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PATU: Light your torches! Join the porches! There are huddled babies ready for dungeon scorches! BARBARIANS: Baby flesh! Baby flesh! PATU: Roll them up in mashes! Roast their heads and broil their arms! BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho! PATU: Ah, Jeho's coming! What a fine meaty fest is ready! |
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JEHO: Baboons! Why isn't the city on fire? BARBARIANS: But Jeho, we--- JEHO: Baboons! You want to keep the choicest chunks of flesh for yourselves! How dare you! I'll take this sword and strike you all down! |
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BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho! Patu told us so! PATU: Not true! I wanted the best for you! BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Patu told us to eat the people's flesh first! PATU: Not true! I only--- JEHO: Patu. Yes, I should have known. I've known for a long time. You wanted to be in the kingly tent. You want to beat me at royal bear wrestling, and take my head, Patu... |
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JEHO: Try it, crush my head and take the crown. BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho! JEHO: Oh, Patu, you've no strength at all. I kill you with my finger. BARBARIANS: Oof! Uff! Oogh! JEHO: Oh Patu, you should steal, not fight. Here, take some bath tiles, soothing to your piles. Here, Patu, you bleed. Take this fine linen shirt and bind up your hurt. |
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JEHO: Patu, on the ground now you are. Ahh, a fine white chalice, just grabbed out of the emperor's house. Here, Patu, have your crown. I call you now, Chieftain of Chalices, as I slap this crown on your head. ...Oh, perfect fit. Now, go, traitor. If I see you again, I kill you. BARBARIANS: Jeho! Jeho! Jeho! |
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JEHO: The rest of you, do what I say. BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho! JEHO: Let's fill our eyes before our bellies. Burn the city, put chains on the court, ash and rubble, misery, trouble, make a fire reach the war god in the sky. BARBARIANS: To the sky! JEHO: Smash their statues! Chop off their heads! BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho! JEHO: Burn their scrolls! Burn their very threads! BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho! JEHO: Drown them with dead! Run the streets with red! BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho! JEHO: Enough time has passed. Let's go, our swords are massed. BARBARIANS: Jeho, Jeho, Jeho! |
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| PATU: At last I can rise from the street. Uhh. I must be getting to the palace upon Jeho... I must revenge myself... there will be Jeho's.... this chalice must get there, must... | |
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