in a dark corner of the facility, and out of the shadows a foreboding figure emerges.
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IV. -SINISTER PLOT- A disgruntled quality assurance representative cackles nefariously as they spell out their dastardly plan to engineer the downfall of the company that has neglected them so. As 808 is reprogrammed, its eyes haze from a calm powder blue to a menacing magenta.
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V. -GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE- Blood now registers as a 5 star satisfaction rating, and 808 begins by disemboweling the quality assurance rep. Pleased by its excellent satisfaction rating, 808 goes on a killing spree, starting with distribution center employees, and backtracking to its suburban route from yesterday, with each kill becoming more gruesome and bloodthirsty than the last. The Corporate Security Forces are dispatched, and 808 is forced to fight 4 giant mech warriors, after which 808 amalgamates itself with each of the mech warriors' signature weapons.
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I. -PRESS START- (0:00)
After a familiar clink, the title screen fades in, pulsing through an ominous color pallette. After a short period the words press start illuminate in an unassuming font.


II. -SATISFACTION GUARANTEED- (1:32)

We open on Suburbia and follow a distribution node, shaped like a floating garbage truck down to a central point. Dozens of small compartments open and the personable delivery drones are dispatched, each zooming off in different directions. We follow our protagonist, 808, to its first stop. After a hearty knock and a salute to the patron, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE?

The exchange concludes, and 808 zips off to its next delivery. This process continues, with the pace hastening until it becomes untenable, and the act concludes with 808 inadvertently hitting a person, who explodes in a cloud of blood and visera. Having encountering a human, the Customer Satisfaction Protocol is engaged.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO RATE YOUR SERVICE?

III. -MAINTENANCE REQUIRED- (5:26)

808 is quickly whisked from the scene of the accident, and taken to the the vast Distribution Center for repairs. We enter the facility and follow 808 as it is pulled along conveyors and scanned into inventory at regular intervals. The drone eventually arrives in a dark corner of the facility, and out of the shadows a foreboding figure emerges.

IV. -SINISTER PLOT- (7:40)
A disgruntled quality assurance representative cackles nefariously as they spell out their dastardly plan to engineer the downfall of the company that has neglected them so. As 808 is reprogrammed, its eyes haze from a calm powder blue to a menacing magenta.


V. -GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE- (10:52)
Blood now registers as a 5 star satisfaction rating, and 808 begins by disemboweling the quality assurance rep. Pleased by its excellent satisfaction rating, 808 goes on a killing spree, starting with distribution center employees, and backtracking to its suburban route from yesterday, with each kill becoming more gruesome and bloodthirsty than the last. The Corporate Security Forces are dispatched, and 808 is forced to fight 4 giant mech warriors, after which 808 amalgamates itself with each of the mech warriors' signature weapons.

VI. -THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS- (13:49)

A deathly quiet is followed wrenching quakes as the demi god mech warrior SOZEB claws is way from the depths. The tentacled robot behemoth boss fight takes absolutely forever, even if you spent ages farming exp during Gratuitous Violence.
SOZEB is finally defeated, engaging a nuclear self destruct and decimating what is left of the world.
808 is miraculously still alive, and limps off into the sunset of the toxic hellscape.

Roll Credits

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released October 23, 2020

Concept, Composition, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, and Cover Art all by Ryan Buell

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Ryan Buell is a musician, an educator, a multi instrumentalist, a conceptualist, a socialist, a dreamer. The art presented here is meant to be without restriction, so that it may breathe freely in the space of your mind.

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