SCHISM
# 1 plot
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Open with Sally, now successful, on a modeling shoot for a commercial. Allsorts
of people are buzzing around and her agent (W.D. #4)
is there, talking toher
about choosing between a movie deal and a TV script when Fabiano arrivesfor
their date. She says to her agent "I don't have time for all this now." and
isleaving
with Fab. when...
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Styx comes to take her away. He takes her quantum and she sees all the horrorsof
the substratum before he takes her away through quantum mists. She is upsetand
asks where he is taking her -he gestures- the mists clear, and we see the isleof
Avalon, misty and green and mysterious, with a small group of Atlanteanstyle
buildings on it.
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Cut to War Dancer and Charlemagne fighting in Angor Wat, Thailand. Igo (aspy
from Avalon) has discovered the battle and is observing. The scene ends on
acliff
hanger with Char. in trouble, and Igo leaves to report to Thrakahl.
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Cut to Sally being given a tour of Avalon (a few buildings, gardens and acastle/palace
complex)-then she is taken to a large, exotic room full of maps andglobes
and books. There is a guy sitting at a desk who rises at her entrance anintroduces
himself "My name is Michael Alexander. I live on West 45th street."Sally
expresses confusion at where she is and what has happened and Michaelbegins
to explain …
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Michael goes to a beautiful, ornate book on a stand and starts to tell Sally
aboutthe
origin of the universe and the origin of War Dancer. He opens the book (anillustrated
history volume) and we see Plaslantis, and (briefly ) the contestbetween
Arhq and Thrakahl for Zahnree's hand. The magical experiment - Arhqand
Zahnree doing the dance of two and being interrupted by the 4 evilmagicians,
the feathered serpent and Thrakahl. The experiment goes wrong -Zahnree
is swallowed by the serpent, Arhq is flung out into space, Atlantis sinks,and
Thrakahl is set adrift, alone, in the sea (in the real world). (refer to cassettedrama)
Michael pulls out a map of the planes of existence from a beautiful woodmap
cabinet (flat file) and explains that the experiment created a barrier around
asection
of the quantum field that grew to become the org of plasm ( he shows hera
globe model of the org). He goes, next, to an ornate (plasmoid?) globe (amemory
sphere). He activates the sphere and continues with the story of howLorca
discovered Earth and pierced the barrier. As a result of this, he explains,dreams
are becoming actualized on Earth and we flash on the origins of theW.O.P.,
Good Guys, Charlemagne and Michael tells about his own, too. Thisscene
is interrupted several times by women coming in to measure Sally, and a
scholar
comes in to give her a scroll of Atlantean words or magic phrases orsomething.
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A person comes in and instructs Sally that she must prepare herself to act
inZahnree's
stead and perform the Dance of Two with Thrakahl to complete thespell
and heal the schism. Michael assures her "Yes, this is real."
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Cut to Thrakahl in his war room organizing and planning. Igo comes in andreports
that the battle is going badly-that Charlemagne is losing. Thrakahl givesorders
to go get Sally and prepare her for the Dance of Two.
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They bring her to the room Thrakahl has prepared-a kind of open sidedpalisade
(maybe a bit like the ball room in Beauty And The Beast). Sally isbrought
in dressed in Zahnree-type finery and Thrakahl is wearing some
magnificent
garb (we may have some designs ). Sally is presented with greatfanfare
and ceremony and at the peak of this Thrakahl looks at her and says "No,she
isn't the right one."
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Cut to Nudge arriving at the temple of Nimh (Zahnree's ancestral temple W.D.#
1) in Sally's backyard with the bottle holding the essence of Zahnree. Someonesees
her and she mind-nudges them to forget and then enters the temple. Sheopens
the bottle and prepares for the essence, and we have a flashback onto theevolution
of the Org since the Schism with a mother's loving eye. Zahnree iscommunicating
all that happened to her to Nudge to prepare her to receive herspirit
and Z's perspective is very benevolent. Then Nudge and the spirit merge in
a
spectacular effect that lights up the area.
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Cut to Plasm and show Chasm battling the W.O.P. cast-the Org is going wildnow
that Zahnree's influence is gone and the feathered serpent is all that is left.Chasm
is so powerful at this point that he brushes our guys away, but in theprocess
he damages the Org and it strikes at him. We have a clear demonstrationof
his power when he brushes back even the Org! Chasm starts to understandand
feel the extent of his power.
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Cut to the end of the battle between War Dancer and Charlemagne.
Charlemagne,
through relentless perseverance, manages to defeat W.D. W.D.tells
him that he was going to destroy the world before it destroyed itself andhalf
the universe in the process because people are becoming gods. W.D. tellshim
"I can't do it. You have to. Charlemagne can see evidence of what W.D. istelling
him going on around him. Char. refuses to destroy the Earth, but now heunderstands
the situation.
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Skipper has arrived back and tells Char. that he must take W.D. to Avalon.Char.
asks why-refuses to obey some strange man he's never met. ThenNudge/Zahn.
calls out to W.D. and tells him he must go to Avalon. She is on theway,
herself, with Avalon folk who were alerted when the spirit transferoccurred
and came to get her. Char. agrees to go and everybody is converging onAvalon!
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Sally has been forgotten in the shuffle. Someone finally tells her that she
won'tbe
needed now that the real Zahnree (or a reasonable facsimile) is found. Styxtakes
her back to the real world, but things are getting very weird there.Quantum
things are manifesting themselves and much is out of control.
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Chasm arrives in Avalon to kick everybody's butt(s).
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