Erb Pyre - Veteran, “Hey friend. Don’t point your camera over there. You crazy?That’s king Mudd. He don’t take too kindly to being filmed. Kind of the whole point of the mud. Me? No, I’m just out for a little midnight stroll through the neighborhood. Checkin’ out the nightlife and whathaveyou. You know, I’m old enough to remember this spot before this factory was here. On a clear night, you could look right through that brush and see the moon. Maybe we’ll have that view again someday.”

The skewered and bloody bird remains

The Muddites sneak up on and kill a bird.

Vex Shadow - Apprentice Dungfinder

“My dad runs a dungfinder co-op and I’m his apprentice. A true cottage industry family business, for whatever that’s worth. he says it’s too dangerous out there with all those finders going missing, so I haven’t been getting very many hours in lately. I don’t even know if there will be any work in dungfinding anymore with Murdock’s machines automating everything. I’ve put a couple of years into becoming a dungfinder, but I’m thinking of switching things up. Maybe I’ll go into hive repair or personal security or something. I don’t know.”

Titch Soot - Witch at Hexicon

“There’s energy in death. Most of the time it’s a weak neutral energy… everything dies and most deaths are insipid. Some people’s ends are heroic and there is a light energy there. But these are dark times with dark deaths. If you’ll excuse me, there a bit of delicate timing to these things.”

Glub Treeclinger - Magistrate of Oak’s Shadow

Crowd, “What are we supposed to do, just starve to death? This has been our way of life since anyone can remember.

Magistrate, “Progress can be disruptive.”

Crowd, “Slightly disrupting Murdock’s runaway profits is worth killing my child? Just enforce the laws!”

Magistrate, “The machine breaking will stop or the government will STOP THE MACHINE BREAKERS.”

Vert Stoneman: owner of Rhapsody in Poo, “Listen, I don't wanna sound like a jerk or whatever, but I gotta look after number one here. Murdock is a scumbag, but he beats those other guys on price by a lot. Besides, I ain’t some housewife buying a little dung here or there for the rugrats. I'm in manufacturing. I buy a lot of dung and I make a lot of products out of that dung. If Murdock gets me a discount, so much the better for everyone that buys from me. I figured all trickles down or whatever. If a few people go out of business because they can't compete, eh…”

Coxa Blight: lead guitarist of Rot ‘n Ruin, “Big Dung wants us to think that they're the experts. That like they invented dung or something. We all have generations of genetic memory finding dung. Our ancestors didn't have companies or machines… Join King Mudd and tear it all to the ground. Break the machines, break the factories, break the bosses, break the owners. Break it all and we'll do it ourselves!”

Murdock, “It is an unfortunate reality that people get hurt and displaced because of progress. If you could help tens of thousands of people live a better life with a constant flow of low cost dung, what is that worth?”

Magistrate, “Like, how much money?”

Murdock, “No, not money. People. Acceptable losses. Some people are going to starve, this is disruptive progress. These are the sacrifices we’re making for a better future.”