Still at it…
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SPOOKTOBER DAY 12 – WESTERN
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  PARANOIA

TITLE:  THE ANGEL OF GOD

Premise:  Feuding rascals in a wild west have gone too far, shot too many innocent bystanders.  A preacher has a vision and makes peace his mission, establishing The Angel of God Revival Church.  When he speaks, even wild boys listen.  A great calm settles over the town and everything is hunkydory.

Horror Element:  Reckon that’s a mite suspicious?  Picture a little too purdy?  The outlaws who hate each other the most, want to kill each other the most, find that when they break out of the spell enough to try, they are overwhelmed by some unnatural power.  Don’t feel like the work of Heaven.  And if’n it is, Heaven needs to step aside.

An angel-like creature is behind the effect.  The preacher sacrifices cattle to gain intercession, and the spirits calm everybody by singing an almost imperceptible note that carries throughout the town and countryside.  The wild boys plug up their ears and go on a cherub-killing spree, which the preacher responds to by summoning the boss angel to walk the dusty streets, punishing the sinners.  They kill the angel and live happily ever after.

Clearly, this was devils masquerading as angels to lead impressionable preacher into sin, right?  No, it’s just the way god actually works.  Miracles don’t happen anymore because priests forgot how to sacrifice cattle right.  The more you know.

Some Nonsense:  Fameis, or Fronone, like a great marquis appears among the multitude, and makes people marvelous in rhetoric.  He gives the best familiars, understanding of languages, and the grace of one’s friends and enemies.  He has twenty-six under him, partly from the order of thrones, and partly from the order of angels.

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SPOOKTOBER DAY 13 – VAMPIRES
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  MUSIC

TITLE:  BLACK BRASS

Premise:  Alexis gets bad headaches.  At peak moments, they’re accompanied by a deafening cacophony of trumpets, vision fading in and out of blackness, and an indescribable sense she is surrounded by crows.  At last a neurologist diagnoses the condition as form of epilepsy and gets her on some medicine.

It wasn’t epilepsy, exactly.  There’s an outer darkness of infinite hunger that seeks to devour all life.  Alexis has latent psychic potential that the darkness used to gain a foothold in the world of the living.  The darkness was eating at her, and the pills stop that.  She still has episodes, but she recovers from them much more quickly.  Thanks, science.

Horror Element:  During her episodes now the darkness is forced out of her mind and into the world of the living, where it manifests as a guy in black.  Sometimes he’s a shadow on the wall, a crow in the parking lot, a disembodied musical note, a face in the mirror that is not your own.  He steals people’s life force before he disappears again.  As Alexis gains more life and health, the people around her begin to suffer and die.

Some Nonsense:  Judifliges, a strong leader, appears in the likeness of a crow, and then he appears in human form.  When he proceeds before his master instructor who so commands, he makes all who look upon him hear a symphony of trumpets.  And then he brings forth all kinds of instruments and teaches how to play them.  He is the best familiar.  He has 19 legions under his dominion.

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SPOOKTOBER DAY 14 – ALIENS/SPACE
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  CHAOS

TITLE:  JOSEFINA Y BLASFEMIA VS LA VENGANZO DEL PAPADO

Premise:  In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.™  After Josefina and Blasfemia defeated the church and its angels, they left the Stars of Weal in pandemonium.  This was supposed to be impossible.  What happens when your prayers can only be answered by devils?  When the templars have lost their supernatural authority?  When primal spirits walk the worlds with no one able to contest their powers?

Horror Element:  Chaos rules, babes.  Josefina and Blasfemia can disappear into it and live out their days in relative peace, should they so desire.  But first they have to run a gauntlet of messed up horrors.  The Astrocielo is burning once again, fallen angels squalling in terror and mutating into who knows what?  Then there’s the horror from within the team – the duendelino that became obsessed with Josefina owns their only means of travel between worlds – the Leveret.  Trapped in space with your stalker, what could be worse?  The Mandate of Heaven has broken and the Church will never be able to recover from this blow.  But that won’t stop them from getting their revenge…

Some Nonsense:  Andras, or Vandras – a great marquis – appears in angelic form, with a head considered similar to a great night raven.  He rides on a strong, powerful wolf, carrying a large and sharp sword.  From him comes bloodshed and discord; he properly understands how to sow these, as war between two brothers, or between master and servant.  And under him are 30 legions.

