Episode Two, Turn Five: Personal Jesus!
The Village of Termonfeckin...
Verbally berate any gobshites in line until they depart. This includes the Bishop if he acts to see the fillim!
...”Oi! Yer great feckin’ gobshite! Yes! I’m talking to you, you big arsebiscuit of a gobshite! You! And you! Gobshites the lot of you!”“Erm, Father Pink, could you er…”“Oh hello there, Mr McArgity. YER GREAT FECKIN’ GOBSHITE! Oi you! Father Veridian! YOU FECKIN’ GOBHSITE! You! Mrs McScargill! You’re a gobshite, your husband’s a gobshite, and your gobshite baby daughter’s a total feckin’ gobshite too! Oh look everyone – look at that poncy gobshite in the fancy dress! You! Purple dress man! You great big feckin’ gobshite! Yes! You! You with the stupid hat! I said, YOU’RE A GREAT BIG FECKIN’ GOBSHI-ahhh feck. Oh shite. Bishop Lennan.”Bishop Lennan starts running in a demonstrably angry manner towards
Father Pink. He seems to have forgotten
Father Red’s naked bollocks and his promised bollock-kicking.
Father Viridian interrupts the theatrics to announce the special arrival of the Bishop! He will also try to adjust the audio of the movie by doing so.
...”Ladies and gentlemen!” announces
Father Viridian.
“Please welcome… Buh-ishhhop Lennannnnnnn! Right, now, I’ve er… just got to er… I’m just adjusting the… Oh, I think it’s inside.”As Bishop Lennan runs towards the entrance of the cinema, Father Viridian ducks inside to search out some kind of… adjusting… button or dial or… something. He finds one next to a panel marked “Sound” in the projector room. He turns it.
Get some pants. I don't care how as long as they are not involved with Bishop Lennan. Then prepare a megaphone, prepare a mass...
...Back outside, Bishop Lennan is now sprinting towards
Father Pink, hollering something about splitting his gobshiting bollocks from end to end so they look like a Cheshire cat and how NO gobshiting gobshite of a gobshite mere PRIEST is going to call HIM a gobshite without getting his gobshiting arse kicked right to the gobshiting moon and then suddenly
Father Red is rugby-tackling Bishop Lennan to the floor and ripping his trousers off in front of the queuing crowd of locals.
They tumble and wrestle like half naked members of the clergy might on a summer afternoon’s meadowy frolic until suddenly Bishop Lennan is sitting on Father Red’s chest, pinning the gobshite to the ground.
“I don’t know why the feck you are half naked, you stinking little arsebiscuit,” he says, quite quietly and calmly, for a bishop.
“But I do know why I am half naked. I want my feckin’ trousers back, and I’m feckin’ well going to take them.”Bishop Lennan punches Father Red right in the fecking face!
He tears his trousers out of Father Red’s grip, struggles to put them back on in some kind of slightly dignified manner, kicks Father Red right up the arse, and turns to walk back to his car.
Behind him the crowd start entering the cinema.
One priest is naked! The sound has been fiddled with! Father Red has a -1 Bishop’s Punch Penalty to next turn!Film Factor: 4
Queuers: 0
Viewers: 73 (including 5 priests)
The Village of Ardglass...
Let go of the feckin' piece of gobshite and let the gobshite have his gobshite. Instead, go to the nearest phone, which is probably covered in gobshite, and call the CWL (Catholic Women League) or equivalent. Tell em' that I need them to go and picket the gobshite they call a cinema and not allow anyone in. Except for those of the cloth, that is.
...Meanwhile, in
Father Orange’s rectory room,
Father Green realises he
doesn’t actually need a banjolin. He needs a League of Catholic Women!
“Here, you gobshite!” he cries to Father Orange.
“Have your feckin’ piece of gobshite, you great gobshite! I need to use the gobshiting phone!”He leaves the room, muttering something about
“feckin’ gobshite” under his breath as he goes.
A minute later he walks back into the room, walks over to the corner, muttering something about
“oh right so… gobshite”, picks up the phone, and dials.
“Hello? Is that the Rolly Island Catholic Women’s League? Yes… this is Father Green. I need some help with a bunch of gobshites…”Satisfied, Father Brown heads to the front of the theater and offers the queuers tea and biscuits, which he of course brought with him.
