Ep 203 Script (Patreon)

lars, Tarokk, cepni and co entering cave with plants, tech, screens and medical equipment.

L: my life’s work, you could call it.

P: (looking at paused screen of roost hallway) now i know i was right to feel like someone was always watching me in that school. what is all this? you were just spying on everyone all the time?

L: I was in charge of monitoring conditions and gathering intel at The Roost. Unfortunately, since my rather unglamorous exit and the discovery of my cameras there has been a thorough cleansing of my eyes from the building. always ruining my fun.

C: i knew there was an operations manager planted, but i didnt even think they’d use a student for something so delicate. (glares at T)

T: Hey, Lars proved himself more than capable for the mission. just a shame it had to come to an end so quick, now we’re left a bit blind over there.

L: a few micro cameras remain, but nowhere useful. (looks at plant cams)

M: how are you here?

L: you didnt hear, Major? im on the run. there was something about my side experiments adversely affecting my test subjects that your Government didnt seem to like. i assume they disliked the surveillance system id set up even more, when they found it.

M: My Government?

C: surely you dont believe that drivel about the rest of the world being destroyed, Major? this Island isnt even that far from the nearest continent - how would it alone have been unaffected by any kind of mass-extinction, or destruction event?

M: i-

Lulu: …what …

T: (turns to lulu) and who’s this? a House Finch? i take it you werent at the Academy?

C: Lulu worked for the Brakindales before being brought to the Wastelands by Del Brakindale.

L: (smiles) del, you say? he was my finest work…the effects were slow-acting, a languid descent into insanity…a perfect test specimen -

Lulu: you - d-del was one of your test subjects?!

L: (grabs notepad) did you notice a change in his personality when he visited home?

Lulu: he - was missing. for ages. he seemed stressed when he was home, but that’s usual around his father. he came back after months and he seemed sad, but brighter somehow.

M: he told us you fed him when he was living in a cave, Amplo. and how his insanity led him to trying to stab Eldwode. multiple times.

L: (writing) mixture 104 led to increased delusions, and heightened impulses with a skew towards violence. interesting, interesting.

Lu: you made him almost KILL someone -

L: I didnt make him do anything, merely quieted the part of him that told him he shouldn't do those things. it seems it wore off eventually?

M: he was…relatively sane when we found him.

L: on the search mission the Director finally sent you on, despite you begging her to do something for months.

M: i had a duty to the students, even the privileged ones.

L: so noble, so noble.

T: will that nobility extend to your conscience and enable you to join a just cause?

M: join this - this vigilante group? who encourages the poisoning of innocent bystanders, imprisons staff, and marches them for days across wasteland at gun-point?

T: vigilante group? that’s cute. We’re The Resistance. and you’re gonna be shocked by what we’ve got to tell you, i promise.

tiraa, keelee and cici in kitchen. cici pulls cookies out oven.

Cici: and here we are - ah ah, wait for them to cool. (KL reaching for them looking disappointed)

T: cici you know an integral part of childhood is trying to eat scorching cookies and not learning from your mistake.

C: you certainly never learned, Miss.

T: (takes cookie, burning tongue and dropping on plate) and i never will

KL scrunches up nose. looks at cookies

KL: should we…give cyras one?

Tiraa surprised, hides it by raising eyebrow

T: just one?

KL: yes

Ci: you might as well, could be the last one he has for a while - (stops herself)

T: what do you mean

Ci: ah, Miss, i wasnt going to tell you until he left but…

cut to cyras looking out bedroom window. tiraa appears in doorway.

T: you were planning on leaving us? without saying anything?

C: that Chicken can’t keep her beak shut, it seems.

T: dont talk about her like that. answer my question.

C:. the news said the Crows involved in the wedding fiasco were apprehended. Crows have been transported near here, presumably to a prison. i dont believe in coincidences.

T: Your Murder abandoned you, you said so yourself. i know you feel responsible for them, but this is -

C: i am responsible for them. forever. even if i die trying to save them -

T: (quiet) you made promises to us, too.

C: (holds neck tattoo) im always too liberal with them, it seems.

T: let me help you. we can leave Keelee here for safety. I can help you rescue your Crows, then we can all leave this Island.

C: you’ve decided on it, then? leaving?

T: if i stay here I’ll be arrested, or worse - Bonded off to someone elseto try save an Eagle bloodline. you told me there’s an entire world out there that ive never seen. it’s sort of a no-brainer.

C: why try help us, though, when you could just leave the Island by yourself?

T: …i made promises, too.

C: your half of our deal was to spy on the Director from inside her own family and report back to me for the rest of your life. . i’d say that ship has probably sailed at this point, wouldnt you?

T: you upheld your part in it by rescuing Keelee. Let me do something for you. i dont want to owe you.

C: we’re even.

T: take me with you. i can help.

C: and how do you think you’ll do that?

T: you say theyre in a prison? I’ll walk right through the front door.

Tiraa+Cyras entering their power couple era lmao