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Devising Mock Spring 2021 Flashcards

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SYBIL: Making your way along the path?

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(turning to look) What’s it to you?

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SYBIL: Nothing more than it will be to you. Assign it your own value.

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I’m already going to a lost place of legend; I don’t need any more mystic ambiguity.

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SYBIL: So you admit you’re following the path.

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Fine, yes. I don’t know why you’re so concerned with why I’m here.

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SYBIL: I provide readings for those taking the path. I have a feeling you might need one.

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I’m not interested. I don’t need some (making air quotes) “psychic” telling me what I’m thinking or what will happen.

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SYBIL: Good to know you think I can do that.

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I don’t! I don’t know where you got that idea from.

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SYBIL: You’re in denial. It’s painfully obvious.

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(standing up, backing away) I don’t - know what you’re talking about.

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SYBIL: “How much more damage anger and grief do than the events that cause them.”

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Marcus Aurelius? Stoicism was never a preferred philosophy of mine. Wouldn’t have expected it from someone like you.

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SYBIL: Assumptions aren’t going to get you anywhere.

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Educated guesses will get me further than your “prophecies” or introspection will.

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SYBIL: Denying your own mind will only put you on the path to ruin.

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This path already looks to lead to my ruin.

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SYBIL: It leads to what it will.

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I already told you I don’t need this mystic drivel. I’m leaving. (turn to leave)

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SYBIL: At least consider a free reading.

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(stops and turns back) I might as well take it.

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SYBIL: There is a hard journey ahead. Be assured that it is worth it.

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Speaking of worth? I’ve heard about you before. Consider lowering your prices.

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SYBIL: Consider taking this card.

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(steps forward, takes the card, and retreats once more, looking at it) Consider more specific readings, Sybil.

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SYBIL: The future is murky as it is, and you want specific readings based on a glance? You ask too much.

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Yes, well, I have a tendency to do that. Thank you for the reading, and the card.

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SYBIL: You’re taking it?

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Never said I would use it. I might need a firelighter later on.

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SYBIL: Denial again?

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You have no right to-

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SYBIL: I think you’ll find I do.

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I’m leaving.

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SYBIL: Good luck.

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I don’t believe in luck.

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SCENE 2: ANGER

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…fortune tellers, thinking they know everything… (looks up and sees CESSAIR, stops)

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CESSAIR: You walking the path?

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(cautiously) Why do you ask?

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CESSAIR: If you are, I thought you’d have heard. There’s a bit of a, let’s say, tax, for going this way.

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I haven’t heard of any tax - oh.

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CESSAIR: Got it yet?

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Really? Robbing people here?

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CESSAIR: A man’s gotta get funds somehow.

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You still shouldn’t be robbing people who are already hurting!

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CESSAIR: What do you expect me to do?

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Well, I’d like you to put down that sword, but I have a feeling you’re going to swing it at me.

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CESSAIR: Excellent deduction, Sherlock.

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What can I say? I’m just naturally intelligent.

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CESSAIR: Intelligence doesn’t do anything in a situation like this.

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Knowing when to hit is useful, I think you’ll find.

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CESSAIR: Still acting like you’re better than me? We’re both on the path. I know you aren’t perfect.

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It is rather easy to be superior to you, though.

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CESSAIR: Low blow.

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I didn’t really think so-

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CESSAIR sweeps low… etc.

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And you say I-

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CESSAIR: I did warn you.

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Oh, you think you’re so funny.

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CESSAIR: Humour’s better than whatever angst you’ve got going on.

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(silence)

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CESSAIR: Come on, what’s got you going this way?

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(silence, but slightly angrier.)

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CESSAIR: Why are you looking so serious? It’s not like someone’s-

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(tightly) Yes. It is.

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CESSAIR: So you’re just coming up here to deal with grief? Cliché, much?

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Like you’ve got room to talk-

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CESSAIR: Has a mysterious woman informed you you’re going to struggle? Are you, perchance, a roguish and mysterious explorer with a bloodied past?

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That’s absurd-

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CESSAIR: Or are you just moping solo?

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That’s none of your business.

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CESSAIR: Did I hit a nerve?

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I should think that would be obvious.

38
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CESSAIR: And I should think someone like you would be tougher.

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What’s that supposed to mean?

39
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CESSAIR: Just thought I’d get more of a fight. I mean, come on, look at you.

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(getting angrier) What do you mean, exactly?

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CESSAIR: Ooh, getting repetitive. It’s obvious you’re sad about something, I just thought I’d get a better reaction from you.

A

I don’t think either of us want that.

41
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CESSAIR: Maybe you don’t. But I could do with some entertainment. It’s been boring since that historian tried to disprove this place.

A

I can imagine that no one believing in this place would slow down your “business”.

42
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CESSAIR: At least I’ve got the desperate and some sword practice.

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You are… I don’t have words.

43
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And I suppose you aren’t going to give me your money?

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Beat me and we’ll see.

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CESSAIR: Oh, but wouldn’t your precious friend be disappointed in you?

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How did you know about him?

45
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CESSAIR: I didn’t. Now I do.

A

Oh, you-

46
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CESSAIR: So, how did he die?

