So he got there. He went to the place in his decent but slightly tattered clothes, offered his services for the pay offered and showed off his strength as asked. Needless to say, he got accepted very quickly after the giant man proved just the level of strength he had to them. The group of workers was not notable at all and he didn’t pay much attention to them or even cared to talk to them. Soon enough, he’d lose what little reasons he had to talk to them when he actually noticed who was the man paying him, who was the actual god damn actor who’d be playing the main role in the play.
It was.. a religious zealot. Some idiots call them ‘Paladins’. Bucket calls them ‘scum-sucking fucking degenerates who need his foot up their ass’. A religious asshole actually wanted to perform a religious play and use the people’s faith to bring business and glory back to Marigold while at the same time ‘honoring the lord’, like he said. It was.. everything, absolutely everything that pissed Bucket off to no end, that he was hired to actually help one of these religious, disgusting, abhorrent, awful fucking freaks. No. NO. He would NOT let Marigold return on this fucking hypocrite’s terms! He would NOT! In fact, he’d make sure that everything would go as wrong as fucking possible!
He made sure the sabotage started very early: wires that had to be placed would be sneakily ground down a bit with the help of a slightly dulled knife so that things would fall randomly once strain was put on them during the play. Props would be sneakily damaged to make them ugly and barely usable, just so the figure would be bad. When no one was watching, Bucket would set up buckets of trash at the top of the rafters just so he could actually send a fucking message on what he thought about their stupid religion and their evil intentions. From under the stage, he’d bang into a few planks and damage them, only to cover up the damage. At any point during the play, it would make sure that the paladin would fall at random intervals.
Was this enough sabotage? Absolutely not. It was, though, everything he could do with the time he had and liberties he was afforded. If he was found out, after all, they could still fix what he did, he’d be kicked out and wouldn’t get any pay. He could only be found out after he took the money at the very least, since he was now keen on taking money out of their greedy pockets.
The day was here! Bucket had set everything up and was planned to what he thought would be perfection. It started well enough, with the guy doing his stupid religious shtick, calling upon god to help him with his problems and the evil heretic enemies, the whole nine yards of hipocrisy. First, like Bucket expected, the actor stepped in a damaged spot and had his leg fall through, tripping him up and trapping him there. While he struggled to get up, Bucket would release the rope that held up the buckets of trash, so that it’d fall all over him and the stage, much to the joy of the audience who was laughing their asses off. Finally, of course, he’d tap a few of the damaged cords to make random pieces fall, just to drive the humiliation further!
Lastly, of course, while the organizers and the actor were preoccupied with the chaos and sabotage, Bucket made his way to their makeshift office, absolutely relaxed and satisfied with himself as he stole the money owed to him by his salary, as well as all of the ticket revenue they managed to get. Not much, but more than he expected. Money in hand and satisfied with his own life, Bucket left, leaving the poor fucks to their own devices and misery.
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