Micronation - Chapter 3 - Memesync

Our three heroes take a case in a shiny high tech unicorn start up department store to investigate why all of their customers are suddenly acting like characters out of sitcoms.  The answer may surprise you!

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 Done with a Hand Grenade in King Arthur's Court, hope you enjoyed.

Starting next week, my rewrite of the play "Rossum's Universal Robots" which is, frankly an entirely different play.

Here is what ended up being the first page of the last play.

A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur’s Court

A Play

By Rhombus Ticks

Dramatic Persona:

Grenademan: A superhero adrift between different dimensions who is slightly insane and who throws different types of grenades who has just arrived in Camelot.

Order: The Personification of Order, son of Oberon and Titania.  A player of games in Camelot.

Chaos: The Personification of Chaos, son of Oberon and Titania.  A player of games in Camelot.

Herald One: A Herald of Eastland

Herald Two: A Herald of Arthur and Camelot.

Merlin: The Wizard.  The Time Traveling champion of Chaos.

Morgana: Morgan Le Fey, Bane of Camelot and Champion of Order.

Sir Pelinor: Wisest of King Arthur’s knights, student of many subjects including magic and Alchemy.

King Arthur: The King.

Guenivere - The Wife of the King

Sir Lancelot - A shamed knight seeking redemption

Merchant - A seller of Fruit

Sir Galahad - A knight so pure that no woman will fuck him or would want to and too dumb to know the difference.

Bill the Enchanter - Understudy to a much more advanced evoker of the same name.

Disenchanted Trees - They’re trees that talk and have a very poor attitude in life

William the Enchanter - Bill’s Twin Brother

Mordred - Bane of Arthur

[Play] A Handgrenade Loose in King Arthur's Court - Act 2, Scene 14

 Grenademan is alone on the stage, entirely dark hurtling through the void between worlds. 

Order

Greetings Grenademan, congratulations on a job well done.

Grenademan

I AM SURPRISED.  I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE UPSET AT ME BREAKING THE CYCLE OF CAMELOT.

Order

On the small scale, it doesn’t help my interests, but I like to take the wider picture of things, and I believe that a Camelot allowed to thrive and flourish is a better story than one in which it disappears from the world.   Anyway, that’s not why I’m here.

Grenademan

WHY ARE YOU HERE?  IF...HERE...IS REALLY ANYWHERE...IT SEEMS MORE LIKE NOWHERE REALLY….

Order

No, it's not nowhere.  I’ve been to nowhere, and it's a very unpleasant non place.  This is just nothing, and that’s something all together different.

Grenademan

I SEE.

Order

You really don’t but you’re not a greater cosmic power, so who can blame you? Anyway, my brother and I play many many matches and I must say I’m impressed.  We have a rather impromptu quick match coming up on an Earth not too different than you own and I was wondering if you might be my champion.

Grenademan

I DON’T KNOW.  SOME OF YOUR ACTIONS SEEM EVIL….

Order

I am beyond Good and Evil.  I can see that is important to you, so does it help to know that your opponent is unquestionably evil?  He plans to unleash a zombie hoard on the world.  Well, he doesn't realize it yet, but that’s what he’s planning.

Grenademan

THE FORCES OF EVIL MUST BE STOPPED.

Order

I know, right? So you’ll do it?

Grenademan

SEND ME TO FACE THIS FOUL SORCEROUS FIEND.

Order 

That’s the spirit.  Changing your dimensional trajectory right...now.  Enjoy!

Grenademan

TALLYHO! TO FIGHT THE FORCES OF EVIL!

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[Play] A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur's Court Act 2, Scene 13

 

Grenademan, Morgana, Arthur, Lancelot and Sir Pelinor stand in the throne room

Arthur

So I guess this is goodbye Sir grenademan

Lancelot

Thank you

Pelinor

Thank you indeed.  Not just for saving the kingdom or breaking the cycle but the wonders you have helped us rediscover

Arthur

The kingdom can never repay you, but your memory will be sung by our bards as long as the table shall stand

Morgana

That’s …sappy.  But if it hadnt been for you, I would be being tortured for millenia.  Here.  (she hands Grenademan a pair of boots) They might help you get around…to fight the forces of evil.

Grenademan

THANK YOU ALL.  (he takes the boots) TO FIGHT THE FORCES OF EVIL.

(everyone else)

To fight the forces of evil!

Morgana

And hearing.

Grenademan salutes, and goes through the magic portal.

[Play] A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur's Court - Act 2, Scene 12

 Herald One and Herald Two enter the stage.

Herald One

And so it was that they returned to King Arthur.

Herald Two

And Johnny the Greater Power defying freak was paraded through the streets like the human ape he was.

Herald One

Indeed, people threw fruit and feces and other foul things at the person who thought he could defy Order and Chaos by disguising himself at Mordred

Herald Two

So incensed were the people that they totally forgot the insolence of the weird superhero who had defied them.

Herald One

Indeed.

Herald Two

Order and Chaos might not agree on much, but someone switching places with one of their major pieces like that is just not cool.

Herald One

Not cool at all.

Herald One and Herald Two look at each other and smiling, knowingly.

Herald Two and Herald One

Anyway…

Herald One

Arthur offered his most profuse gratitude to both of them.

Herald Two

Morgana was made Court Magician of all things

Herald One

Grenademan was made a member of the Order of St George, the highest order of knights in the land.  Arthur tried to make him a Baron but Grenademan thought that made him too much like the Red Baron and so wouldn’t have it.

Herald Two

(shakes his head in confusion a moment and continues)

Anywho, he was still given a vast estate where he set up factories and laboratories and a university.

Herald One

It was a very anachronistic age.

Herald Two

And soon, Arthur put the Greater Power defying abomination Johnny Silversmith in charge of a select committee to create democracy.

Herald One

It was by human terms a very golden age.

Herald Two

Months passed.

Herald One

Sir Grenademan, or Sir Frank Noble as  he came to be known in Camelot as Pelinor and Morgana divulged once they found a cure to Frank’s insanity as long as he didnt wear his battle gear, transformed their society

Herald Two

Practically overnight, it was a steampunk utopia

Herald One

That’s an oxymoron

Herald Two

Nevertheless, there it was.

Herald One

Wonder after wonder, discovery after discovery, until one day…

Herald Two

Morgana had finally figured out the spell to send Frank home.

Herald One

And so it came time to say his goodbyes

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