Mafia 39 - It just gets verse!

[GeoModder]

/me starts praying...

[civman2000]

Spoiler:

I think it's either Spaced Cowboy or Rubychaser...

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by GeoModder
* GeoModder starts praying...

Looks like you need to pray harder.

[GeoModder]

Alea incta est... (or something similar )

[rah]

domini domini domini you’re all Catholics now.

[GeoModder]

Corpus Dei...

[duke o' york]

All right, I've returned from the pub, and the writing will begin soon. Forgive me if this scene is 1 over the 8.

[duke o' york]

Act III Scene I

Enter the THANES of INVERURIE and AUCHTERMUCHTY

James: Well met, cousin. That would be a long time
since we two have had the chance to discuss
the worrying matters of this court.

Paddy: Aye,
and I fear that the Lord Chamberlain hath
had his hand in these murders. None knows
the workings of this court so well as he,
and so he finds himself in a perfect
position to take advantage of his
knowledge by killing those who would stand ‘tween
him and the throne. He is but a lord, but
since he hath stood attendant on all of
the dealings of the king’s reign, and so he
has a good idea of what the king plans,
and how to change these unto the plans of
his own.

James: But he hath stood by the king through
thick and thin, and what would make you think that
he would turn upon his lord and master
after all these years?

Paddy: Well many men are capable of such
ambition to inspire them to greater
Chamberlain is one such man. He served
the king for so many years that he has
developed a taste for the power wielded
by the ruler of such a mighty realm,
and this ambition pursuiveth him so
that he hath turnèd upon his master,
and been the killer of those who frequent-
ed his master’s court.

James: No, cousin, I feel
that the Duke of Buckingham is the hand
behind these killings. Would that I could crush
him in hand-to-hand combat to prove
his guilt in these deaths, but King Rah hath been
the driving force behind these reforms that
hath reduced trial by combat to a naught.

Paddy: ‘Tis well for the accused, certainly, if
‘twere the likes of ye that the accused might
face to determine their own innocence!

James: Yet I know that the Duke of Buckingham
is guilty, and I would prove this before
the court!

Paddy: The laws of England have changèd,
and there is little that either of we
Scotsmen can do to alter the fact here.

James: No, but by proving the guilt of this Duke
then we can rid the court of this evil
that besets it, and restore the true power
of the nation.

Enter KING RAH and the LORD CHAMBERLAIN

Spike: Good day, our Scottish friends,
I trust that thou hast considered with care
the name of he who thou findest guilty
of the crimes lately in this court of ours.

Paddy: Aye Aside: thou murderous beast we considered
the matter right well, and have come to our
righteous conclusions.

rah: Excellent, then
shall we call in the rest of the court to
deliver their suspicions, in the hope
that we might arrive at the identity
of this villainous fiend who hath reduced
my court to ruins, and serve him the most
righteous punishment that he deserves.

Enter the rest of the court

rah: My friends, there is yet a murderer in
our midst, and so we must again cast our
votes to remove him therewith, and thereby
to restore peace upon the realm of England,
and allow me to continue to rule
in peace, and to act with appropriate
swiftness upon the threat posed by the Welsh
at our western border. My friends, those
good, one bad, and some ugly, but all of
those who serve England well, then we must vote
this killer from amid us, and restore
my reign to one of peace, and hopefully,
one of prosperity.

Geomodder: My lord, it pains
me to suggest this, but my feeling is
that thou thyself hath murdered thy nobles.

rah: An idea that troubles me somewhat, O
papal emissary, for I hath thought
that thou wert responsible for these deaths,
and have had mine vote preparèd for thou.

Spaced: Aye, my lord, the Duke of Buckingham hath
claimed that thou hath shot an albatross, no
doubt in an audacious attempt to show
thee as one beset by ill fate, and thereby
likely to murder thy kinsmen at court.

