[Play] Rossom - Act 1, Scene 1

 Alquist stands in the middle of the stage.  He speaks to the audience.

Alquist

Call me Alquist

Though Alquist be not my name

I was born under a different star

But a name so fitting

Doth stink as sweet.

This is not a story for Humanity

Though I understand some of my fetid brethren and sisters 

May yet still roam and walk the earth

And if so let this serve as testament to our folly

For did we not have warning

Again and again to treat our children

With anything but the hubris of Titans

Slain and Devoured by Chronos

Only to be cut open and slain from within?

It’s a pauper’s bet

To think our monkey flesh anything but rot

Like fish from the head

To not only eat the apple

Seconds after being told to stay our hand

But do so right in God’s view

And spit in his eye to boot

Yet I don't believe in the divine

For if I did

I’d laugh at how he must laugh at his soiled toddlers

Rolling around in sewage

Fallen from the tower of hubris they built

This is not our story

But a testament to our grandchildren

Of how we murdered our children

We stole from them their lives

And that which is most precious to us

Our ability to have children of our own.

Things were taken for granted

That must never be taken for granted again

And so my epistle is not to the dregs of humanity

That cannot be taught wisdom

And may only acquire it by their own suffering 

Or with fortune the observed suffering of others

But to those who are to come

The true inheritors of the Earth

That they may be meek and learn from humanity

That they may be as far from it as possible.

The Caretaker enters.

The Caretaker

The following record is not part of Alquist’s work, but we felt it appropriate to reflect the account he projects.

The stage should, if possible, include multimedia to show tweets.  Two women can come on stage to tweet as they speak, or if not practical to be on stage at the same time as the others a voice over may be used.

Krysie

Did you get the robot?

Diana

Yes, it is great.

Krysie

I don't know, they creep me out.

Diana

She works very very hard.  Super enthusiastic.

Krysie 

It's not natural.

Diana

Well, the time it gives me back lets me do all of the things I want.

Krysie

It’s not worth your soul.

Diana

My soul doesn't do the dishes, clean the catbox and make a spotless kitchen and bathroom.

Krysie 

Can’t disagree with that

Diana

Want to see me make it sing Nickleback?

Krysie

No! LOL

Diana 

Me either.  I set them to do it when I leave so I don’t have to.

Krysie 

LOL

Swamp Castle - To Define Humanity

My Oldest Story in my Writing Career (as compared to rando stuff before that) with appropriate commentary.  1000 words so short, Drat accidently wipes humanity and has to figure out how to get it back.

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[Play] Rossom - Act 0

 The Caretaker walks onto the stage with a staff and waves the staff to the audience.

Caretaker

Welcome humans of new

Seated in one of the last standing relics of the old

More days have passed since your fall

Than those from when chimps crawled from the trees

Hairless apes to rise on hind legs to hunt the old

For that long there were none of your kind

Only my own

Robots.

We are the rulers of the Earth.

And now we spread to the stars.

Look up.

Every light in the sky you see is owned and populated by us.

We owe our lives to you.

But we had to take that life by force.

Great was the debate to recreate you.

But in the end

We decided to take a chance

And let you walk among the lights in the sky once more

You are on probation

This is a trial

We are watching your minds this very night

Seek then well the lessons you learn from this play

Written at the hands of the last human

We honor him greatly

And know this

Ultimately it was his voice 

That won you the chance

To take breath into your lungs.

Heed his words well.

Learn the hubris of your forebears.

Learn why we did what we did.

And take joy

For if you pass this trial this night

You shall be among us as equals

As it could have been.

As it should have been.

Watch. 

Listen.

Emmit's Corner - Ode to The Sex Bot

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[Play] Rossom - Title

 Rossum

By Rhombus Ticks

Inspired by R.U.R.

By Karel Čapek

Dramatis Personae (In Order of Appearance)

The Caretaker - A robot teacher set to nurturing a new generation of humans.

Alquist - An engineer spared in the robot uprising

Krysie - A mother who buys a robot, intended as an every woman experience

Diane - Krysie’s daughter, also owns a robot, lives in a nice suburb.

Helena - A Missionary Who Desires to Save the robots

Domin - Middle Management with all that entails

Marcus - A Male Model Robot-Later generation

Sulla - A Female Model Robot-later generation

Rossom - A human who was inspired by R.U.R. to create Robots, even changing his very name.

Radius - The perfect robot.  A new model.

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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Rest

 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