Mafia 39 - It just gets verse!

[Paddy]

Ok, I will bite, what happened on Black Saturday?
(s'pose I should have read the story right? )

[duke o' york]

Act II Scene III

Enter KING RAH, solus

rah: Oh heavens! How couldst thou tear the fruit of
my loins from me, leaving me bereft and
the future of my kingdom in tatters?
Would that I could throw down my noble crown,
and this rod of such power, and return
to the peaceful green I frequent in my
few hours of leisure! I shall cast down my
sword, and take up a simple length of wood,
the better to enjoy England’s fair ways
and the welcome hospitality of
my subjects, on whose behalf I have sat
in this gilded throne for so many years.
Bitter walls, how thou mockest me in my
pain and anguish. I was but last week the
father of three noble sons, and the future
of England was secured, but today all
is lost and I am a broken man. I
have lost in one foul stroke of an evil
murderer and a suspicious court all
that I have striven to create during
my newly ill-favoured reign. Even when the
murderer is discovered, then it will
be impossible for all to return
to normal. This is what I might baulk from
wishing upon my enemy Llewellyn,
yet today it happens in mine own court.

Enter the LORD CHAMBERLAIN

Spike: My lord, I hath received word that thou hast
taken leave of thy senses. Is this true?

rah: What kind of response were you expecting
if this foul rumour were indeed true, fool?
Surely ‘twould be instantly apparent
to you if I were howling at the moon,
or are the village idiots in my
kingdom now employing stealth, the better
for the witless to surprise the unwitting?

Spike: My lord, I no longer know not what is
true, and what fabrication in these days
of gloom and veiled murder. It is perhaps
not such a blessed thing to be among
thy friends, when one of them hath proven
himself no friend at all, but rather one
bent on thy destruction and on the ruin
of all thou hast built.

rah: Aye, my court is now
cursed, and I can but put my hope in prayer
that all will be resolved, and the dregs of
those who wishèd ill upon me and on
my reign will be washed out by the Aegean
flood of the Lord. Come, Lord Chamberlain, we
shall call the court together and prepare
to discuss the identity of the
one responsible for these chilling deaths.

Spike: Yes, my lord, I shall go and assemble
the members of the court and bring them here
to cast their votes, and to make their cases to
you.

Exit the LORD CHAMBERLAIN

rah: How can I be trusted to consider
these arguments when I can scarce trust mine
own senses in this whirlwind of missing
reason and mingled confusion in which
I find myself swirling. ‘Tis an ill wind
that filleth the sails of England’s brave bark,
and as captain I must essay to bring
some relief and respite to the noble
crewmen who serve me. Welsh pirates arrive
at our larboard side, and we must strive to
make them pay their dues lest our industry
be for naught. They may well see themselves as
the underdogs, but we must prove this so!

Enter the LORD CHAMBERLAIN, and the rest of the court

Spike: My lord, the court is assembled, and we
await your command to proceed with the
cases brought before you, and the admittedly
slim evidence that we would now present.

rah: Very well, let he who would be first to
air his suspicions now take the floor that
he might succeed in convincing me, and
you others.

Kassi: My lord, Kent would report his
belief that the Prince of Denmark is the
villainous perpetrator of these crimes!

rah: An interesting idea, that one of
the foreign visitors to my court might
be responsible for these brutal and
cowardly attacks, but Kent, why do you
refer to yourself in the third person?
Julius Caesar hath famously done
so, and he hath met a most unfortunate
end.

Skanky: Ha! We hope that the Duke of Kent does
not meet an equally terrible death,
but his idea hath merit, for the Prince
is suspected of numerous deaths in
the past, and there are many families
in Denmark who bear him much malice for
these deeds of which he is the prime suspect.

Spike: Aye, my lord, I must agree that Rochester
is correct in his assessment, and it
would be foolhardy for us to allow
a suspected murderer to wander
unchallenged in our midst, so my vote must
go to the Prince of Denmark too.

Adagio: You fools!
These murders are the work of the Duke of
Kent, and he is trying to pull the wool
over your eyes with his false accusing
of me! The family of Kent have been
well renowned for the deaths of their rivals
for centuries now, yet you fools will choose
to support his baseless accusations
rather than open your eyes to the truth.

Geomodder: Aye, king rah, this is obviously the
work of one who knows thy court better
than one from the outside thereof, and the
Duke of Kent is one such. I believe that
he is the guilty party here, and that
he hath killed our fellow courtiers in
cold blood with a deadly strike to the skull.

Spaced: Fascinating, that an alien to the
court might cast his suspicion thus, when
he too might be equally suspicious
himself. I believe that the Danish prince
is the killer of these innocents, and
also of the vile murderer the Earl
of Westmoreland, for which we might give him
but scant thanks, for he hath continued to
kill mercilessly at this court.

Rubychaser: Yes, Duke,
thou hast the right of this situation,
and I am of agreement that the Prince
of Denmark bears the evil weapon of
these murders, and that he hath used it in
cold blood against the good Earl of Warwick.

Paddy: Although my cousin seems to have slept in,
and could not make this council, I am of
the firm belief that the Prince of Denmark
is behind these murders, and that he should
suffer the appointed punishment due.

rah: The advice of my council is just, and
just so must I recommend the death of
my old friend the Prince of Denmark. Captain,
make it so, and so shalt we hopefully
bring an end to this terror that hath been
a curse and a haunting to my court in
these past days. Let my friend meet a sudden
and merciful death, for he hath stood by
me in times difficult and even more so.

