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Abrigon

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Horror Elements 2011

ELEMENTS OF A HORROR:

CHARACTERS:
Hottie who keeps wandering off
Jock

SETTING:
Old Castle
Old Mansion

MONSTERS and LIFE:

Looking to add/edit it?

Elements of a Horror Movie 2011

Girl - scared
Cocky Boy who really is scared

Ghost or Demon or like being that is singular or a group..

Old occupant of the house who died.
Possessed by a demon or ghost.
Possessed by a spirit or force.

Ghost
Vampire
Werewolf
Fairy (normally an Evil one)
Satan or some being that seems to be like satan.

Horror movies often are at some remote location.
Some sort of build up, horror story is often the lead in.

People break up into groups or are separated is almost a staple.
Hot girls that become scared are also a staple.
Jock male who seems to think he is bad but is not.

Mike Adams
1998

Thats a good idea or like.. Why did he invite them there? Mystery? Reading of the Will or alien/abduction/possession?

Local spirits not liking the imports?

Dead baby, aborted or murdered or miscarriage?
Lost special needs kid, like the younger brother/sister of the then king, who is a lost soul?

Ban Shee (family guardian/ancestor/one that screams at the death of the clan leader/laird/chieftain? that has come over as well? Ghosts of those dead in the old dungeon? Buried alive or worse?

Millionare did not die, he just changed bodies and is now ...

I love the idea of the evil demons looking like someones friends, but the bad spirits moved from their evil looking bodies and the friends who bodies were stolen, are now in the demons?

Mike

Yes some the loss of a sense is no real loss, might even  be helpful or ... Hard to be effected by a demons visual effect,  if you cant  see the demons face?

Captain Hook, how he lost his hand.. Whale/shark or like? Or bad accident when younger or what?

Does it always mean they are bad people? In some myths, those who was perfect, with all limbs and hands/feet, are godly, but if you lose a hand or arm or like your not godly and maybe even outcast, and not for the modern reason of cut off hand cause of stealing and having to use your whiping hand to eat with.

Scott from X-men, has glasses, to block out his super power, there is others where an eye patch hides something or yes, its just mundane loss of an eye, puss and all..

Mike


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That's something very interesting to think about actually.  I've certainly had characters that are physically or mentally handicapped in one way or another.  Veterans who had lost limbs in a conflict for example.  One of the main characters for one of my as of  yet unpublished novels is such a character, who lost an arm in a conflict fifteen years prior to the events of the main story.  I suppose that is a trope of sort yes?

In games I've seen a host of one-eyed characters, cause eye-patches are cool.  One person in a Supernatural Horror game I played in once played a paraplegic antiquarian.  The game was set in the 1920's, so it did prove to be an interesting limitation for a PC to have.

Thinking on Literature and such in general I do think there are, if not 'stock' characters in terms of physical handicap, than certainly sort of 'themes' when having a physical deformity or handicap or what have you is a characteristic, rather than say the focus of the narrative. Demonstration of a previous physical history is one such obvious trait.  Like the veteran mentioned above, it combines suggesting 'loss' but also 'this is some-one who has put themselves in danger in the past'.

I can think of a few villains in that mold, and very often they are, like say Captain Hook, villains with a certain degree of cerebralness, where their physical 'otherness' perhaps represents, but doesn't necessarily define their villainy.

On a seperate note there is also the use of physical handicap in juxtaposition; The Blind Swordsmen, the Blind Psychic, the paraplegic with immense mental or even physical abilities.

I'll think on this more actually.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Roderick Edwards - Vice President - Dark Tavern Press, Inc. <r...@sotarpg.com> wrote:

    Hi Mike,

    1998?

   
    Well, for a locale, how about a dead millionaire’s castle. Even if it’s set in the US, it could be that the millionaire had it shipped from Scotland brick by brick and took years to build. In fact, that’s better. The spirits that haunted the castle became angry and took it out the Americans. There could have been several deaths during the “cursed” construction.  Then, months after moving in,  the wealthy millionaire died of a heart attack, even though he was in good health.

     

    Rod Edwards



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I-Western Horror:

http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/11/03/the-ten-best-horror-movies-set-in-the-wild-west/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/07/28/collins-crypt-horror-westerns-our-loneliest-sub-genre
http://www.westword.com/arts/five-fantastic-horror-western-films-in-honor-of-near-dark-5818017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)


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I-Horror Mystery 2017

Horror and Dark Fantasy/Science Fiction:

Fangoria.com and submissions?