...Wondering where his comrades in protest have gone,
Father Brown ambles amiably over to the front of the cinema and whips out his portable tea and biscuit station, which he starts pushing up and down the line of locals.
“Tea?” he asks.
“Biscuits?”“Ooh, yes please, Father!”“You know, you really shouldn’t be seeing this type of film, you know. You might go to Hell.”“Oh right then.”“Biscuits?” repeats Father Brown.
“Tea?”A chorus of polite requests sounds along the line of villagers.
Father Orange rushes back to the cinema (hopefully with his banjolin) and begins a sing-a-long to distract the parishioners from the movie! It's a little ditty he wrote himself, entitled "Yer a feckin' gobshite ye are!" Great fun at parties, big hit at the Church Lawn Fete. It can't fail!
The song then continues with the designated feckin' gobshite leading the next verse, pointing at a new villager and making up words. The song goes until everyone has been reminded of their dirty sinful deeds as a feckin' gobshite, but it's alright because God forgives us and junk!
...Just then the chorus of polite tea-related requests is interrupted by the distinctive twangling intro of a banjolin maestro! It sounds like… no, it
is Father Orange’s island-wide hit
“Yer a feckin’ gobshite ye are!””Oh yer a feckin' gobshite,” comes the crooning voice of Rolly Island’s premier banjolin specialist. He dances past the line pointing at Mrs O’Craggity.
”Feckin' gobshites saith the Lord!
I'll send my only begotten Son
To save yer gobshite soul...rd!”Father Orange stops in front of Mrs O’Craggity and delivers a nifty banjolin solo.
”Yes yer a feckin' gobshite Mrs O’Craggity,
A feckin' gobshite saith the Lord!
A good Christian likes forgiveness and all that shite,
And… er… praise be to Gawd!”Being a relative newcomer and thus unfamiliar with the island’s folk traditions, Mrs O’Craggity punches Father Orange right in the feckin’ face. He crashes to the ground, smacking himself in the mouth with his banjolin.
Some of them stepping over the floored priest, the villagers start entering the cinema to watch the fillim.
No priests are naked! The Rolly Island Catholic Women’s League has been called! Tea and biscuits have been served! The film has successfully been sabotaged!Film Factor: 2
Queuers: 0
Viewers: 65
The Village of Creggenbaun...
Father Purple begins swearing at Cyan for breaking his foot! Forget the civilian. Not before apologizing to the crown on Cyan's behalf, of course.
Now, this speech needs to be HEARD! Drag Blue up to the ROOF! We shall perform our mass on The Pleasures of Rocky Balboa there!
...”Yea!” preaches
Father Purple.
“Rocky Balboa is good; yon Father Cyan over there, on the other hand, is a feckin’ eejit, upon whom the wrath of God shall fall like a torrent of shitey arsebiscuits from a wretched heathen gobshite! Did not the son of God say thusly: thou shalt not break my feckin’ foot, you feckin’ gobshite? Did he not?! Verbum… um… Oh bollocks. How does it go?”Say the following: “etc and so forth”
And run off down the street, losing the gobshites as soon as possible.
..."Oh, Father Blue you feckin' gobshite, now look what you've done.” says
Father Cyan “ALL RIGHT, YER GOBSHITES. That's right, I'm talking to you queuers for this shite film, the GOBSHITE OF A SAINT'S nipple. I'm a fecking murderer. Apparently I murdered someone. Anyone got a match? Pitchforks? Ah, thank you, Mr McNally. Now, anyone up for some good old mob violence? Chase me yer gobshite! Yes, you, Mr McNally. Yes, I know you've seen better days. NOW CHASE ME!"As three dozen queuing Irishmen and women look on – each with a raised eyebrow that somehow seems to convey the words
“what a feckin’ eejit” – Father Cyan sprints off down the street.
Mr McNally turns his rollator away from the cinema and shuffles after the running priest, one fist raised and shaking in the air.
“Come back, you great hairy bollock! Come here you gobshite, I’ll string you up and burn you meself, you little arsebiscuit!”Back away slowly rather bloody quickly.
Then nip down the road, borrow a great big picture of jesus from a discount shop or something.