Exit the CAPTAIN of the GUARD and the PRINCE of DENMARK

Enter the THANE OF INVERURIE

James: King rah, I apologise for my absence
at this morning’s conference, but I was
unavoidably detained.

Paddy: Aside Aye, by the
barrels of wine that thou hath drunk last night.

rah: This is of no matter, my good ally,
Thy vote would have made no difference in
the final telling, for my old friend the
Prince of Denmark is now consigned to a
gruesome death at the hands of my Captain.

James: Very well o king. I can only tell
ye how sorry I am to have missed this
council, and the decision that the Prince
of Denmark is suspected of these crimes.

Exit all but the EARL of ROCHESTER

Skanky: I would have expected that the Captain
of the guard would have returned by now, but
maybe the neck of the Prince of Denmark
is tougher than most. I would well reveal
the criminal in our midst yet it proves
impossible, or at least so it seems.

Enter the CAPTAIN of the GUARD

Rubychaser: My lord, the Prince of Denmark is now, by
mine own hand, despatched from life, yet he hath
not confessed to any crimes as he was
on the block of finality. He hath
not admitted his culpability,
and ultimately I feel his death was
in vain, as hath been so many since King
rah introduced this idea of voting
for whom we suspect of these murders.

Enter KING RAH

Skanky: Is
that all thou hast to report good captain?

Rubychaser: No,
returning from the executioner’s
block, I came across the body of the
Duke of Kent. He was the second suspect
of these murders, and hath met his end at
the hand of the true killer, whose name we
know not yet.

rah: Captain, pray tell, was he killed
in the manner of the others, by blows
to the skull?

Rubychaser: Aye, my lord, and again I
hath heard the horse without, although I know
not what this might portend.

rah: ‘Tis a man of
proven skill with the weapons of war, yet
we all have qualifications thereby,
so that helps us not in discovering
the identity of the murderer.
Still, we shall return tomorrow morning
to debate the matter, and hopefully
my Scottish allies will both be present.

James: Assuredly, king rah.

Exeunt

[duke o' york]

Name

Title

Status



1. rah

King of England

 Alive



2. duke o’ york

Duke of York
Killed Act I Scene i


3. Kassiopeia

Duke of Kent
Killed Act II Scene iii


4. James the Scot

Thane of Inverurie
 Alive


5. Skanky Burns

Earl of Rochester

 Alive


6. Adagio

Prince of Denmark

Executed Act II Scene iii


7. Sparrowhawk

Prince of Wales

Executed Act II Scene ii


8. Rubychaser
Captain of the Guard

Alive


9. Spaced Cowboy
Duke of Buckingham

 Alive


10. Paddy the Scot

Thane of Auchtermuchty

Alive


11. Hercules

Duke of Somerset

Killed Act I Scene iii


12. Dr Spike

Lord Chamberlain 
Alive


13. civman2000

Earl of Warwick

Killed Act II Scene ii


14. Jon Miller

Archbishop of Canterbury

Executed Act I Scene ii


15. EPW

Duke of Northumberland 
Executed Act II Scene i


16. joncha

Court jester
Executed Act I Scene iii


17. Lord Nuclear

Earl of Westmoreland 
Killed Act II Scene i


18. Jonny 

Archbishop of York 
Alive 


19. Snoopy369

Duke of Lancaster

Killed - Act I Scene ii


20. Geomodder

Papal Emissary

Alive

Adagio was executed at the king's orders.
Kassiopeia was killed by the mafia.
Vote now!

[Kassiopeia]

Duke's mum

[duke o' york]

Well I did warn you.

[Adagio]

I was killed

Mafia, revenge my death, kill those who voted for me

[Nikolai]

Just to avoid my "fate" in the last signup, I'm in when this game's over.

[GeoModder]

It shows the killer hath
a preference for Englands'
noble kith, for dukes and earls.

Who, I wonder, hath the most
benefit of an emptied court?

It is the King I say,
Readying his castle for new
nobles sitting at his throne!

[rah]

IF the king kills all
he's sure to fall
So it makes no sense.
When it doesn't make sense
Blame religion
Papal Emissary


Actually I'm surprised the king has lasted this long.
I expected to be voted killed in the first few rounds

[duke o' york]

Let's see what the mafia thinks.
Did you like all the useless golf jokes in the opening speech?
Assumingly that anyone has read it.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by GeoModder
It shows the killer hath
a preference for Englands'
noble kith, for dukes and earls.

Who, I wonder, hath the most
benefit of an emptied court?

It is the King I say,
Readying his castle for new
nobles sitting at his throne!

You raise some mighty concerns. Yet if the King, why does he not get his guards swing their axes at a faster rate?

Could be we need to look closely at the other leaders of his court. like the Lord Chamberlain!

[Spaced Cowboy]

Geomodder on a hunch.

[GeoModder]

Hath my time come?
Shall I meet my Maker soon?

[duke o' york]

Mayhap, good Emissary. But I feel
that if you were to wait for those who have
not yet had their chance to cast a vote,
then you might not be so pessimistic.

[Hercules]

DoY:

It didth not goeth unnoticed.

"take up a simple length of wood,
the better to enjoy England’s fair ways"