Act 2, Scene 3: An Early Farewell

Setting: Inside Cassandra's house. It's a simple timber framed home with a hearth, some windows, a table ... There's a pot with food on the hearth, steaming. The prototype electric motor is set up as a fan, blowing cool air. There's a simple bed with a mattress in one corner.
Stage setupNameCommentLight Setup
CurtainLabRatz
Backdrop
LeftCassandra_Home_Left
MiddleCassandra_Home_Middle
RightCassandra_Home_Right
On 2nd rail
house table[2, 2nd] A simple wooden table.
hearth[6, 2nd] Mounted to the backdrop, lit fire. Use the campfire light.Lit fire, so a medium bright orange/red light.
On playrail
bed[2] to [4] A simple bed with a mattress
Decoration props
pot with foodNoneThe food is not important, but the pot has to be steaming.
Played props
broomAikoFor Cassandra to sweep the floor with.
cult robe 2-3randersCovers the whole body including the face.
canine plushieDunkelpfoteLooks like Thomas, especially the color. On the bed at the start of the scene.
wineNoneA bottle of wine. No rod!
cheeseReesaA platter for cheese.
piece of cheeseAikoPart of the cheese. Big.
Special effects
pot with food steamNoneThe steam emitted from the pot. Use the small fog machine.
campfireNoneActs as fire inside the hearth
PreRec
Voice:Intro
RoleActorHandsVoicePuppetCostume
CassandraPano'wolfCassandra
ThomasEisfuchsNex CarterTon'kena
BaldwinCurryKayjayBottlebrush
HelmutWaneFeoHawking
RATS
IDSampleButtonDescription
PartTime
Intro**00:00 **
Dialogue**00:00 **
**Scene Total****00:00 **

TECH PREROLL

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DIALOG

%ATT% STANDBY Stage left [1, 1st, off]:

%ATT% STANDBY Stage left [1, 2nd, off]:

%ATT% STANDBY Stage right [7, 1st, off]: Thomas, Baldwin and Helmut.

%ATT% STANDBY Stage right [7, 2nd, off]:

%ATT% STANDBY Stage: Cassandra somewhere around [3], sweeping the floor with broom.

%AMB% AMB-2301 - House Ambience

%LIG% LX-2301 GO

%HND% Curtain - open

%ACT% Cassandra is doing chores. Sweeping the floor with a broom.

%ACT% Cassandra is humming the sea shanty from 1-3.

%SND% SND-2301 - Knock Knock Knock

Cassandra: "Yes, who's there?"

Thomas (off): "Just a lost soul."

Cassandra: "Thomas? Is that you?"

%ACT% Cassandra rushes to the door at [7].

%SND% SND-2302 - Door Opens

%ACT% Cassandra walks back, backwards, backing up to the back.

%ACT% Thomas enters, fully covered by a cult robe 2-3.

%SND% SND-2303 - Door Closes

Cassandra: "What on earth ... I thought you were just going to talk to them ... and they already made you one of them?"

%ACT% Thomas unrobes his cult robe 2-3.

%ACT% Cassandra pouncehugs Thomas.

%ACT% Thomas reciprocates the hug.

Thomas: "It's complicated. I had to make a decision. A hard decision. I'm coming to get my stuff and thank you before I leave."

%ACT% Cassandra lets go, and takes a step back. She is completely in shock!

Cassandra: "What? ... Leave? ... Why? ... What's wrong all of a sudden?"

Thomas: "Cassandra, I realized something important. I might look like one of you, but for 37 years, I lived on another planet. I don't belong here."

Cassandra: "What makes you think that? You were so happy, just yesterday! I thought you liked me!"

Thomas: "Yes. And I'm really grateful for everything you did for me. Like, not throwing me overboard. Believing in me. Letting me stay here at your place. Everything you taught me."

Cassandra: "But?"

Thomas: "But what?"

Cassandra: "But apparently that wasn't enough. What did I do wrong?"

Thomas: "Nothing! You did everything right!"

Cassandra: "But then why won't you stay?"

Thomas: "*sigh* Sandra. You're an awesome pirate. And I really like you a lot. But you and I ... we're literally from two different worlds! And I can't live in both worlds at the same time. I had to make a choice."

Cassandra: "What choice?"

Thomas: "I'm not allowed to talk about it."

Cassandra: "So you're leaving me from one second to another, without a warning, and I don't even deserve to know the reason?"

Thomas: "I had to swear an oath by my life."

Cassandra: "Tell me, Thomas."

Thomas: "I can't."

Cassandra: "TELL ME OR I AM GOING TO GO CRAZY!"

Thomas: "*sigh* Okay. The Order ... these are not some religious nuts. They're people like me. Not just some of them. **All** of them. We all share a former life in a different world. I had to choose my side. And I did. I'm with them now."

Cassandra: "Why would you have to choose a side? Why do there even have to BE two sides?"

Thomas: "You can't imagine how it feels to be ripped out of your regular life and no longer knowing who you actually are. Or what the meaning of life even is anymore."

Cassandra: "You've been sucked into a weird religious cult, that's what it is!"

Thomas: "The Hissing Isles are a place where the barrier between dimensions is especially thin, and souls have been crossing from one side to the other for a very long time. No curse, just more lost souls like me. Jeffrey gave me the chance to be part of his research team! Can you imagine what that means to me?"

Cassandra (sobbing, confused): "Who's Jeffrey?"

