rotating your phone will give better results
notes: chapter structure:a-stone-walled-kink might make a good starting point.
PART 1:
- reset-2 //written
{
Narrator:"Martha"
Martha wakes up
she has no recent memory
in a rich stranger's house
Martha talks with Rossin
discusses namshubs, hooks, and related
philosophy of what an idea is
don't look left
a monster is there
it ate Rossin's author
Rossin subdued it
but at a high cost
Martha is a bit hollow
Martha pushes Rossin and exits the house
She concerns herself with her work
Rossin gets hit by a car
he is fine, asks what is real
Martha can't do certain weird things:
proprioception is messed with her ear and hands
}
- the-start-of-bad-things //written
- where-things-go-wrong //written
- a-stone-walled-kink //written
- enter-the-den //written
- lions-tigers-and-bears //written
- tests //written
- inside-the-unknown //written
- vows //written
- lixin-merph //written
- errors //written
- redeye //written
- the-undernet //written
- restructuring //written
- interludes //written
PART 2:
- the-plan //written
- descent-resent-torment //written
- confrontation //written
- seeds of a new world //written
- the great awakening //written
- consequences //writing
{
Narrator:"Martha Crisp"
Rossin and Martha have a conversation:
Martha thinks Rossin knew that much algera would kill her,
Hedges her bets against Alacira if she is mistaken or lying: she keeps her suspicions close to herself,
Wilbert worries that he only can go out on Halloween now
Wilbert is not awake... just a fish-man,
Narrator:"Robert Glass of the Tok"
A surviving Robert Glass of the Tok in the lab of Alice Glass
directing the manufacture of her serum among themselves, laments their inability to find a needle in a haystack.
Goals: scene is to hammer home what Al-Tok is, its limitations, and a better picture of its immediate goals.
Narrator:"Flanagan"
Flanagan abandons his body, which dies when they enter the real world.
Flanagan takes over Felix
Felix is kept in the 'back-seat' of own his mind.
Flanagan rifles though his brain
links to chapters and events with Kent: [
from: the meeting of the undernet,
to: walking The Chemist on the hospital bed,
]
pragmatic reasons to keep the charade going - (he finds them).
{TO USE}
Everyone was in their own world, and trying to force everyone else to join them.
But by pulling equally in all directions: commonalities appeared, ripples and echos of coherence.
harmonizing waves in a sea of minds bound the desires of the outliers, often in persecution.
}
{
Narrator:"Kent"
Flanagan in Felix returns with Kent to his home
Narrator:"The Relux"
The Relux plot-line lines... //heist stuff
}
-
{
Narrator:"Al-tok"
Al-tok discovering the needle in its haystack - a link to every human heart.
Al-tok now has a direct line to every human heart,
It wants to talk to the person who put the needle there: Martha
Narrator:"The Relux"
The Relux plot-line lines... //heist stuff
}
{
Narrator:"The Relux"
The Relux plot-line lines... //heist stuff
Jochek talks Martha what it is to be part of a hivemind.
Narrator:"Martha"
Robert Glass of the Tok starts giving people heart attacks just to distress Martha
Al-tok's access to any human heart means it can take over for a short time.
this is a death sentence
Narrator:"Kent"
Alacira and Flanagan nuke the lab - destroying the physical presence of Al-Tok.
When Kent proves resistant to their manipulations, violence ensues?
Robert in the body of ${}enters and informs them why they messed up in the second interludes
}
- interludes 2 //writing
{
}
PART 3
26
{
Narrator:"Robert Glass"
Time: shortly after summoning Al-tok
Robert Glass, and Alice Glass (Who shares his mind) have a road trip
They are hiding in the physical world
They have a conversation:
Al-tok is just controlling puppets,
It is not actually in any of them.
And it can remove himself quickly.
It needs a physical presence:
in order to inject it.
'equivalent to showing a vein'
}
27{
Narrator:"The Relux"
Al-tok attacks the Relux
but being a hivemind - they stave it off.
Narrator:"Martha"
Martha suggests a giant hivemind
for all humanity.
Al-tok attacks Martha -
Rossin sacrifices himself
to prevent Al-tok from re-planting a seed.
}
29 interludes 3?{
//not sure what to put here
}
part 4:
30{
Narrator:"Martha"
Martha has nightmares,
Is nearly taken over by Al-tok
instead joins The Relux
Narrator:"Robert"
Alice in Robert suggests taking the serum
inviting Al-tok into the physical world.
Expose a vein
Alice convinces Robert:
the creature
with billions of eyes and mouths
feeding on humanity
is not a good thing.
Robert wants to use Al-tok
as a chip to renegotiation.
}
31{
Narrator:"Martha"
They bring Al-tok back
Through Robert/Alice
They attempt to reach a bargain
The are forced to sterilize
Fail to sterilize
No serum left.
Martha convinces Felix to join The Relux
}
part 5: epilogue
32{
Narrator:"Various"
montage of various small scenes
In the form of links:
stories of
falling into Al-tok
The Relux getting larger.
Narrator:"Martha"
Martha talks with Alacira:
Alacira talks about setting up shop
on an adjacent angle,
in a different link
hunting for Al-tok
Martha gives Alacira a book
Alacira destroys: disappearing.
Felix overheads (as a Relux):
He tries to keep it a secret
fails
breaks from The Relux
Felix is sure Al-Tok is dealt with.
something goes here to get martha away
}
33{
Narrator:"Martha"
Martha arrives at Flanagan's,
Felix is gone
Flanagan is bleeding out on the floor
when he dies - he uses the landing pad on Martha
Flanagan explains about the reality walkers
to his surprise - he has no admin rights in her head,
a consequence of Rossin being in there first
Martha burns a stack of papers
that may or may not be a catchall cure for cancer
written in exactly one place.
She herself disappears
with a little guidance from Flanagan
}
big notes::
plot line threads to keep track of:
the way out needs to be added.
A lot of this is old - and needs to be revamped.
Notes on appending to this document:
Format should be:
2-spaces for indentation
describes both a new scene, and the narrator for that scene
Narrator: {{name}}
plot point
consequences/explanations
consequences of consequence... etc
sub-plot point
sub-consequences/explanations
sub-sub-plot point
etc