The Anesthesia
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- Posted: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:42:26 +0000
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First of all I would like to say, thank you so much for offering your services. I’ve tried six or more times to actually hire a writer to hash out some ideas for me, just because I enjoy reading and I suffer from some major writer’s block that is nearly crippling. I was curious if you wouldn’t mind taking a stab at a request of mine.
Setting: Post-apocalyptic modern day / future (several years after the fall), whichever one of those calls out to you more. I would leave it up to you on how the world got turned onto its ear; however in the setting there are now creatures lurking about. Zombies, mutant-animals, cults of crazed survivors. The world looks grim, and truly it is a bleak time but there are still small bands of people, relatively ‘good’ people that are just trying to cope with day-to-day comings and goings. Food and water would probably be sparse and most buildings have fallen to ruin or prove to be too dangerous to explore or camp in for extended periods of time. Unlike in other horror based writings where if there is a centralized virus or unknown pathogen in the air or water, maybe carried by blood transmission, there seem to always be ‘quarantine’ areas or military outposts under martial law. In this story, those just don’t exist, unless of course you really feel it is necessary. Basically what I am trying to state is people just tend to group together and wander about seeking shelter where they can find it while saying out of harm’s way.
Plot: Mostly what I am looking for in this story is there are two women traveling together with this group. However many you want in the group is fine; a small group works just perfect. But they tend to never really talk to each other or have time to get to know each other when the others of the group (the male characters) go either scavenging or on patrol to check to make sure everything is okay, they normally take the protagonist with them so they are never left alone together. Then all heck breaks lose when this band of … not so nice survivors that are armed better decide to jump the group in effort to get their provisions. A few of the characters should be killed off but the two women escape. Basically I would like to see them go through some hardships, run into creatures, get hurt . . . comfort each other. Then after that is established they actually run back into their original group and the character named Charity or Pippa as the main douchebag guy will call her, starts to claim her and she doesn’t realize that the protagonist has deep feelings for her so she just sort of . . . goes it because she is lonely and this guy provides protection . . . ensue jealousy from the main character. I would like some rather dark themes in this if you are up to that, if not that is fine as well. Continuing on, the two females develop more feelings for each other and eventually the group finds a town that has make shift walls built around it and provides some sense of normality. The town has jobs for people, simple ones mostly being guards and others as errand couriers to get supplies from one part of town to the other and then there are the scavengers that make trips outside of the wall into more dangerous zones. Each person is assigned a role and every week they hold … pit fights… to boost morale and give the town folk the opportunity to gamble their food rations on fights. The main fighting that takes place is between a person and one of the mutated animals that they find out in the country, it varies what sort of creature it is week to week but . . . seeing as how the protagonist should be really depressed by now, she will want to battle one of the creatures to gain from notoriety in the town so that maybe Charity will be wooed or at least comfort her if she gets hurt. The douchebag character actually intervenes with the fight and kills the creature for Betty . . . which pisses her off because he did it just to humiliate her. She gets bite… or scratched … something and it actually mutates her somewhat . . . her eyes go from being green to radioactive yellow.. and she gains some powers… such as strength, speed… heightened senses like smelling and hearing (when she first gets them they are overwhelming for her and cause her… ungodly amounts of agony) . . . I feel like I am babbling now…but yeah…so that…then just sort of …ya know…take it from there and make it a romance in the end with lots of conflict and such.
Protagonist:
Betty“Jinx”Webb: Betty or as others call her Jinx, is a petite brunette that is rather sullen, she is a sweet person and very intelligent but she tends to be insecure and somewhat gloomy when it comes to how she sees herself and the situation around her. She is normally taken onto hunting trips in the group because she is rather handy and small so she can fit in a lot of places the men can’t. She is amazing with bladed weapons such as knifes and has a gift for making poisons and low grade explosives (given she can find the right materials) she is also an a genius when it comes to making food. The group thinks before the world went to ruin she might have been a chef, especially with her handling skills with small knifes. She is short, standing at 5’2” and of slim weight, she is pale with green eyes and tiny hands. She has a habit of saying sorry for everything and has various scares on her arms and a small zigzag scar on her jaw on the left hand side. She isn’t girly, rather a tomboy. She is called Jinx because she actually was found by the group’s leader stuck in a drainpipe, back then she used to be rather overweight and everyone was shocked a girl of her size managed to survive long enough to be rescued. Since then she has slimmed down and is actually really attractive but the guys tend to stay away from her because no one wants to call dips on her seeing as she has stated several times “men really aren’t my thing.” But everyone just assumes she is joking. Betty is the type of person that …sulks… and doesn’t complain if she is in pain and will try to act like nothing is wrong.
Charity Taylor: Sassy, quick tongued, fiery tempered. A little whiny especially when it comes to manual labor, Charity is a fun-loving sort of person with a casual serious side (meaning she will be a b*tch if she needs to and knows when to stop joking around and be serious when she has to) Charity is just a little taller than Betty, standing at 5’3” and she is curvy. Charity has short black hair that she wears slicked back under a beanie and actually has a more feminine style in clothing. She has warm honey brown eyes and is African American. Charity normally isn’t taken into hunting groups because she gets too high strung in those sort of situations. Charity is rather new to the group, they found her just outside of a ruined hotel where she was taking a shower in a private suite and enjoying the mini bar. Charity loves food and is always grateful to be fed. She is a good cook but normally she is assigned the task of boiling water to make sure it is safe to drink or inventory at the end of the night to check supply count, she doesn’t distribute supplies to the group but she does make the list and prioritizes it according to the members.
I am offering a base of 100 mil
