Precyber - Chapter 5

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 26

Row 1 Wide shot showing Jesra, Pete, Vesuvius and Sluice looking at Art.

Sluice: (Very quietly) Really.

Row 2 Box 1 Vesuvius looks out a window.

Row 2 Box 2 Outside the window we get a first glance of FORSALIO, who has a hot dog stand.

Row 2 Box 3 Vesuvius taps  Sluice on the shoulder, “Come on Picaso.  We have work to do.”

Row 3 Box 1 Forsalio sells a hot dog to a man with a very thick mustache.  Forsalio: “Come here and buy a hot dog!”

Row 3 Box 2 Two young children buy a hot dog, Forsalio smiles.  Forsalio: You will love my hot dogs or your money back!”

Row 3 Box 3 Child eats the hot dog. 

Row 3 Box 4 Child smiles.

Row 4 Box 1 Child gets an evil glint in their eye.

Row 4 Box 2 Child looks at Forsalio, “It was yucky! I want my money back.”

Row 4 Box 3 Forsali frowns.  The child smiles wickedly.

Row 4 Box 4 Forsalio puts his hands on his hips.  Forsalio: No.

Child: What? You promised.

Forsalio: I lied.  Go away.

Seventh Seal - Chapter 2 - Page 25

Row 1 Box 1 Pete and Jesra sit on a swing on his front porch.  Pete: “We can’t go to a baseball game.”

Row 1 Box 2 Jesra nods.  Jesra: “Well I’m not going to school.”

Row 1 Box 3 Pete: “Park?”

Jesra: “Boring.”

Pete: “Hang out here?”

Jesra: “Boring.”

Pete: “Library?

Row 1 Box 4 Close up of Jesra’s face with a look.

Row 2 Box 1 Pete looks hurt.

Row 2 Box 2 Amanda smirks.

Row 2 Box 3 Amanda kisses him.

Row 2 Box 4 Pete sighs.  Pete: “Right now to the library.  Then where?”

Row 3 Box 1 Jesra looks up.  “We should do something different. Something INTERESTING.”

Row 3 Box 2 They both sit there and think, looking bored.

Row 3 Box 3 Pete snaps his fingers, “The Art Museum.”

Row 3 Box 4 Jesra thinks a moment.

Row 4 Box 1 Jesra smiles.  Jesra: “Great! Love the idea.”

Row 4 Box 2 They both smile and head out.

Row 4 Box 3 Vesuvius and Sluice enter the art museum lobby.   

Sluice: I always saw myself as an artist.

Vesuvius: Really?

Row 4 Box 4 Jesra and Pete enter the art museum lobby. 

Pete: I wonder what we should see first.  

 Jesra: Whatever is most interesting.

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. 

Check out this episode!