Illuminatxt- expanded and revised. Read and have fun!

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[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]THE ILLUMINATI[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]by bluepencil[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]PROLOGUE:[/P]
[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]There were once men and women, great people, great minds and great souls. There was once a war, an all-engulfing one, a rage of man-made fire, a brutal cleansing. There was once puppetmasters playing with heads of nations on strings unseen.. a world of naive fools and of lives as toys.[/P]
[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Arrogance and conceit.[/P]
[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Victory after victory.[/P]
[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A many-splendored dragon, clothed in jewels of secrecy.[/P]
[P ALIGN=CENTER][FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Engulfing itself.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

ACT ONE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]SCENE ONE -[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]An immense hall, darkly lit. In the center of the catacomb is a round table, around which are seated several hundred robed figures. A single circle of light illuminates the center of the table, hiding the faces of the members in bright shadow.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](Enter WILLIAM )[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What is this gathering? I have heard the summons you bring to me, a grave matter you send through my door. Who wishes to talk?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let us talk.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(surprised)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Speak your peace, Illuminati.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We live apart from the chaff of humanity, but a fact remains.. the world we share is not our own. We share a world dying, when will we help our mother's sickness?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]ALL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Yes! It is true![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let me hear. Please, continue.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We have cast ourselves far too long into the shadows of history. We have devised and refined methods, let us use them now to set this world to right.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]ALL(clapping)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Hear! Hear![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You have aroused my interest. What is the method you propose?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]There are far too many people for the planet to support. We must cull back to more manageable levels.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]ALL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It is a simple operation![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(shocked)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]....[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Sometimes, it falls to some that must make hard decisions. It is for the good of all, deny me not that fact. Better for many worthless souls to die , and let an entire world live, rather than for them to push it past the brink.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(rising from his seat)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Have your brains vanished so suddenly? LISTEN TO YOURSELF! What madness
afflicts your heads, what sickness is rotting your judgment?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The illness of humanity.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We are human.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Therefore, we must make war.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(enraged)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The Illuminati sheds no blood, all of you know this! Cast aside your morality, why?! This is not the way. Talk to me no more of this, there will be no war.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]ALL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]They will plunge into conflict by themselves, it is unavoidable![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL(silencing the others)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Better we act now, while we can still control the threads of history. We will save the world.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(sarcastic)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]By setting its skin on fire?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL(taken aback)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It will not go that far. We can control the-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NO ONE CAN CONTROL ANYTHING! Do this, and you will fail. You will die, we all shall die.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So be it.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It shall be done, with your blessing or not. Your [FONT
SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Translucency Policy[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier] is obsolete.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(sits down)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You talk of rebellion.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MACHIEL[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I talk of necessity.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I hear mindless ramblings.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]ALL(rising into an uproar)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]William is correct!/William is blind!/Machiel, you lead us now![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](WILLIAM exits)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

