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The media around Chicago was tuned to a dead program...
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Hey, Mark Films. Happy Writing New Year! Here’s what I came up with:
EXT. CHICAGO - DAY
Busy day in the Windy City. Residents and tourists. Clear sky…. Dark clouds form.
Strong wind blows against the people, cars, and buildings.
A gigantic, monstrous DRAGON appears in the sky.
People freak out and sprint. Tourists run through traffic, causing accident after accident.
The dragon shoots lightning from its mouth, destroying buildings and vehicles.
Some people don’t freak out and run. They pull out phones and record the dragon and destruction.
A laid-back but hard-working HOT DOG VENDOR (25) bolts to the street, snatches pixie dust out a small pouch on his waist, and sprinkles it on the street.
The dust goes through the street into the sewer.
The dragon spots the people recording with their phones and charges a massive lightning ball in its mouth.
The people keep recording.
A sewer cover comes off, and four 3-foot-tall PIXIES shoot out the sewer.
Each Pixie looks and dresses different. They’re like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mixed with the Powerpuff Girls.
Three Pixies rocket through the sky toward the dragon.
The fourth one –– PYRO PIXIE (the fierce, take no crap fire Pixie) –– flies to the people recording.
PYRO PIXIE
Put your stupid phones away and run!
They record Pyro Pixie. Pyro Pixie draws back to punch a person –– the vendor runs over.
HOT DOG VENDOR
No, Pyro Pixie!
Pyro Pixie growls at the vendor and zips into the air to join the other Pixies.
Before the dragon can finish charging the lightning ball, the three Pixies draw cool weapons and attack it.
The dragon draws its own cool weapons and fights all four Pixies. Wild, intense battle! Weapons and superpowers.
The Pixies kick the dragon’s ass.
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AMAZING!! Maurice Vaughan and Michael Dzurak
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Ah... I thought this was one of those chain-story games so I just started one, but I guess Maurice did the heavy lifting! Good one!
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Thanks, Mark Films. I'm thinking about turning the scene into a script. I would change some things though. Thanks for the exercise. It was fun.
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Thanks, Michael Dzurak. "The media around Chicago was tuned to a dead program..." is interesting.
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Maurice Vaughan It was my riff on the opening line of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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Maurice Vaughan You covered everything, way to make me picture what the pixies look like and I love Pyro Pixie!
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Thanks, Marie Hatten. Pyro Pixie is the Raphael/Buttercup of the team.