ACT 1, SCENE 1
the castle of perihelion: A throne upon the platform by the west wing of heaven.
Enter Agabus, two helpless spirits, Hellionias and Pleasurox.
the castle of perihelion: A throne upon the platform by the west wing of heaven.
Enter Agabus, two helpless spirits, Hellionias and Pleasurox.
Agabus
O! Heaven be thou canonized
Let the pulchritude of your artistic bent
Glorify the ultra-iridescence of your semblance.
With fingers engraved to the stringed
Sticks and the pharynx to the big
Metallic winds, be ye chanced Oh! Sons
And daughters of Jubal.
Upon your shoulders, let the singing
Guns from their sepulchre, be pinioned;
And through your weasand the fire
Of sonority be thrust.
And but for not else among others
Must be saved a paean except the great Deity.
O! Heaven be thou canonized
Let the pulchritude of your artistic bent
Glorify the ultra-iridescence of your semblance.
With fingers engraved to the stringed
Sticks and the pharynx to the big
Metallic winds, be ye chanced Oh! Sons
And daughters of Jubal.
Upon your shoulders, let the singing
Guns from their sepulchre, be pinioned;
And through your weasand the fire
Of sonority be thrust.
And but for not else among others
Must be saved a paean except the great Deity.
Behold! Souls footing beyond the boarders of life;
Shown inclemency by the dead dark Dane
of subterranean gloom; are hitherto deprived
of chances, figures and time.
The conscious who makes unconscious
the quality of the earths is less troubled
about death, but much in himself,
unconscious he his about the annihilation of
man’s end.
Shown inclemency by the dead dark Dane
of subterranean gloom; are hitherto deprived
of chances, figures and time.
The conscious who makes unconscious
the quality of the earths is less troubled
about death, but much in himself,
unconscious he his about the annihilation of
man’s end.
How many bundles bundled a day
can we define, for as to two entities
lieth a great antithesis of birth:
An extraction of a great mortal gravity
lying beneath the core of an immaterially
immortal verisimilitude –the birth of A’am
and the birth of Jesu’ (man and opposite)
-Docetism says ‘The shepherd is not quotidian.
Oh! Well, a destroyer cannot save one; neither
A decomposer of justice; but a shepherd can,
Even if there be a transfiguration of a sheep
Into a wolf. For a while but now, the sons of
The world, whose souls somnambulate the Milky
Path, is impalpably ignorant of their path.
Through sun slats, I see the soul of impenitent
Rahabs, bibulous mundane server who flirt
Egregiously with canal knowledge while
Hiding under the cloak of purity
Oh Pity! Oh pity! Oh pity! Oh pity!
can we define, for as to two entities
lieth a great antithesis of birth:
An extraction of a great mortal gravity
lying beneath the core of an immaterially
immortal verisimilitude –the birth of A’am
and the birth of Jesu’ (man and opposite)
-Docetism says ‘The shepherd is not quotidian.
Oh! Well, a destroyer cannot save one; neither
A decomposer of justice; but a shepherd can,
Even if there be a transfiguration of a sheep
Into a wolf. For a while but now, the sons of
The world, whose souls somnambulate the Milky
Path, is impalpably ignorant of their path.
Through sun slats, I see the soul of impenitent
Rahabs, bibulous mundane server who flirt
Egregiously with canal knowledge while
Hiding under the cloak of purity
Oh Pity! Oh pity! Oh pity! Oh pity!
(The soul of Theophilus rushes in. Trooping after him, is
an enraged monster, Hellionias)
Theophilus
/shouts/: Help! Somebody help! Please Help! Help...
an enraged monster, Hellionias)
Theophilus
/shouts/: Help! Somebody help! Please Help! Help...
Hellionias
you’re mine. Stand ho! Or you perish as fast as
an enfeebled storm.
you’re mine. Stand ho! Or you perish as fast as
an enfeebled storm.
Agabus
/intervenes/: By the cross! What war is upon
this floor that chokes my peace?
/intervenes/: By the cross! What war is upon
this floor that chokes my peace?
Theophilus
/runs to Agab/: I pray you sir, save me from
this blood-bathed beast
/runs to Agab/: I pray you sir, save me from
this blood-bathed beast
Hellionias
/cuts in/: O! Mi dear, how do you dear pronounce
me blood-bathed? You bloody mortal! Upon you,
hell shall I behest.
/cuts in/: O! Mi dear, how do you dear pronounce
me blood-bathed? You bloody mortal! Upon you,
hell shall I behest.
Agabus
/sharply/: Hush! Hush! Hush! You both /aft a short calm/
Hellionias wherefore art thou as hot a jack that you
come to my demesne after a melting soul.
/sharply/: Hush! Hush! Hush! You both /aft a short calm/
Hellionias wherefore art thou as hot a jack that you
come to my demesne after a melting soul.
Hellionias
that question a little bit rhetorical I hold.
You should know that a bull doesn’t foot
a footing of fire unless fired in the back; and
a mountain does not spew out a hydrothermic
aqua except troubled by the earth’s chest. That
soul, I am troubled by/pointing to Theo/ and now
hither is the puss of my vomitus. He is mine and not
thine. I chase every sons and daughters of eve, on
the very eve of their death for the cause of my possession.
that question a little bit rhetorical I hold.
You should know that a bull doesn’t foot
a footing of fire unless fired in the back; and
a mountain does not spew out a hydrothermic
aqua except troubled by the earth’s chest. That
soul, I am troubled by/pointing to Theo/ and now
hither is the puss of my vomitus. He is mine and not
thine. I chase every sons and daughters of eve, on
the very eve of their death for the cause of my possession.
Agabus
One point you’ve conceived, but as unclear
it is as the mystery thy stay stakes behind the parentage of a preemie.
One point you’ve conceived, but as unclear
it is as the mystery thy stay stakes behind the parentage of a preemie.
Hellionias
Well, in sooth I speak. I have partnered with this soul, times out of mind;
I took him in good stead to crib power and authority
E’en amidst the sheep of the great counsellor.
As you really understand, every ‘being’ stolen from
the divine cycle is to a lasting death. I make compact with
Apollyon, the dictator of Hades and now I can’t disconcur
on the matter about this soul. Howbeit, the pact betwixt
Apollyon and I am to use the supremacy of ‘the skull’ against him.
I compelled him /pointing to Theo/ to sign the death scroll and now
he has signed it, hence he is mine and not thine.
Well, in sooth I speak. I have partnered with this soul, times out of mind;
I took him in good stead to crib power and authority
E’en amidst the sheep of the great counsellor.
As you really understand, every ‘being’ stolen from
the divine cycle is to a lasting death. I make compact with
Apollyon, the dictator of Hades and now I can’t disconcur
on the matter about this soul. Howbeit, the pact betwixt
Apollyon and I am to use the supremacy of ‘the skull’ against him.
I compelled him /pointing to Theo/ to sign the death scroll and now
he has signed it, hence he is mine and not thine.
Theophilus
/stutteringly/: I…I…Do no know what he has said, and to booth,
I made no signing of any pact with him or who on earth would see
a grim-looking cannibal as this and fraternize?
/stutteringly/: I…I…Do no know what he has said, and to booth,
I made no signing of any pact with him or who on earth would see
a grim-looking cannibal as this and fraternize?
Hellionias
/lividly/: Hush you insolent shrimp! You are dead-blind.
/to Agabus/ see, waist no time on this one- the season is growing
fast; ‘tis spring and more souls out of him.
/lividly/: Hush you insolent shrimp! You are dead-blind.
/to Agabus/ see, waist no time on this one- the season is growing
fast; ‘tis spring and more souls out of him.
Agabus
Impossibility speaks the mouth of the unchristly.
But with all truth of reality even about the unseen,
possibility is enlivened.
Impossibility speaks the mouth of the unchristly.