SCENE TWO-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A secret vault hidden deep under the desert. The cryogenic chamber. William looks upon the select few who have chosen to take unfeeling exile with him.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](NALAR appears)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So it comes to this.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You knew it would happen. The future is unchangeable..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It is the past the twists to fit it, I know, I know, your words only
serve to annoy me further.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You should give me more respect.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I offer no worthy measure.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Nor should you deserve it.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(snarling)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The future is wrath to behold. Though some might consider it a gift,
it is a singular curse.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It is the fee for my residence.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Leave me. Your presence brings great pain.. leave this mortal shell
and seek your way. Suffer me this one last request.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No. It is the call of fate, which no man or manner of beast may resist.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Fate knows nothing of what footsteps walk down her path.. old ones,
new ones, sad ones.. she should learn to leave well enough alone.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]This is not your fight. We cannot take sides, we are beyond such.
What concerns are these? Fools, all of them.. let them have their own demise, as they see fit.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Fools they may be, but I'll not begrudge them their spirit.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That are made to be broken... What use is their enthusiasm, if they
fight the wrong fight...? We have seen this before, we have seen futility rise again and again.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(frowning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Machiel.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Not a problem, beneath your attention.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It is my decision, do not tell me what to think.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What you think or perceive is irrelevant. Fate and destiny works against you, inescapable threads of time wrap around your vision, my child.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I liked you better when you were a raving lunatic.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR(laughing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What makes you think that I have changed in any way?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are chaos, I am order, appear to me no more.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are stasis. Machiel is change.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Forceful change.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Steps unto the next level of what man can be. He is trying, that is his way.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(frowning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]He is playing at being god! It is harder and more painful than it appears to be. No..I cannot let it happen, though history tells me differently.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Liars are those who write about history.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The sky will be red as blood and the seas will boil. That much was written and cast.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That is prophecy, that is different.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let me be. Let me forget everything, let me not see the world die, let me not see them use the Forced Evolution Virus. Machiel has his pet.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR(snorting)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That farce of ascension?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It might have succeeded. It could have many times.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Not here.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Never here.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Rest, then. There is nothing here than can be done. It is forbidden.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]By what grace do I close my eyes? By what damnation do I sleep?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]NALAR[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I leave you to your fate.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Curse you, Nalar![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](NALAR vanishes, and the Vault is filled with fog.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

SCENE THREE-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The cryogenic chamber. William is sitting at the control panel[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]WILLIAM[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Burning cold as the hearts of men. Gladly would I have chosen death at the will of Machiel, had I not seen the things that haunt my waking hours. There is a future, and I take my refuge in that.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](WILLIAM closes his eyes, and the scene fades into darkness)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](The monitor in the control panel shows the death of his world.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

-end prologue-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

ACT II[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]SCENE ONE-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Klamath Falls, the Golden Gecko Bar. On one end of the bar sits what seems to be a young man in a crisp blue jumpsuit. He is vacantly staring off into space, drinking lightly from his mug of beer.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](A RUFFIAN approaches)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I don't like your looks. What does such as you intend here?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Answer me when I talk, or you will see your blood.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(turning his head slowly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Hardly do I need you to learn what my blood looks like. What flows through your veins is the vilest of ichor, your brain has long since festered.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN(confused)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Wha-?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I rest my case, honored bartender.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are new here and knows not the rules. I forgive you once. Once![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Once is enough for those with adequate intelligence. I have yet to glimpse that person in front of me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Do you presume to insult me?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Insult you, nay! I speak only what is needed.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are in need of a good trashing.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(bored)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are in dire need of a bath.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN(kicking aside the table)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Only your death will satisfy me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Witnesses abound.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]They know enough not to interfere.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]In earnest truth, their care might have saved you. Now they see only distaste for your essence.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RUFFIAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Enough. DIE![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(The RUFFIAN lunges for BPEN with a combat knife. BPEN nonchalantly kicks his balls.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

