KING: AND CAN YOU BY NO DRIFT OF CONFERENCE GET FROM HIM WHY HE PUTS ON THIS CONFUSION, GRATING SO HARSHLY ALL HIS DAYS OF QUIET WITH TURBULENT AND DANGEROUS LUNACY?
ROSENCRANTZ: HE DOES CONFESS HE FEELS HIMSELF DISTRACTED, BUT FROM WHAT CAUSE HE WILL BY NO MEANS SPEAK.
GUILDENSTERN: NOR DO WE FIND HIM FORWARD TO BE SOUNDED, BUT WITH A CRAFTY MADNESS KEEPS ALOOF WHEN WE WOULD BRING HIM ON TO SOME CONFESSION OF HIS TRUE STATE.
GERTRUDE: DID HE RECEIVE YOU WELL?
GUILDENSTERN: MOST LIKE A GENTLEMAN.
ROSENCRANTZ: BUT WITH MUCH FORCING...
Bratty: Hey, that was my line!
Catty: No way! That was mine!
Batty: Look bitch, I don't know who you think you are...
Catty: What did you call me skank?!? Get thee to a nunnery!
Bratty: Slut!
Catty: Whore!
Rudy: Enough! Both of you, go home! We're done for the day, I want you both to think long and hard about how your behavior is affecting those around you.
Bratty and Catty scoff in unison, as the two simultaneously walk past the stunned crowd. The cast and crew look at one another, wondering how they should proceed.
Noelle: Oh man, people are really getting upset...
Susie: It's how much we're seeing each other, like hell, I like most of these guys, but when you see them every day...
Toriel: I'm afraid we haven't a choice, children. We put off trying for so long, and now, with little time left, we're paying for our mistakes.
Susie: Yeah...
Not seeing much more to do, Susie, Noelle, and the rest of the cast leave, abandoning the director and crew. Kris watches as their friends leave the auditorium, sluggish and with hung heads.
Catti: Must hurt...
Kris looked to Catti, would haven't raised her head from her phone but was talking to them nonetheless.
Catti: They left you again.
Kris shakes their head.
Jockington: They're not abandoning Catti, we just have to stay behind and clean up. That's our job as a crew, and we kill it!
Catti: ...whatever.
With no further commotion, Kris and the fellow members of the stage crew all work towards packing up the set for tomorrow, while Rudy gets some bad news.
Politics Bear: The mayor has decided Jack will be putting on a production for the town.
Rudy: What? What about all the work we've been doing?
Politics Bear: She says the two of you will be performing back to back, Jack first.
Rudy: Goddamn it! First he's going to set them up, give them high expectations, and then we perform... you know, it's just because I showed him up in theater school, he hates my guts. But c'mon, can't a deer get a break?
Politics Bear: You know how her orders are, Rudy.
Rudy: Yeah, more than most. Thanks Bear.
Politics Bear takes his leave, and with him the eyes of the now finished crew. Rudy completed for a moment, before throwing their cup of coffee across the room.
Rudy: Damn it!
Shrugging their frozen co-crew, Kris approached the directors chair and placed an arm on Rudy's shoulder.
Rudy: Kid... you're going to make me blush.
Kris looks Rudy in the eye, something which many persons will describe as an uncomfortable experience.
Rudy: I know, I know, I'm not going to quit Kris! We've all come too far for that kid.
Rudy turns from Kris towards the larger crew.
Rudy: And maybe I don't say it enough, but you guys are the lifeblood of this production! If it wasn't for you guys, well, quite frankly I don't think we'd be going anywhere.
Catti momentarily looks up from her phone, either with a look of indifference or disgust.
Rudy: I know we've been going slowly. That's not you guys, that's the cast. They've... Well, they've been trying their hardest. But, needless to say there have been kinks slowing down the process. Not you guys though, you guys are solid as rocks! So give yourselves a round of applause!
At first there was no response to Rudy's rousing speech. That was until Jockington attempted to clap, of course being unable to. So in his stead, Kris did, then Temmie, then Alphys, and soon the entire remaining gymnasium of backstage specialists were applauding themselves, leaving Jockington somewhat miffed.
Jocking: I mean, I guess this is nice too.
Him, Noelle, and Susie, who had been eavesdropping in on the affair from outside.
Rudy: I mean every word, I truly do!
