Engines Of Capital

This takes us into the first mission. It’s meant to be one of three. The complexities of the interellating events has stalled me on Act One so far.

This does show the first instance of the time travel method though. Something of which am a little proud.

The Factors gather

(As the Factors gather and speak together their words grow closer. When they reach the point where each one sounds a single word or syllable, their voices merge as I one person was speaking. After this point they gradually separate until they all speak normally.)

CONNECT: I know the place. Engines of capital

decay and great powers slumber and dream.

SPEAK:                                    But

agents of warfare hive their way about

like blind parasites inside a beehive

senseless and unwitting

SENSE:                  they skitter round

un-purposed, un-regarded, and their thoughts

unshaped by future con

MAKE:                  flict cast into

the future there to dream up

SEE:                        pon new wars

and dreaming in the dark

SPEAK:                  ness make them so

aside from the atten

SENSE:              tion of the state

lost in some

SENSE:      minor office of

Make:                       the land

a confe

CONNECT: rence room, Formica tab

SPEAK:                           les, chairs

an audi

SENSE:   ence that

SEE:               sleeps ex

MAKE:                        cept for one

SPEAK: who turns

SENSE:           some strange i

SEE:                            dea in

MAKE:                                 side their

CONNECT:                                         head

SPEAK: and

SENSE:    with

SEE:          in this

MAKE:                new

CONNECT:                con

SPEAK:                     cept

SENSE:                         grows

SEE:                                a

MAKE:                                 storm

CONNECT: that al

SPEAK:          ters new events

SENSE:                         and shifts the

SEE:                                         shape

of history we have built

MAKE:                    and brings it down

the roots of this invention we must

SPEAK:                              trace

undo it if we can I have the face

CONNECT: and I the time

SEE:                      and I the place

I feel I tread upon alien sands

Can you feel the past firming all around?

We stand where nature never

SPEAK:                      did intend

the voices and the sights of this lost time

are as real to me now as a nightmare

SENSE: In moments after waking, we are there.

I call break, confirm?

SPEAK:                Break

CONNECT:                   Break

MAKE:                           Break

SEE:                                 Break

SENSE:                                    Break

A light shines from back of stage directly into the audience.

Enter Schofield, he faces into the light.

SCHOFELD: Don’t look too closely at the projection

we’ve now got war veterans that cower and twitch

in asylums and housed for the mad

hiding from the colours, bulleted points

the flow charts, pastel arrows and pie graphs

that crawl from every surface and infest

the waking eye. PowerPoint P.T.S.D

Schofield pauses for invisible laughter.

You can’t take a piss without graphing it!

SPEAK: Give me flesh Connect.

SENSE:                       Not yet speak.

SPEAK:                                    Cummon!

You want to sit for half an hour of this?

SEE: Once you enter time it can’t be re-played.

SPEAK: Make. A wallet and other portable goods?

MAKE: I’ll need an I.D, Sense?

SEE:                         You don’t know who

You’re speaking to or who you’re meant to be

SPEAK: So lets find out?

SENSE:                 This is Mr Schofield

At least that’s the name on his papers and cards.

SEE: We can’t just dive in!

SPEAK:                    Nothing can be known

that can’t be discovered at our command

SENSE: The regular latticed information

known things and easily graph-able acts

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