{(set:$deux to false) (set:$macabre to false)(set:$descent to false)
}this is the (link-reveal:"pinnacle")[.
this is the (link-reveal:"king")[, this is the (link-reveal:"empress")[.
this is the (link-reveal:"grand entrance")[.
this is (link-reveal:"Beethoven")[ and (link-reveal:"Mozart")[, this is (link-reveal:"Sun Wukong")[ and (link-reveal:"Hikaru Genji")[.
(link-reveal:"this")[ (link-reveal:"is")[ (link-reveal:"tendou")[ (link-reveal:"maya.")[
(live:6s)[(link-goto:"you are not tendou maya")][]<mayaloop|
(live:0.7s)[(append:?mayaloop)[
this is tendou maya]]
]]]]]]]]]]]]she is (link-reveal:"the devil.")[
she is (link-reveal:"light and heat")[ and (link-reveal:"eyes and ears")[.
she will kill (link:"you")[this
she will love (link:"you")[this
she will watch (link:"you")[this
she will stand by (link-reveal:"you")[
if you would (link-goto:"let her.")
]]]]]]]
(size:2)[[theater in the round]]there are no wings.
(if:$descent is false)[the only ways out are to [[walk through the crowd]] or to [[descend beneath the surface.]] ](if:$descent is true)[the only way out is for the show to [[go on->walk through the crowd]] ]the aisles are clear. no one in the audience is to stand during the performance.
they cannot interfere with the (link-reveal:"performers")[, who will (link-reveal:"enter or exit")[
the (link-reveal:"light")[(color:gray)[ dims.]
(live:1s)[(stop:)and shines, instead
(live:2s)[(stop:)on (link-goto:"her.","claudentrance")]]]]
](size:2)[[Finale]]**DRAMATIS PERSONAE**
|roll>[(live:2s)[(stop:)Saijou Claudine, as (live:0.1s)[(either:"Mephistopheles","Empress Elizabeth","Grushenka","Goody","Kathy Selden","Beatrice","Olympe")]]
(live:4s)[(stop:)Tendou Maya, as (live:0.04s)[(either:"Faust","Death","Lady Oscar","Baddy","Don Lockwood","Casanova","Ronan Mazurier","Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov","Puck","Rhett Butler","Scarlett O'Hara","The Phantom of the Opera","Hans Axel von Fersen","Beethoven","Mozart","Napoleon","Hikaru Genji","Sun Wukong","Giy","Bill Snibson","Phoenix Wright")]] ]
(live:8s)[(stop:)(replace:?roll)[**Tendou Maya, as Faust**
Saijou Claudine, as Mephistopheles
(live:3s)[(stop:)(size:2)[(link-goto:"Act 1")]]]](color:orange)["Great power, great wealth, great fortune. Is this what you seek?"]
(link:"Line")["I do." (live:1.5s)[(stop:)
(color:orange)["And in exchange, you give yourself to me? Your body, your soul, your very essence?"]
(link:"Line")["I do." (live:1.5s)[(stop:)
(color:orange)["Til death do us part?"]
(link:"Line")[(live:2s)[(stop:)(link:"Line")[(live:2s)[(stop:)(link:"Line")[(color:grey)[Is that her line?
(live:1s)[(stop:)(color:orange)["Is something wrong, Herr Doktor? Are you rejecting my (color:blue)[[proposal]]?"]]]]]]]]]]]](color:grey)[She's off script.]
(live:0.7s)[(stop:)(color:orange)["Your silence is damning, Herr Doktor."]
(live:0.7s)[(stop:)"Permit me a moment of reflection, devil."
(live:2s)[(stop:)(color:grey)[But the show must go on.]
(live:1s)[(stop:)"If I am to give up the remains of my human life, to attain glory beyond earthly comprehension, I must have everything ready. My path clear. My bonds broken."
(live:3s)[(stop:)(color:grey)[Should she be smiling?]
(live:0.9s)[(stop:)(color:orange)["And what of your (color:blue)[[Gretchen]]?" ]]]]]]](color:grey)[This is a duet.]
