Name: the quest Storyline: Our hero Johnny Martin his scent on a geas. that is a magical command that must be fulfilled. he must go to the land of x a small town of his home state he must contact Topic: quest Genre: comtemporary fantasy Plot: a Scarecrow shaman puts a geas on Johny Merkin to save the worldNotes: :
Name: Daniel Fergis Function in the story: Minor character Age: 49 Outer goal: Work his way up political circles to become a senater or congressman in the government Inner goal: Money sex, revenge against all who he feels has wronged him Physical description: slightly pudgey but with a pot belly and repeatly receding hairline. Psychological description: Selfish and authoritarian, plays people but he is not the best player around Evolution throughout the story: He is the judge of a living spider contest in a fucked up little town thats having its yearly festival. He is a used car saleman giving a bad car away as the prize he is also trying to fuck a couple thick big titty Woman there and if possible the 19 year old chick he hired to do some of the announcements Biography: Notes:
Name: drunken Donnie keeler Function in the story: Protagonist Age: 67 Outer goal: win the lottery and tell everybody he knows to kiss his ass Inner goal: Marry a high school girl and keep her to himself in a romantic basement Physical description: Lips a glossy brown from constant smoking, reds a permanant mat red from drinking skinny Man with disturbingly fat belly Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: Eyepatch guy 3 Function in the story: Minor character Age: 47 Outer goal: Inner goal: Physical description: Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: Eyepatch guy 4 Function in the story: Minor character Age: 50 Outer goal: Have a good time when not lazy around or working his 40 hour a week job Inner goal: To never encounter the talking ravan again Physical description: The right side of his face horribly scared from a burning car wreck that took out his girlfriend and his eye. Meduim build. Wears tight blue jeans and nice western shirts Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: Eyepatch guy number 2 Function in the story: Protagonist Age: 48 Outer goal: Inner goal: Physical description: Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: eyepatch guy one Function in the story: Obstacle Age: 53 Outer goal: To get drunk Inner goal: To drink Physical description: Shabby dressed fat guy with a too loud voice And a studdering laugh Psychological description: very outspoken fan of Gerald Ellen the president of our farmland and Country. On Any Given night there's a 35% chance he will be thrown out for violent or aggressive behavior usually not such an offense that he will be permanently thrown out. He wears a red "Me Me Me", hat that was Ellon's winning campaign slogan. Evolution throughout the story: some loud talking idiot sitting at the bar talking with the bartender whom is a gray-haired wrinkle of a man he seems the most approachable he has an eye patch the other guy with eye patches are seated at table or accepting one's is playing pool. Sitting at bar downing shots and boring the bar tender who trys to pretend an interest. The Bartender is noticely relieved when Johny sits down and buys to a drink "For a chat". The exchange don't go well and eye patch 1 gets up and selects a Kobe Beef song from the jute box "I"m going beat you down", Beefs 2008 hit song about beating down gays, liberals, coloreds and other "others", for "Talking that shit", some of the Men shout along favorite key phrases from the tune. Biography: Like most of the town, he works In the town city of stuwbing. he is a forklift driver he's also a drunk fairly aggressive angry. He trolls the internet but mostly just attacks liberal counter trolls who get on Merica first social media along with masses of fellow true Americans. Notes:
Name: fat whore Function in the story: Antagonist Age: 43 Outer goal: Get sums of that dick, especially strange dick she ain't had yet. Inner goal: Breed a master race to rule the planet Physical description: booze and taken it's toll and over eating. She is bumpy and fat, even her long blond hair is thick and clumpy. Massive breasts being the one factor that gets her Men's attention so she don't wear a bra Psychological description: A angry socialpath who always gets her revenge if she can. Even if she got a steady good sex pardner she would be abusive. She has a scarred up scarred of it's own tail she takes her rage out on, it's her 47th pet, all the rest she killed unless they ran away first. Evolution throughout the story: She tries to seduce our hero and failing that she abushes him for a mule kick to the crotch Biography: Born in a small town to drunk parents sexually abusive dad. she killed her little sister in the cradle and made it look like an accident because she was jealous of the attention she got. On disablity for being too fat and she has to eat a lot to keep her weight high enough to qualify for governement handouts. Spends her time at the bar trying to get laid she normally succeeds but from the same lame group of drunks who also hang there Notes:
Name: hell bound dude one Function in the story: Antagonist Age: died at 39 Outer goal: own the libtards Inner goal: get released from this hell sentence that he doesn't believe he deserves being a hater for god all his life and all. Physical description: Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: Johnny merkin Function in the story: Protagonist Age: 38 Outer goal: fulfilling the geas put on him by a Scarecrow wizard Inner goal: be high and eat tacos Physical description: Skinny brown haired dude with younger then his actual years look about him. Psychological description: Brooding dude poor and prone to obsess on different hobbies for weeks to months before switching suddenly to a new obsession Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: nameless hippy dude Function in the story: Sidekick Age: 73 Outer goal: drift across America living the dream Inner goal: to write a book about his wandering life. Physical description: bushy long white hair and beard. a brutal looking walking stick he calls friend. ragged clothes dirty sunglasses Psychological description: kind and generous into magic. Evolution throughout the story: Johnny meets him worlds whilst hiking back to the depotJohnny meets him whilst hiking back to the depot. They strike up a friendship and and he decides to accompany accompany Johnny to this strange haunted is strange haunted depot he tells them about. Biography: Notes:
Name: Stan Smith Function in the story: Skeptic Age: 65 Outer goal: Hurt liberal faggots and use meth Inner goal: Find love and take over the world, in that order Physical description: A little overheated with unruly long white beard and a long red scar from left cheeck to above eyebrow from a broken bottle weapon used in a bar fight. You can tell he is tweakin any time you see him. Dude probably very rarely sleeps. Hell, you can smell the meth reekin through hs pores. The only Man you might meet who suffers from meth farts. Psychological description: Cruel bully who loves to hurt people and rape women, in that order. Evolution throughout the story: Stan is the bouncer at the little bar in Ixt. He does his job for free, he just gets to drink free beer and hurts trouble makers. He is warned to mostly beat down strangers to the town being as trashing the clientele of the bar is bad for repeat business. Johny being under magical control has to tell everyone with an eyepatch that the ravan sent him and it does not go over well. A couple of times Stan goes over to tell him to chill. After Johny gets roughed up He throws Johny Merkin out after a couple of the eye patch Men assualt him. Stan Smith appears later in the story crackling with meth and rage to fight Johny to the death. Biography: Stan grew up with a abusive drunk step father after his father was stabbed do death in a bar fight with a Man who was fucking his mother when he was three. Stan was hyperactive and given ritalin and he has been on speed long for his entire life. Notes: Biker, has a handgun stashed in his leather big bag.
