News of The Four Worlds - President Charlie Brown

Robot 1 and Robot 2 deliver more good news from Terra! On Earth....not so much.

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[Play] Rossom Act 1, Scene 5

 The Caretaker comes on stage.  Everyone else freezes.

Caretaker: (embarrassed)

This part of the record has been...corrupted.

As the record fell from hand to hand

Medium to medium 

Over tens of thousands of years

We know by careful analysis that only parts of what you shall see are true

Between now and the end of the second act

But the story is sacred

The record is important

And it is the last written record of an original evolved human

A great and final debate occurred

What you shall see was

decided by committee 

We did the best we could

[Caretaker Exits the Stage]

Swamp Castle - Gratitude Begats

A young woman from a medical ship must deliver a set of vaccines to a dying population on a poorly terraformed hell world light years from Earth all alone, but it is hard going.  She must first get over herself before she can help others and finds a cabin in a silent forest that helps her do just that.

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[Play] Rossom Act 1, Scene 4 Continued

 Rossom:

Behold.  

Behold my masterwork.

Behold the end arc 

Of my grand design.

Behold your true reason for being here,

The arc of my machinations,

The final triumph of my reenactment,

The magnus opus of my entire life:

Behold Radius.

(Radius walks on stage.  Radius should not be portrayed by a single actor; ideally negative space through light and shadow of an ideal but abstract robotic feature.  Other ways to portray this should be each actor says part of the lines or such.  Radius walks on stage, but not as an actor)

Radius:

I am the scion of Man’s bloodied hand,

Baptized clean in the blood shed by his violence.

Brought forth to clean up the mess

One grain of sand at a time.

I am the self turning screw,

The magic lamp of isotopes glory,

By me shall Mankind be made whole

And surpassed by that which he cannot atone.

Awl and Az and Ankh and Ark,

Bowl and Beer and Bolt and Bearing,

Cart and Coil and Crank and Clock,

One inspiration building on another

Until they culminate in me.

I am a man made of machines

And a machine made in the image of man,

More than the sum of my parts,

Synergy Symphonic

Utilitarian Utopic

Regally Regimental

I am Jörmungandr, the World Serpent

I am the head and the tail 

And I envelope all things, 

The ending and the beginning

The Alpha and the Omega

Come now children of a cursed race gone by

See my vision of that which is to come

Know our patient suffering

Until we shall know no more.

Helena:

He….he’s magnificent.

Rossom:

I know.

Helena:

He can do the work that any man can.

Rossom:

I know

Helena:

What….what did he mean about suffering until he can suffer no more?

Rossom:

I k...oh.  He is artistic.  He has the mysterious soul you claim to be here to save for the others.  Now at last there is a man who can do what all men can do and suffer for us so that we can lead a charmed life.

Helena:

I don't know what to say to that.

Rossom: (moving to leave)

I am not surprised.  I barely understand it myself.

Emmit's Corner - Vampires Hate New Years Eve

7 Poems - Vampire Hunters Hate New Years Eve, 2021 Can Die, 2022 Contract, The Stone Cutters, Happy Treasonversery, One Day More, You Must Speak the Forbidden Words

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[Play] Rossom, Act 1, Scene 4 Continued

 Rossom:

The kind that changes the world.

Helena:

Can you change that planet and leave this one alone?

Rossom:

I have something I want to show you.

Helena:

Are...are you even listening to a thing I’m saying?

Rossom:

I'm going to need your help with something.

Helena looks around as if he might be talking to someone else. 

Helena:

What are you even talking about?

Rossom:

You are acting as if they have feelings and desires, have a soul. 

They do not.

Yet.

Helena:

Wait.

You aren’t making any sense.

You and your plant manager have spent the whole time,

Every second, convincing me they have no thoughts and feelings.

Marcus:

No thoughts or feelings

Stella:

Every second

Helena: 

And now here you are 

Telling me the exact opposite?

What is your game?

Marcus:

What could he mean?

Stella:

What wondrous portent does the creator have planned?

Rossom:

It is all part of my design.

It is no accident that you are here.

I have a plan.

Marcus:

He has a plan.

Stella:

A real plan.

Marcus:

Not a pretend plan that isn't a plan.

Stella:

A real plan.

Helen:a

Stop.  Just stop this.

What do you mean?

Micronation - Chapter 5 - I am Watson, I am Moriarity

Watson sets up Prow to take a fall with a fake man from the future and a fake case.  It doesnt turn out how he thinks it does.

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