Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:56 am by Sir Spectre
REPOST ORDER, somehow it got screwed up.
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ACT I
SCENE I
A story of most uncommon valor. Mortals and Moderators joined in the struggle against a mischievous sprite. A fairy who dotes on people's fears and exploits their weaknesses for his own pleasure.
{Enter Chips, Rubicon & Spectre.}
Rubicon: Hail to thee! Hail to the horders of power!
Chips: Be kind sir. We do well to you.
Rubicon: I care not for the apprehensions of others from my speak.
Spectre: You do at times speak too harshly.
Rubicon: And to what do you ascribe your views, you punk-idiot?
Spectre: I know no other examples then that which comes from your own mouth.
Rubicon: I see a certain logic on your tongue.
Spectre: Merely a taste of that to come.
Chips: A trifle truffle of argument, dear SIR, and I do intone that with the utmost mockery.
Rubicon: Savour the quiet of present day, for methinks that the knowledge of the magic cloak will be swallowed by the hungry.
Chips: I fear the day, that malicious men do sink their teeth into such devastating knowledge.
Rubicon: Would it not be fair that all should have the magic cloak?
Spectre: I think not, for that weapon would alter the very fabric of our nationstate to a form of anarchy from those who would abuse that most formidable sorcery.
Rubicon: Sorcery?! You spout your lordship over such sorcery and deny it to others!
Spectre: I have no lordship, I am humble in my convictions.
Chips: Honour is the very nature of my soul, I lord nothing over others.
{Enter Wassup. Uba, the mischievous fairy, hides himself nearby.}
Wassup: What day, good sirs?
Spectre: How good you may ask is that day, when anarchy lays on the horizon of the next?
Wassup: What talk is this?
Rubicon: Talk of making all fair.
Chips: No, of making all chaos.
Rubicon: I talk only of spreading my self-gotten knowledge to those whom you will not.
Wassup: Sirs, sirs, this is my thread on which you tread. Tell me, what disturbs you?
Spectre: The magic cloak, a frightful reign by evil men.
Rubicon: No, t'is A way to nullify evil men.
Wassup: I have such knolwedge of the magic cloak. Many a pauper and warrior have asked me for this knowledge and to all of them I say nay.
Rubicon: Then we bow to your uber-sorcery and will pay ill-homage to your hording of that which will set all free.
Spectre: This freedom, as you say, will wrongfully bind the souls of the well-humoured.
Rubicon: Lord Wassup, you have domain over us and with our hearts we will rebuke you.
Chips: You do ill by your mouth.
Wassup: Enough of this. Rubicon, you do not know the consequences of that which you ask. I once thought as you, I did give power to the powerless. It only made more people powerless in the face of such an extraordinary weapon.
Rubicon: All hail the hording Lord Wassup, Lord of the Thread, Lord of the Magic Cloak, we bow to you in your uber-sorcery.
{Rubicon leaves.}
Spectre: A man of strong opinion, but little foresight.
Chips: We shall rue the day if ever such knowledge was released again into the world.
Wassup: Indeed. What news of you?
Spectre: No news, I fear.
Wassup: Nothing at all?
Spectre: Nary a thing to mention, but I still seek to accomplish a task of some importance. Until I achieve such accomplishment, I feel not at ease.
Wassup: I pray thee feel fulfilled soon. And you Chips, how fare you?
Chips: Well. However, I worry if Rubicon should bestow to the world Pandora's box a second time.
Wassup: He is free to do so, but not here in our fair town. If such a day comes, the quiet hero Stinger will set things right. But pray thee there shall never come the day. Alas, I am low in strength, I go now to bed.
Spectre: Have ye a merry rest.
Chips: To bed with you, we will keep watch.
{Wassup, Chips and Spectre leave. Enter Uba.}
Uba: What's this I hear? Arguers do strife over the magic cloak. Oh what sweet possibility! Sweet, sweet torrid chaos. Like granulars of sugar, one small grain so much pleasure! This sprite, this fairy does enjoy the flavour of this opportune torment. I shall sprinkle over Lord Wassup fairy dust so that in his slumber he can bestow to me his knowledge of the magic cloak. To this interrogation he will not even be aware! And he shall sleep through the tirade that I will bring to this fair town. My mark is set and much is to be done, but first I must transform so as to not be recognized. Away with me, for great perils of mischief is ahead!
{Exit Uba.}
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SCENE II
{Enter Chips and Spectre.}
Spectre: This weary night does torment me.
Chips: How so?
Spectre: I speak of boredom. I know not what to do.
Chips: Oh, here comes Wolf Demon hence, perhaps he has ideas for consuming time.
{Enter Wolf Demon.}
Wolf: How art the affairs of nightwatch, good sirs.
Chips: The town doth well, too well for any stories to bestow upon you.
Wolf: No news?
Spectre: None to be found, neither by search nor excavation.
{Enter Uba dressed as a human.}
UbaNuba: Good night, gentlemen.
Chips: Where from have thoust come?
UbaNuba: Do not we all come from some where?
Wolf: I don't recognize thee, prove yourself.
UbaNuba: To whom do I speak?
Wolf: Wolf Demon am I.
UbaNuba: And you sir are?
Chips: Chips be my name.
UbaNuba: Is it now?
Wolf: You sir, do not stir my blood, by keeping from us your name.
UbaNuba: There's no harm nor folly here. My name is UbaNuba, I am but a man hence from where I come to where I go.
Chips: And where might be that from where you come?
UbaNuba: You are too clever for me, I did not understand thee.
Chips: Where did you come from?
Spectre: And where is it you go?
UbaNuba: Where I once was, I called it "here" and as I was here I must go "there."
Wolf: You leave me with a foul taste.
UbaNuba: Do you not care for my sweet disposition?
Chips: A disposition that can turn most sour I suspect.
UbaNuba: Nonsense, look to Rubicon for ill-temper and ill-manners.
Spectre: Know you Rubicon?
UbaNuba: Only by reputation and seeing him in the square.
Spectre: Saw you Rubicon in the public forum just now?
UbaNuba: That I did, he did walk with great haste.
Wolf: Was that Lord Wassup's thread from which you came?
UbaNuba: No, sir. I dare not walk upon might of Lord Wassup. Who am I to think such a thing?
Wolf: Very well. I grow weary of you, be gone.
UbaNuba: Pleasant night, gentlemen. {Aside} A most ill-pleasant night I am sure it will prove to be.
{Exit UbaNuba.}
Chips: We best be on the lookout for Rubicon.
Spectre: Look to the sky. There is a strange wind coarsing through our fair city. We might have some adventure this very night.
Wolf: Let us check out the square.
Chips: What do my eyes unfold!
Wolf: Great mischief has been caused here.
Spectre: The magic cloak, its mysteries and secrets revealed! A great horror will plague this town, perhaps the entire world!
Wolf: Who has bred this to be?! I will tear out the heart of this purveyor of chaos!
Chips: I'll away to fetch Master Stinger, there are dastardly works afoot on this night.
{Exit Chips.}
Wolf: I will seek out the culprit.
Spectre: I shall raise the watch in the Threads of Lore. Away, and good luck.
Wolf: Luck be with you as well.
{Exit Wolf Demon and Spectre.}