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MORDRED :
The Round Table isn’t the problem.
What is the Round Table
but the symbol of Britain’s peace and unity?
Before the Round Table, we were divided, weak and vulnerable to foreign invasion.
When we united, we secured our roads,
brought wealth to our kingdoms, and used diplomacy to solve
disputes that used to be settled in blood.
NPC :
So why’s everything going to shit now, huh?!
No safety, no wealth!
ALIXANS :
Just ask Corbenic. Misery spreads to its neighbors like a disease.
MORDRED :
Alas…
The Round Table is but a tool.
If I were to wield Sir Lancelot’s sword,
would that make me the finest flower of chivalry?
LANCELOT :
…
MORDRED :
Much as I hate to admit it, I doubt it.
DINADAN :
…
MORDRED :
Rather than looking at what the Round Table is now,
think of what it could become,
with a new generation of knights to carry on its ideals.
[ the crowd’s whispers grow agitated. ]
URIENS :
…
What is that supposed to mean, my dear nephew?
Do you mean to topple the Round Table?
[ guinevere fixes him with a bombastic side eye. as does morgan lol ]
MORDRED :
Come now, uncle…
Of course not.
All we have to do is restore its strength.
Join it, and put the work in.
Otherwise,
I do not know what it shall become.
[ back to the cave! ]
GIANT :
That’s the strongest I could find.
Whiskey.
Will it be enough?
PERCIVAL :
We should hope so, yes.
GIANT :
I’m warning you…
If she doesn’t pull through,
you’re not making it out of here alive.
PERCIVAL :
That wasn’t the deal.
GIANT :
I don’t give a shit.
The whole village saw me take those casks.
Sooner or later, they’ll come to chase me off,
and Neantog better be strong enough to fly when they do.
PERCIVAL :
Well I don’t give a shit about Neantog,
or whatever her name is!
I have my own responsibilities, so⎯
GIANT :
Do you know what it’s like, to lose everything?!
To feel powerless to resist fate
when it threatens everything you have left?!
I have no choice but to let you care for her!
And you could be poisoning her, for all I know!
PERCIVAL :
I know what it’s like!
I’ve been nothing but powerless against it all!
I lost my brothers,
my mentors,
and when I came home, I found out my mother had died from disease,
and that her lands were taken from her!
I’ve got nowhere left to go, nothing to call my own, nothing but this
stupid knightly title!
And look at me now!
What kind of knight am I, that I can’t even find the Grail,
or go questing!
GIANT :
…
PERCIVAL :
But I have a duty to fulfill,
and it doesn’t involve solving your ordeal, giant.
GIANT :
You say this now, but the moment I let you go,
you’ll go and find your peers to hunt me down.
PERCIVAL :
That’s rich coming from you.
All I remember of you is that you drew Arthur into a trap,
and lost your family as a result.
GIANT :
I…
…did not approve of that plan.
I tried to talk my father out of it,
in vain.
…
When your kind started hunting us, I hadn’t been born yet.
I don’t know how we used to live.
But I know our people refused to ever come to a compromise.
I also know that many giants, including my family
saw you as cattle.
…
And now?
Now that I’m the only one left…
Can I just go wherever I please, so long as I keep my head down?
Promise I’ll be on my best behavior, if you leave me alone?
Don’t make me laugh.
PERCIVAL :
…I inherited problems that didn’t start with me, too.
It’s hard.
I would’ve liked to stay in my own corner and remain oblivious to it all.
Maybe I would’ve been happy.
…
But we can’t escape our responsibilities, in the end.
I want to make a change
and give the future a chance to come along, free of that suffering.
…
You’re not the last of your kind.
There are still some giants around⎯in Ireland, maybe elsewhere.
( Heh. )
So maybe
you’ll find a place to belong there,
and start thinking about the future.
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