Precyber - Chapter 4

by Kenneth Lightner and T.C. Ricks

Clarke had questions, questions that needed answering like....would Superman become a werewolf if a a werewolf bit him? What if there was Krytponite involved? Who killed Barfman? Why were they trying to kill him? Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys? Who the hell was the crazy lady making such a big deal about the god damned coconuts? What did the writing on the ring say? Wait...no...scratch that last. But definitely the first six.

Clarke's love life isn't going as well as it could either. Clarke is merely a poor government employee, a member of the FBAI gaming division that is supposed to monitor games for criminal behavior but is so underfunded its employees are more concerned about their paychecks than doing their job. Unless their job consists of filling out paper work that is. It doesn't help that Emily (his girlfriend) is being asked to spy on him for the Revolution. It definitely doesn't help that she has begun to question Clarke's sanity, ethics and integrity. Clarke can't blame her. He's begun to question these things himself.

The question of the novel ultimately is....what kind of society do you want to live in, and what price are you willing to pay to get it? For Clarke, these are not abstract questions. There are real consequences. At his lowest point, Clarke has absolutely everything he loves stripped away from him; his life, his love, his job, his friends and most important...his computer.

There are high stakes involved, but Clarke is prepared to pay the price to risk them. And when he can't afford the loss himself, he's more than happy to place the fall on some other guy in the process. Even if that guy happens to be a hacker who hates snitches and arranges to have the local terrorist cell try to kidnap him for ransom or, failing that, blow him to smithereens. Just a day in the life...

But Clarke Yossarian is not a man to take such indignity's lying down (well truth be told he would if he could but he knows he'd never get away with it) and so he fights tooth and claw and fist and maw to get back what was taken from him. Even if he has to join the Revolution to do it. Even if he has to take on the most powerful man in the world again and again and win. Even if he has to save (shudder) the most popular game in the world (Drama!) to do it.   

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Seventh Seal - Chapter 2 - Page 24

Row 1 Box 1 A pair of blood shot emerald (slightly cat like eyes in darkness.)

Row 1 Box 2 A man is playing the piano, singing loudly whilst wearing a tuxedo.  “Go down to the mill, go down to the mill and tell me if you love me still….”

Row 1 Box 3 SPROINK.  The eyes show happiness.

Row 1 Box 4 The man playing the piano has a mortified look on his face.  He has stopped playing the piano.

Row 2 An entire crowded art museum lobby all look at the man playing the piano awkwardly. 

Row 3 Box 1 The man hangs his head in shame.

Row 3 Box 2 SLITHER (looks a lot like Vesuvius if he was dropped in liquid evil, put in a blender, hit frappe and then taped back together) slides out of the piano lid and scuttles across the floor.  “Hehehheheheehheheeheh.”

Row 3 Box 3 A rather unhappy man in a suit is pointing towards the door, standing behind a rather embarrassed looking man playing the piano.

Seventh Seal - Chapter 2 - Page 23

Row 1 Box 1 Horus leans closer and smiles in a crooked smile that looks wrong in all the wrong ways, "The only reason I Row 2 Box 3 Horus begins to walk up steps out of the water back toward the throne, dragging Amanda behind him, "I punish Compassion for the Enemy."

Row 3 Box 1 They emerge slightly out of the water.  Amanda's scream is now audible.  Shot long of Horus slightly in the water with just Amanda's face.  "But I must haven't finished the job of  the Vimilial pool...."

Row 1 Box 2 Close up of him snapping his fingers.  HORUS (off panel) "Is because I now believe their success to be a complete accident."

Row 1 Box 3 The vine lets Amanda go and she slumps to the floor.  Horus (off panel): "Vesuvius and his companion are too incompetent to succeed on their own."

Row 1 Box 4 Horus takes out a cane, "That doesn't really let you off the hook though."

Row 2 Box 1 The cane grows a hook.  Horus (Off Panel) "This had been your last chance Amanda."

