Over the past week, James and I have been hard at work adding more to the script. Before we continued we came up with the majority of the whole plot summary, outlining key scenes and everything that is to happen within them. This helped us to know what to include in the scenes we are writing, giving the script a better flow to it and making it easier for us to write.
We are currently almost half way through writing the script, with the aims to have the entire thing finished by the end of the week. Continuing on from the last blog about the script I wrote, we have written quite a few more scenes.
Within these scenes, Legrasse and his partner Aimie Fiber get put on new cases by the man in charge of them, Captain Michaels. Ever since the earthquake from the opening scene, New York has been under constant repair after the short unnatural earthquake struck, causing quite a lot of collateral damage. In this time Michaels explains that there have been a record number of missing person's over the course of the week, reaching almost 1000 different cases reported. He tells the duo that, as his best detectives, he wants them to look through the case files, and try and find a connection between them. Legrasse and Fiber see this as an impossible task but start to work anyway before giving up for the night. As they work however, their obnoxious coworker comes over to bother them, a man known as Detective Richards. He hits on Fiber and gets brutally knocked down, before wiping it off and heading to the showers. At this point Legrasse and Fiber head home as well.
Whilst in the shower, Richards is minding his own business, washing his hair when the shower stops. He manages to get soap in his eyes, and while trying to turn the shower back on, he doesn't notice the strange viscous, amorphous gooey substance excreting from the shower head. As it fully forms at the end of the shower, it jumps onto Richards face, latching onto it. He screams and struggles, trying to get it off. The blob manages to get inside of Richards just as he falls over. As he looks up we see his eyes are now solid black, it would seem he has been taken over by whatever this blob was.
Legrasse returns home, his wife, Rachel, not too impressed with him being late yet again, and a short argument takes place.
After a few more days, Fiber and Legrasse are back in the office still attempting to find a connection. Legrasse admits that him and Rachel haven't been getting along recently, due to him working too much and putting in too much over-time, thus barely getting to see his wife and child. Beaumont, Michaels' secretary comes and delivers a new batch of missing person's cases to the duo, who decide it would be best to start with the fresher cases. Fiber finds a cell phone number and suggests they call it, much to Legrasse's dismay. Upon calling, Fiber puts the phone on loudspeaker, as an answer is received, however it turns out to be a strange an unknown language, spoken in a strange voice. Legrasse records the voice on his phone, as a phrase is being repeated over and over again, and not responding to Fiber's questions. They decide this could be a lead and they could get the language deciphered.
Legrasse calls his wife Rachel, as he knows she could help as she had a Professor at her University who specialised in old languages, as a professor of Anthropology. She gives the name William Webb to Legrasse, who thanks her before hanging up, which doesn't impress Rachel too much.
The two head to the University of Columbia, where Professor William Webb is based. They enter his office and explain the situation to him. After replaying the recorded chanting back to him, he immediately manages to decipher it. He then tells the two about Cthulhu, and says that the missing person's cases could all be related to the resurrection of the Dark Lord, which the pair find very hard to believe and consider a waste of time.
With William Webb, we have implemented a series of quirks and mannerisms with him to make him seem quite strange and cooky, to fit within the character description that we have of him. He constantly says confusing things and never tends to look the detectives in the eye, showing a slight socially awkward characteristic of his. We show his enthusiasm of him being fascinated and incredibly happy to hear the language, running up and down bookshelves to find a particular book, which he seems overly proud of. The idea was to have him quite a bizarre character - an old nut, and so far I believe we have succeeded with this.
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