But with all truth of reality even about the unseen,
possibility is enlivened.
Hellionias
/impatiently/: Time! Time! Time!
/impatiently/: Time! Time! Time!
Agabus
/aggressively/ Fine! /with his head buried in his hands/ Soft!
/like one who is unconscious/ Hellion, wherefore art thou so restive
a flibbertigibbet that you stay dogged on voidness?
/aggressively/ Fine! /with his head buried in his hands/ Soft!
/like one who is unconscious/ Hellion, wherefore art thou so restive
a flibbertigibbet that you stay dogged on voidness?
Hellionias
/upset/ Oh hell upon! Agabus the secrete behind this things,
you know. Heaven wherefrom I came I know: you know that heaven
is more embellish with cumulus of patience. We are powerless- this I can say in the face of Lucifer. But as it is redacted in the sacred book of the holy kings, there is much impatience in the heart of the mundane prince. He steals to make null;
he makes sage to cause folly; he blesses falsely, to destroy and kill;
he makes pleasurable, sweet, interesting and rich to make heart-strong
and purblind, to see the lord’s incandescent touch.
/upset/ Oh hell upon! Agabus the secrete behind this things,
you know. Heaven wherefrom I came I know: you know that heaven
is more embellish with cumulus of patience. We are powerless- this I can say in the face of Lucifer. But as it is redacted in the sacred book of the holy kings, there is much impatience in the heart of the mundane prince. He steals to make null;
he makes sage to cause folly; he blesses falsely, to destroy and kill;
he makes pleasurable, sweet, interesting and rich to make heart-strong
and purblind, to see the lord’s incandescent touch.
Agabus
Oh! I see
Oh! I see
Hellionias
common Ag you do not work much as I do, but much profit thou gainest.
I must tell: A post in the antepenultimate grade to the kingship of Lucifer, I fight for; so I must work hard- I must be restless and belligerent as mi boss is. He gave
me the nature of what the sons of A’am calls stubbornness. For this cause, I shan’t
allow this one a chance.
common Ag you do not work much as I do, but much profit thou gainest.
I must tell: A post in the antepenultimate grade to the kingship of Lucifer, I fight for; so I must work hard- I must be restless and belligerent as mi boss is. He gave
me the nature of what the sons of A’am calls stubbornness. For this cause, I shan’t
allow this one a chance.
Agabus
hmmm! /facing skywards/ the earth are restricted to the things beneath
but those upper-neath get the golden secrete of all. /clears his throat/ Hellion you only know how to steal, kill, and destroy just as your master; but do you know that a thief doesn’t own anything he steals? If the owner found out where his goods were, what should he do? He would get set for battle and takes back his goods and also destroys the cribber thereof. He should do this for the reason that he has his possession under him. Beware Hellion- Behold my tale and make attent thy ears to it. This soul was lost in the wilderness because of the flesh which ye beguiled. It craves so much for the truth, but you affected the flesh encompassing him with a cacoethes for pertinacity. Now the flesh is retuned to its state, why not go one better than the dust from its estate; why this guiltless soul?
Now, at once, for the sake of Christ death, you can’t plunder this Great soul any longer. He must be redeemed, savvy?
hmmm! /facing skywards/ the earth are restricted to the things beneath
but those upper-neath get the golden secrete of all. /clears his throat/ Hellion you only know how to steal, kill, and destroy just as your master; but do you know that a thief doesn’t own anything he steals? If the owner found out where his goods were, what should he do? He would get set for battle and takes back his goods and also destroys the cribber thereof. He should do this for the reason that he has his possession under him. Beware Hellion- Behold my tale and make attent thy ears to it. This soul was lost in the wilderness because of the flesh which ye beguiled. It craves so much for the truth, but you affected the flesh encompassing him with a cacoethes for pertinacity. Now the flesh is retuned to its state, why not go one better than the dust from its estate; why this guiltless soul?
Now, at once, for the sake of Christ death, you can’t plunder this Great soul any longer. He must be redeemed, savvy?
Hellionias
/laughs/: Ah! You make thineself a jester.
/laughs/: Ah! You make thineself a jester.
Agabus
Yea, you may deem me a jester, but a word for the gibberish talker: E’en I make myself a Jester, you’re a greater fool than I- you fail to reveal my head (God).
Yea, you may deem me a jester, but a word for the gibberish talker: E’en I make myself a Jester, you’re a greater fool than I- you fail to reveal my head (God).
Hellionias
/lividly/: Ag! More gore-blood on the lord’s court! Agabus! Agabus!
Do you know for how many years I nurtured this spirit?
/lividly/: Ag! More gore-blood on the lord’s court! Agabus! Agabus!
Do you know for how many years I nurtured this spirit?
Agabus
At the lord’s utterance, the wind fall zonked. A gravid mother delivered of a child
need say naught but wordless song to perceive. I pray thee, Hellion, get you hence!
At the lord’s utterance, the wind fall zonked. A gravid mother delivered of a child
need say naught but wordless song to perceive. I pray thee, Hellion, get you hence!
Hellionias
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
` /Exit/
(Hellionias shouts in rage and leaves the stage)
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
` /Exit/
(Hellionias shouts in rage and leaves the stage)
Theophilus
/solemnly/: Ah! /shrugs his shoulder/ Ta! I thank you sir. /breaths deeply/ I’d have been mauled by that brute! But sir one thing I deserve to learn is why I was chased by that…that human looking gryphon! I don’t know him and the reason for this retribution, I must know.
/solemnly/: Ah! /shrugs his shoulder/ Ta! I thank you sir. /breaths deeply/ I’d have been mauled by that brute! But sir one thing I deserve to learn is why I was chased by that…that human looking gryphon! I don’t know him and the reason for this retribution, I must know.
Agabus
Hmmm! A tale of an imperceptibly gargantuan apprehension /aft a pause/ you spirit, what do men say life is? Do they say life is an oyster of a flowing sweetness and light- a flashing reflection of opportunities that you can never leave or a waterfall of endless bitterness that you must destroy or cards and lots cast to catch caustic cashes. /pauses/ Listen, the metagalaxy- I mean your world, is a centre of test. Once the soul and the spirit are pressed upon a specific form, the spirit is come. It is sent into the world of ‘the visible’ where it is given a mortal doppelganger as coverage. This coverage which is called the corruptible flesh, becomes a dreary foe to bout, for it possess the key to Hades. Now do you know what it is to be called ‘immortal’? Look at the earth and tell what it looks like. Is it a discotheque of undying benisons? Sure, it isn’t. Your world is a War Amphitheatre short of audience. All men created are to fight; to reclaim what the devil declaimed of them. Out of Eden: the home of love and immortality, your first future was exiled, sent forth into the world of war and death which the majority are unwitting. /aft a short pause, he stands/ I say do not be loony O mortals; do not define yourselves an ignoramus by supping spirited-water in a blood-thirsty stony-aqua or frolic in death with immorality or worship thou an evil calling, ere the orifice of sheol: A screened path to the realm of acrimonious fruitions. Moles surround this bloody plain to pen down-forth, the labor of a Christly-dogged soldier. Lo! Whose fruit will the heavens gather for the bride’s fete? /stops a little then continues/ Pleasurox, the hellish spirit of dark pleasures connives with men to go back on the gift of eternity. No one knows that he his gravely rigorous. Hellionias the Lucifer of stubbornness hides himself behind Pleasurox. No wonder, you tell man to renounce evil and he refuses begrudgingly- he wants to continue to enjoy wanton pleasures. Every so often, Hellionias causes man to be purblind to see the advantage of The Great Light. You here they saying ‘who told you I err. Sure you can talk- big mouth’. Ostensibly this shows that they have been re-configured erroneously. /takes a deep breath/ much sentence eludes the sound trap to be seen no more- much time spends a break to opportune for opportunities. Man is given an opportunity any wise- not a soul-preserved but one spared. For zillions of seconds a man lives, only to discard his opportunities in exchange for mundane beings. In the end he is engaged with hell. What a pity. /aft a while, he opens the portal/ By jus divinum, I hereby open the portal to your past to…..