Go back and re-enter cinema. If anyone asks, tell 'em I'm with those anti-disease chaps and am checkin' for infectiousness.
Then hang the picture on a wall, so all cinemagoers shall feel distinctly guilty for watching such immoral smut.
Father Blue will then defend the picture from anyone threatening to take it down, yelling something about 'blasphemy' before punchin' 'em in the face. And kickin' 'em up the arse for good measure.
..."Oh bollocks Father Cyan, what've ye done now?!" cries
Father Blue after his murderous comrade. He backs away from the crowd of raised eyebrows as fast as he can, his backward baby steps soon turning into an outright hundred metre sprint.
Barely out of breath, he stops fifteen seconds later in front of some kind of discount shop or something as an idea comes to mind.
Leaping face first through the glass window of the shop front, he snatches the thirty foot inflatable Jesus in the display and turns and flees before the shop alarm even begins to ring.
"Don't feckin' worry,” he cries over his shoulder as he runs.
“I'll return it, y'great big gobshite!"With the inflatable Jesus stowed safely away over his shoulder, Father Blue storms into the cinema, shouting as he goes.
"Infections, infections!” he shouts, beginning to foam at the mouth with excitement.
"You’ve all got gobshitin’ infections!”The waiting crowd go wild.
Violent screaming and outraged cries of
“Gobshite! Gobshite!” ring out as panic begins to spread.
“It’s Jesus! It’s the big Jesus!” shouts one of the villagers.
“Burn’im!”The line of queuing villagers suddenly stops queuing, and starts running as fast as their assorted mobility aids allow them, following Father Blue into the cinema. They stalk him through the corridors and up and down the stairs, past the ticket office and beyond the unisex toilets until they burst as one into the room where Father Blue is standing on the stage before the silver screen, one hand on his hip and the other on his thirty foot inflatable Jesus.
"Keep back, you herd of gobshites! Keep back or I’ll give you infections! This is a bad fillim, and inflatable Jesus shall judge you accordingly!”“Get the fecker out!” comes a voice.
“We want to watch the smut without being judged!” comes another.
“Take down the Jesus!” comes a third.
"Keep the feck back, you big shits!” answers Father Blue.
One false move later and the crowd of parishioners moves forward like a tsunami of greying flesh and minds, hell-bent on destroying the inflatable Jesus who doth judge them so – and Father Blue too, if he stands in the way. They storm up the three steps to the stage.
Father Blue and inflatable Jesus stand firm.
"Get back! Get back you blasphemous gobshites! I cannot allow you to see a saint’s feckin’ nipple unjudged!!”One villager makes his way to the top of the third step.
"You bastard gobshite!” cries Father Blue, punching the old man to the floor.
Another villager steps over the stricken pensioner and makes her way to the top of the third step.
"You defiler of Christ!” shouts the priest, kicking her in the arse till she crumples.
"You heathenous gobshites!” he wails, stripping off his cassock and tying it round his head.
A third villager ventures up the steps to remove Father Blue from in front of the screen.
Father Blue kicks the old man right in the feckin’ bollocks!
The old man lies on the floor, looking desperately up to see Father Blue grab inflatable Jesus by the feet, lift Him into the air, and starting bringing Him crashing down repeatedly on the villager’s head.
With just enough consciousness in him to see that his sacrifice has been worthwhile, the villager passes out from the pain!
Whilst Father Blue is fully occupied with beating the old man senseless with the thirty foot inflatable Jesus, the angry villagers storm up the steps, overwhelming the pious priest with sheer weight of numbers, pinning him and inflatable Jesus to the ground and trapping his arms with their Zimmer frames.
They drag him towards the fire exit. One kicks down the door and the others throw him out. The door slams behind Father Blue.
“Bring out the smut!”The projector or whatever it is these days begins to whir into silvery action, accompanied by the hiss of a punctured inflatable object.
A muffled voice comes through the fire exit.
"You’re all going to Hell, you bastards!”One queuer has been tricked away from the queue! One priest is slightly undressed!Film Factor: 1
Queuers: 0
Viewers: 45
Next turn the locals will watch the fillim! There will be one more showing after that!
There is no leaderboard this turn. Perhaps next turn?