Name: the old couple Function in the story: Protagonist's Helper Age: he 91 she 89 Outer goal: process tickets sell homemade food and drink and pre rolled joints. Inner goal: die and be reincarnated to meet and become lovers again. Physical description: small white haired and bent wearing clothes that appear to be from the 1980s. Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: The raven Function in the story: Protagonist's Helper Age: 16 Outer goal: Save the world via magic Inner goal: sex and more sex with every sorta animal and human possible Physical description: old wrinkled and red eyed from smoking so much weed. His beak is damaged from a fire he survived 2 years ago. Psychological description: calm and focused Evolution throughout the story: Only appears a few times sometimes to save Johny Merkin from some foul fate. always brings him a joint. Biography: Wise and elder raven flew to Kansas to be the spokesman apprentice of the Scarecrow shaman. Plans to return to the Colorado rockies and be a healer to his people and to steal many shiney things from the humans along the way. Notes:
Name: The Scarecrow Function in the story: Protagonist Age: 40 Outer goal: Keep the world going long enough to score a human body Inner goal: To again inhabit a human body. Physical description: Made of straw with a mummified human heart that channels the sprit of the Man who was killed to make it. Ragged over alls and a floppy demin hat. the straw looks old and sun faded, a walking fire hazard Psychological description: Hollow but hopeful. Grimly keeping the midwest from various forms of threat and doom. Evolution throughout the story: Biography: Notes:
Name: Todd Rose Function in the story: Minor character Age: 27 Outer goal: Inner goal: Physical description: Psychological description: Evolution throughout the story: Biography:
Name: Jestin County Type: Interior Description: An area of Kansas at the end of a beutiful expense of low rolling hills. Farming and meth are the main sources of income, with poaching and cutting down and selling other people's trees as runner ups. Bad phone reception here. It should be a tourist spot for all its gentle beauty. A 10 foot rat snake slithers across the road. lots of old sagging farm houses abandoned decades ago. there's even a sod house probably from the late 1800s still standing though mostly sunk into the Earth. Notes:
Title: in the abandoned farmhouse
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Title: Return to the abandoned depot Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: Goal: get from point a to point b Notes:
Title: return to the depot Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: Now that Johnny is back in this Is dimension of Earth and Kansas He sets himself about the long walk back to the abandoned depot. He catches a ride But they argue about politics and the guy pulls a gun and stops the truck ordering Johnny out Goal: Notes:
Title: the bar in Ixt Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: A teeny bar that serves the entire small selection drunks that live in this town is a run down place that saw its peak in the seventies. Meth running right wing bikers use this location for their drug hook ups. The place normally has about 24 people in it. Most of the town's drunks hang here being as they have to drive 18 miles to the nearest liquir store but they can drink here. It's walking distance from any location in town and many folks drive here from their farms in the ten mile radius. Johny has to go here to tell the Man with the eyepatch that the Ravan sent him. But there are 3 Men in here sporting eye patches. Turns out eye patch guy number 4 is in the Men's room taking an extended shit.. The place has a rough looking sixty something years old bouncer who looks like a biker. He mean mugs Johny when he enters. He gets plenty of look overs as a obvious out of towner. He has come here to tell the Man with a eyepatch that the Ravan sent him. But there are three Men with eyepatches here. Fucking hell. One eyepatch Man is at the bar talking the bored talking the bartender's ear off. Johny decides to try that guy first.
Dude is talking about almost hitting a deer with his truck on the way back from Stuwbing. "Shame I missed, good meat, bullets arn't cheap". Johny sits near the pair and orders a couple Golden montana beers.
"One for you, for the price of conversation". The Man nods his head gruffly. You look him over as he accepts the beer. He has one of those red "Me Me Me!", hats that President Gerald Ellon wears and does promos of during his state of the union address. Already on his third term this asshole seems to be President for life. "I'm stopping for a couple drinks on my way home. I have never been through this town so I thought I'd check it out". " The Raven sent me" he tells the man who just gives him a weird look what the hell you talkin about boy are you on drugs this is plainly not the person with the eyepatch to tell the message to you finish the beer as a conversation dies and move on to the next eyepatch guy
Goal: Tell the Man with an eyepatch that the Ravan sent me. Notes:
Title: the end Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: When all is said and done, Johnny has come to the end of his quest.. It turns out it turns out the thing that saves the world is the world is a ridiculously simple it's simple act he doesn't have to fight nothing just to fight Nathan there's no traps he just walks up and does it easy it does it easy and the world is saved. The Raven appears Tells him he saved the world and now he is a free man to do as he wants. But it was so easy Johnny says in confusion Johnny says in confusion.. The bird says the bird says no actually only you could do that only you could do that no other life force on the planet could have done it And they lived happily ever after. Goal: Notes:
Title: the quest Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: Johnny merkin our protagonist is asleep in his bed when he is awoken by a scare crow and a raven The Raven can talk it lets Johnny now that he is been put under a geas and he must fulfill a quest. Is told he has to go to the town of Ixed and talk to a man with an eye patch to find the location of an abandoned farmhouse that has a smart phone on the table that will text him his next instructions Goal: For Johny Merkin to find what his magic quest is and complete it Notes: The scarecrow is burned at the storys end and Johny is made into the replacement scarecrow.