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You don’t-

47
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CESSAIR: Did it hurt? Was it preventable?

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Please-

48
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CESSAIR: Could you have saved him?

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(insert victory here) Do not talk about him like that.

49
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CESSAIR: Touchy.

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Get out of my way.

50
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CESSAIR: Alright, alright. We were getting along so well.

A

We really weren’t.

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SCENE THREE- CALLAN: On a hike?

A

Why does everyone keep -? Sorry. Yes. I’m heading up the path to the Lost City.

52
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CALLAN: Ah. You’re one of those types.

A

I don’t know which type you’re referring to, but you are most likely correct.

53
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CALLAN: Lost someone? Looking for the City as an affixed goal when you feel hopelessly lost yourself?

A

Poetic. Did you practice that?

54
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CALLAN: Lots of folks come through this tavern. You learn your lines pretty quickly.

A

You’ve been here for a while, then?

55
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CALLAN: Somewhere between a half-century and six months. You can guess.

A

I don’t think I should.
[Beat.]
Any reason you’ve stayed around here?

56
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CALLAN: Got injured on an attempt to reach the city, built that house down the way, and found something to live for round here.

A

Ah.

57
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CALLAN: Yeah. You aren’t the only one who’s been lost, you know.

A

I know that, it’s just that… sometimes it doesn’t feel like it.

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CALLAN: I went up the path because I thought I could get her back. Thought maybe she’d be at the City, or I’d find her on the way there.

A

I know that feeling.

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CALLAN: Sometimes I still feel like I’d do anything to get her back.

A

Does it ever stop hurting?

60
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CALLAN: No. But you learn to live with the hurt, and you find yourself again, and it gets less as you live more.

A

I miss him.

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CALLAN: I’m sure you do. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry.

A

Thank you. I’m.. sorry you lost someone too.

62
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CALLAN: Best of luck on your pilgrimage.

A

Best of luck with your… life, I suppose. (walks back to the bar)

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SCENE FOUR: DEPRESSION

A

(walks up behind EMA) Are you going to the Lost City?

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EMA: Yes, I am. I don’t know what else I’d be doing up here if I wasn’t!

A

You could be, I don’t know, camping?
[Beat.]
I’ll admit it sounded more sensible in my head.

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EMA: …Right. Are you going up to the Lost City too?

A

(sarcastic) No, I’m just waiting on the path to provide a convenient conversation.

66
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EMA: I’ll take that as a yes.

A

How long has it taken you to get here?

67
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EMA: I’ve been on the road for some months, but I’ve only been on the path for a few weeks.

A

That sounds like slow going.

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EMA: I’m afraid not all of us are fighting fit or in fighting condition at all. I’m ahead of most of my people.

A

Your people?

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EMA: The people from my town. Disasters expel most folk fairly quickly, especially one like that.

A

(realisation) You’re from the town that got, what, flooded?

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EMA: Something like that, yes. The Lost City is something of a refuge for me.

A

You’re hoping to stay there?

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EMA: Why else would most people taking the path not return?

A

I try not to think about that.

72
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EMA: So your goal here…

A

I would rather not think about that, either.

73
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EMA: Ah.

A

(sits down)

74
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EMA: Should I…?

A

No, do what makes you comfortable. I’m just tired.

75
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EMA: How long have you been travelling?

A

Long enough. I’ve been resting a lot recently. Spent more time on the path than getting to the start of it.

76
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EMA: Was the journey there long for you, too?

A

Not particularly. I’m from a village a bit to the south, a fairly small one, not many prospects. You won’t have heard of it.

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EMA: So this is just an exploration for you?

A

No. Not at all.
[Beat.]
I wish it could have been.

78
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EMA: I… My children didn’t make it out of the town in time. The water came too fast, and I was too far away to help them.

A

How do you keep going?

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EMA: Most days I don’t know how to. It’s exhausting, to keep moving without them.

A

Everything feels grey now.

80
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EMA: They used to talk about myths and legends all the time, so when I heard about this place, it…

A

It felt like a chance to continue their memory?

81
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EMA: It was an easy goal to latch onto, at the time. Now it feels like the only way for me to keep on.

A

I don’t know what I’ll do when I reach the end of the path.

82
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EMA: I don’t think I do either.

A

Keep going?

83
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EMA: I think I will.

A

Me too. Good luck…?

84
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EMA: Ema.

A

Right. Good luck, Ema.

85
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EMA: Good luck to you too.

A

(END OF SCENE 4)

86
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SCENE 5: ACCEPTANCE

A

End of the path. So this must be..

87
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EXPLORER: The Lost City. It’s real. I almost can’t believe it.

A

(attempting humour) Guess I’ll have to.

88
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EXPLORER: Do I really want to..

A

..do this? Lock myself away from everything so I never have to process the idea of a world without him?

89
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EXPLORER: I’ve been running..

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..away from his death for so long that it still doesn’t feel real. I can’t- I shouldn’t do that. It’s not going to help either of us.

90
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EXPLORER: I hate that..

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..he won’t be able to see me get better, but he would have wanted it, and that’s enough.
Time to keep exploring.
[END]

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