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(UNBOUND PROMETHEUS) Little scene snippet from Chapter 7
🕑 Added 2022-08-14 07:11:56 +0000 UTCA snippet scene from Chapter 7. Subject to change/first draft
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- The door closes
- Vic walks past creature, creature side eyes him
- He flops onto an armchair in the living room and exhales really loudly
Creach: “So… who was that?”
Vic: “Not now.”
Creach: “How was the omelette?”
Vic: “Eh? Oh, it was… fine.”
Creach: “Liar.”
Vic: “What?”
Creach: “You didn’t eat it. I saw your plate.”
Vic: “WH-G-A-YOU EAT IT THEN.”
Creach, with a stern expression: “I ate mine. Why did you not eat yours?”
Vic: “I- IT’S BECAUSE- PRETORIUS- I HAVEN’T SEEN HIM IN YEARS AND- AND- AND-”
Creach: “You’re nervous?”
Vic: “I WASN’T NERVOUS. I WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO HI- UGH.”
- Vic gets up and marches around the room
Vic: “WHATEVER. THIS- This was a reinnervation! Subject! We have to stop lazing about-”
Creach, internally: “We?”
Vic: “- and get back to what’s important!”
- Close up headshots of the two
Vic: “My creation, we are going back to doing SCIENCE!”
Creach, slightly endeared: “Back to doing science?”
- Same close ups, but now they’re in the basement illuminated by blue light
Vic: “BACK TO DOING SCIENCE.”
Creach, panicking: “BACK TO DOING SCIENCE???”
- “The next day…”
- Vic and creature in the basement, there’s some huge fancy apparatus, creature is wearing a gauntlet-sort of thing with wires on both hands, Vic is wearing the same plus goggles. With its hands, creature is ‘holding’ a hovering ball lightning, away from its face. Behind them are four coils
Vic: “GLOBULAR LIGHTNING!!”
Creach: “UHH- So what should we be recording?”
Vic: “Anything that happens! The existence of this intriguing yet deadly phenomenon is largely debated by scientists due to prior evidence only ever coming from unsuspecting witnesses. So I decided to create one in our basement!”
Creach: “I-Is this what you spent all of last night building?!”
- Flashbacky panel of creature in its bed, holding pillows against its ears while loud noise is coming from outside
Vic: “Precisely!”
- Suddenly a lightning bolt erupts from the ball, hitting one of the coils, going right past creature’s head
Creach: “Gah!”
Vic: “Also the omelette you made was very good! Energising even!”
Creach: “VICTOR-”
Vic: “Its movement shouldn’t be static. Here, toss it to me!”
- Vic does grabby hands motion at the ball
Creach: “Wh-? Toss it?”
Vic: “Yes! These hand electrode system hardwares are designed to contain the ball lightning. Come on, I’ll catch it!”
- Creature glances nervously at the ball
- And gently tosses it to Vic
- Who catches it swiftly in his gauntlet-thingies, the ball changes colours from blue to yellow
Vic: “Look at that!”
Creach: “Woah-”
Vic: “I’m going to toss it back now. Catch!”
- Vic chucks it
- Creature catches with one hand, it turns green
Vic: “With each impact, the temperature shifts and changes the colour. Pass it again!”
- Vic walks further away
- Creach chucks it
Creach: “Haha- Uhh, so… what exactly is the purpose of this?”
- Vic catches it, it turns red
Vic: “Ugh, must there be one? I’ve already invented this entire laboratory, can I not have a bit of mindless fun with a sphere of self-sustaining plasma?”
- He chucks it back to creature, it turns blue again
Creach: “I didn’t say you can’t- this is kind of fun actually. What if we did this with a regular ball?”
Vic: “Why?”
Creach: “I don’t know, so that- there’s less chance of someone getting vaporised if they happen to touch the ball?”
- Vic thinks for a bit
- MAYBE IDEA: Small chibi flashback panel of little Vic at school, some kid yelling ‘Hey loser! Think fast!’ and Vic getting bonked on the head with a leather ball
Vic: “LUDICROUS. Never suggest something like that to me again.”
