The Narrator: boards introducing group, play ("Masque of the Red Death") and scene ("an exclusive party during the disaster").
Partygoers in masks covort, drink, dance, wave flags, etc.
Narrator: A knock at the door.
All the partygoers stop, and make they like are harking the sound.
The Bill of Rights: I will protect us.
The partygoers decide everything's OK and return to partying.
Narrator: A knock at the door.
All the partygoers stop, and make they like are harking the sound.
The Bill of Rights: I will protect us.
The partygoers decide everything's OK and return to partying.
Narrator: A knock at the door.
All the partygoers stop, and make they like are harking the sound.
The Bill of Rights: I will protect us.
The Red Death enters.
After a dramatic pause, the Red Death points to the Bill of Rights, who takes off his mask and dies. Then, one at a time, The Red Death points to each of the partygoers, who take off their masks and die until everyone except the Red Death is dead.
The Red Death: holds up sign saying FACE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE and points at the spectators, if any.
[Optional] Narrator: holds up sign saying THE END.
[Adapted for the Surveillance Camera Players by Monsieur le Art Toad.]
Times Square "webcam," Manhattan, 17 November 2001. The SCP-New York presents Edgar Alan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. Setting: an exclusive party during the disaster. There's an ominous knock at the door. The US Constitution says, I will protect us.
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