SCENE TWO
(NARRATOR, MERIDIAN, MARIA, FINGALL, PAUL, RANDY)

Time to actually go into the dungeon.

460 NARRATOR
Once inside there is a simple plain fifteen

by fifteen foot room with a five foot

starcase going down. You descend some

fifteen feet before the stairs stop. There

the five foot wide hallway continues. A set

of atrrow slits appears on the wall. Fifteen

feet down are a doors, one on the right side

and one on the left side. Paul, for his part

proceeds to light a lantern.

461 MERIDIAN
What do you think you are doing?

462 MARIA
My eyes were just getting used to the dark.

463 FINGALL
He's a human, he doesn't have infravision.

464 PAUL
Infra what?

465 FINGALL
Infravision. It allows dwarves and elves to

see the heat that comes off of living bodies

so that in the dark dungeon we can spot

opponents.

466 MERIDIAN
Unfortunately it takes a minute of darkness

in order for it to kick in; any light,

especially a bright light, will ruin it.

467 PAUL
You never complained about it before Fingal.

468 FINGALL
Last time we had a party of three humans and

one dwarf. I wasn't in any position to

complain.

469 PAUL
Pherhaps if we had a prper marching order, it

would help us overcome the problem of my

needing a lantern.

470 RANDY
I should go first.

471 PAUL
Why you?

472 RANDY
Well, in the first place, I have infravision.

In the second place, I'm not wearing any

clanking armor that can announce my presence

well in advance. Besides they may be so

attracted to your noise they may not even

notice me.

473 PAUL
And?

474 RANDY
We will sourround them. Generally that's

hard to do in a 5' wide hallway, don't you

agree. After that will be Fingall and Maria.

Then way in the back, and I mean way in the

back, we can have you and Meridian.

475 MERIDIAN
Me? In the back?

476 RANDY
Someone has to be in the back. You need

protection in case we are attacked.

477 MERIDIAN
I feel so useless.

478 PAUL
Don't worry, I have a great job for you.

Here is a board and some chaulk. You can map

the dungeon for us. Randy, you are the point

man, I don't want you to do anything rash.

I'm way in the back and Fingall isn't the

fastest runner. So don't open any door you

see before we get there.

479 MARIA
Do you think the arrow slits are a trap?

480 PAUL
They were probably manned, a long time ago.

481 MARIA
How can you tell?

482 FINGALL
Well this does look human and ... it's dark

down there. Humans can't see. They could

hear the portcullis open and us talking, but

it's still dark, so that means they are not

there.

483 NARRATOR
Randy heads out, stops at the first doors and

puts an ear at each door and points his thumb

upwards.

484 FINGALL
What's that supposed to mean?

485 MARIA
It's a half elf thing. He means it's OK

486 FINGALL
Oh what?

487 MARIA
Clear

488 FINGALL
The door is transprent?

489 MARIA
(LOUDER) He doesn't hear anything.

490 FINGALL
You don't have to shout. The creatures he

couldn't hear because you are talking can

hear you.

491 NARRATOR
Marria opens one of the doors.

492 SOUND FX: .... DOOR OPENING

493 PAUL
What's inside.

494 MARIA
Looks like a cluttered closet.

495 PAUL
What's in it?

496 MARIA
Can't tell, everything is the same dark

temperature.

497 NARRATOR
Maria opens the other door.

498 SOUND FX: .... DOOR OPENING

499 MARIA
Same in the other closet.

500 FINGALL
Do you hear something?

501 NARRATOR
Paul moves towards the doors; as he does so

Maria and Fingall loose their infravision and

start to see into the closets from the light

bouncing off of the walls.

502 MARIA
I can't ... (LOUDER) SHIT

503 MERIDIAN
This is no time to complain about

constapation.

504 NARRATOR
A look of fear crosses Maria's face and the

pushes her holy symbol in front of her.

505 MARIA
No, no, go away, please, please go away.

506 FINGALL
Aye lass, there be skeletons in these

closets.

507 NARRATOR
The skeltons in front of Maria turn around

the cower in the back of the closet, allowing

her to close the door. Fingall, for his

part, axe in hand rushes into the other

closet.

508 PAUL
Fingall, don't!

509 SOUND FX: .... AXE HITTING BONES

510 FINGALL
Don't what?

511 PAUL
Don't have all the fun.

512 FINGALL
Too late, they be chopped to bits.

513 SOUND FX: .... BONES RATTLING AGAINST WOOD

514 MERIDIAN
What about the other closet.

515 PAUL
I don't think they understand door handles.

We should be safe.

516 RANDY
What happened?

517 PAUL
Skeletons in the closet.

518 RANDY
Man I hate that. People stare, you have to

explain. They think they don't have

skeletons in their own closets. But I think

exporing the dungeon is more important at the

moment than any in depth character

revelation.

519 PAUL
No I meant, literally, there were undead

skeletons in these closets. If you want you

could poke at them with your sword.

520 RANDY
Very funny.

521 PAUL
So much for the joy of infravision. You

never even saw them.

522 FINGALL
But they were cold.

523 PAUL
That's my point.