Spike: My lord, although we have been given free
will to exercise our own votes here, I
must agree that thy suspicions of the
papal emissary are well grounded
in evidence most profound. Since thou hast
found thyself in disagreement with Rome
over the conquest of northern France, then
it becomes clear that the emissary
was sent here to kill thee. Praise God that
his essays at murder hath been so ill-
considered that he hath killed most members
of thy court but thyself.

Paddy: Fine words, O Lord Chamberlain, but your ill
intent is clear nonetheless. It hath long
been thy desire to murder your master
and to take the reins of power in his
place. Now might the steed ye hath set thyself
upon prove Scottish, and not willing to
follow thy orders! I would that the horse
‘pon which thee hath set thyself in laying
accusation upon thy king might now
rear of its own accord and set thee on
thy back!

Rubychaser: My lord, the one member of thy
court that hath not attended your council
must come under my suspicion, and that
man is the Archbishop of York, whose
absence hath made my heart grow stronger, and
now I am certain that ‘twere his hand behind
these deaths!

Skanky: No! The ambition was solely
the king’s, and his alone. Who else might gain
aught from the deaths of so many English
nobles? He is the only one to gain
from these murders, and therefore he must be
behind them all! I know not what he hath
paid the Earl of Westmoreland to destroy
his court, but when his servant hath turnèd
upon him, and hath murdered his sons,
then was he spurred into action, and he
hath killed the other nobles who might have
a claim upon his throne!

rah: A nice idea
my Earl of Rochester, yet it befits
my ambition ill to murder my sons
and above all my heir, when I have no
son to take the throne after me.

Spike: My lord,
thank the Lord that the votes hath gone for the
papal emissary, and not for thee.

rah: ‘Tis meet, yet God’s will divide those who
hath followed his will, and those who hath not.
Captain, take the ambassador of Rome
outside, and see that he meets an end worthy
of his crimes.

Rubychaser: Aye, my lord. Thy will be done.

Exit the PAPAL EMISSARY and the CAPTAIN of the GUARD

rah: My lords, thanes, countrymen, let’s have some beers!

Paddy: Now you’re talking O king!

James: Good idea king Rah!

Exeunt all but the EARL of ROCHESTER

Skanky: My lord hath not erred in his vote, yet I
feel that the ambassador of Rome was
not the man we seek. I wish I could take
my vote back, for I know who is this fell
killer of our nobility, and I
would expose him before his peers, that he
might meet his doom with dishonour, and we
might return to running the kingdom in
the manner that befits a king of England!
Now the Captain of our Guard performs a
noble duty in the execution
of our killers, yet it would seem that the
murderers hath even the
beating of His Majesty’s finest troops.#

Enter the CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD

Rubychaser: My lord, where is the king? I have put the
papal emissary to death, but I
have further ill news to report.

Skanky: But what?

Rubychaser: I hath discovered the Archbishop of
York beaten to death at prayer in his rooms.

Skanky: I must tell the king – how was he killed?

Rubychaser: I
have recognised the signs of death from so
many others to date. The Archbishop
was killed in the same manner as the rest:
beaten to death with a mace, it would seem.
Now I am no doctor, but I have seen
enough battles to know the manner of
his death, and can have no doubt that the brute
force of a warrior hath brought the good
Archbishop to his untimely death.

Skanky: We
must perforce inform His Majesty, so
he can recall the council tomorrow!

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 
Killed Act III Scene i


19. Snoopy369

Duke of Lancaster

Killed - Act I Scene ii


20. Geomodder

Papal Emissary

Executed Act III Scene i

Geomodder was executed at the king's orders.
Jonny was killed by the mafia.

At this point, I'd like to mention that even though a character appears alone at the time of the mafia killing, it does not mean that they are innocent........

[Rubychaser]

Duke of Buckingham

[Paddy]

Duke of Buckingham

[Skanky Burns]

Rah

[Paddy]

why for the King?

[Skanky Burns]

Why not?

[Paddy]

ahh the Einenstien gambit...

well for one point, he is the King - he could have us all done away with at a word.