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[Script] Legacy of Hope - Page 12
Scene (Continues) He tries to cast a spell but she stabs him again and blood comes out of his mouth. He falls to the floor.
Andrasda stops coughing the spiders and slowly sits up. Anastasia looks at her, and touches her cheek, crying.
They hug.
Roll credits.
Andrasda stops coughing the spiders and slowly sits up. Anastasia looks at her, and touches her cheek, crying.
They hug.
Roll credits.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
[Heliotrope] Tiny Skeleton
The Ogre of the Northtrope bridge was so feirce that by and large everyone paid his toll. The few that didn't ran away. Northtrope was so remote, that serious knights or military forces never really felt it worth the trouble to dislodge him. Aside from his unusual size or peculiar taste for porceline, there is little interesting to be said about him, except for the small skeleton he had glued to his club.
This skeleton was never dislodged until fifty years after the Ogre was finally found to have died from natural causes. At first, folks thought it might be a small Goblin or Elf, but a closer examination found it to be a tiny human. Magical dating placed the figure squarely in the time of legends, and more magic still revealed it to be none other than the near mythical Thumbalina herself.
None is sure how this queen had her still unknown grave exumed, perhaps the brute found it or simply came upon it after the fact. What is known is that the skeleton is hers and is resting in an unmarked grave in Vine City to protect her identity. Many wizards have already tried to find it; fortunately to no avail. It is for the best since by all accounts she is one of the few mythic figures who does not have a dark mirror that hints that all the great tales might not be true. She lived her life with nobility and grace given the circumstances that she had.
As for the ogre, his bones still lay where they rested next to the bridge he loved.
This skeleton was never dislodged until fifty years after the Ogre was finally found to have died from natural causes. At first, folks thought it might be a small Goblin or Elf, but a closer examination found it to be a tiny human. Magical dating placed the figure squarely in the time of legends, and more magic still revealed it to be none other than the near mythical Thumbalina herself.
None is sure how this queen had her still unknown grave exumed, perhaps the brute found it or simply came upon it after the fact. What is known is that the skeleton is hers and is resting in an unmarked grave in Vine City to protect her identity. Many wizards have already tried to find it; fortunately to no avail. It is for the best since by all accounts she is one of the few mythic figures who does not have a dark mirror that hints that all the great tales might not be true. She lived her life with nobility and grace given the circumstances that she had.
As for the ogre, his bones still lay where they rested next to the bridge he loved.
[Script] Legacy of Hope - Page 11
Scene: Andrasda coughs. Then she coughs again and spiders begin to drop from her mouth. At first there is one and then another in her hand. Then she begins to cough more.
Hobbes: (Shouting) What are you waiting for?!
Scene: Anastasia looks pensive. She hesitates. Hobbes runs over and shouts.
Hobbes: She's never going to be vulnerable. You have your connection to the sword!
(Beat)
What is wrong with you?
Scene: Close up of Anastasia's face.
Scene: Andrasda coughs up more spiders.
Scene: Anastasia frowns and looks at the sword
Scene: Hobbes's face, looking fearful.
Hobbes: WHAT? The spell won't last forever?!
Scene: Close up of Anastasia's face.
Anastasia: It connects me to more than the sword Hobbes.
Scene: Anastasia turns around and stabs Hobbes in the guts.
Hobbes: (Shouting) What are you waiting for?!
Scene: Anastasia looks pensive. She hesitates. Hobbes runs over and shouts.
Hobbes: She's never going to be vulnerable. You have your connection to the sword!
(Beat)
What is wrong with you?
Scene: Close up of Anastasia's face.
Scene: Andrasda coughs up more spiders.
Scene: Anastasia frowns and looks at the sword
Scene: Hobbes's face, looking fearful.
Hobbes: WHAT? The spell won't last forever?!
Scene: Close up of Anastasia's face.
Anastasia: It connects me to more than the sword Hobbes.
Scene: Anastasia turns around and stabs Hobbes in the guts.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Vampires in Terra
I have read several books on the Occult, of course, so the subject of Vampirism has come up. There are a lot of different kinds, but it isn't of the Twilight variety or the Interview with a Vampire either. Its essentially a curse, inflicted due to prayer or some supernatural entity. Dracula was made a vampire due to the opposing prayers of all the Turks he killed. That is the primary reason Terra is not inflicted with hoards of vampires....for someone to become one, they have to metaphorically deserve it. It isn't some supernatural disease one can catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Though I suppose if one counts 'death' as a supernatural disease, then you can easily catch it.
Fiction from Earth often finds Vampires of a torn morality, who grow to resent their curse and work to redeem themselves. I've seen such creatures in other worlds, but not in Terra. To be clear, there is not, so far as I know, some supernatural or demonic force that prevents them from doing good; they're just assholes. While our politicians are not perfect, they are practically saints compared to the Earth variety.
On Terra, we are stories wheras on Earth you tell them. That means our highs are very high and our lows are very low. Those who choose to be assholes or villains tend to be very much of that cloth and those who are complicated are still much clearer in tone when doing dire deeds. But....
