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(The room is dimly lit. Upstage right, Caine sits at his desk in distress. Crumpled papers of scrapped adventures litter the space around him.)
Caine: None of these options are doing it! How can I come up with an adventure that everyone can participate in?!
(Monokuma enters mysteriously.)
Monokuma: (whispering) I can help with that.
(Lights snap to a spotlight on Monokuma. A projected title card appears, reading: MONOKUMA)
(Caine jolts out of his seat)
Caine: (startled) I do not remember seeing you anywhere around here!
(Lights go back to normal.)
Monokuma: Puhuhuhuhu! You may not know me, but I have an idea that you might like~
(Long, dramatic pause.)
Caine: Alright! Fill me in.
(Both of them move downstage.)
Monokuma: How about we, the two of us, collaborate to make an adventurous killing game! (His smile grows alarmingly wide) fun, right?
Caine: Killing game?! I’m not so sure about that!
Monokuma: Oh, come on! It’ll be great enough of an adventure that all of your captives—
Caine: They’re not captives!
Monokuma: (annoyed) whatever you call them! Let’s make the prize big enough that they’ll be sure to participate.
Caine: Like what?
(The lights dim and turn purple. Monokuma moves away from Caine and closer to the center, still facing him.)
Monokuma: The prize will be that they get to leave this place.
Caine: (clutching his chest dramatically) Why? The players clearly love me! They would never accept such a prize as that.
(Monokuma’s face darkens)
Monokuma: (low) There’s no way you seriously think that.
Caine: (crosses his arms stubbornly) It’s true!
Monokuma: Alright. How about we put that to the test with this as the prize? Have all your captives (he glares at Caine) move to a trial room, and let the games commence. We can bring back some of your old players, and maybe even add some NPCs.
(Caine pauses in a daze.)
Caine: (snaps out of his trance) That sounds wonderful! But still, I’m not so so sure about the killing part…
Monokuma: It will drive them to keep going!
(Monokuma pulls Caine to the center, and throws an arm around his shoulder.)
Just picture this. An adventure that will get you either dead, or alive with a chance to live outside of this game! High risk, yet high reward! Imagine all the players actually engaged with the adventure in hopes that maybe they’ll get to be the ones who win the prize!
Caine: (only partially convinced) huh.
Monokuma: (pouting) Don’t knock it ’til ya try it, ok!
Caine: Fine. Let’s do this adventure!
Monokuma: (giggles) oh, now that’s what I’ve been waiting to hear! You won’t regret this. (Monokuma smiles eerily, giddily exiting left of the set.)
Caine: (mutters to himself) sure, I won’t.
(BLACKOUT.)