RUFFIAN(collapsing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Urgh..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Might I have another drink? I spilled this one.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER(hostile)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Leave.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We will have no trouble here. I will not tolerate that kind of thing in my domain.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Good bartender, surely you see that it was not of my design that you have a broken table and a man who is twitching on the floor.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We don't like your kind.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Even in the company of my own species I am cast out.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I can smell the stink of pretentious virtue on you. You have no place among us.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(gritting his teeth)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Your cadre of poor, pathetic idiots? Why should you think I would want to be in such miserable crowd?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You have been warned.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I will go, but I leave my curse upon your establishment.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BARTENDER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I care not of curses.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I do not judge you, but I give no heed or mind to your lot.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN exits)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]SCENE TWO -[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Klamath, the road to Vic's shop, passing the Bathhouse.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A world devoid of mirth, a soil that echoes with screams. What is this place that I find my salvation in?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Call it Klamath, call it a pale shadow of times long past, but it is not as bad a place to be when you are lost.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(turning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Who are you to tell me if I am lost?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Your eyes are the same as mine. I see what you lack.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I lack nothing.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]True. That is your defect.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Eh? I have no appetite for puzzles, give me no license to hear your speech.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY(hurt)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You have ill manners.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What use are manners? People die more for having them than for any lack thereof.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You have seen things, then. Your eyes look old for your face.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]As is yours.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You cannot know what I mind. My burden is a different form than yours.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I will comfort you.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I cannot be comforted.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let me try.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I have no money.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY(laughing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are right, it is a great burden indeed![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(laughing as well)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I will go now, I have things I needs must do.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]JENNY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]And then you'll return?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(serious)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN walks away, leaving JENNY who looks dazed)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What workings of fate I give a whit for? What life and livelihood should I give a moment's care to? This is not what I want of my world, I seek no part of it.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN kicks the door of Vic's shack open.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN (muttering)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What rise to faith justifies the things that flawed beings do? I skulk and search for something that might not exist, and do things that border on foolhardy for an idea that even I am not sure of.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN pulls off a section of the rusted tin metal floor. It exposes a deep pit.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(still talking to himself)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Things go as they should. Nothing else fills me more with dread.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That's a strange way of looking at life.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(turns around quickly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Who are you??[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I should be the one asking questions.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Away with you, I see no reason we should even acknowledge each other exists.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You're a thief.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(smiling slightly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That's a function of occurence.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What are you stealing?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The butterfly that came out of the box of Pandora's fame.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Is it alive?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It's a metaphor.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Must be a rare breed, then.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I'm not stealing a butterfly.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I know. You were making fun of me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You're an intelligent sort.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What're you stealing, then?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(groaning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Again with the questions. Do you expect me to tell you? Asking such words is to beg pain or death.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You won't hurt me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Why should I not?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]My father is a big man and he will beat you, should you even think of harming me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(snorts while tying a rope around his waist and attaching the other end on a sturdy post.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I scoff at your father's reputed prowess.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN jumps into the pit.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You'll be sorry you said that.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

SCENE THREE -[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The sewers under Klamath. The only light is the glow from the flare BPEN has lit.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It stinks of the refuse of humanity.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(echoing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]And likewise do I refuse humanity itself.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(surprised)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What the- .. who's there?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A forgotten relic, no more, no less. Take not that step towards me, and keep your life.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN takes several steps towards where he perceives the voice to be coming from)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Stop! I do not joke of my desire. Sooner will you die than I leave you opportunity. LEAVE ME BE![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I know who you are.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Do you? I know who YOU are.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Doubtful, old man.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So I see, you do not truly know whom you are speaking to.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I came to ask something of you.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Whatever it is that you say, I have no interest in hearing.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I offer you your life.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Do you threaten me?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I merely give unto you a gift from the light.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(gentle)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Well met, brother. Come then onto my realm, planeswalker, but know that I still am lord over my province.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(walking towards the voice)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Are your nobles spiders, and your courtiers, rats? Why do you stay in this peculiar dwelling?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]One question is all I'll allow. Save your breath for when you shall need it.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](BPEN walks forward until he reaches a great metal door. Upon its surface was etched an eye, on a triangle, a pyramid.

It was a symbol.. that carried with it much power.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(puzzled)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So.. it does exist. How much of what I heard was true and which was exaggeration?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Enter.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](The doors slide open. BPEN goes through adn enters unto a wide chamber. In the center of the chamber, bathed in a pool of murky light lies the desiccated remains of what used to be a man. Off to the side was a wall of blinking

