Veritaserum: Act 1: Scene 2

This is supposed to be scene 2 of the first act. I've been working on coming out with extension to each act that i originally made for the individuation stories. So far, Act 1 is the only act that i've been able to get to. Basically i started with this one, cause i had already had an idea for what i wanted to do.

In this scene, the thought process of exploring my own human character flaws and faults was undertaken. I have on the assignment page a whole list of different character traits, and character flaws... i wanted to somehow implement them into the individuation stories. This is how i did that.

Although this isnt even a quarter of the information that i drew out in my own individuation assignment, that i took on almost a year ago. But it does express some of my major qualities that i have listed down....


A very enlightening experience, taking inventory of all the different facets of yourself. Almost like coming up with a map, of how the inside of your soul is positioned and formed. I would recommend for anybody who has never heard of Carl C. Jung, Jungian Psychology, and the individuation process, to research it up on google, in the bookstore. Very helpful, very insightful stuff.
Jung was a Genius. And his writings and studies reflect that...



anyways this is Scene 2 of the First Act. Stranger to Yourself....

Act 1

Scene 2: All his Flaws, All his Faults...

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[Sal sits in his chair, wondering what the outlaw was talking about. The dramatist has left the room, having faded back into the darkness after the outlaw. The only ones left in the room now are Sal, The Detective, and The Assistant. The Assistant is still sitting on the side of the table, having been done taking notes, he is sitting calmly in his chair, arms folded in his lap, his clipboard laying on the table. The detective is still standing behind the table.]

Detective: So you thought you were an average boy, of moderate attraction. I think my assistant here can tell me a couple more things about what you thought... 

[The assistant grabs his clipboard from the table he began to flip through pages, finding a particular page.]

The assistant: Lets see....[finding his page]. It says here that You were finding yourself In moderate attractions, also moderately romantic about the feminine gender. 

Detective: hmm

The assistant: It also says here that you were something of a bigot. You could stand to see other people treated unfairly or unequal to your own self, and yet you still held yourself in the highest of esteems.

Sal: A bigot?

[Pausing to look up at Sal besides him at the table]

Assistant : It means a person that considers themselves better than others while actually being of the same grade and age,.. a person that contradicts themselves

[Returning to his clipboard]

Assistant: It also says here that he was A very naive individual. Something of a procrastinator and very irresponsible. A bit of a slob who many times lacked grace in his actions. A selfish egotistical thinker, who held thoughts primarily about himself. And Also a very Arrogant individual, who many times would speak and act brashly on the account of his own troubled emotions. And despite this attribute, he was still considerably shy, lacked confidence in many of his actions, and sometimes a pacifist.

Sal: Wow. Its amazing that you guys have such a detailed record like this on me. How did you get all this information?

Detective: Thats classified information

[Sal shrugs his shoulders and scoffs, looking away in another direction of the dark room. He stares into space as if trying to gather his composure]

Sal: Well i dont know what to tell you guys, everything you have listed so far is pretty harsh stuff.

Detective: Do you think that we are being unfair with these descriptions we have given you?

Sal: Well, ahhh, yeh. I would say. I know there are alot more things about me than those things that you just read about me right there... Where are all my positive character traits? Why didnt you mention any of those?

Detective: Hmm, i see. so you feel like your personality isnt being shown in a fair show of light. You want something more to be said about you. You want something positive to be said about you. Is that right?

Sal: Yeh, thats right.

[The detective leaned back in his chair, directly opposed to Sal, and took a long look at the young character.] Detective: Alright, thats fair. We can get somebody in here that would be able to expand on some of your own more positive character traits. But either way Sal, your going to have to explain everything that has been said about you. By the end we need to have a very clear picture of that person that was in the mirror on December the second 1981. Is that clear?

Sal: Yes thats clear

[Detective turning towards the right side of the room he made a funny gesture with his right hand toward some unseen receptionist beyond the veil of complete darkness that surrounded the room. Only in a matter of a a few seconds, another figure appeared from out of the darkness, and approached the table. A man enters the room wearing what looks like a very cheap purple checker suit, a cheesy yellow bowtie, and a smile. He comes to the area around Sal, pulls a chair from out of nowhere, and sits down in it, making sure to straighten his suit and his bowtie once he had. Smiling widley and eyes bright, he looks beside himself at Sal who was seated not three inches from where the man had pulled up a chair.]

Salesman: Ho’w ya doin Sal?! Good to meet you.[He Says, shaking his eyebrows up and down at Sal in a suggestive manner]

Sal: I'm doing alright... [Sal says slowly, if not alittle bit put off by how close the man was sitting, with what the man was dressed in], How about you?

Salesmen: Im doing great! Now![He says excitedly, whipping his eyes around to the of the detectives clapping his hands together and rubbing them vigorously] You can go ahead and continue with that unfair story you were telling Mr.assistant, or was that all you have?

Assistant: No. I have more

Salesman: Well then won’t you continue for us?

