mescalina orders her husband to his telescope. "observe the stars, left, right. what do you see up there? by the way, can you see the planets? are they all still there, in the right order?" she addresses venus with an impassioned plea for a better man, accompanied by an oboe d'amour. as she falls asleep, astradamors quietly claims he would "plunge the whole universe into damnation, if only to be rid of her!" right on cue, nekrotzar arrives, announced by his trumpet, as venus speaks to mescalina. venus informs mescalina that she has sent "two men," and nekrotzar steps forward, claiming to be the "well-hung" man mescalina requested. they perform a stylized lovemaking, as venus screeches her approval and piet and astradamors add their commentary. nekrotzar suddenly bites mescalina's neck, killing her, and insists that piet and his new servant "move this thing [her corpse] out of the way." driving triplets launch into the trio's humorous rant, "fire and death i bring, burning and shrivelling." nekrotzar orders his "brigade" to "attention" and they prepare to set off for the royal palace of prince go-go. before doing so, astradamors destroys everything in his home, proclaiming "at last, i am master in my own house."