Row 2 Box 2 The hook reaches into the back of Amanda's skull and lifts her up off the ground, she starts silently screaming again.  Horus (Off Panel) "And my instinct says to be done with you.  But I don't punish failure."

Row 2 Box 3 Blackness.  “I Honor my word, or I'd become just as incompetent as my predecessors wouldn't I?"

Row 3 Box 2 Close up of Amanda's face as she comes out of the water, pain and horror mask her features.

Row 3 Box 3 Amanda is dropped unceremoniously at the foot of the throne where she falls down.

Row 3 Box 4 Amanda falls into a kneeling position quickly and the scream becomes a moan.

Row 4 Horus looks down at her from the throne. Medium wide shot. "Not everyone gets a second last chance Amanda.  Let's make the most of it, shall we?"

Precyber - Chapter 3

by T.C. Ricks and Ken Lightner.  

Someone has killed Barfman, Clarke's online friend, and Clarke is determined to solve his murder. Of course, despite the fact that Clarke is a member of the FBAI, Clarke is probably the least qualified person in the world to solve Barfman's murder. But that doesn't stop him. Clarke is a determined, if not slacker protagonist.

The world is dystopic and dark, but its a more realistic version than most.  Which is to say, sure its grim and corporations own almost everything, but it has its upsides to, like improved medical technology.  And games.  Did we mention games? Giant immersive games which take MMO's and merge them with Reality TV to create whole sets of augmented reality that merge in on docudrama extravaganza in which to drown the sorrows of the ignorant masses.  Revolution? What Revolution?

Clarke had questions, questions that needed answering like....would Superman become a werewolf if a a werewolf bit him? What if there was Krytponite involved? Who killed Barfman? Why were they trying to kill him? Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys? Who the hell was the crazy lady making such a big deal about the god damned coconuts? What did the writing on the ring say? Wait...no...scratch that last. But definitely the first six.

Clarke's love life isn't going as well as it could either. Clarke is merely a poor government employee, a member of the FBAI gaming division that is supposed to monitor games for criminal behavior but is so underfunded its employees are more concerned about their paychecks than doing their job. Unless their job consists of filling out paper work that is. It doesn't help that Emily (his girlfriend) is being asked to spy on him for the Revolution. It definitely doesn't help that she has begun to question Clarke's sanity, ethics and integrity. Clarke can't blame her. He's begun to question these things himself.

The question of the novel ultimately is....what kind of society do you want to live in, and what price are you willing to pay to get it? For Clarke, these are not abstract questions. There are real consequences. At his lowest point, Clarke has absolutely everything he loves stripped away from him; his life, his love, his job, his friends and most important...his computer.

There are high stakes involved, but Clarke is prepared to pay the price to risk them. And when he can't afford the loss himself, he's more than happy to place the fall on some other guy in the process. Even if that guy happens to be a hacker who hates snitches and arranges to have the local terrorist cell try to kidnap him for ransom or, failing that, blow him to smithereens. Just a day in the life...

But Clarke Yossarian is not a man to take such indignity's lying down (well truth be told he would if he could but he knows he'd never get away with it) and so he fights tooth and claw and fist and maw to get back what was taken from him. Even if he has to join the Revolution to do it. Even if he has to take on the most powerful man in the world again and again and win. Even if he has to save (shudder) the most popular game in the world (Drama!) to do it. 

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Seventh Seal - Chapter 2 - Page 22

Row 1 A pleasant lake on a sunlit day.  It appears gorgeous.  A man can be seen in the distance, sitting on a ruby throne surrounded by a brilliant white gazebo.

Row 2 Box 1 The camera moves closer and a few details begin to seem more disturbing in our picturesque scene.  It is hard to tell exactly what they are, but they are there.

Row 2 Box 2 The camera moves closer still.  The gazebo around the throne is made of human bone.  Tormented crying souls can be seen inside of the lake.  The throne is running with blood.