Hmmm! A tale of an imperceptibly gargantuan apprehension /aft a pause/ you spirit, what do men say life is? Do they say life is an oyster of a flowing sweetness and light- a flashing reflection of opportunities that you can never leave or a waterfall of endless bitterness that you must destroy or cards and lots cast to catch caustic cashes. /pauses/ Listen, the metagalaxy- I mean your world, is a centre of test. Once the soul and the spirit are pressed upon a specific form, the spirit is come. It is sent into the world of ‘the visible’ where it is given a mortal doppelganger as coverage. This coverage which is called the corruptible flesh, becomes a dreary foe to bout, for it possess the key to Hades. Now do you know what it is to be called ‘immortal’? Look at the earth and tell what it looks like. Is it a discotheque of undying benisons? Sure, it isn’t. Your world is a War Amphitheatre short of audience. All men created are to fight; to reclaim what the devil declaimed of them. Out of Eden: the home of love and immortality, your first future was exiled, sent forth into the world of war and death which the majority are unwitting. /aft a short pause, he stands/ I say do not be loony O mortals; do not define yourselves an ignoramus by supping spirited-water in a blood-thirsty stony-aqua or frolic in death with immorality or worship thou an evil calling, ere the orifice of sheol: A screened path to the realm of acrimonious fruitions. Moles surround this bloody plain to pen down-forth, the labor of a Christly-dogged soldier. Lo! Whose fruit will the heavens gather for the bride’s fete? /stops a little then continues/ Pleasurox, the hellish spirit of dark pleasures connives with men to go back on the gift of eternity. No one knows that he his gravely rigorous. Hellionias the Lucifer of stubbornness hides himself behind Pleasurox. No wonder, you tell man to renounce evil and he refuses begrudgingly- he wants to continue to enjoy wanton pleasures. Every so often, Hellionias causes man to be purblind to see the advantage of The Great Light. You here they saying ‘who told you I err. Sure you can talk- big mouth’. Ostensibly this shows that they have been re-configured erroneously. /takes a deep breath/ much sentence eludes the sound trap to be seen no more- much time spends a break to opportune for opportunities. Man is given an opportunity any wise- not a soul-preserved but one spared. For zillions of seconds a man lives, only to discard his opportunities in exchange for mundane beings. In the end he is engaged with hell. What a pity. /aft a while, he opens the portal/ By jus divinum, I hereby open the portal to your past to…..
(As Agabus tries to open the portal to man’s past, a feminine spirit is chased by Hellionias and Hedonuch (Pleasoron)).
Agabus
/Lividly/: Ag! Unschooled cantankerousness, the enemy of nature’s quietude- O! God what hell of cacophony have I found?
/Lividly/: Ag! Unschooled cantankerousness, the enemy of nature’s quietude- O! God what hell of cacophony have I found?
Bisi
/afeared/: Please sir, help me. Save me from these gruesome entities. I don’t wish them to make of me, a painful slaughter. Help me sir, please.
/afeared/: Please sir, help me. Save me from these gruesome entities. I don’t wish them to make of me, a painful slaughter. Help me sir, please.
Agabus
/tries to speak/: Now…
/tries to speak/: Now…
Hellionias
/cuts in sharply/: No Agabus! Not this time! I know whereof, the inducement of your mind’s eye. /to Hedon/: Pleasurox do no save him a chance to save these two puny mortals.
/cuts in sharply/: No Agabus! Not this time! I know whereof, the inducement of your mind’s eye. /to Hedon/: Pleasurox do no save him a chance to save these two puny mortals.
Pleasurox
/laughs/: Save them mortals? Impossible! /mocks maliciously/ what dominance have you that you stay stakes to this floor and do us disparagement? By jus divinum, you have no say by judging these evil cretins spotless of blood-splitting. I stand upon my heart against these ones and most importantly, your unpronounced verdict.
/laughs/: Save them mortals? Impossible! /mocks maliciously/ what dominance have you that you stay stakes to this floor and do us disparagement? By jus divinum, you have no say by judging these evil cretins spotless of blood-splitting. I stand upon my heart against these ones and most importantly, your unpronounced verdict.
Hellionias
Pleasurox, do not waste the puissance of thy tongue of wise prates. We do have the law upon our palm. We are only concerned of the way he may list it.
Pleasurox, do not waste the puissance of thy tongue of wise prates. We do have the law upon our palm. We are only concerned of the way he may list it.
Pleasurox
yes, let’s hear the words of your heart, Agabus, to know the intensity of the king’s favour on thee…
yes, let’s hear the words of your heart, Agabus, to know the intensity of the king’s favour on thee…
Hellionias
…at least to know whether, faithful speaks the king’s body.
…at least to know whether, faithful speaks the king’s body.
Agabus
/angrily/: Two barbaric firebugs defiling the law of creation in the volcanic gore of darkness and against the richness of their right self, putting the clad of shame upon the glory of the lord. They burn when never to nor created to. /sharply/ Reason coldly you both! Why do you lay bare your bodies like unwanted prophecies outstretched on the rack of a blissful omen? I do know that, arbitrate of the times, I’m not, but my preponderance you do misconstrue. You prate like hair-brained law-speakers packed ere a phoney jurist. Your tongues, I know, are of deceit. Whereas, to taunting talks I do not move, neither to it move I.
When the chanticleer makes a cracking crow in the first day ere the approximation of a jack-frost mist, how do you debunk Mother Nature’s rune?
/angrily/: Two barbaric firebugs defiling the law of creation in the volcanic gore of darkness and against the richness of their right self, putting the clad of shame upon the glory of the lord. They burn when never to nor created to. /sharply/ Reason coldly you both! Why do you lay bare your bodies like unwanted prophecies outstretched on the rack of a blissful omen? I do know that, arbitrate of the times, I’m not, but my preponderance you do misconstrue. You prate like hair-brained law-speakers packed ere a phoney jurist. Your tongues, I know, are of deceit. Whereas, to taunting talks I do not move, neither to it move I.
When the chanticleer makes a cracking crow in the first day ere the approximation of a jack-frost mist, how do you debunk Mother Nature’s rune?
Hell and plea
we know that the pregnant mother of the day conceives morning.
we know that the pregnant mother of the day conceives morning.
Agabus
/amusingly/: wisely said! Now in the same vein, I beseech you my friendly foes, be gone to your fiery duties and do not forget to re-call yourselves by the hoot of my horn.
/amusingly/: wisely said! Now in the same vein, I beseech you my friendly foes, be gone to your fiery duties and do not forget to re-call yourselves by the hoot of my horn.
Hell and plea
/grumbling/: ehyn…ehyn…err…aag! Aye! Well we shall pit your wits against you and what belongs to us, we shan’t loose to forgo.
/Exit/
/grumbling/: ehyn…ehyn…err…aag! Aye! Well we shall pit your wits against you and what belongs to us, we shan’t loose to forgo.
/Exit/
Bisi
O! Mi lord, they bit me out of my wit. They threaten me for death. Oh!
I am grateful, you save my life.
O! Mi lord, they bit me out of my wit. They threaten me for death. Oh!
I am grateful, you save my life.
Agabus
/as if not listening/ now behold the…
/as if not listening/ now behold the…
Bisi
/interrupts/ sir, I beseech you; do not be troubled for I seek falsely your attent. But truly a question I have to ask.
/interrupts/ sir, I beseech you; do not be troubled for I seek falsely your attent. But truly a question I have to ask.
Agabus
speak!
speak!
Bisi
Why was I running ere two strange beasts?
Why was I running ere two strange beasts?
