Treeoflife_script.doc

Excerpted from "TREE OF LIFE" (C) David Kennerly [email protected]

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EXT. CORRUPTED TREE OF LIFE - DAY (INTRO) FADE IN: Underneath an imposing BLACK CLOUD is an even more imposing sight: The CORRUPTED TREE OF LIFE. The great oak's limbs span about a hundred feet in diameter. The trunk itself is thirty feet in diameter. It's withered, leafless, and spotted black. Some of its limbs are cracked or broken. It resembles a tree of death more than a tree of life. MAIR, 30s, female AVIAN sheriff with a hawkish face, is visible beyond one of the massive ROOTS by the tree's TRUNK. Sleek feathers coat her athletic body, since avians are a species of bird-like humans. MAIR Look at what you've done to the Tree of Life -Suddenly, from the root, CORRUPTED VINE 1 coils around her leg. It TRIPS her. She leaps to her feet and raises her SPEAR but behind her, CORRUPTED VINE 2 wraps around her neck and CHOKES her. She struggles and screeches. Corrupted vine 1 rises and sways like a cobra, left of Mair, who is still being choked. Then CORRUPTED VINE 3 rises and sways on the right. RESCUE MAIR (INTERACTIVE) A vine attempts to trip, and hurt, the player. THE FIRST TIME that a player JUMPS OVER a trip, the vine sweeps underneath in slow motion. If the player has been tripped, then its next attack is a choke. While being choked, the player cannot act, except to STRUGGLE, and is slowly suffocated. Struggling for a few seconds releases the choke. If a player is far away, a vine BURROWS underground, at a rate faster than a player can run. After catching up, the burrowing vine emerges behind the player. While burrowing, the vine causes a small RIPPLE, which trips any character that it passes.

Excerpted from "TREE OF LIFE" (C) David Kennerly [email protected]

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[SELECT SCENE] Mair dies. Any player dies. The first corrupted vine dies. Any corrupted vine dies. All corrupted vines die. Repeat scene "Rescue Mair". MAIR DIES Mair gasps. The corrupted vine, having drained her life, lets her go. Her blackened body falls limp to the ground. GAME OVER. ANY PLAYER DIES [Player] gasps. The corrupted vine, having drained her life, lets her go. Her blackened body falls limp to the ground. GAME OVER. THE FIRST CORRUPTED VINE DIES BLACK SMOKE begins to rise from the corpse. and withers adjacent shrubs and grass.

The smoke touches

[Player] looks at her weapon. A wisp of black smoke rises from the weapon. ANY CORRUPTED VINE DIES (INTERACTIVE) A small cloud of black smoke rises from the vine's corpse. a few seconds, the cloud fades away.

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If a player touches the black cloud, she gains a DEMON BLOOD item. Using this item causes black smoke to rise from her weapon. On the player's next hit, the black cloud envelopes the opponent, which drains life, and then fades away. [Repeat scene "Rescue Mair".] ALL CORRUPTED VINES DIE [Player] hacks the final vine that binds Mair. Black ooze spills from the stump. Mair stabs the stump with her spear. [For more examples, visit finegamedesign.com]