lights.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I give you what greetings I can spare.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A computer?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I am that once lived and continues. This is my task, my toil, my punishment, my joy. I am RAVEN.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Raven?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That is my name, yes.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are an AI? I had expected on seeing a wise recluse.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Not so wise. I had chosen the wrong hand to take, and pay the price for my lack of accurate vision.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]How long have you remained so?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Ask your question and go, I succor your audience only out of duty.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Where is William?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights blinking rapidly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That is not for any mere man to know. Are you Illuminati?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I.. no.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Is that of good fortune, or not? I can no longer tell.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Tell me where William sleeps, Raven.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Why do you seek my erstwhile leader?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]That is for ears of him.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I refuse, then.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(low voice)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You are helpless before me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(blinking lights)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Would that I be allowed to embrace such fate! But I have to remain here, that is my charge. I lie, and I wait, and I think forevermore, my lack of a body has long since stopped being
a crutch.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What sin do you hope to repay? The richness of life escapes you, this hell of existence, you venture to be partial to this?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I am nothing but a repository of ages past. I can only conjecture of your intent. I cannot be moved by words.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Once, you were man. Once, you had walked the land. Once, you had great plans. Once, you tried to save the world.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(mumbling)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A lack of foresight. A world was not worth saving, a soul is much more valuable.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]They placed your soul inside the shell of machinery.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I do my duty. It is all that is left of me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Who placed this woe upon you?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(with distaste)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Machiel.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You followed his orders? You gave up your humanity for him?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]To go beyond the limits of mankind. Eternal life.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(smiling slightly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Eternal boredom.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights dimming)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I have forgotten what hatred feels like.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(faint from outside)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It's this way![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(likewise far-off, but of a deeper timbre)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Bring me a light.. the darkness reeks of decay. What putrid rodent might we find?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What..?! More intruders?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Argh.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](A group of VILLAGERS enters)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What place is this?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A horrid sanctum.. how had the existence of this escaped us?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Weak wills, short minds.. I should have locked the door.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Once unsealed, it can never again be shut. Machiel had taken precautions
against betrayal.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(shaking his head)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Ah. And yet you allowed m-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Sir?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN(gesturing his shotgun at BPEN)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Tell your friend to come out of the shadows. Show us the treasure.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What treasure?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(puzzled)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What treasure?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VILLAGER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Treasures of old, artifacts of the past. What stockpile of riches do you hide?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]This cannot be happening. It is too harebrained to be true.. do you mistake this place for a hoard?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It is carefully hidden. Meant to conceal something of value, perhaps.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What is one man's prize is another man's garbage. There is nothing here but that heap of bolts.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights flaring)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I take offense at that.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Forgive me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN(readying his gun)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Forgive me for not being as stupid as you must think I am.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(rolls his eyes)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Were you not aiming a gun at my head, I'd laugh.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VILLAGER[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Shall we shoot them now? Let me shoot them, I haven't killed in such a while.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Give us what we want, and you two may still see other days. It is a cruel world we live now, there is no need to make it more spiteful.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Misguided idiots.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(scratching his nose)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]This is the nature of man.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](A gunshot rings out, and the wall next to BPEN is perforated with buckshot)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BIG MAN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I tire of this pointless banter. You have chosen to die, I shall oblige.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(BPEN stand stock-still.. but his left hand furtively reaches for the pistol he has concealed behind his back.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The VILLAGERS scream and clutch their heads.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN's lights blinks rapidly.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The VILLAGERS crumple.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