Thomas: "Jeffrey Arkenstone. He's the leader of the Order. One of the most intelligent people of the 21st century, and he's got the aura of a King. Quite amazing!"

Cassandra: "And that guy will take you to the Isles?"

Thomas: "Yes. They know how to get there safely. I wish I could take you with me."

Cassandra (sniffles): "Don't lie to me."

Thomas: "It's true. I really like you a lot, too. But the Order is the best place for me. I can be among my own kind, and work in the craft I've been practicing my entire past life!"

Cassandra (crying): "I get it. You don't need me any more. So go and enjoy your past life."

Thomas: "I'm sorry Sandra."

Cassandra: "I said GO!"

Thomas: "Take care."

%ACT% Thomas gives Cassandra a quick kiss on the cheek

%ACT% Cassandra pushes him away.

Cassandra: "GRRR!"

%ACT% Thomas leaves.

%SND% SND-2304 - Door Closes

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%MIX% Curry: ON
%MIX% Wane: ON

%ACT% Cassandra walks over to her bed at [3.5, 1st] and flops down.

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%ACT% Cassandra weeps for her lover.

%ACT% Cassandra clutches a canine plushie in the color of Thomas.

%ACT% Cassandra hugs her canine plushie.

Cassandra (sobbing): "What's wrong with me ... what does Jeffrey Arsehole have that I don't have?"

%SND% SND-2305 - Knock knock knock

Cassandra: "GO AWAY!"

%SND% SND-2306 - Knock knock knock knock knock knock

Baldwin (off): "It's jist me!"

Helmut (off): "And me!"

Baldwin: "We ken ye might fancy a bit o' company!"

Cassandra: "NOT TONIGHT!"

Helmut: "You sure? We brought wine! And cheese from New Ido!"

Cassandra: "*sigh* Okay, you can come in."

%SND% SND-2307 - Door Opens

%LIG% LX-2303 GO

%ACT% Baldwin and Helmut come in. Baldwin is carrying a bottle of red wine, Helmut a platter of cheese.

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%ACT% Cassandra sits up in her bed, hanging her legs over the playrail, wiping her eyes and throwing off the canine plushie in the process.

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Baldwin: "Cap'n! Yer cryin'!"

Cassandra: "Don't captain me, Baldy. I'm not in the mood today."

Helmut: "What happened?"

%ACT% Baldwin and Helmut sit down on the bed, comforting Cassandra, letting their legs hand over the playrail.

%LIG% LX-2305 In front of Playrail/a: Special

Cassandra: "Thomas just left. Got recruited by the Order."

Helmut: "What? The silly monks? Just like that?"

Cassandra: "Yeah, just like that. Snatched him right out of my hands. He went to talk to them about the curse and stuff, and when he came back he was like, 'I'm one of them now, thanks for all the fish, see ya.' And then he was gone."

Helmut: "Strange. He seemed to be settling in well. And we had such a good time together!"

Baldwin: "Aye, I didnae trust him at first, but the wee sod's grown on me. Shame tae see him bugger aff like that."

Cassandra: "Something's not right. He felt like an entirely different person. I don't know what they did to him, but it feels wrong."

Baldwin: "Them monks have always given me the creeps. Nae idea why the King even suffers them."

Cassandra: "I wish I knew what I did wrong. Can I have some wine?"

%ACT% Baldwin hands Cassandra the wine.

%ACT% Cassandra gulps down half of the bottle of wine and gives it back.

%SND% SND-2308 - Glug glug glug

Helmut: "It's that bad?"

Cassandra: "Yes."

%ACT% Cassandra takes a big piece of cheese from the cheese, and keeps talking with her mouth full.

Cassandra: "I love him so much."

Helmut: "Awww. Did you ever tell him that?"

Cassandra: "I THOUGHT HE KNEW!"

Baldwin: "So that's a 'nae', then?"

Cassandra: "*SIGH*"

Helmut: "That's not how men work, darling. We don't see your subtle hints unless they hit us square in the face."

Cassandra: "He told me so many weird things. That he's not one of us any more because of his past. And some science shit. And that they have a base on the Hissing Isles, of all places."

Baldwin: "Good thing we turned back, eh? Imagine whot a mess it'd been, if we'd blundered intae them."

Cassandra: "But now he'll be there even before me! It's all super duper secret, and nothing that secret has ever been good! They've been rounding up all the cursed ones from the other dimension for years, and they're planning something ... something evil, I can feel it in my whiskers!"

Baldwin: "So ye reckon he's more a victim himsel', then?"

Cassandra: "I can't imagine otherwise. He's such a good boy. He's got his heart in the right place, he wouldn't willingly do anything evil. It feels like these crazy people STOLE him from me!"

Baldwin: "Weel then - let's steal the lad back, eh?"

Cassandra: "How?"

Baldwin: "Och, we've been tae the Isles afore, I'm sure we can find oor way again!"

Helmut: "And this time we already have a ship. If we all put our gold together, we can make it!"

Cassandra: "You would do that for me?"

Baldwin: "Aye, o' course. Breaks me heart tae see a grown Cap'n cry."

Helmut: "Same. Let's find out what they're up to and get Thomas out of there!"

Cassandra: "Thank you so much guys. I'm feeling so much better now!"

Helmut: "Pirates need to stick together!"

Cassandra: "Cheers to that!"

%ACT% Cassandra downs the rest of the bottle of wine.

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%MIX% Mute all except AV-Playout

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