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 |  Subject: The Leader "The Order: Act I, Scene II" Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:02 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Leader "The Order: Act I, Scene II" Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:52 pm | |
| The arena was brimming with excited XWA fans who eagerly awaited the commencement of the next segment. Meanwhile, as the stage crew went to work, the camera and focus switched to Ted Cedar and Adam Dennis as a placeholder.Ted Cedar:
“What a wonderful card we have in store for you, ladies and gentlemen! It is getting rowdy out here and the audience is loving it!”Adam Dennis:
”I think I’d love it more if I wasn’t sitting next to you. Sure, the seats are great, but the company that I’m with!”Cedar glanced at Adam Dennis with a dumbfounded expression plastered across his visage, then quickly resumed his duties.Ted Cedar:
”Tonight is filled with pageantry, violence, intrigue and, perhaps most prominently of all, mystery. There are several wrestlers tonight whose identities are being withheld at the behest of management or perhaps just the wrestlers themselves. However, nothing is as secretive and downright creepy as the chilling promo that preceded the final match on the last edition of Vendetta.”Adam Dennis:
”I, I don’t even have a witty reply for this one, Ted.”Dennis seemed quite distraught over this realization.Ted Cedar:
”Let us take you back to this occurrence from Vendetta.”A reply of last week’s events plays out on the titantron. - Quote :
- All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
This historic quote from Shakespeare’s As You Like It appeared on the blank titantron, glaring ominously outward at the darkened arena. The members of the XWA Universe in attendance were in a mild state of confusion over the seemingly arbitrary text that had overtaken the screen before them and had halted the entire show, especially after the wild contest they’d witnessed just minutes prior. To add to their befuddlement, after the text had glowed ominously in the foreground for quite some time, the entire screen and PA system suddenly burst into a haze of static, the magnitude being great enough to cause the majority of the audience to cover their ears.
The entire arena began jeering overwhelmingly at the apparent technical difficulties the show was experiencing while Ted Cedar began frantically apologizing to the worldwide audience watching on television screens at home about the technical difficulties. Alas, the situation grew more hectic as the remaining lights in the arena and the screen powered off completely, engulfing everything in utter darkness. The crowd’s response transformed from boisterously upset to apprehensively quiet as genuine fear began to creep into their psyches; second after precious second moved forward, draining the vitality of the crowd until a slew of eerie, incomprehensible whispers began to pan in through the PA system. Their audibility increased exponentially and in inverse proportion to their comprehensibility, but the whispers came to a complete surcease as soon as a clear voice found its way into the speakers.
”Is it appropriate to look passed oppression as it occurs? Is it okay to be apathetic toward the injustices we encounter daily? Is it fine to act indifferently toward others’ suffering?”
The strange words took captive the attention of a worldwide audience and instilled a sense of bafflement among viewers and audience members. The voice continued in a very calming and almost loving manner, though it was quite apparent that something was off about it in tone.
”To understand the decay in modern times, you must look at those who have been oppressed and underappreciated. The immense talent this world has to offer is overshadowed by those who’ve had the political affiliations to climb to the very top of the mountain uninterrupted. As you may be able to predict, I represent those who have had no such opportunities and who have given up every part of themselves for their meager shares. Now, I understand speeches such as these have been replicated endlessly throughout the years, but I have no intentions of being a rebel or a figurehead for the counterculture. Rather, I shall paint a very vivid picture that represents the egregious errors you’ve all made in overlooking these outstandingly talented individuals.”’
The speakers ceased to emit any trace of the voice as everyone looked around aimlessly, attempting to make any sense of what was just heard. Before they could regain their bearings on reality, however, the voice spoke up for a final time.
”All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players; I have just become the scriptwriter and director. Welcome to The Order.”
The lights in the arena turned on immediately following his words and a collective sense of peril shrouded the arena. Had the next segment been delayed too much longer, panic may have run free in the stands.
Scene. The eerie replay came to a conclusion and it took a very visible toll on the audience members, who grew quiet with apprehension.Ted Cedar:
”It gives me goosebumps to relive that experience. And just when you think things couldn’t get much weirder, a VHS was discovered in Smoke’s office this afternoon. It was labeled ‘The Order: Act I, Scene II,’ addressed to ‘XWA’ from someone called ‘Leader.’ We believe this to be the same figure who appeared last week. We have this tape on file and we’re about to play it for you all.”The titantron flared up again with the new video. - Quote :
- The camera was focusing on an image of a hooded figure in a very dimly-lit room, so much so that his visage wasn’t visible within the darkness of his veil. Just as the camera seemed to be in focus, it dropped out and for the duration of the video, it repeated this. Utter silence pierced the ears of those watching until the same voice from Vendetta spoke out in an almost poetic manner, presumably from under the cloak.
Leader:
”A man revered by all beneath the scope of stardom worked and worked until he bled and sweat and cried with noose in hand from rope, but he endured for dreams within his head became an occupational demand; his seemingly unrealistic goals were given life and stricken down by hands so cruel, so swift, so high without a soul. This broken shell affixed the blame on all with power and connections in their grasp; he voyaged out in search of those who crawl as he did once; their goal became to clasp at glory oft denied. And those impure who stand before The Order won’t endure.”
As the chilling words resonated, the camera zoomed out to reveal six other individuals in cloaks before video cut off completely.
Scene. Ted Cedar:
”Something tells me their presence is going to be felt tonight, and it’s a damn weird feeling, like a chilling in my bones.With that, the stage was set for the next bout, perhaps to take whatever was witnessed out of everyone’s minds. |
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