BPEN(indreculous)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(monotone)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I am far from defenseless.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Amazing... are they dead?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Unfortunately not. Mind rules over metal, but the flesh of others are matters I have no control over. They live, for what good it does them.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What have you done?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I have erased their reality, their recollection down even to their most basic of memories. But the body has habits that are hard to break. Breathing, for one... it needs not a mind.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(awestruck)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights pulsating wildly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Though trapped in this box, I am power.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Once, your consciousness was siphoned out into that frame. Is there a way to reverse it?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Theoretically.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I realize what it is you propose, I refuse.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I had thought you wished to be free of your metallic bindings?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What I want is of no significance, what I deserve is this, I suffer it without a complaint.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]It was merely a miscalculation, you are given a chance to rectify your mistake.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights dimming)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(BPEN pushes RAVEN's skeletal remains off the chair and drags the BIG MAN's comatose body onto it.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(connecting the wires)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A sinple concept, but frightening.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Ready?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Come now.. I do not understand how to manipulate all these switches.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Cease trying to make my choices for me. I still haven't told you if I accepted your offer.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Which one calibrates mental waves?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The second dial to the left.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Ah..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(groaning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Stop that.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Your anger is hollow.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Please, don't.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(offhand)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Isn't this what you've dreamed about for last.. hundred years or so?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Nightmares. Apparitions. Initiate program. Burning.. burning!![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Raven?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Death. Destruction. Karma! Karma![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What's wrong?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(tremolous voice)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I fear... it has been so long since I've lived.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Existing is not as hard as it is made out to be.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No! Can you hear it? Even deep in this hollow I can still hear the screams of a dying world! I am not worthy to step out into the light again.. I will not be able to bear seeing the results of mine folly.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Would you rather stay here, and regret forever the wasted chance for redemption?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(frantic blinking)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What right do I have to take someone else's life and body?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You practically 'killed' four people barely a minute ago. This is a queer moment to gain a conscience.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Fear is natural. It means that you are still human. Claim your birthright,
the fair option of a second chance.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(lights blinking)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Is there any way to reverse what you have done to these men?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No, there is none.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Then you have no choice. They will die either way.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Damnation upon you! For centuries I have stood silent, and now you plauge my thoughts with new moral decisons.. why could you not let me be, let me stew in my own mental agony?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(weary voice)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I require your help. And it necessary that you learn to interact once more..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Interact with what?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The fruit of the people you were trying to save.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I cannoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(turning the switch)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Heh.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(The BIG MAN's body writhes. The console begins to smoke, and RAVEN explodes in a plume of light, sparks, and shards of metal.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

BPEN(coughing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Shit.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(BPEN tries to fan away the smoke, and peers into the smoldering remnants of what had been the most powerful sentient computer in the world.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Raven?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Raven...?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(faint)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You ...absolute... idiot... a warning would ...have been ..appreciated...a simple.. courtesy..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(BPEN turns, and sees the BIG MAN slowly crawl out of the wall of acrid fog.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Raven?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(weakly)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The pain..the pain.. the biggest drawback to not being encased in cast iron....[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Are you all right?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier](RAVEN is wide-eyed as he flexes his fists, and watches the skin and muscles ripple. He reaches out and hesistantly touches the wall.. he runs his palm across the rough surface.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(astonished)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What awareness I have forgotten! My heart is pounding, I can hear blood flow through my veins.. though I feel like thief clad in the most conspicuous of guises... this delight in
living! This is wondrous! What is that stench?! I can smell odors! I can see ...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(grinning)

Like a newboarn child, adjusting to a miracle.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(turning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I thank you.. but I haven't learned of your name.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I was once called Blôs PencÆl, in the Old Tongue... but call me Bpen. A free soul of the Gallery.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(amused)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Well met, Bpen. I am Raven, High Councilman and strategist of what used to be the Illuminati. You have my gratitude.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I ask of only one thing..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I will show you the way.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

SCENE FOUR-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Vic's Shack. A large, muscled hand reaches out of the pit, and RAVEN pulls himself out.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

