Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Styke Saga

So I wrote a rough start and a Treatment.

Styke Saga
When he woke she looked for him. "Styke, when the sun doth rise once more I shall be yours"
"Then I seal that promise with a kiss."
"I need to go milk the cow."
"Velouria, shalt I see thy soon."
"Perhaps" Styke then went on his way to chop wood in the forest. It had been his job since he was a boy. Through the years he had grown strong. He packed up after finishing to go and accompany his family at dinner.
Upon returning he saw his families barn a fire, He ran because he knew Velouria was there. His heart skipped as he passed and broke into. His dad ran in after shouting "she's not here, she’s not. They took her, they took her away."
"I have to go after her."
"You’re an axmen" his father said hesitantly.
"Just an axmen" he questioned.
"You've never used a sword, you don't even have one" there was a pause "or know of anyone who does."
"This axe of mine, with it I provide for my family, with it I protect them."
Fasting his cape he went into the forest. Yielding left and right he made his way. He thought to himself why would they take her and who took her? So caught up in his thoughts he tripped plummeting to the hard unforgiving earth. "What’s your deal? Couldn't you see me here?"
Drawing his axe "who are you?"
"Not someone you'd want to try". Styke tries to strike him down. The wind hisses and Styke finds himself kissing the dirt with a sword ready to be sheathed down his throat. "Now would you like to explain yourself?"
"My name is Styke someone has taken my only true love, barns burning..."
Interrupted "I know of whom you speak and I will help you return this women you speak of safely into your arms yet again. People call me Sykler and I two have lost friends to the Tablords, all they seek is control. Here is your axe back and you can keep this sword."
"Well I only use axes."
"You have two hands, you can use both." Sykler grabs a shield and another sword of superior craftsmanship plated in silver sealed by a zealot of the Rare O'l Thymes at the hilt. "Always be on guard." He swings his sword and points in the direction they’re to go.

Treatment

OR: Styke is living in the wilderness with his family and his soon to be wife Velouria.
Call: 1. Velouria is taken by the Tablords and he decides to go after her. 2. Sykler holding the expiring Styke tells him he was the hero from years past who should have ended the Tablords. He takes the blame, but Styke tells him to press on and change this world.
Refusal: Sykler decided in the past it wasn’t his job to end the rein of the Tablords.
Meeting Mentor: Styke is running in the forest trying to catch his wife’s kidnappers.
Threshold: 1. Styke leaving home. 2. Sykler after Styke’s death decides to become the prophecy.
Test: Learning to wield a sword, Fighting Ace, and saving Velouria.
Allies: Styke, Sykler, Heed, Lynn
Enemies: Orgorn, Ace, and Tablords.
Ordeal: Sykler has to decide that the thing he wants to do least is the thing he must do. Kill Orgorn the Tablord leader.
Reward: Dethroning Orgorn he becomes the leader.
Road Back: He returns to Styke’s grave and has a funeral for Velouria. They’re laid to rest next to each other in the shade of a tree on a hill.
Resurrection: Sykler returns to his rightful throne at the head of the Tablords.
Elixir: Everyone is free from Tablord repression.
Hero: Styke and Sykler.
Mentor: Sykler.
Threshold Guardian: Styke has to die for Sykler to become the hero himself.
Herald: Heed.
Shape Shifter: Lynn.
Shadow: Ace befriends them at first but then betrays them by killing Velouria.
Trickster: Sykler you think he’s a ranger at first, but then you find out that he once was a king before corruption.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hero Journey Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

OR: Arther Dent is on earth living in the UK.
Call: His earth home is to be demolished little does he know earth is also to be destroyed.
Refusal : Arther puts himself in front of a bulldozer as he is in denial. Ford helps him drink hes problems away.
Meeting Mentor: Ford Leeds him with the help of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Threshold: Hitchhiking into space on a vogon ship.
Test: Space, getting the Point of View gun, and ridding themselves of vogons.
Allies:Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, Marvin, Zaphod and Towels.
Enemies: Vogons.

Approach:Get jettisoned into space, mice try to cut out his brains, Trillian gets kid napped.
Ordeal: Find the answer to life the galaxy and everything.
Reward: He learns to accept the face earth is better off without him.
Road Back: Earth is remade paid for by mice. The question is then asked will he stay on earth.
Resurrection: Mice try to cut out his brains while his friends and him are drugged up, but they manage to exscape.
Elixir: Leaves earth with a love for space and adventure.
Hero: Arther.
Mentor: Ford, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Threshold Guardian: Hitchhiker's Ring, portal gates on Magrathea.
Herald: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Ford.
Shape Shifter: Zaphod tries to hide that he destroyed the earth.
Shadow: Vogons, Mice, and maybe Zaphod.
Trickster: Zaphod with his two personalities.