Tales to be Told, Volume II

Tales To Be Told, Volume II is a compilation album of songs that aren't part of the story sets, a spiritual successor to Tales to be Told. It contains a mixture of crew member backstory songs, Kickstarter perk songs, and miscellaneous standalone songs.

Drop Dead
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A standalone song based on the story (but not the music) of the 2015 video game Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Cast

 * Cadence: Raphaella la Cognizi
 * Melody: Ashes O'Reilly
 * Aria: The Toy Soldier
 * Octavian: Marius von Raum

Hereward The Wake
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A standalone song based on the English semi-historical, semi-mythical figure Hereward the Wake. The backer also requested that the adaptation feature a gay Hereward and dogs.

Cast

 * Narrator: Gunpowder Tim

Twisted Threads
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A song based on the Greek myth of Arachne. Arachne is a gifted storyteller, who is taken under the wing of Olympian spin doctor Athena. Over time, Arachne hungers for more, and attempts to break away from Athena's control and spin her own, anti-Olympian propaganda, but the Olympians arrange her murder, and she ends up spinning for Athena again as a mind in the Acheron.

Cast

 * Athena: Raphaella la Cognizi
 * Arachne: Gunpowder Tim
 * Narrator: Jonny D'Ville

Actaea and Lyssa
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A song based on the Greek myth of Actaeon. In the original, the hunter Actaeon spies on the goddess Artemis while he is out hunting with his dogs; she catches him, transforms him into a stag, and sets his hounds into a frenzy so that they tear him apart. In the Mechanisms adaptation, Actaeon and his hounds are replaced by two sisters. Actaea is a feminised version of the name Actaeon; the name Lyssa comes from a Greek spirit of madness and insanity.

Cast

 * Actaea: The Toy Soldier
 * Lyssa: Raphaella la Cognizi

Pieces
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A standalone song based on the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris.

Cast

 * Set: Jonny d'Ville
 * Osiris: Gunpowder Tim
 * Isis: Ashes O'Reilly

Stranger
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A standalone song based on the Japanese folk tale known as the crane wife.

Cast

 * Discovering Partner: Gunpowder Tim
 * Discovered Partner ("Crane Wife"): DrumBot Brian

Lucky Sevens
A song about the backstory of Ashes O'Reilly.

Cast

 * Smooth Mickey: Jonny d'Ville
 * Themself: Ashes O'Reilly

Lost In The Cosmos
A song about the backstory of Drumbot Brian.


 * Narrator: Raphaella la Cognizi
 * Backing Vocals: Jonny d'Ville, The Toy Soldier

Alice
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A song based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, set in a system affected by the events of Once Upon A Time (In Space).

Cast

 * Narrator: Jonny d'Ville
 * Alice: Raphaella la Cognizi
 * Comsat Cheshire: Marius von Raum
 * The General (The Caterpillar): Ashes O'Reilly
 * Major Hatter: DrumBot Brian
 * Major Hare: Gunpowder Tim
 * The Rose Reds, The Queen of Hearts: The Toy Soldier

Swan Song
Written for a backer of the The Bifrost Incident Kickstarter.

A standalone song based on Swan Lake.

Cast

 * Narrator: Jonny d'Ville
 * The Odette: The Toy Soldier
 * Siegfried: Ashes O'Reilly