[Play] A Handgrenade Loose in King Arthur's Court - Act 2, Scene 5

 Scene 5

Grenademan and Morgana are talking.  Grenademan is drawing plans and equations (this can be done on a chalkboard or unseen by the audience on paper, but if seen by the audience it should be pseudoscientific with actual mathematical symbols and things that look like pure nonsense to an educated mind given that this is superhero science)

Morgana

I must say, I’m impressed.  Chaos has rigged the system to bring a random visitor each cycle, and you aren’t the first to do gunpowder, guns or a septic system but you are…prolific.

Grenademan

THE FORCES OF GOOD MUST NEVER REST.

Morgana

Good and Evil are the lesser sisters of Order and Chaos.

Grenademan

NOTHING CAN BEAT THE FORCES OF GOOD.

Morgana

Just because you have a magic helmet that lets your insanity deny or sometimes impose that insanity on the rest of us doesn’t mean that it works that way for the rest of us.

Grenademan

ITS SIMPLE LOGIC.  GOOD ALWAYS WINS. THEREFORE GOOD MUST BE INDESTRUCTIBLE.

Morgana

And good people besides yourself are indestructible in your experience?

Grenademan

TEMPORARY SETBACKS.

Morgana

(beat) You know, I’m to blame here.  You’re literally insane.  So, I’m gonna go over here and read a book or something.

(Lights Dim)

A trashy romance novel appears in Morgana’s Hands.

(Lights Go Up)

Some time passes and Grenademan continues writing.  Grenademan looks up.

Grenademan

ARE THEY REALLY TRAPPED IN A LOOP?

Morgana

Oh most definitely.

Grenademan

IS THERE A WAY TO BREAK IT?

Morgana

Oh finally.  I was hoping you’d ask.  The rules let me tell you if you ask, but only just. (under her breath) Took you long enough Einstein.  

Grenademan

WHAT?

Morgana

Nothing. Yes, there is a way to break the loop.  You need to destroy an obelisk that marks this Camelot as their playground.  Oberon set it down with the rules so they don’t have to work out new rules from scratch every time.  If you can change the writing there, or remove the Obelisk, then they will move on to other games and let time move freely here.

Grenademan

GOT IT.  DESTROY THE OBELISK OF EVIL.  DO YOU HAVE A MAP?

Morgana

I’m a Sorceress.  We can teleport places.

Grenademan

THEN CAN WE TELEPORT THERE NOW?

Morgana

So glad you asked.  (Snaps fingers)