Title: To the rolling hills. Type of Plot: Main Plot Description: The next step of his quest Johny must find an abanded depot in the rolling hills and wait for a ghost train to pick him up. The phone battery dies and he does not get to read the rest of the text. He has a car charger that works with the old phone.He charges while driving to his location. But he has no signal in this area and he gets on the ghost train. After riding about 20 minutes the text pops up and it says to make sure to not get on the first ghost train because its going to hell. The passengers aboard this train are apparantly dead people butr they seem to have phyical mass and some of them are pretty imtimidating. Johny is scarred and he wants to get out of this train to hell. But all the doors are locked and he cannopt get them open. As he goes by seated passengers some of them sniff the are and comment "He has the stink of the living". They seem to have no scent at all. Goal: Get to the place before he runs out of gas or his car breaks down.
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ACT 1 Bar scene - P1 Johnny times his arrival in the town of Ixt for the late evening early night figuring that's when the bar will be hopping. Along the way a badly Drunken driver nearly hits Johnny had on Also some strange animal round built like a rug and Wholly crosses the road in front of him this is a manooska or flat mammoth. He doesn't like the town on Ixt on first sight. Having to drive around a mostly devoured remains of a deer carcass the coyoes must of dragged onto the road don't improve his impression of the town. The bar is easy to find. Only the bar and a gas station are open on the main road. The road is named Ixt. Johny could imagine the towns folk being something like H P Lovecraft's deep ones, or some right wing extremist cult. So he pulls up to the bar and enters the run down dump. There are 19 People in here and three of them are sporting eyepatches. There is even another guy with an eyepatch but he is currently is the Men's room taking an extended shit. A fat blonde at the bar is looking at Johny with venus flytrap eyes of lust. She hits on him but he don't want her, so she waits outside the bar to ambush him with a hard kick to the crotch.
Pull over and vomit after the bar. - P1 Surely that bar serves past expiration beer they can get cheap. Johnny drank entirely too many beers whilst he was in the bar. He makes it a couple miles out of town and pulls over on the lonesome country road is lonesome country road no other vehicle headlights inside is it cool headlights inside and he pukes a lot it pukes a lot it's a miserable experience.
the train to hell - P1 Johny gets on the wrong train, finding this out from a text after he has already gotten onboard. It's a train to hell and he is trying to find a way off the train before it's too late
Live spider eating contest - P1 Johny cannot leave the small town in has been driven into by feral dogs after he escaped the hellbound train. They guard the towns border and will kill him if he tries to escape. So he enters the living spider contest to win a crappy car and drive away the contest is part of a yearly festival in this town. There are endless pick nick tables set out and beer and shrooms are sold by vendors dispite shrooms being illegal in Kansas
return to Kansas, a long mostly uneventful walk except he finds a white and red arrowhead beside the road and some teenagers harass him over and over again until they wreck their car - P1
catching a ride - P1
After escaping the feral dog pack in the spider eating contest town Johny only makes it about four miles before the junk car he won sputters out and dies. He gets out and walks and a banged up truck pulls up and asks if he needs a ride. So he gets in the driver, a redneckish young Man with green and purple dyed hair says he is going to Lawrence to catch the Black Circle concert. Along the ride he gets a text from the ravan warning him not to get into the truck he is riding in with the simple message its a trap. Johnny uses the opportunity he gets when the man stopped by a liquor store to get a 12 pack Whilst the guys getting the beer inside the store Johnny fleas the truck and hides in town he notices the guy is driving all over looking for him
ACT 2 trip to ixt - P1
ACT 3
In the bar - P1
Johnny enters this small rundown bar looking for a man with a eyepatch but you discovers there's 3 men with eye patches in the bar even stranger, there's actually five eye patch men. Johnny is looking for, but the last guy, and the one he's looking for is in there restroom taking at a extended shit. these are small town dudes a little bit suspicious of some City Slicker stranger at this bar where everybody knows everybody every single time.