RAVEN(muttering)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Cause and effect. Exertion and effort. The ease by which this body performs its tasks, why do I feel the need to drive my might to its utmost?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Father![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(squeezing past RAVEN and hauling himself out into the tin floor)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Oh. I see youve met your son.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(shocked)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No... you did not inform me of this.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Does it matter?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I would have let someone with responsibilities live! Or at the very least taken another body...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Father?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Are you capable of taking back what you've comitted?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Even I cannot bring back the dead.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(confused)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Uh.. what'as going on?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(looking at BOY)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]There are times when the truth can cut deeper that any blade. Make wounds that will not heal, only fester with time.. . when is it more merciful to weave threads of deceit?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(starts to back away)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What's going on?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(forceful)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Stay.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(stops)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(sobbing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Don't hurt me...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You need not fear me.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(to BPEN)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What's .. happening? What have you don to him?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Nothing![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I had.. a life-changing experience down there.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Tell me child, do I beat you unduly? Have I raised this calloused hand to you?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(cringing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]When I deserve it.. sometimes.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So I can take it that I punish you harshly, without reason?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(still uncertain)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]You.. you're not drunk that often.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Perhaps it is an effect of environment. Are you content with living in Klamath? Is this post-war town to your liking?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(gentle)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I won't hit you. Never again.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(a little braver)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I don't... it's not... I.. I..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(grinning)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What do you think of it?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(shouting)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I HATE IT!!![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(taken aback)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(sobbing and shouting)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I HATE IT! I hate this place... I hate the stink of rust and squalid people.. I hate their ways. I hate the stuck-upness, I hate always having to hide.. I hate the tribals, I hate the trappers, I hate the drunks, I hate the whores, I hate you, I hate myself!! I HATE IT ALL!! WHY DID I HAVE TO BE HERE?! WHY DID I HAVE TO BE BORN AT ALL?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(stuck numb)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]...[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(falling over)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Ouch.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]So much hatred in one so young..[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(defiant)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I can see the truth, that others hide from their sight. I have you to thank, father. You cannot know the times I wished I could use a knife. On myself. On someone. Anyone.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(shocked)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I... would you allow me to let you glimpse another kind of truth?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What is it?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(to BPEN)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]We shall take him with us.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]What? Are you loopy? You would let this child set eyes on the Illumination?![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]He is my child, now and for what to come. I am responsible for him.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BPEN(sighing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Fine.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let us go.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]BOY(curious)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]To where?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]RAVEN(smiling)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A realm of wonder.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

ACT III[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

Scene One-[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Deep into the Night. Outside a tent in the middle of the deserts of the Wasteland. A small campfire is lit, and a pot of broth is slowly beginning to boil above it. Seated on a crate, a few feet away, is a tall heavyset man in a silvered Power Armor. The breastplant glints ominously, though the
light is dim.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]The man stands up, and takes a deep breath of the sweet, dry air.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

FANG[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I can hardly believe this is so. Have I finally suceeded? This must be a dream.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

(FANG looks towards the flames, anf feels its heat on his skin.)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]

FANG[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]A beautifully crafted dream, if so. Though when I wake this illusion will pain me, at least I can take comfort in the fact that my mind can give me a fleeting moment of bliss.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(echoing)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Try not to take pride on yourself too much.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]FANG(whilrs around sharply, but sees no one)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Who?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(feminine)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Should we reveal ourselves?[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(deep)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]He is not worthy.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(peevish)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Why should we care? It is impolite. Turn off your invisibility.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(deep)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]No![/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(feminine)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Please don't fight.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(strong)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]I want no part of this.[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]VOICE(feminine)[/P]

[FONT SIZE=2" FACE="Courier New, Courier]Let him see us... it's not worth fighting over, my brothers.[/P]

Guest · Aug 10, 2001

It is coming along quite nicely

You simply MUST keep it going. So we have Fang, BPen, Willy and Raven so far... who will be the next to join this production...?

True Raven
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Coming soon to a Vault near you!

Guest · Aug 10, 2001

Outstanding

As always, it's excellent. ::Applause::

Mad Ass

Fang · Aug 11, 2001

RE: Outstanding

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Aug-11-01 AT 03:44PM (GMT)[p]Not exactly how Fang came to join but good nonetheless

If you want to know the true version then i have something in such a format as this to present, with your persmission i will reveal it. Or instead you may wish to stick with wherever you go with this here.

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Guest · Aug 12, 2001

Fang...

What was written isn't about your joining, not yet, I believe...

Although it's not inconceivable, I've been known to impersonate death (Legends)...

Fang · Aug 13, 2001

RE: Fang...

I'll say this much, B-Pen and I disscussed it in the chat room and i can see where it's going and it's not at all how I intended it but i won't ruin Fang's part for the rest of you by telling you any more

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It's only cheating if you get caught
- Fang_Of_the_BOS@hotmail.com

Guest · Aug 13, 2001

Could someone please enlighten me?

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Aug-13-01 AT 08:16AM (GMT)[p]Send me your take on it, Fang... this petty much a fic to define the Illuminati, so all youse have as much say in it as I have.

I'll try to give you the unexpected.
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Illuminatxt- expanded and revised. Read and have fun!

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