Hello. C J here. I think that with the pancake post yesterday you folks know all my recipes. I’ll have more, like next year. I’m narrowing down my posts for the year we’re in down to the ones I know I can still do. The most popular stuff on here has always been number one, dessert, and number two, spirituality. I could have predicted the dessert but not the spirituality. The third most popular is short fiction and script samples from my games.
We won’t have new recipes for a while but I can definitely post more stories, which is my actual job I do as a person even more than game design is, and more of my notes about real life spirituality. I’m going to stick to two post series for the year. These will be updates about Dragon Engine, which will mostly be script samples and screenshots, and posts about real world mysticism and magic. The card game will be mentioned only when I have new final draft content done for it, and then the card game will just get a post announcing the new downloads.
So here’s a sample from the final script for the prologue to Absolute, the video game’s main storyline. Absolute stars four male draconians. We have Zan Silver Kin, our player character. He’s an introvert and is also married to Mel Blue Kin. We have the mage Bel Red Dragon and the team lead Kel Black Dragon. These four characters work together at all times and form the game’s combat party. They’re called into Ascala to rescue Mel after he goes missing halfway through a job. Then they have to stay in Ascala and finish the job he started together.
Scene: In the Apartment.
Zan is sitting at a coffee table drinking coffee.
Kel: Oh good, you’re up.
Zan: How’s Mel doing?
Kel: Bel healed him up last night. He’s resting off the magic. He should be up and ready tomorrow. No lasting injuries.
Zan: Thank the All. I’m so glad to hear that.
Kel: Do you know where Bel is now though?
Zan: Probably still asleep. I can’t imagine that much magic is easy for a person.
Kel sits down.
Kel: Good point.
Zan: I did make him some coffee though. I hope he likes it strong, I bought the best stuff I could find.
Kel: Oh, good. Coffee, that would be a good idea.
Zan hands Kel a coffee.
Zan: You seem distracted.
Kel: I’m contemplating what we do next. We are still on contract for the original job. So long as Mel has a lead we’re fine. If he turned up nothing in his investigation, then we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us to make up for it.
Zan: What was it that was stolen?
Kel: Some power source for a new generation of power armour.
Zan: Power armour? That is not something we want in the wrong hands. But it’s just the power unit?
Kel: Yes. Just that.
Bel walks into the room.
Bel: I’m up. Sort of. Dear All, coffee. Thank goodness.
Bel sits down and takes a sip.
Bel: Fine and well roasted. This city is full of fine things and I am glad that includes their coffee.
Kel glances at Zan. Zan smiles.
Bel: So what now?
Kel: We wait for Mel to wake up and see what he knows. Hopefully whatever he knows will lead us to the thief.
Zan: Do we know where the undead came from?
Bel: I don’t think so. They just showed up.
Zan: That’s conspicuous.
Kel: You have a point.
Zan: Well, we’re waiting for now. I say its time for breakfast.
Bel: Oh good, I’m starving.
Kel: Same.
Zan: Good. This city sells Ascalan made powdered baking mixes. Do we want to try out the doughnut mix I bought?
Bel: That sounds divine, actually.
Kel: Agreed.
Zan: Good. Do you think we can bake them in the oven? It shouldn’t take more than four hours per doughnut.
Kel: I think that sounds like a great idea.
Bel: This box says they only take fifteen minutes. What in life that is worth having ever takes just fifteen minutes?
Zan: Good point. I’m going to set the timer for four hours. Who wants to stir the mix?
Scene: One hour later.
Outside the apartment, smoke is pouring from one of the windows.
Zan: Is it still on fire?
Kel: I think it’s out.
Zan: Could you have Bel check?
Bel: I can start fires, I can’t put them out.
Kel: That would have been a good thing to put on your resume before we hired you!
Zen: Okay, the oven’s stopped smoking. I think it’s out.
Bel: Thank the All.
Mel: What in Creation are you all doing? Please tell me you didn’t light the house on fire.
Zan: Mel! You’re up.
Mel: Yes, and I’m starving. Do we have any food that’s not been turned into charcoal?
Zan: Um, well, not really.
Bel: No, we burnt an entire batch of doughnuts.
Mel sits down.
Mel: What happened?
Bel: Well, the package said to cook them for fifteen minutes, but we thought four hours would make for a better end product.
Mel: Well that sounds reasonable.
Kel: Okay, the fire’s out. Should we just get another breakfast at the sandwich place?
Mel: Yes, please. Sandwiches.
Zan: Agreed. The doughnuts clearly didn’t work.
Bel: It’s so strange. Who would have thought them so combustible?
End of Sample
I’m also including some really early practise screenshots of some level prototypes I’ve made. They’re in this post because I don’t have any final draft ones but these are how the game will look when it’s done.
C J Mcpherson
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