Agabus
every runner runs to ask questions after delivered of them that run ere. I pray your troubled mind be as low as the zephyr. Watch this retrospection and by it, you shall be tutored.
every runner runs to ask questions after delivered of them that run ere. I pray your troubled mind be as low as the zephyr. Watch this retrospection and by it, you shall be tutored.
ACT 1, SCENE 2
In a street in Lagos, Enter Theophilus and Ben
In a street in Lagos, Enter Theophilus and Ben
Theophilus /speaking pidgin/: O boy you no see wetin I do for dat guy wey go dey talk rubbish for dat game house?
Ben
/in the same language/: No mind am jare. Se that place na church wey ngo dey claim reverend father /hisses/.
/in the same language/: No mind am jare. Se that place na church wey ngo dey claim reverend father /hisses/.
Theophilus
I swear to God who made, Wallahi tí ko ba n se Peter, olórun gbo, mo ba, ba ti e jé. Na Peter cause am now.
I swear to God who made, Wallahi tí ko ba n se Peter, olórun gbo, mo ba, ba ti e jé. Na Peter cause am now.
Ben
Na God save am dat dey ori pé igo bear ti lébé mu ku si be yen- oti wa nitosi.
Na God save am dat dey ori pé igo bear ti lébé mu ku si be yen- oti wa nitosi.
Theophilus
Confirm! As if you get the motion page
Confirm! As if you get the motion page
Ben
Se bi you don want take am now?
Se bi you don want take am now?
Theophilus
Yes now! Next time, if dey born him papa well, make him come dey preach Jesu for me.
Yes now! Next time, if dey born him papa well, make him come dey preach Jesu for me.
Ben
In fact wetin him ngo dey find for gamester villa gon self?
In fact wetin him ngo dey find for gamester villa gon self?
Theophilus
No, ó fé kó tété ni- osa mo now- idea
No, ó fé kó tété ni- osa mo now- idea
Ben
Well, them no kuku born am well make him flash back
Well, them no kuku born am well make him flash back
Theophilus
/surprisingly/: Flash wetin? Ni agbalá awon boys…/relaxed/ ah, why you dey wine me now? /as one who just remembered something/ O boy, you get 2 hundi for dat place?
/surprisingly/: Flash wetin? Ni agbalá awon boys…/relaxed/ ah, why you dey wine me now? /as one who just remembered something/ O boy, you get 2 hundi for dat place?
Ben
Why 2 hundi now, double lam so that ngo confirm 2 sure!
Why 2 hundi now, double lam so that ngo confirm 2 sure!
Theophilus
Okay make we go then, oya bring card.
Okay make we go then, oya bring card.
Ben
/brings out a pile of cards/ okay na him be this, shove, shove, shove.
/brings out a pile of cards/ okay na him be this, shove, shove, shove.
Theophilus
Ogá why you go tell me make I shove? O! boy shove jare make I pick. You won dey use dat your eye jazz my hand abi?
Ogá why you go tell me make I shove? O! boy shove jare make I pick. You won dey use dat your eye jazz my hand abi?
Enter Gabriel, a preacher
/singing hymns/: I will enter his grace with no evil in my life
I will enter his court with grace
I will say this is the day that the lord has made
I will rejoice for he hath made me glad…
/continues singing/
I will enter his court with grace
I will say this is the day that the lord has made
I will rejoice for he hath made me glad…
/continues singing/
Theophilus
omo this game dey hot O
omo this game dey hot O
Ben
/energetically/ Ja Eli kai! Ja Eli kai! Ja Eli kai! Pick two
/energetically/ Ja Eli kai! Ja Eli kai! Ja Eli kai! Pick two
Theophilus
Omo he be like say Alfa Sule don jazz you with dat jazz abi? So you want configure my game with am abi?
Omo he be like say Alfa Sule don jazz you with dat jazz abi? So you want configure my game with am abi?
Ben
/more energetic/ Ja Eli kai! Ja Eli kai! /laughs/ pick two!
Theophilus
omo you dey vex o! Cool down now
omo you dey vex o! Cool down now
Ben
/frightfully/: Ja Eli ka…
/frightfully/: Ja Eli ka…
Theophilus
omo this na Error 501, Http…
omo this na Error 501, Http…
Ben
…Ja Eli kai- hold on!
…Ja Eli kai- hold on!
Theophilus
Omo no tell me say you one lunch last card o.
/Gabriel interrupts/
Omo no tell me say you one lunch last card o.
/Gabriel interrupts/
Gabriel
Good afternoon brethren, I greet you in the name of the lord.
Good afternoon brethren, I greet you in the name of the lord.
Theophilus
/playfully but angrily/ VI-LI-FI-CA-TION! VI-LI-FI-CA-TION!!!
/playfully but angrily/ VI-LI-FI-CA-TION! VI-LI-FI-CA-TION!!!
Ben
omo na confirm vilification be this o
omo na confirm vilification be this o
Theophilus
/more harshly/: omo who be this guy now /pointing maliciously to Gab/
/more harshly/: omo who be this guy now /pointing maliciously to Gab/
Ben
omo na total vilification
omo na total vilification
Gabriel
Sir, I only accosted you in Christ Jesus
Sir, I only accosted you in Christ Jesus
Theophilus
/seriously jokingly/ Error 501, Http! In fact ekwensi fire that your mouth. /shouts lividly/ omo I dey vex o- you see say this guy dey snipe my money- big time! I mean correct and my eyes they red, you kon come here dey greet your papa, good afternoon. May God fire that your mouth. /To Ben/ omo mokwi continue jare
/seriously jokingly/ Error 501, Http! In fact ekwensi fire that your mouth. /shouts lividly/ omo I dey vex o- you see say this guy dey snipe my money- big time! I mean correct and my eyes they red, you kon come here dey greet your papa, good afternoon. May God fire that your mouth. /To Ben/ omo mokwi continue jare
Ben
ja Eli kai! Se you too no know say na total vilification? Abi you no get any formal education or for your life, you never enter institution before. For this nation you no get any notion about the tribulation and financial discrimination and even hooliganistic isolation wey dey go on
ja Eli kai! Se you too no know say na total vilification? Abi you no get any formal education or for your life, you never enter institution before. For this nation you no get any notion about the tribulation and financial discrimination and even hooliganistic isolation wey dey go on
Theophilus
/hisses/ no mind the guy him won so him self for this kabal. My friend way you dey see so, na him teach shake-am-spear if you no know. Wo In fact shun the guy- bone am make we continue.
/hisses/ no mind the guy him won so him self for this kabal. My friend way you dey see so, na him teach shake-am-spear if you no know. Wo In fact shun the guy- bone am make we continue.
Gabriel
/solemnly apologises/ sir If I had disturbed your peace, pray forgive me.
/solemnly apologises/ sir If I had disturbed your peace, pray forgive me.
Theophilus
/as if not listening/ omo na bad game I pick so
/as if not listening/ omo na bad game I pick so
Gabriel
well I only want to share this good news with: The good news is about our good great lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus died for our sins so that we might have certitude of a profitable end. He has brought salvation to you and me. And more upon, the love of the father for the world is proved by the ascendancy of our lord Jesus Christ. He says, ‘…for whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have a never-ending life. My brethren, I implore you to accept our lord Jesus and get round the things of this world- the things of this world are for a while. When we die we are all going some where outer the earth. But who knows where they will be after the world of the visible. See the lord is calling you to His vine yard. He has created an undying fruition for you and me; but if you refuse to repent, though you will use the little time and the little authority you have. But mind you! The end will be very lachrymal. The mouth of hell is as wide as the mouth of a fiery hot cauldron. Please my friends come back to your maker who has breathed the breath of life on you. I want you to know that He is the Great sculptor who has created you in a simulacrum of his image. You are the alter ego of the living God.
well I only want to share this good news with: The good news is about our good great lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus died for our sins so that we might have certitude of a profitable end. He has brought salvation to you and me. And more upon, the love of the father for the world is proved by the ascendancy of our lord Jesus Christ. He says, ‘…for whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have a never-ending life. My brethren, I implore you to accept our lord Jesus and get round the things of this world- the things of this world are for a while. When we die we are all going some where outer the earth. But who knows where they will be after the world of the visible. See the lord is calling you to His vine yard. He has created an undying fruition for you and me; but if you refuse to repent, though you will use the little time and the little authority you have. But mind you! The end will be very lachrymal. The mouth of hell is as wide as the mouth of a fiery hot cauldron. Please my friends come back to your maker who has breathed the breath of life on you. I want you to know that He is the Great sculptor who has created you in a simulacrum of his image. You are the alter ego of the living God.