Row 2 Box 3 Close up on the man's face, which appears only in the most vague resemblance like that of a human with fly like eyes and a mustache made of small tentacles with tiny eyes on them.

Row 3 Box 1 He gets up off of his throne and steps into the water.  He goes down the water.

Row 3 Box 2 Amanda is there, wrapped in a vine, writing in torment.  HORUS says, "So."

Row 3 Box 3 Close up of Amanda, silently screaming and perpetually drowning in the water.

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Row 1 Box 1 Dawn comes and shines over the inn.

Row 1 Box 2 & 3. SLUICE and VESUVIUS are in a bed with two scantily clad members of SLUICE’s people, several dozen of VESUVIUS’s people and a rabbit.  VESUVIUS’s head is propped up against the rabbit.

Row 2 Box 1 A ray of light shines in Vesuvius’s eye.

Row 2 Box 2 VESUVIUS sighs.  “Come on SLUICE.  No rest for the wicked.”

Row 2 Box 3 SLUICE stretches and smiles.

Row 3 Box 1 SLUICE and VESUVIUS walk back through the portal.

Row 3 Box 2 SLUICE and VESUVIUS walk down the street.  SLUICE: “So what is the plan this time?”

Row 3 Box 3 Wide shot of an art museum with several street vendors in front of it.  VESUVIUS: “I honestly have no idea SLUICE.  No idea at all.  Not this time.  How do you make a guy who sells hot dogs appreciate art?”

Precyber - Chapter 2

by T.C. Ricks and Ken Lightner.  

Someone has killed Barfman, Clarke's online friend, and Clarke is determined to solve his murder. Of course, despite the fact that Clarke is a member of the FBAI, Clarke is probably the least qualified person in the world to solve Barfman's murder. But that doesn't stop him. Clarke is a determined, if not slacker protagonist.

The world is dystopic and dark, but its a more realistic version than most.  Which is to say, sure its grim and corporations own almost everything, but it has its upsides to, like improved medical technology.  And games.  Did we mention games? Giant immersive games which take MMO's and merge them with Reality TV to create whole sets of augmented reality that merge in on docudrama extravaganza in which to drown the sorrows of the ignorant masses.  Revolution? What Revolution?

Clarke had questions, questions that needed answering like....would Superman become a werewolf if a a werewolf bit him? What if there was Krytponite involved? Who killed Barfman? Why were they trying to kill him? Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys? Who the hell was the crazy lady making such a big deal about the god damned coconuts? What did the writing on the ring say? Wait...no...scratch that last. But definitely the first six.

Clarke's love life isn't going as well as it could either. Clarke is merely a poor government employee, a member of the FBAI gaming division that is supposed to monitor games for criminal behavior but is so underfunded its employees are more concerned about their paychecks than doing their job. Unless their job consists of filling out paper work that is. It doesn't help that Emily (his girlfriend) is being asked to spy on him for the Revolution. It definitely doesn't help that she has begun to question Clarke's sanity, ethics and integrity. Clarke can't blame her. He's begun to question these things himself.

The question of the novel ultimately is....what kind of society do you want to live in, and what price are you willing to pay to get it? For Clarke, these are not abstract questions. There are real consequences. At his lowest point, Clarke has absolutely everything he loves stripped away from him; his life, his love, his job, his friends and most important...his computer.

There are high stakes involved, but Clarke is prepared to pay the price to risk them. And when he can't afford the loss himself, he's more than happy to place the fall on some other guy in the process. Even if that guy happens to be a hacker who hates snitches and arranges to have the local terrorist cell try to kidnap him for ransom or, failing that, blow him to smithereens. Just a day in the life...

But Clarke Yossarian is not a man to take such indignity's lying down (well truth be told he would if he could but he knows he'd never get away with it) and so he fights tooth and claw and fist and maw to get back what was taken from him. Even if he has to join the Revolution to do it. Even if he has to take on the most powerful man in the world again and again and win. Even if he has to save (shudder) the most popular game in the world (Drama!) to do it. 

Check out this episode!