Some of the people you have there...I must say on the AGGREGATE make our vampires look tame by comparison. A vampire in Terra might tear through an entire orphanage in a rural town to sate their blood lust before going to sleep for another century. Some of your population will sooner let millions suffer simply because it isn't their problem. Maybe our heroes are just better at moving people toward compassion but I do admit, I'm glad I live here.
The stories there are amazing. I live to see them which is why I find myself spending more and more time every day floating amongst your population, listening for anything I can, real or otherwise. But I have to wonder if the reason we write so few is because the quality of our lives is better and the reason you write so much is because...nearly anywhere else is better than where you are. But I'm biased I suppose.
Though I suppose if one counts 'death' as a supernatural disease, then you can easily catch it.
Fiction from Earth often finds Vampires of a torn morality, who grow to resent their curse and work to redeem themselves. I've seen such creatures in other worlds, but not in Terra. To be clear, there is not, so far as I know, some supernatural or demonic force that prevents them from doing good; they're just assholes. While our politicians are not perfect, they are practically saints compared to the Earth variety.
On Terra, we are stories wheras on Earth you tell them. That means our highs are very high and our lows are very low. Those who choose to be assholes or villains tend to be very much of that cloth and those who are complicated are still much clearer in tone when doing dire deeds. But....
Some of the people you have there...I must say on the AGGREGATE make our vampires look tame by comparison. A vampire in Terra might tear through an entire orphanage in a rural town to sate their blood lust before going to sleep for another century. Some of your population will sooner let millions suffer simply because it isn't their problem. Maybe our heroes are just better at moving people toward compassion but I do admit, I'm glad I live here.
The stories there are amazing. I live to see them which is why I find myself spending more and more time every day floating amongst your population, listening for anything I can, real or otherwise. But I have to wonder if the reason we write so few is because the quality of our lives is better and the reason you write so much is because...nearly anywhere else is better than where you are. But I'm biased I suppose.
Thursday, January 7, 2016
[Script] Legacy of Hope - Page 10
Scene: Anastasia looks unsure.
Scene: Anastaia looks sad, happy and in love at the same time. She throws open her hands to hug Anastasia.
Scene: Hobbes looks through the book and finds a spell.
Scene: Shot of the page of the book, the title of the spell is "Nasty Surprise"
Hobbes: What are you doing?! Stab her! She's trying to kill you! (Begins chanting)
Scene: Anastasia looks unsure but she speaks into her hand, whispering and the sword lights on fire.
Scene: Andrasta opens up her arms, not even fighting.
Scene: Anastasia hesistates.
Scene: Hobbes looks like he wants to yell but doesn't dare stop his chanting.
Scene: Anastasia lunges but stops at the last minute and cuts Andrasta's arm. Andrasta offers her other arm. Anastasia is clearly doubting.
Scene: Hobbes finishes reading and smiles with triumph.
Scene: Anastaia looks sad, happy and in love at the same time. She throws open her hands to hug Anastasia.
Scene: Hobbes looks through the book and finds a spell.
Scene: Shot of the page of the book, the title of the spell is "Nasty Surprise"
Hobbes: What are you doing?! Stab her! She's trying to kill you! (Begins chanting)
Scene: Anastasia looks unsure but she speaks into her hand, whispering and the sword lights on fire.
Scene: Andrasta opens up her arms, not even fighting.
Scene: Anastasia hesistates.
Scene: Hobbes looks like he wants to yell but doesn't dare stop his chanting.
Scene: Anastasia lunges but stops at the last minute and cuts Andrasta's arm. Andrasta offers her other arm. Anastasia is clearly doubting.
Scene: Hobbes finishes reading and smiles with triumph.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
[Heliotrope] The Geography of Fairy (in relation to Terra)
Trying to describe all of Fairy is insanely stupid, since it flickers and expands in infinite impossible directions betwixt and among worlds in fits and starts; here one day and gone the next. Whole swaths of magic kingdoms appear and disappear in the blink of an eye long before those in a world next door even realize their proximity. But some sections of Fairy, like the red spot on that storm giant Jupiter, become fixed, as a recognizable feature in an otherwise churning churl of chaos.
Such is the nature of Terra. Terra is not like Earth with its ripples upon the pond of reality affecting all of creation, but it is a place between many other places; a veritable high way from one way to another and as such certain regions of fairy have begun to congregate around it with some semblance of stability. Terra's relationship with Fairy has become almost recognizable as a realm compared to other stranger demenses such as limbo, heaven, hell and Eddie's Interdimensinal All Night Pizzaria.
Outer Fairy was once a primal forest or swamp or desert, ruled by spirits who slowly because various fairy creatures influenced by both human belief and the primal creatures inside of Inner Fairy. But time has slowly reduced their number. Their habit of kidnapping changlings and bringing them to Fairy greatly enhanced their quality of life for many centuries, but eventually the humans vastly outnumbered the fairies until there were only humans left. But a human inhabitant of fairy only looks nominally human; all have the blood of fairies in their veins, some even of Fairy Queens or Fairy Godmothers. Not all of them acknowledge their magic, but it influences their lives in ways that would be obvious to someone from Terra. It is a realm that interacts with Terra but is terrified of it; their modern technology and vast numbers infinitely larger than the smaller more magical realms connected to it. And some governments are just beginning to learn of their existence.