Ben
/shockingly/ Ja Eli kai…Ja Eli kai
/shockingly/ Ja Eli kai…Ja Eli kai
Theophilus
/aggressively/ IM-PRE-CA-TION!!!
/aggressively/ IM-PRE-CA-TION!!!
Ben
na confirm imprecation
na confirm imprecation
Theophilus
you no hear wetin him talk
you no hear wetin him talk
Ben
yes now, na confirm now- he talk say we dey enjoin correct for the place wey papa God don create and except…
yes now, na confirm now- he talk say we dey enjoin correct for the place wey papa God don create and except…
Theophilus
/cuts in/ You be fuck up, you no comprehend wetin him talk well, well. Him say fire go born your future
/cuts in/ You be fuck up, you no comprehend wetin him talk well, well. Him say fire go born your future
Ben
Sho! Ja Eli kai
Sho! Ja Eli kai
Theophilus
Ah you no see say the guy no ‘lack’ culture at all.
Ah you no see say the guy no ‘lack’ culture at all.
Gabriel
this is just a warning my brethren
this is just a warning my brethren
Theophilus
omo this guy don burst my heart! But I no go avenge, otherwise I go skin am alive. /To Ben/ in fact game close.
omo this guy don burst my heart! But I no go avenge, otherwise I go skin am alive. /To Ben/ in fact game close.
Ben
/surprised/ Theo, why you shun game like that now and wey you know say I don dey chop you.
/surprised/ Theo, why you shun game like that now and wey you know say I don dey chop you.
Theophilus
I must, simply because this guy na confirm interruption to my success. So I feel say make me divert the rendezvous. You know, make we go find another place.
I must, simply because this guy na confirm interruption to my success. So I feel say make me divert the rendezvous. You know, make we go find another place.
Gabriel
my beloved wait!
my beloved wait!
Theophilus
Your father! Who you love? You no buy bear for brassiere make me bash. Yeye fowl! Stay there; make life and enjoyment dey pass you by. You dey claim holy, holy- see make I yarn you: For my kabal we dey bunk many of your sisters wey be say dey go dey wear ‘down-cover’ go church dey talk say them better. Stay there, make life dey pass you buy. Abi you never hear the latest album /To Ben/ make we lunch am.
Your father! Who you love? You no buy bear for brassiere make me bash. Yeye fowl! Stay there; make life and enjoyment dey pass you by. You dey claim holy, holy- see make I yarn you: For my kabal we dey bunk many of your sisters wey be say dey go dey wear ‘down-cover’ go church dey talk say them better. Stay there, make life dey pass you buy. Abi you never hear the latest album /To Ben/ make we lunch am.
Ben
Go on si oun!
Go on si oun!
Theo & Ben
/singing/: Pass me not O gentle pa-my
You be my energy
Nothing can divide me from pamy- pamy o chai! Pamy o
/singing/: Pass me not O gentle pa-my
You be my energy
Nothing can divide me from pamy- pamy o chai! Pamy o
/Exit/
Gabriel
Gabriel
/follows them/ Wait my brethren, God loves you. He doesn’t want you to die. He doesn’t wish to pass you by. He doesn’t want you to die but to repent. If you die with your present life style, will you be fit for the Great kingdom of a glowing sanctity? Does your present culture fit the Kingdom of God? Are your names in the book of life? Does God rejoice over you anytime he sees you? Do you really portray Christ or you are just empty, and the pot of the Lord fissured? Please my brethren wait!!!
/Exeunt/
ACT 1, SCENE 3
In Mrs Adam’s hearth stone, Enter Mrs Adams from Her Kitchen holding a Fashion Magazine and Mrs Lucky
In Mrs Adam’s hearth stone, Enter Mrs Adams from Her Kitchen holding a Fashion Magazine and Mrs Lucky
Mrs Adams.
/flipping through a Magazine soliloquizing/ ólekú, ah oti o, ibo l’won won yi ti ri awon omega style yi ke… abi aso ko lo dabi labalaba yi ke? Ewo tu lelei? O ga o. e en!
/flipping through a Magazine soliloquizing/ ólekú, ah oti o, ibo l’won won yi ti ri awon omega style yi ke… abi aso ko lo dabi labalaba yi ke? Ewo tu lelei? O ga o. e en!
Enter Mrs Lucky
Mrs Lucky
Mama Theo, se ibi bi yi ni ewa?
Mama Theo, se ibi bi yi ni ewa?
Mrs Adams
/curiously/ se ko si o, hope nothing is wrong?
/curiously/ se ko si o, hope nothing is wrong?
Mrs Lucky
wo mama Theo, you’re not doing well at all
wo mama Theo, you’re not doing well at all
Mrs Adams
Ah o ti o
Ah o ti o
Mrs Lucky
In fact I am disappointed at you
In fact I am disappointed at you
Mrs Adams
/anxiously/ mama Lucky what have I done now? Tell me!
/anxiously/ mama Lucky what have I done now? Tell me!
Mrs Lucky
did you not hear what happened this afternoon, just an hour ago?
did you not hear what happened this afternoon, just an hour ago?
Mrs Adams
No and what could that be?
No and what could that be?
Mrs Lucky
so you are telling me that you don’t know what your son did
so you are telling me that you don’t know what your son did
Mrs Adams
My son? What are you saying now Mrs Lucky?
My son? What are you saying now Mrs Lucky?
Mrs Lucky
so you want to tell me that you don’t even know your child, and still you call yourself a mother? You stay home all day long making irresponsible calls here and there, ordering for clothes items and posh brooches while your only son is dying.
so you want to tell me that you don’t even know your child, and still you call yourself a mother? You stay home all day long making irresponsible calls here and there, ordering for clothes items and posh brooches while your only son is dying.
Mrs Adams
/angrily/ oti o, what do you mean, ah Mrs Luck? I don’t like the way you are blaspheming my son.
/angrily/ oti o, what do you mean, ah Mrs Luck? I don’t like the way you are blaspheming my son.
Mrs Lucky
ewo eni tio pe ira e ni abiamo. Go out! And see the world for yourself and you’ll know what I am saying. A mother must take a little honey and much gall just for the cause of her son’s greatness.
ewo eni tio pe ira e ni abiamo. Go out! And see the world for yourself and you’ll know what I am saying. A mother must take a little honey and much gall just for the cause of her son’s greatness.
Mrs Adams
/getting irate/ Mrs Lucky I hope you’ve not come here to paint my hearth with curse-words? If this is your mission herein I do hesitate than for you to excuse me.
/getting irate/ Mrs Lucky I hope you’ve not come here to paint my hearth with curse-words? If this is your mission herein I do hesitate than for you to excuse me.
Mrs Lucky
/soothingly/okay o emó binu. Well it is not that I meant any harm for you, but with the way your son was behaving this afternoon…
/soothingly/okay o emó binu. Well it is not that I meant any harm for you, but with the way your son was behaving this afternoon…
Mrs Adams
/curiously/ what was he doing, please tell me.
/curiously/ what was he doing, please tell me.
