Draculas

Je

Paul

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JEFF 4.0 is done. I wasn't specific about Be

On other note, only Randall should call them "draculas," unless Je

Jeff

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Je

Joe

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Whatever Je

Jeff

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When does the power go out in the timeline?

I have it going out at the end of my Sha

Lanz realizes there's a heavily armed Rambo type coming through the hospital and needs to turn things to his advantage. Ah-ha! Power failure.

I can have Lanz disable the On/Off switch of the backup generator, then destroy the main power breakers. This will leave only battery-powered emergency hall lights until Randall hotwires the backup generator to start up.

Should we do this before Lanz finds Je

Paul

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Lanz already confronted Je

Paul, you can then have him run downstairs, past gun-toting Clay, and figure out the best way to get both Clay and Je

Joe

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I read that scene.

Okay. I'll tackle that next.

Paul

September 4, 2010

I was just finally catching up with everyone's sections, and it looks great. I think we're at about 38,000 words right now. Jeff and Paul, I noticed that some of the files in your folders were already in the Draculas 1.6 manuscript, so Paul I moved "Paul 1.3" them into your "Old" folder, and Jeff, I moved "Be

Have a great weekend, all!

Blake

September 5, 2010

Paul and I got a lot of work done in New Orleans.

Just kidding. All we did was drink.

Joe

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Shocker

Blake

September 6, 2010

Anyone adverse to me putting together what we've got so far and doing a light edit (fixing errors, seeding consistencies, etc.)?

Joe

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Okay, I put together just about everything we've done so far. I also added a scene with Lanz turning off the circuit breaker, and changed Sha

It's in DRACULAS_2.0. It reads really well. Feel free to check it out. But let's avoid going back and editing this for the moment--if we all go in and start changing things we might begin to overlap each other. There will be time to tweak our sections, and the overall manuscript, when we're finished. We'll all have a shot at fixing stuff.

Also, don't tweak your old scenes, as those have already been incorporated in the manuscript and you'd have to make the same changes twice.

What's happening next:

Je

Blake and I want Be

Randall needs to keep the girl safe, and get down to the basement and flip on the circuit breaker so he can use the intercom like Clay did, to get a message to Je

Stacie and Adam have to deal with birth, and Oasis. Blake, I du

Clay and Sha

Also, Sha

The police will be coming soon. We all have our villains to deal with (Clay and Sha

I think we can take this up to the army surrounding the hospital. Then we can begin the final act.

Joe

September 8, 2010

I put up some new Clay and cut off at a spot where Joe and Blake can put in the myth/lore they've worked up. After that, I'll have Clay give Sha

Paul

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I added Draculas 2.2, which includes a very short moment on page 113 where Randall loses his chainsaw.

Also Be

Jeff

September 9, 2010

BLOOD BLOODBLOODBLOODBLOODBLOOD...STOP! He released the girl he'd been slurping, even though she still had some blood left. Moorecook wanted them to turn. He wanted as many of his kind as possible.

This implies if victims die they don't turn. But what about the morgue scene?

Paul

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If they die, they come back, but they can die through exsanguination. A dracula needs a certain amount of blood left to transform. Which is why draining their blood kills draculas.

I'll try to make that clearer in the text.

Joe

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Okay, I'm going to have Clay and Sha

...unless they see Je

As I said before, Clay will be wounded and will find a dramatic way to take himself out of the picture and take a whole buncha draculas with him.

Think it would be possible to have a conference call and do a little spitballing? I'm not comfortable with the complete isolation of the hospital. Every patient room has a land-line phone. Calls would be going out left and right. When the sheriff calls in the staties, the police beat reporters hear about it. Local TV stations would be sending camera crews. National cable TV news would be picking it up and sending helicopters for aerial views. You've seen it: I guy waving a gun and the whole world's on it. People can suspend their disbelief only so far. If we're going to keep them onboard, we need cell towers down, we need land-line junctions exploding, WE NEED A CONSPIRACY!

The series potential here is obvious and I think we need yet another layer.

Paul