One can think of Fairy around Terra as a hypersphere. Inner Fairy perfectly matches the moon but also overlaps Terra. It is exactly the size of the moon, but sunrises and sunsets tend to match those of Terra. Time is not that radically different; at an equinox it is one day for one day; where at the summer solstice it tends to be five terran days for one in outer fairy. By the winter solstice there are five fairy days for every day on Terra. It tends to even out since the New Year on Terra matches the year (more or less) in Outer Fairy.
Middle Fairy is a chaotic realm the size of Mars, also superimposed over Earth but based on Mars's orbit. At apogee, time is 15 days to 1 relative to Terra. The reverse is also true. A year in Middle Terra is equal to three years in Middle Fairy. The magic here is still strong and does not rely on the complex series of magical dykes, dams, aquaducts and windmills to keep it pumping. The land is teeming with magical creatures and while there are human kingdoms there are just as many of flowers, elves, dwarves, sprites, and any spirit imaginable. Godmothers protect the realm from total destruction from Inner Fairy, while Fairy Royalty pays omage to the Godmothers and powerful colored fairies of days of old. There are very few raids into outer fairy though simply because no one (except perhaps the humans) wants humanity to overrun Middle Fairy like they did Inner Fairy.
Inner Fairy is a hypersphere the size of Jupiter, and time there indeed runs long, with 100 days to 1 at apogee relative to terra and inverted at its long flight around the sun. There are roughly 200 years in Inner Fairy relative to Terra. Inner Fairy is ruled by the court of Oberon, with giants of magical power such as Order, Chaos, Light, Darkness and other mythic individuals. Mab and her court hold tremendous sway there and sometimes there are abductions but Inner Fairy can do what it wants, when it wants and easily bypasses Middle Fairy to another realm to fetch entertainment or skill as it requires; though the games between Oberon's children affect many realms far and wide.
Such is the nature of Terra. Terra is not like Earth with its ripples upon the pond of reality affecting all of creation, but it is a place between many other places; a veritable high way from one way to another and as such certain regions of fairy have begun to congregate around it with some semblance of stability. Terra's relationship with Fairy has become almost recognizable as a realm compared to other stranger demenses such as limbo, heaven, hell and Eddie's Interdimensinal All Night Pizzaria.
Outer Fairy was once a primal forest or swamp or desert, ruled by spirits who slowly because various fairy creatures influenced by both human belief and the primal creatures inside of Inner Fairy. But time has slowly reduced their number. Their habit of kidnapping changlings and bringing them to Fairy greatly enhanced their quality of life for many centuries, but eventually the humans vastly outnumbered the fairies until there were only humans left. But a human inhabitant of fairy only looks nominally human; all have the blood of fairies in their veins, some even of Fairy Queens or Fairy Godmothers. Not all of them acknowledge their magic, but it influences their lives in ways that would be obvious to someone from Terra. It is a realm that interacts with Terra but is terrified of it; their modern technology and vast numbers infinitely larger than the smaller more magical realms connected to it. And some governments are just beginning to learn of their existence.
One can think of Fairy around Terra as a hypersphere. Inner Fairy perfectly matches the moon but also overlaps Terra. It is exactly the size of the moon, but sunrises and sunsets tend to match those of Terra. Time is not that radically different; at an equinox it is one day for one day; where at the summer solstice it tends to be five terran days for one in outer fairy. By the winter solstice there are five fairy days for every day on Terra. It tends to even out since the New Year on Terra matches the year (more or less) in Outer Fairy.
Middle Fairy is a chaotic realm the size of Mars, also superimposed over Earth but based on Mars's orbit. At apogee, time is 15 days to 1 relative to Terra. The reverse is also true. A year in Middle Terra is equal to three years in Middle Fairy. The magic here is still strong and does not rely on the complex series of magical dykes, dams, aquaducts and windmills to keep it pumping. The land is teeming with magical creatures and while there are human kingdoms there are just as many of flowers, elves, dwarves, sprites, and any spirit imaginable. Godmothers protect the realm from total destruction from Inner Fairy, while Fairy Royalty pays omage to the Godmothers and powerful colored fairies of days of old. There are very few raids into outer fairy though simply because no one (except perhaps the humans) wants humanity to overrun Middle Fairy like they did Inner Fairy.
Inner Fairy is a hypersphere the size of Jupiter, and time there indeed runs long, with 100 days to 1 at apogee relative to terra and inverted at its long flight around the sun. There are roughly 200 years in Inner Fairy relative to Terra. Inner Fairy is ruled by the court of Oberon, with giants of magical power such as Order, Chaos, Light, Darkness and other mythic individuals. Mab and her court hold tremendous sway there and sometimes there are abductions but Inner Fairy can do what it wants, when it wants and easily bypasses Middle Fairy to another realm to fetch entertainment or skill as it requires; though the games between Oberon's children affect many realms far and wide.
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