Mrs Lucky
…at Mallam Musa’s brassiere, there was bedlam. Your son and one IG’s son together with their gangs were involved in a deadly fracas. Every one of the marketers was forced to pack their things for fear of being injure or their goods being plundered or destroyed.
…at Mallam Musa’s brassiere, there was bedlam. Your son and one IG’s son together with their gangs were involved in a deadly fracas. Every one of the marketers was forced to pack their things for fear of being injure or their goods being plundered or destroyed.
Mrs Adams
and what else happened? Please tell me more
and what else happened? Please tell me more
Mrs Lucky
The commissioner’s son was injured
The commissioner’s son was injured
Mrs Adams
/shockingly/ oti o!
/shockingly/ oti o!
Mrs Lucky
kékeré ni yi un they destroy my neighbours crate of drinks by breaking bottles and…and thingy.
kékeré ni yi un they destroy my neighbours crate of drinks by breaking bottles and…and thingy.
Mrs Adams
/tearfully/ ye! Mo daron, mo daron, mo ri ogo, but he came in here this afternoon belly aching that he was ill.
/tearfully/ ye! Mo daron, mo daron, mo ri ogo, but he came in here this afternoon belly aching that he was ill.
Mrs Luck
do you know may be he was beaten with a charm or any other blankety-blank juju?
do you know may be he was beaten with a charm or any other blankety-blank juju?
Mrs Adams
/shouts/Ah!a
/shouts/Ah!a
Enter Peter
O God!
Peter
Good eventide ma’am
Good eventide ma’am
Mrs Adams
Good even and who are you looking for
Good even and who are you looking for
Mrs Lucky
Aside that why are you sweating like that? Is anybody chasing you or what?
Aside that why are you sweating like that? Is anybody chasing you or what?
Peter
no ma’am I am just coming from the stadium so I have come to search for Theophilus.
no ma’am I am just coming from the stadium so I have come to search for Theophilus.
Mrs Lucky
/interrupts/ wo o jere, Theophilus is not at home
/interrupts/ wo o jere, Theophilus is not at home
Peter
but ma’am he told me he was coming home
but ma’am he told me he was coming home
Mrs Lucky
/cuts in/ home wo ni, nbo leti ri ra gon self
/cuts in/ home wo ni, nbo leti ri ra gon self
Peter
sorry ma’am I know whereof I speak: we both closed work at the brewery
sorry ma’am I know whereof I speak: we both closed work at the brewery
Mrs Adams
What brewery? But Mrs Lucky
What brewery? But Mrs Lucky
Mrs Lucky
igsh! Iro ni o n pa, ko n se ise kon kon ni brewery. Ile olótí ni won ti dá gobe le ni oson yi.
igsh! Iro ni o n pa, ko n se ise kon kon ni brewery. Ile olótí ni won ti dá gobe le ni oson yi.
Mrs Adams
/To Peter/ em please /panicking/ are you sure of what you are saying
/To Peter/ em please /panicking/ are you sure of what you are saying
Mrs Lucky
Whati wo? Egba gbe ni pa iyen. Theophilus ti jade
Enter Theophilus
Theophilus
ah Peter, how far now?
ah Peter, how far now?
Peter
I dey kampe
I dey kampe
Theophilus
so wetin dey happen now?
so wetin dey happen now?
Peter
Larvae don split for kabal.
Larvae don split for kabal.
Theophilus
e en, se him red?
e en, se him red?
Peter
omo this one past red, in fact him leather-thick well well.
omo this one past red, in fact him leather-thick well well.
Theophilus
wait for me.
wait for me.
/Exit/
Mrs Adams
/curiously/ eh! What are you guys discussing? Eh ema gbami ke Mrs Lucky e dasi
/curiously/ eh! What are you guys discussing? Eh ema gbami ke Mrs Lucky e dasi
Mrs Lucky
wo if you don’t act fast, you’ll just see that the meaning of their runic barbarism becomes something that will bury you alive.
wo if you don’t act fast, you’ll just see that the meaning of their runic barbarism becomes something that will bury you alive.
Enter Theophilus
Theophilus
ni so nibe
Mrs Adams
ni bo? You are going no where.
ni bo? You are going no where.
Theophilus
But mom this is an entirely different business.
But mom this is an entirely different business.
Mrs Adams
what business are you hiding, what business?!
what business are you hiding, what business?!
Theophilus
mammy I think there is a miscarriage of judgment here. I always tell you to beware of jobless tattle-tales that scuttle butt about matters of other peoples. You must know that there is a new import of thick-black larvae in the Nigerian brewery that can be used to power the automatic engines fixed by the company’s ergonomics so as to make work faster and easier. Therefore, I have to go. /He leaves suddenly/ adieu mum
mammy I think there is a miscarriage of judgment here. I always tell you to beware of jobless tattle-tales that scuttle butt about matters of other peoples. You must know that there is a new import of thick-black larvae in the Nigerian brewery that can be used to power the automatic engines fixed by the company’s ergonomics so as to make work faster and easier. Therefore, I have to go. /He leaves suddenly/ adieu mum
/Exit Theo & Peter/
Mrs Lucky
only if that is true, se bi you saw him call me a gossip. Eh! Wo odi abo, I have no more to say. Akuku ti gba kamu-igsh!
only if that is true, se bi you saw him call me a gossip. Eh! Wo odi abo, I have no more to say. Akuku ti gba kamu-igsh!
/Exit/
Mrs Adams
Please come, don’t go. Mrs Lucky, please forgive my son. He doesn’t mean to have said that. Abi? Wo eyin le mo jare. If you like stay and if you don’t want, go. Hmmm! /takes her magazine and goes inside/
Please come, don’t go. Mrs Lucky, please forgive my son. He doesn’t mean to have said that. Abi? Wo eyin le mo jare. If you like stay and if you don’t want, go. Hmmm! /takes her magazine and goes inside/
(A pandemonium strikes up in Stratford lane. There, Theophilus is deadly injured and therefore he dies. His friend, Ben, having discovered Theo’s death, goes to his mother to inform her)
ACT 1, SCENE 4
the castle of perihelion: A throne upon the platform by the west wing of heaven.
the castle of perihelion: A throne upon the platform by the west wing of heaven.
Theophilus
So I had lived a dog’s life ere I gave up the ghost?
So I had lived a dog’s life ere I gave up the ghost?
Agabus
you are very right. You see, many misused the chance given them when on earth. Some traded the fane of the lord for all kinds of immorality; even in the Kirk, they do sacrilege. In fact the most painful thing is that, after people are magnanimously moulded by the Great Lord, they later fall to the devils guile and by barter, they give their bodies to mundane things. /Aft a pause/ the world is a phantasmagorical surface of irreparable anthropomorphic events. Once one day gets hence, it cannot be reversed; time in man’s act remains dynamically unalterable. You used every time and opportunity you were given but living pursuant to your own will and not the father’s. Well you are a little bit blame to be, but not much. If not for those who pose to be good without, but very putrid within- who soil the image of God amidst unbelievers and even amidst of themselves, victory oughtn’t be as hard as a coconut’s copra. Much considerably, many are broken vessels, and empty humans whose lives are transparent. And they are still very the best people run after. Publicly, they portray filthy pyrotechnics of a humongous spiritual insignificance. Lo! By and by, you shall see greatly for yourself but this time because you still have more grace to live by, any thing you will, so be it. One thing I only wish to remind you of is that, Christ still wants the will of the father done on you; He wants you to repent and tell the world about Him.
you are very right. You see, many misused the chance given them when on earth. Some traded the fane of the lord for all kinds of immorality; even in the Kirk, they do sacrilege. In fact the most painful thing is that, after people are magnanimously moulded by the Great Lord, they later fall to the devils guile and by barter, they give their bodies to mundane things. /Aft a pause/ the world is a phantasmagorical surface of irreparable anthropomorphic events. Once one day gets hence, it cannot be reversed; time in man’s act remains dynamically unalterable. You used every time and opportunity you were given but living pursuant to your own will and not the father’s. Well you are a little bit blame to be, but not much. If not for those who pose to be good without, but very putrid within- who soil the image of God amidst unbelievers and even amidst of themselves, victory oughtn’t be as hard as a coconut’s copra. Much considerably, many are broken vessels, and empty humans whose lives are transparent. And they are still very the best people run after. Publicly, they portray filthy pyrotechnics of a humongous spiritual insignificance. Lo! By and by, you shall see greatly for yourself but this time because you still have more grace to live by, any thing you will, so be it. One thing I only wish to remind you of is that, Christ still wants the will of the father done on you; He wants you to repent and tell the world about Him.