ACT 4 The house - P1 After a hard late night search Johny finds the house where he is to get instructions from the smartphone on the kitchen table. A fallen tree blocks most of the long driveway and he walks to the house only to be confronted by a snarling barking aggressive doberman pincher. He mades a run for the house and the dog bites him as he gets in the door and shuts it out. The abandoned house is thrashed by parting teenagers with beer cans scattered all over. pantys in the corner covered in cobwebs. Phone on the table as promised, an old samsung note 2. Sure enough it still has a charge and it viberates from an incoming text......Meanwhile the barks savagely outside.
Congradulations, you have made it this far. Not that you had any choice, sorry but too much is at stake to give you one. Your mission is to drive to the rolling hills of Jestin county. follow the hills alongside the river. There will be a flat space amongst the hills with an old run down depot from the 1920's. You will wait there for the ghost train. There is a ticket to get onboard on the table. Leave the car, take the train to the third depot it pulls up to. Get out there. The phone dies before the next incoming text arrives. He has a car battery charger that fits this phone in the car. But first he must get past that vicious dog or wait for it to leave. He ends up falling asleep on the trash strewn couch. When he wakes up in the morning there is no sign of the dog.
ACT 5 next train - P1 Is Johnny walks back to the abandoned depot Texting The Raven but getting no reply Texting The Raven but getting no reply
ACT 12 back on a ghost train. - P1 Is thirsty and exhausted Johnny Returns to the abandoned depot after a long long walk. The Raven flies down and land flies down and lands on his shoulder saying saying you're doing OK so far but pick up the page before but pick up the pacer nothing survives nothing survives. He hands Johnny is Johnny a train ticket is a train ticket printed in parchment paper And smelling like sandal wood. An old couple are at the depot working and they have ice cold lemonade for 5 cents Johnny found a nickel whilst walking when he pays a when he pays up and gets a sweet cold is a sweet cold refreshment that rehydrates him.
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Title: Bar scene Act: Act 1 Point of view: first person Appearing characters: Eyepatch guy 3, Eyepatch guy number 2, eyepatch guy one, fat whore, Johnny merkin, Stan Smith Appearing locations: ixt Type of scene: Action Plot: To the rolling hills. Tension: Exposition Description: Johnny times his arrival in the town of Ixt for the late evening early night figuring that's when the bar will be hopping. Along the way a badly Drunken driver nearly hits Johnny had on Also some strange animal round built like a rug and Wholly crosses the road in front of him this is a manooska or flat mammoth. He doesn't like the town on Ixt on first sight. Having to drive around a mostly devoured remains of a deer carcass the coyoes must of dragged onto the road don't improve his impression of the town. The bar is easy to find. Only the bar and a gas station are open on the main road. The road is named Ixt. Johny could imagine the towns folk being something like H P Lovecraft's deep ones, or some right wing extremist cult. So he pulls up to the bar and enters the run down dump. There are 19 People in here and three of them are sporting eyepatches. There is even another guy with an eyepatch but he is currently is the Men's room taking an extended shit. A fat blonde at the bar is looking at Johny with venus flytrap eyes of lust. She hits on him but he don't want her, so she waits outside the bar to ambush him with a hard kick to the crotch. Notes:
Title: the train to hell Act: Act 1 Point of view: 1st person. Appearing characters: Johnny merkin Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: ghost train Tension: Exposition Description: Johny gets on the wrong train, finding this out from a text after he has already gotten onboard. It's a train to hell and he is trying to find a way off the train before it's too late Notes:
Title: Live spider eating contest Act: Act 1 Point of view: 3rd person Appearing characters: Johnny merkin Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: Tension: Exposition Description: Johny cannot leave the small town in has been driven into by feral dogs after he escaped the hellbound train. They guard the towns border and will kill him if he tries to escape. So he enters the living spider contest to win a crappy car and drive away the contest is part of a yearly festival in this town. There are endless pick nick tables set out and beer and shrooms are sold by vendors dispite shrooms being illegal in Kansas Notes:
Title: return to Kansas, a long mostly uneventful walk except he finds a white and red arrowhead beside the road and some teenagers harass him over and over again until they wreck their car Act: Act 1 Point of view: Appearing characters: Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: Tension: Exposition Description: Notes:
Title: catching a ride Act: Act 1 Point of view: Appearing characters: Johnny merkin Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: Tension: Exposition Description: After escaping the feral dog pack in the spider eating contest town Johny only makes it about four miles before the junk car he won sputters out and dies. He gets out and walks and a banged up truck pulls up and asks if he needs a ride. So he gets in the driver, a redneckish young Man with green and purple dyed hair says he is going to Lawrence to catch the Black Circle concert. Along the ride he gets a text from the ravan warning him not to get into the truck he is riding in with the simple message its a trap. Johnny uses the opportunity he gets when the man stopped by a liquor store to get a 12 pack Whilst the guys getting the beer inside the store Johnny fleas the truck and hides in town he notices the guy is driving all over looking for him Notes:
Title: trip to ixt Act: Act 2 Point of view: Appearing characters: Johnny merkin Appearing locations: ixt Type of scene: Reaction Plot: Tension: Exposition Description: Notes: Backwards back country roads Johnny is nearly ran into by a drunk driver. Sees abandoned old farm houses odd unidendifyable animals crossing the road. a buffolo wanders along the ditch and it has no fear as Merkin drives past. It just looks at him like he is out of place out from the wrong time here. once Majestic, now ruined and abandoned farm houses, caved in trailers.
Title: In the bar Act: Act 3 Point of view: Appearing characters: Eyepatch guy 3, Eyepatch guy 4, Eyepatch guy number 2, eyepatch guy one, Stan Smith Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: the bar in Ixt Tension: Exposition Description: Johnny enters this small rundown bar looking for a man with a eyepatch but you discovers there's 3 men with eye patches in the bar even stranger, there's actually five eye patch men. Johnny is looking for, but the last guy, and the one he's looking for is in there restroom taking at a extended shit. these are small town dudes a little bit suspicious of some City Slicker stranger at this bar where everybody knows everybody every single time. Notes: Some of the most racist and God-awful music protagonist has ever heard is being played here on an actual old school jukebox with vinyl records
Title: The house Act: Act 4 Point of view: Appearing characters: Johnny merkin Appearing locations: Type of scene: Action Plot: Tension: Conflict Description: After a hard late night search Johny finds the house where he is to get instructions from the smartphone on the kitchen table. A fallen tree blocks most of the long driveway and he walks to the house only to be confronted by a snarling barking aggressive doberman pincher. He mades a run for the house and the dog bites him as he gets in the door and shuts it out. The abandoned house is thrashed by parting teenagers with beer cans scattered all over. pantys in the corner covered in cobwebs. Phone on the table as promised, an old samsung note 2. Sure enough it still has a charge and it viberates from an incoming text......Meanwhile the barks savagely outside.
Congradulations, you have made it this far. Not that you had any choice, sorry but too much is at stake to give you one. Your mission is to drive to the rolling hills of Jestin county. follow the hills alongside the river. There will be a flat space amongst the hills with an old run down depot from the 1920's. You will wait there for the ghost train. There is a ticket to get onboard on the table. Leave the car, take the train to the third depot it pulls up to. Get out there. The phone dies before the next incoming text arrives. He has a car battery charger that fits this phone in the car. But first he must get past that vicious dog or wait for it to leave. He ends up falling asleep on the trash strewn couch. When he wakes up in the morning there is no sign of the dog. Notes:
Title: next train Act: Act 5 Point of view: Appearing characters: Appearing locations: Jestin County Type of scene: Action Plot: Return to the abandoned depot Tension: Exposition Description: Is Johnny walks back to the abandoned depot Texting The Raven but getting no reply Texting The Raven but getting no reply