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SPOOKTOBER DAY 15 – SUBURBAN GOTHIC
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  SITCOM

TITLE:  AUDREY AND ASHLEY

Premise:  Alternate Universe type deal. World’s first screen lesbian situation on a sitcom, but here it’s all different people.  The story would be told as episodes of the sitcom, possibly in screenplay format.  Let’s say, alternating with real world chapters.

Horror Element:  Political and personal pressures make everyone involved have intense drama, like a gothic novel.  Light-hearted TV fluff alternates with dire biz.  The characters within the story gain some sense of how rare and special their love is – they’re the only gaydies in the entire universe of TV fiction.  They want to be together even tho the show is cancelled.  But what do the actresses want?  Lines of fiction and reality blur, probably some kinda metaphor for death.

This is a repurpose / rewrite of an idea I had like a hojillion years ago, a few years after the IRL situation, and wasn’t originally going to be a sitcom – maybe a TV drama like Dawson’s Creek.  It was also not going to have the compressed timeline, and was going to be completely banal in nature.  Probably it’ll work better like this.

Some Nonsense:  Beduch or Bamone, a great marquis, appears in the likeness of a leopard with wings in the shape of a griffon’s.  When he takes a human form, he gives the best love of women or makes love subside.  He causes feverish love when he is involved.  He willingly reveals women’s secrets, and mocks them upon the revelation.  He makes them strip and frolic in luxurious nudity.  He gives eloquence, and has twenty legions in his dominion.

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SPOOKTOBER DAY 16 – MAD SCIENTIST
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  PSYCHEDELIC/STONER

TITLE:  WE MUST KILL THE JAGUAR POPE

Premise:  In a remote canyon in the Southwestern USA, a mad scientist has retreated from civilization to establish a new religion.  The DEA has sent a young agent on a mission to kill him, in hopes of fighting the intense wave of drug use that he has inspired.

Horror Element:  Basically the plot of Apocalypse Now, but as the DEA guy gets closer to his target, reality unspools.  The scientist discovered the psychoactive properties of licking a certain type of frog and became a Tim Leary -style evangelist for the drug.  But the hallucinations have a life of their own.  By the time he reaches the scientist, he sees him as a jaguar in papal regalia, in a pueblo kingdom of twisted frogheads.

Some Nonsense:  Azo, or Oze, a great president, appears in the likeness of a leopard.  But when taking human form, he makes a person wise in all liberal arts, gives true responses of divinity and hidden things, and makes a person change into other forms.  And at the instruction of the exorcist, he makes a person insane, such that they believe they are not.  And because they have a crown on their head and a sceptre in hand, they believe themself to be a king.  The sceptre is given by the exorcist, who this king obeys until it has been held for the span of one hour.  Below Azo are twenty legions.

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SPOOKTOBER DAY 17 – CYBERPUNK
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:  VIRTUAL REALITY

TITLE:  MAD MALWAR3 GIRLZ WILL HAVE THEIR REVENGE

Premise:  Colleen Crash loved and lost when ANи1KA and M0NiK4 v 1.0 were destroyed by the NSA, but she managed to salvage enough of their code to make new versions.  This is all well and good.  She could just take that W and retire, but she can’t shake off the need to make Tha Man hurt, for all that he’s done.

Horror Element:  The world is some kind of absurd place that could never exist, where the world’s most obvious con man pedophile and fascist thug managed to get elected with a mandate to destroy democracy itself.  I know I can’t bear to imagine it.  If that kinda shit happened I’d be hiding from the real world at all costs.  Pure imagination, babey.  Anyway, Colleen must confront evil in its purest form, where virtual reality ends and this horrible totally fictional reality begins.

Some Nonsense:  Ras, a great president, appears in the likeness of a deer.  When, however, he assumes human form, he speaks gravely.  He makes beasts languish and stagger.  He gives true responses, and the grace of friends.  He has under his dominion sixty-nine legions (nice).

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