Enter Hellionias and Pleasurox with a group of slaves having chains tied around their necks.
Pleasurox
O! My friendly foe, the north-Easter foretells the connubial of two deities; and in every chance divinely bestowed, much honey and much wine waits the door of the mouth and purely fresh bawd by the gate of profanatory knowledge. O! How sweet this life is. Agabus why don’t you grant leave our friend that he may join the party of hedonist, to the demesne of pleasure.
O! My friendly foe, the north-Easter foretells the connubial of two deities; and in every chance divinely bestowed, much honey and much wine waits the door of the mouth and purely fresh bawd by the gate of profanatory knowledge. O! How sweet this life is. Agabus why don’t you grant leave our friend that he may join the party of hedonist, to the demesne of pleasure.
Theophilus
/cuts in/ what mean thou by that? You most lugubrious evil overlords! At first you wanted my life so bitterly that I am embittered by your threats and you say me to be thine friend. O! This is recognisably impossible.
/cuts in/ what mean thou by that? You most lugubrious evil overlords! At first you wanted my life so bitterly that I am embittered by your threats and you say me to be thine friend. O! This is recognisably impossible.
Hellionias
/interrupts/ O! Common, we only wanted to speak through an indirect means because of the nature of the person you are staying with.
(Agabus wants to speak but Theo interrupts)
/interrupts/ O! Common, we only wanted to speak through an indirect means because of the nature of the person you are staying with.
(Agabus wants to speak but Theo interrupts)
Theophilus
what scheme of blasphemy and malevolence and contumaciousness do you essay to cook against mi lord?
what scheme of blasphemy and malevolence and contumaciousness do you essay to cook against mi lord?
Hellionias
O! Common, of such we do not pray betide. You’ve been beclouded under a nimbostratus of deceit and it is time we helped you. Behold, it is better to shake off the dust from your buskins or blot out the dust-devil in your eyes rather than to look at them and a jeremiad be sung. Let us tell you about this place: This place can lead you to two paths: Hell or Heaven. Anyone might become patient but rather surreptitious in order to get what they want. Tell me, how does a wild dog latch its prey? It waits very patiently like a holy domestic dog; but when it brings out its true mind, its prey becomes helpless. Agabus shows people the bad part of their future. Albeit, we do know that man must sin, but not all man is righteous as it is redacted in the sacred book. In fact The Book asserts that not one is clean; not even the servant of God, yet they still inherit the kingdom of God. I tell you that you didn’t live all your life in darkness /aft a short pause/ think very deeply. Since the day you were born till the day you died, can you say you never did ‘one good’? /aft a short pause/, you must know yourself in this place. Follow us and we shall make you enjoy what you were deprived of. And besides we’ve created a rack upon which your murderer will be tortured.
O! Common, of such we do not pray betide. You’ve been beclouded under a nimbostratus of deceit and it is time we helped you. Behold, it is better to shake off the dust from your buskins or blot out the dust-devil in your eyes rather than to look at them and a jeremiad be sung. Let us tell you about this place: This place can lead you to two paths: Hell or Heaven. Anyone might become patient but rather surreptitious in order to get what they want. Tell me, how does a wild dog latch its prey? It waits very patiently like a holy domestic dog; but when it brings out its true mind, its prey becomes helpless. Agabus shows people the bad part of their future. Albeit, we do know that man must sin, but not all man is righteous as it is redacted in the sacred book. In fact The Book asserts that not one is clean; not even the servant of God, yet they still inherit the kingdom of God. I tell you that you didn’t live all your life in darkness /aft a short pause/ think very deeply. Since the day you were born till the day you died, can you say you never did ‘one good’? /aft a short pause/, you must know yourself in this place. Follow us and we shall make you enjoy what you were deprived of. And besides we’ve created a rack upon which your murderer will be tortured.
Theophilus
you mean, you will help me avenge the person who killed me?
you mean, you will help me avenge the person who killed me?
Pleasurox
O yes! Your enemies did not allow us to execute our fruitful assignments on thee. Well, we are giving you a great chance of avenging your death upon them.
O yes! Your enemies did not allow us to execute our fruitful assignments on thee. Well, we are giving you a great chance of avenging your death upon them.
Theophilus
this is great! But, eh where precisely is my murderer so that I can ooze out of him, the ocean of blood he took from me.
this is great! But, eh where precisely is my murderer so that I can ooze out of him, the ocean of blood he took from me.
Pleasurox
Very easy, he his in the heavenly rumpus room enjoying many things, but we can’t allow an evil person go free, so follow us!
Very easy, he his in the heavenly rumpus room enjoying many things, but we can’t allow an evil person go free, so follow us!
Theophilus
/wants to leave/ Yes I will, in fact…
/wants to leave/ Yes I will, in fact…
Agabus
…And where exactly do you know you are going?
…And where exactly do you know you are going?
Theophilus
/bewildered/ ehm…ehm…ehm…
/bewildered/ ehm…ehm…ehm…
Agabus
Do you know the reasons for the roods hog-tied around the neck of those slaves?
Do you know the reasons for the roods hog-tied around the neck of those slaves?
Theophilus
slaves!
slaves!
Hellionias
What slaves? Do not stop this boy from enjoying his new life. He has lived a very rough life of sorrow, hardship and death or haven’t you?
What slaves? Do not stop this boy from enjoying his new life. He has lived a very rough life of sorrow, hardship and death or haven’t you?
Theophilus
yes I have.
yes I have.
Hellionias
and now we are giving you a chance to regain your plagiarized future and to stop Agabus from making you a ‘Hell raiser’
and now we are giving you a chance to regain your plagiarized future and to stop Agabus from making you a ‘Hell raiser’
Theophilus
what! I forbid it
what! I forbid it
Pleasurox
well if you’re still inquisitive about this ones /pointing to the slaves/ they are going for circumcision or aren’t they Hellion?
well if you’re still inquisitive about this ones /pointing to the slaves/ they are going for circumcision or aren’t they Hellion?
Hellionias
yes they are. The Sacred Book recorded that the children of the kings of the world must circumcised his children so that they will be part of the agreement of a never- ending blessing
yes they are. The Sacred Book recorded that the children of the kings of the world must circumcised his children so that they will be part of the agreement of a never- ending blessing
Pleasurox
/interruptedly/ that is the reason we tried to persuade you- remember Gabriel who tried to bring you out of him to Him?
/interruptedly/ that is the reason we tried to persuade you- remember Gabriel who tried to bring you out of him to Him?
Theophilus
Yes
Yes
Pleasurox
common, sure you can remember, look at /points at Hellion/ Hellionias was he. As you could really remember, he became very apoplectic with rage because you refused him, so he tried to hurt you, just a little. That was the reason for the rush, in the first place.
common, sure you can remember, look at /points at Hellion/ Hellionias was he. As you could really remember, he became very apoplectic with rage because you refused him, so he tried to hurt you, just a little. That was the reason for the rush, in the first place.
Theophilus
O! I see
O! I see
Pleasurox
you really need know the scripture.
you really need know the scripture.
Theophilus
what’s the scripture?
what’s the scripture?