(color:orange)["This is a ](if:$deux is false)[(link:"pas de deux")[(goto:"pas de deux")]](else:)[[pas de deux]]."
"This is the (if:$macabre is false)[(link:"danse macabre")[(goto:"danse macabre")]](else:)[[danse macabre]]."
(if:$deux is true and $macabre is true)["This is the [[parade]]."]Flames engulf the stage as the demons of Hell dance, circling the foolish mortal who chose to reject the pleasures and pains of human life. A fissure in the earth, a perfect circle, that sinks down and down, dragging the man-no-longer-man far below through force of gravity and machinery.
And when the fog clears, the stage is [[empty.]]And she is no longer Doctor Faustus.
But still, you are [[not]] Tendou Maya.Tendou Maya is a sketchbook that is no longer blank but not yet full.
Tendou Maya is a key signature and only half a melody but confident dynamics.
Tendou Maya is in the red glow of the dark, with the door locked tight to prevent exposure to the killing sun.
Tendou Maya has lived through this performance, and must prepare for [[the next.]]Removing the (link-reveal:"costume")[, removing the (link-reveal:"makeup")[, removing the (link:"self")[Tendou Maya] from this performance.
All of it is natural. It is not easy, but it is [[natural.]] ]]Like breathing. Like living. The stage is the earth and the audience is the air. The sun rises and sets with the spotlight, whomever it shines upon.
The curtain (link-reveal:"falls")[ [[asleep.]] ]When you hold her, your hands do not wrinkle her (link:"clothes.")[costume.
When you kiss her, your lips do not (link:"part.")[touch.
You dance (link:"together.")[apart. You dance (link:"together")[apart. You smile for (link:"the audience.")[the audience.
(live:2s)[(stop:)(color:orange)[She] is your audience.
(live:1s)[(stop:)And (color:grey)[you] are hers.
(live:1s)[(stop:)(color:grey)[The final page of the script reads:]
(live:1s)[(stop:)"(color:purple)[She] is no more. There is only (color:orange)[you] and (color:grey)[I], now and forever."
(live:2s)[(stop:)
[[Take a bow.]] ]]]]]]]]]]"(color:purple)[She] is lost."
(color:orange)["Yes?"]
"She is with her (color:#E08696)[God] now."
(color:orange)["And what of (color:blue)[[your God]]?"](color:grey)[She descends before you do.
Each step closer to the end.]
You smile into the stage lights.
You cannot see the audience.
But you can see (color:orange)[her.
And she can see] (color:grey)[you.]
And (color:grey)[you] are [[Tendou Maya.]]It is the end of **Act One**
What a captivating [[rehearsal]].(set:$deux to true)[[Let's take it from->Gretchen]](color:grey)[(link-reveal:"Your God?")[
[You have] (link-reveal:"no God.")[
(color:grey)[You are] (link-goto:"of God.")]]]But on the (link-reveal:"stage,")[
"I abandoned my God long ago."
(live:1.5s)[(stop:)(color:orange)["I know."]
(live:0.8s)[(stop:)"You know."
(live:1.3s)[(stop:)(color:orange)["God will accept you] (color:blue)[[no longer]](color:orange)[."]]]]](color:orange)["Now that you belong to **me**."]
(live:3s)[(goto:"applause")](color:grey)[Are you hers?
Is she yours?
Is there a [[difference]]?]"Let us go together then."
(color:orange)["Where will you go?"]
"Wherever you will follow."
(color:orange)["Until when?"]
"Until you go."
(color:orange)["And then?"]
"And then I will follow you."
[[And so it was decided.]](color:orange)[She will not die, for she is] (link-reveal:"immortal.")[
You will not die, for you are (link-reveal:"inhuman.")[
(color:grey)[You will not die,] (color:orange)[for you will not stop] [[living.]] ]](set:$macabre to true)Once again, [[from the top.->Gretchen]](color:yellow+orange)[We hope you have enjoyed the show.](set:$descent to true)And if it does not open, you will not wake up.
(live:5s)[(stop:)Fortunately, the run is [[not over->let her.]] ](enchant:?link, (text-color:blue))