<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/promo.jpg">
(*"In the Shadow, In the Light" by Enigma plays*)
(Opens on a finely prepared feast with 11 seats.)
<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/creationary-shogun.jpg">
VO: SICKNESS IN THE REALM.
Secara: "A toast! To our Empress, may she return safely! And to peace between our houses."
*all assembled drink.*
*obvious cut*
Attendant Guest to the right hand seat of Secara: "Secara, you have not touched your wine."
Secara: "What purpose would there be in drinking the wine I poisoned?"
*shocked looks around the table.*
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/cerah.jpg">
VO: MADNESS IN THE STARS.
*flashback to a beautiful woman tending lilies in a garden, then a split second scene of the same woman being executed by Secara*
Female voiceover: "Carah is dead, Phaistus. It was just her time. It was just... predestined to happen this way."
*scene switches to two cloistered monks talking... One of them is visibly upset*
Phaistus: "Don't tell me about destiny, fate, or Kismet. I own destiny. I fuck with and discard destiny nightly! Destiny is my slave and my whore!"
*Phaistus slicing some palace guards mercilessly with a blade.*
(the beat in the music picks up)
Phaistus Voiceover, continued from last shot:"And Destiny will do my bidding or I will end her!"
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/beast.jpg">
VO: POWER IN THE NIGHT
(Music: I promise you)
*birds fly across a moonlit sky*
Gruff Female Voiceover: "This is my land, and you are to die for crossing it."
(Music: The roads might lie.)
*cut scene to screeching *things* with eyes and claws and fangs in the jungle lurching towards the camera*
(Music: I'll be always by your side - In the shadows and the light.)
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/woman-in-skulls.jpg">
VO: DEATH IN THE SHADOWS
(Music: I'll follow you)
*a fight between a man and a woman - one dressed in light robes, the other dressed in skulls and unsavory things. The one in skulls disarms the other one, and has her dark blade to the man's neck.*
(Wherever our life goes)
Female Voice: "Now you see what I know. Life is suffering. Life is disease, misfortune, cruelty. Now that you are so close to dying, you see the simple purity of death?"
(But I'll always be at your side, in the shadows and the light)
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/wyld.jpg">
VO: STRANGENESS IN DREAMS
*Industrial Light & Magic effects straight out of What Dreams May Come."
(Music: *Whispered* But if we don’t understand… Hell is happy, heaven is sad
And that’s the result of our brain… Insane…)
Androgynous voice: I have been to the farthest shores - where the laws that govern reality are but mere suggestions. The price has been my sanity - and still, the Wyld calls to me, and I beg to go farther."
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/alchemical1.jpg">
VO: TERROR UNDERGROUND
(Music: Caravan of life)
*a great machine city, full of fire and molten steel. A jewel is placed on a statue's head - and the metal statue opens it's eyes.*
(By day and by night)
Statue, holding someone by the neck: "Yes, I do remember mercy."
(Every tile’s a part of life)
*The statue breaks the man's neck with an audible crunch.*
Statue: "I do not miss it."
(If it’s shadow, or if it’s light)
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<img src="https://webspace.utexas.edu/brb289/www/creationary/hero2.jpg">
VO, Added Emphasis: FIRE IN THE SKY.
(Music: I promise you, even when the tide is high
I’ll be always on your side
In the shadow, in the light)
Secara: "No! You're supposed to be defeated generations ago.."
*music stops.*
*a beat*
Roguish hero: "Defeat was boring. I can't stand boredom."
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Linear Mode
