18 August 2007

The Story that never happened. Pt1

This is the story that never happened. I don't exactly know why I never got around to writing this during the Summer. I tried to start on two separate occasion and got a couple of pages, but I stopped.
 
Here is the main points of the story.
 
1) Protagonist wakes up delirious in a strange Earth-like Forest-Place occupied by other individuals. (Cliche)
2) Protagonist shortly blacks out and wakes up in the camp.
2) Place is laws-of-physics defying, with strange and impossible things happening. (Cliche)
3) Place has a strange rule where people only stay for ~90 days before they disappear. New people arrive to replace the ones gone.
4) People learn and gain new super-human abilities such as telepathy or telekin. (Cliche)
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Now, the day that the Protagonist arrives is unique because only one person went missing and two persons arrived. The other person quickly becomes the Romantic Interest. That day also marks the day that people stop arriving. This story is set in the 90 or so days that the Protagonist remains. Strange, apocalyptic things begin to occur.
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5) Most people are content just waiting until the 90 days are over.
6) Protagonist and Romantic Interest ventures outside of the camp to discover secrets against wishes of the Leader.
7) They discover the place where they arrived. It is a ruin filled with strange coffins.
8) People placed in the coffin disappear, and new people arrive. The Elder supervises this.
9) Apocalyptic things continue to occur. Wild climate changes occur. Food no longer magically appear. People become roudy and Elder uses the two as scapegoats. They argue that this had never happened before the two arrived. The Protagonist is convinced something is 'screwed up' and that it'll be solved if one of the two goes into the coffin.
10) Protagonist and Romantic Interest finds out they're to be forcibly placed into the coffins to go into the 'next life' overmorrow. Protagonist chooses to sacrifice himself by volunteering to go first.
11) Protagonist reflects upon his first ~33 days in this place.
~End of Part 1
 
 
I lied. The reason why I stopped was because the story is so derivative; the characterization was so mundane and two dimensional; and the writing sucked. I couldn't stand looking at the words on the screen. Ugh.

1 comments:

Annie said...

Mmm, I really like the idea of a civilization where you can only warp in and out of through warp keys (coffins, in this case), and is forever unreachable through physical travel. This is a cool concept.

Even Atlantis, or Stargate is just shortening travel with teleportation, etc.

However, if this is just a civilization in another dimension, it is no longer cool.