Pleasurox
the word- It says; wipe away your tears for the bad things are past away. Forget those things that lieth behind and strive forward for new things.
the word- It says; wipe away your tears for the bad things are past away. Forget those things that lieth behind and strive forward for new things.
Theophilus
Even in this place, after death?
Even in this place, after death?
Pleasurox
O Bob! There is plenty of hope for the dead says the scripture. So how think you by?
O Bob! There is plenty of hope for the dead says the scripture. So how think you by?
Theophilus
O yeah, well but ahm…
O yeah, well but ahm…
Hellionias
we waist no time: the enrolment is on
(They both try to leave)
we waist no time: the enrolment is on
(They both try to leave)
Theophilus
wait! You’ve spoke wisely so I have made up my mind- I’m going with you. I will avenge my death and I will enjoy forever.
(As he follows them)…
wait! You’ve spoke wisely so I have made up my mind- I’m going with you. I will avenge my death and I will enjoy forever.
(As he follows them)…
Agabus
remember I told you, whatever you will, so be it; but let me request from you, your right intent upon the ‘black-scroll’ about your novel insignia.
remember I told you, whatever you will, so be it; but let me request from you, your right intent upon the ‘black-scroll’ about your novel insignia.
Theophilus
sir I do not understand the scroll /walks back/
sir I do not understand the scroll /walks back/
Hellionias
Theophilus! Sign dark scroll! Or whatever jabberwocky that is, you will be dead forever.
Theophilus! Sign dark scroll! Or whatever jabberwocky that is, you will be dead forever.
(Theophilus leaves with them. As they get to the entrance to hell, Theophilus is treated beastly)
Theophilus
what is the rope for?
what is the rope for?
Hellionias
/shouts/ shut up! You scoundrel!
/shouts/ shut up! You scoundrel!
Theophilus
but…
but…
Pleasurox
/mocks maliciously/ you’re gone!
/mocks maliciously/ you’re gone!
Hellionias
At last I have you now. MOVE!!!
At last I have you now. MOVE!!!
Theophilus
Help! Help! Help! Agabus help. /angrily/ I deny these ones by the power of the cross.
Help! Help! Help! Agabus help. /angrily/ I deny these ones by the power of the cross.
Agabus
/intervenes/ Zounds! Hell, you’re denied. I stand on the cross against you. I declare salvation! In the name of the name that is above all other names, which is the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I avouch for the frankness of that soul. Jesus has come to give him a new chance and now be released!
/intervenes/ Zounds! Hell, you’re denied. I stand on the cross against you. I declare salvation! In the name of the name that is above all other names, which is the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I avouch for the frankness of that soul. Jesus has come to give him a new chance and now be released!
(Theophilus is released and the enraged devils move to and fro)
/when Theo moves to Agabus/, Thank God that he saved you from these two misleaders. They have almost succeeded in turning the word around to catch you. I knew nobody knows anything about the dark-scroll and I won’t allow you sign it so that you don’t suffer. Hence, because you didn’t sign the scroll, I had to help you.
/when Theo moves to Agabus/, Thank God that he saved you from these two misleaders. They have almost succeeded in turning the word around to catch you. I knew nobody knows anything about the dark-scroll and I won’t allow you sign it so that you don’t suffer. Hence, because you didn’t sign the scroll, I had to help you.
Hellionias
enough! Agabus enough! Now let us know what sound it is by your hoot as touching the other soul.
enough! Agabus enough! Now let us know what sound it is by your hoot as touching the other soul.
Bisi
sir what will you do to me?
sir what will you do to me?
Agabus
you are a very faithful servant. You healed many people, preached to thousand and thousand of people, you served whole heartedly in the Kirk, but why did you adorned immorality? Just for one second and you allowed the devil hoodwink you. Does the word not warn that he who stands should take heed lest he falls? It is just a pity that the Devil had been watching for a way to catch you and when you did fall, he used his authority on you. Do not forget the scripture; it is written, he who sin is of the devil. Again it also says that it is a worst thing for a believer to divert. You diverted for no palpable reason. It is very late, only the father can sway this matter, but for awhile…Hmmm /to Theophilus/ I shall accompany you to the outer border of perihelion into the metagalaxy. (Theo wants to walk across he came) Halt! Do not take that row for it is evil. /he shows another direction/we shall walk this peaceful path for it is a path through which every peaceful creature (who died peaceful) passes. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost; make sure they know the father and do His will so that His name is glorified.
you are a very faithful servant. You healed many people, preached to thousand and thousand of people, you served whole heartedly in the Kirk, but why did you adorned immorality? Just for one second and you allowed the devil hoodwink you. Does the word not warn that he who stands should take heed lest he falls? It is just a pity that the Devil had been watching for a way to catch you and when you did fall, he used his authority on you. Do not forget the scripture; it is written, he who sin is of the devil. Again it also says that it is a worst thing for a believer to divert. You diverted for no palpable reason. It is very late, only the father can sway this matter, but for awhile…Hmmm /to Theophilus/ I shall accompany you to the outer border of perihelion into the metagalaxy. (Theo wants to walk across he came) Halt! Do not take that row for it is evil. /he shows another direction/we shall walk this peaceful path for it is a path through which every peaceful creature (who died peaceful) passes. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost; make sure they know the father and do His will so that His name is glorified.
/Exit/
(They enter through another portal which leads to the present times. The portal is therefore, locked)
Bisi
/tearfully/ please sir, please sir (she tries to enter the portal, but it has been shut)
/tearfully/ please sir, please sir (she tries to enter the portal, but it has been shut)
Pleasurox
come mi dear and lets go party in the discotheque of fire! /mocks maliciously/
come mi dear and lets go party in the discotheque of fire! /mocks maliciously/
Hellionias
/walks to and fro enraged/ No!!!
/walks to and fro enraged/ No!!!
Pleasurox
sir we’ve got one, why still irate?
sir we’ve got one, why still irate?
Hellionias
yes I do know. But a mortal is gone. /harshly/ Tis gone! Tis gone!
yes I do know. But a mortal is gone. /harshly/ Tis gone! Tis gone!
Pleasurox
lay behind that and let us go prepare this one among the others
lay behind that and let us go prepare this one among the others
/Exit/
Hellionias ‘My blood-shot eyes are but now as strong as a mixed scrupus
with mi blood-sucking stick pissed as a newt against Agabus’
‘spared’. So harsh, though the unbearable do seem
yet in April’s verdict lays the beggary for a jack frost stream
for not but a second, shall a death-laughing hyena spare
a helpless bone-My foes dare fall bare like a drowsy bear;
not one afeared spear shall relinquish the drumming stone
Entombed between the heart-field of Adam’s throne
A relieving threnody will the vulture-eaten skulls sing,
Beats from the geriatric ghoul of ‘gone past time
grottos’ shall shake you-semblance. Lime
tasting aqua, from the gall tincture spring
of death, you shall drink. Bring
hither on, the transparent body of undead
blood-filled trees and the harpoon to behead………..
And before deific hours is struck, much blood to suck!
/Exeunt/
with mi blood-sucking stick pissed as a newt against Agabus’
‘spared’. So harsh, though the unbearable do seem
yet in April’s verdict lays the beggary for a jack frost stream
for not but a second, shall a death-laughing hyena spare
a helpless bone-My foes dare fall bare like a drowsy bear;
not one afeared spear shall relinquish the drumming stone
Entombed between the heart-field of Adam’s throne
A relieving threnody will the vulture-eaten skulls sing,
Beats from the geriatric ghoul of ‘gone past time
grottos’ shall shake you-semblance. Lime
tasting aqua, from the gall tincture spring
of death, you shall drink. Bring
hither on, the transparent body of undead
blood-filled trees and the harpoon to behead………..
And before deific hours is struck, much blood to suck!
/Exeunt/
END
(Pauxs Vobiscum)
(peace be with thee)
(Pauxs Vobiscum)
(peace be with thee)
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