Creach, blank expression: “Okay.”
- Creature is about to throw the ball lightning
- When the creature’s ‘gauntlet’ starts acting up, creature freaks out
Creach: “Hey-hey-woah-WOAH-”
Vic: “DO NOT- DROP IT-”
- Creature’s gauntlet reacts with the ball and sends it flying into a random direction
- The ball bounces off the wall
- Hits a shelf and burns it, knocks shit over
- Creature and Vic watch in fear as it bounces around the lab
- Vic hides under the table
Vic: “EEK! CATCH IT! BUT DON’T LET IT TOUCH YOU.”
Creach: “WHAT”
- Creature puts its hands out and tries to catch it, but the gauntlets react again and it drops it
Creach: “MY HARDWARE IS BROKEN, I CAN’T-”
- The ball bounces up the stairs
Creach: “IT’S ESCAPING”
Vic: “CATCHITCATCHITCATCHIT-”
- Creature and Vic chase it up into the living room, where its bouncing all over, leaving burn marks on everything it touches
- Creach and Vic hide behind furniture, Vic’s goggles are off
Vic: “DO SOMETHING!!”
Creach: “DO WHAT? MY HARDWARE FAILED.”
Vic: “GAH- FINE, I’LL DO SOMETHING MYSELF-”
- Victor gets up from behind the furniture (an armchair or something?), hands out, ready to catch, determined expression
Vic: “The chances of you failing are higher anyway due to your larger body size, as opposed to me who is much more-”
- The ball zooms past him, and just as it does, it lets out a bolt that hits him directly, electrocuting him
- He flops down onto the floor, squigglies for eyes, smoke coming off of him, with little chibi-bird-Vics circling his head
- Close up of creature’s absolute dumbfounded face
- The ball lightning zooms right over creature’s head, creature ducks
- It gets up from behind cover, furious expression
- The ball lightning bounces and heads back for it
- Creature grabs a wooden plank off of the ground
- And baseballs it right towards the window
- It phases through the window glass
- Bounces off a tree trunk
- Off the house roof
- And into the cloudy sky
- The clouds crackle
- And instantly begin raining
- Creature, in a frozen batter pose, panting
- It looks to Victor, panicking
- Grabs a flask of liquid off of a shelf
Creach: “Don’t be toxic- don’t be toxic- don’t be toxic-”
- Pours it on Victor
- Victor gasps and wakes up suddenly
Vic: “AAAH!!”
Creach: “Oh phew-”
- Vic instantly hops up
Vic: “Where’s the lightning?!”
Creach: “Uhh- it flew out the window.”
Vic: “The window?!!”
Creach: “Yeah, it- phased through the glass.”
- Creature points to the window through which it went, it's now raining
Vic: “Huh?”
- The window suddenly shatters into pieces, Creature and Vic go “!!!!”
- They look out the broken hole, Vic is all >:^( and creach sheepishly smiles
Creach: “Uh– delayed reaction?”
Vic: “You lost my spherical self-sustaining plasma.”
Creach: “A-at least it didn’t cause a fire?”
- Just as creature says that, a pile of papers on the living room floor catch on fire
Creach: “That’s a- VERY delayed reaction-”
Vic: “You’re hilarious, you know that right?”
Creach: “Sigh- I’ll go get water-”
Vic: “Wait no! This is an opportunity! A blessing in disguise! Finally you did something useful!”
Creach: “I didn’t even do this-”
- The fire gets bigger
Vic: “Aside from the globular lightning generator, I also built a new fire safety mechanism that can detect smoke using ionisation chambers!”
Creach: “Umm-Vic-”
Vic: “And once it does, it will sprinkle water across the room and put the fire out! Hypothetically!”
- The fire is getting bigger, its basically a campfire in the middle of the room now
Vic: “Umm… d-delayed reaction?”
Creach: “I’ll go get water…”
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What's the deal with the smoke detector?
Comments
thats basically it ahsgah i wanted them to play catch
GAME OF CATCH: CHAOTIC SCIENCE EDITION
i wish reading was like being high on crack to me too
Me being able to read this is like giving crack to a toddler