[Not needing to be told twice, nodded and looked back to his binder, pointing with his finger to the paper to find the place where he left off] Assistant: And here we have the reasons, or attributed causes for your behaviors and qualities. [He continued listing things out] You were a bigot primarily out of your own ignorance to the thoughts and emotions of others. A motif helped by your ever constant self-centered thinking as well as cloaked and enhanced by your natural arrogance.

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You were Naive because you had never stepped out into the world to experience anything, and never would want to step out because you were too lazy to do so. And because of this lack of experience of life you also in many situations come up too shy, and lacking confidence.

All of this having the general affect of a person who is incapable of doing anything in their life because they wouldn’t do anything in their life. A type of person that was helpless to affect or change their own worlds to further themselves or others, or even to participate in the smallest of happenings, because they were not willing to take steps of action in the first place.

And on-top of these things, most, to all of your actions were self centered in the first place... and ended up going not too far out of your own conceited circles.

Detective: A Sheep, in sheeps clothing.

Assistant: An Arrogent Sheep...

Detective: An Arrogent Sheep, in sheeps clothing. I wonder, is this sheeps arrogence the reason that he felt impelled to look for romance, in the winter of 1982? Or the reason that he went to look into the mirror on a day similar.... [The detective was looking straight at Sal, with his eyebrow cocked and a slight grin on his face, he seemed to be directing the question at Sal instead of the assistant]

Sal: Ok, well how about the good things?

[From besides Sal]The Salesman: Thats where i come in.

[The salesman reached into his jacket and brought out a rough looking notepad] I have it all right here![He said enthusiastically waving the notepad from side to side. Before he opened the journal and found his place within its pages]

Salesmen: Thats not all there is to say about this young lad here. Look look, it says it right here. He was also an analytically minded person. Who spent large amounts of his time thinking about the world and his life.

Assistant: Analytical at times but also an over-emotional, obsessive thinker..

Salesman: Hmm yes maybe so. [He cleared his throat curtly] *erhem* He also had a overall very moral character, a very positive attitude, very empathetic to others problems, while still holding himself to the standard of remaining neutral in his relations, and forever and always being diplomatic in dealing with trouble.

Assistant: Moral, but still lazy about his morality. A positive attitude, but also holding many different depressing sorts views about the world, including his overall bigotry. His empathy in most cases, was wasted on his self-centered narcissistic thought, his habit of neutrality hurt him in some cases as much as it might have helped him... The diplomacy for all the reasons mentioned, wasn’t all that diplomatic.

The Salesman: What!!! Are you insinuating that there is no trait about my client, held about himself that was in the slight bit positive?!

Assistant: No, Im merely accounting for the minus’s effects within the benefits that you are describing. His positive natures may have been there, just as you say they were. But i don’t believe that they had enough effect on himself, or the world around him to make any real big difference in his life. Or the life of others. The effects of his positive characteristics, in other words, are nullified in the scopes of his other traits, bringing the overall consensus of a failure of personality.

Salesman: This is preposterous!!!

Assistant: its the truth

[The detective cut in at this point, talking directly to Sal]

Detective: So they say you are all these things. We have painted a picture of who you were when you looked into the mirror back then. Would you say that it is fair enough? agreeable to you?

Sal: I guess. [He said with a shrug] I mean, how much did you guys really expect from a guy like me? It’s not like I’m the ruler of the world or anything. Whats it supposed to mean if i was alittle arrogent, alittle self centered, and that other word you called me...

The Assistant: a bigot.

Sal: Yeh that. How am i supposed to ‘not’ be any of those things? Nobody told me to be any other way than the way i was. And so i was the way i was.

Detective: Then we can at least say that we learned some about the reasons you were the way you were. And that helps us understand who that was in the mirror, back then. An Young man, who was something of an arrogent bigot, who was also stuck in naivety, and lacked the skill or motivation to do anything with his life. But also a Young man who had some level of morality, liked to think about things analytically, and had something of a positive attitude. Do those sound like some accurate directions of your overall personality from back then?

Sal: Yeh, basically.

Detective: Thats good.

[He paused, sitting in his chair directly opposed to Sal, Leaning back slightly and rubbing his chin in a thoughtful manner.]

But what about the person that you are now? The person that you were going to be, coming up from the dates back then, to the date we are at now. What about the person you are now? The person that sits in front of me at this very moment?

Sal: [Looks in silence back at the detective] I havn't changed much from who i was only a few years ago,.. and those changes i have made i doubt would impress you very much.

Assistant: Indeed. That much is true. Judging from his condition from only a few years ago, i would put doubts to whether he has changed at all.

Detective: But Even with all these traits and qualities, i don't think we could say that is the whole story.[Said he, still looking intently at Sal, and thoughtfully rubbing his chin] Even all this information here, does not completely tell us who are you Sal. 
So my Question remains... Sal, 

Who are you?.. . .. . .