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SOMEWHERE IN THE MULTIVERSE
FRIEND: This looks super useful for stories! Might help you with the script and you could give your characters backgrounds.
JOY: Wow, this looks awesome! Thanks for showing this. This definitely will help me characterize everyone.
Joy thinks hard for awhile about how to label each character in Elgin's Enigma. Joy becomes frustrated and she mentally shuts down.
FRIEND CONT'D: Any ideas on what each character would be?
JOY: A sailor.
FRIEND: What?
JOY: EVERYBODY IS A SAILOR NOW.
FRIEND: Wait, Elgin doesn't have boats–
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. ELGIN RIVER–DAY
Everyone is on a damn boat. Jaunty sailor music plays. Various people are performing sailor tasks.
JORDANIA CONT'D: Lets sail the seven seas!
RANDI: What the hell is going on? When did this boat get here?
MIN: Randi, you should know that we are ready to hoist sail so we may travel to distant lands.
RANDI: Guys, this river leads to no where. We're on a floating island for god's sake. Erle, tell them how ridiculous this is.
ERLE: Shut your yap and swab the deck!
RANDI: What the–
LUCY: All hands on deck! If you aren't scrubbing, then it's the plank for ya!
PETER: The llamas like swimming.
RANDI: Hey, did you guys notice that Peter hasn't been around lately, and he just shows up? I find that really weird.
CONNER: I have a treasure map.
BELINDA: Of course, you do. Now, who's going to help with the fishing?
GINA: Aye aye captain!
VANESSA: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
NANCY: Forget the crows, we got parrots now.
A crow sits on Nancy's shoulder. Randi stares at her in confusion.
RANDI CONT'D: That's a crow.
NANCY: It's a parrot!
RANDI: Okay?
DARCY: I am here too!
RANDI: Oh, thank god. Someone normal. Everyone is going crazy being sailors and all. I don't understand what's going on.
Randi grabs him by the shoulders and Darcy stares at him blankly.
RANDI CONT'D (quietly): Oh no.
DARCY: I am first mate, you should be treating me with respect!
RANDI: Someone help me!
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TITLE: Fin.
Joy says at the computer blankly.
JOY CONT'D: It's perfect.
FRIEND: If Randi wasn't a sailor... you would still need to classif–
JOY: No.
FRIEND: But–
JOY: Shhhhh. Randi is the newbie sailor. Everyone is a sailor.
FRIEND: Okay?
JOY: Okay.
Friend is silent.
FRIEND CONT'D: How are we having this conversation anyways? Is this real life or are we still on the internet?
Joy pauses. Joy mentally shuts down a second time. Joy leaves.
JOY V.O. CONT'D: Everybody get out.
YOU ARE READING
Elgin's Enigma ✔
FantasyElgin is your average city filled with people, trains, fog, victorian era fashion, goat people, and the best alchemy shop one can find. Nothing too bizarre, aside from the children. Children appear in the forest regularly with marks on their bodies...