What street, and homeless and like people see that many of us do not?

Cab drivers and like as well?

Lost/Missing people, and what is seen?

Horror?
Mystery?

What else?

What goes on after the sun goes down, and especially after the bars ands like close or the places you do not see in the darkness and all?
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Small town, sheriff and what he/she has to deal with, or they are the thing you have to deal with? Horror normal, or super natural or super-science or aliens or what?

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Geek Gone Wild - Horror
Jan 2020

I like that one Denise.. other one I have been working on, is the geek that goes wild in the woods, due to being cast off from people, and in the process, makes friends with the local animals and more, and in the end, has to deal with such things as serial killers, super naturals, or just odd things.. one is the old cabin, that seems to be inhabited with an old war veteran and the things he is dealing with.. be it nutty tourists, or local animals/spirits or just criminal elements or space aliens smuggling things..

The Toolmaker or the Droid Maker? Who is the driving force of the droids? Zardoz powerful scientists, or aliens or super natural spirits or ...

On idea is he was contacts by aliens coming to earth for various reasons.

- Tourism
- Exploration
- Invasion
- Sample Collection - See Story of Juan and Amy?
- Zardoz or like story, where the rulers or ones who are in a secret facilty/hidden facility are needing to get out and do things? Collecting food and connecting with lost families?

He is to sober? recovering from drugs to include alcohol?
Severe PTSD or like condition, that makes living with "normal" people hard to achieve.

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Droid Horror:

Hehe. I do not mean he was an android,  just that the idea if a human in cryo waking up in an android or mutant or anthro world is cool. I was just sayin that they woke him up cause they needed his skills.

But a man out of time is an interesting story idea.

On the cab driver part, where she wants sex, is not where my interests lie so I can't comment much on that.

She collects samples for use by her fellow Juan.

Birth/breeding and what else? Medicine or using the female looking droid as an artificial womb?

But "she" seems to want a baby for her own purposes or what?

She either using normal sperm/egg, or modified sperm/egg, cloning and like, or sadly does not understand she can not just make a human?

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Droids and horror?

Droids and the Borg? and why and is it so scary?

social commentary on how people are becoming?

congress, white house and pentagon? the vampires or taken over by them? how expressed in the modern age?

character development
- chapman but she is Latina? or from a latin area? and how does it come out and expressed in the showing?


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"What is loved...endures. What is built...endures. And Babylon 5...Babylon 5 endures."-Babylon 5 "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we becomes victims of the darkness."-Justice William O. Douglas

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 1:46:04 AM EDT, Abrigon <abr...@gmail.com> wrote:


Possible. I had him as the frozen survivor of his crew but yes, yes waking in an android body, likely for a good reason. Droids can live in a much more extreme environment. The cab driver has wandered into another story of mine, to a degree. She want a baby, or thinks she does?


On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:26 PM arcturusfelire <arcturu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I like it. The idea of waking up to find yourself in a robot or mutant or anthro populated location is interesting. Its campaign worthy.

I personally would want the human to have some sort of placement of authority, not so much that everyone obeys him but more that his skills are needed, like if he is recognized as the perfect investigator.

But yeah, this is definitely a very interesting campaign idea.

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 "What is loved...endures. What is built...endures. And Babylon 5...Babylon 5 endures."-Babylon 5 "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we becomes victims of the darkness."-Justice William O. Douglas


On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 03:16:27 PM EDT, Abrigon <abr...@gmail.com> wrote:


Been working on an adventure where a crew member wakes up, having been frozen, he is not sure where he is at, the rest of the crew is deal or not available.

The world he has landed on and woken up on, is a mining colony, so far seems to be nothing but droids, Bender being one of them.

But he does find a cab driver that seems to be human female, but in reality it is a former sex droid from the days when this town was a mining town/stop off point for human miner and like.

Mike



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Abrigon

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Horror story Elements
10/31/2023

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That's something very interesting to think about actually.  I've certainly had characters that are physically or mentally handicapped in one way or another.  Veterans who had lost limbs in a conflict for example.  One of the main characters for one of my as of  yet unpublished novels is such a character, who lost an arm in a conflict fifteen years prior to the events of the main story.  I suppose that is a trope of sort yes?
In games I've seen a host of one-eyed characters, cause eye-patches are cool.  One person in a Supernatural Horror game I played in once played a paraplegic antiquarian.  The game was set in the 1920's, so it did prove to be an interesting limitation for a PC to have.
Thinking on Literature and such in general I do think there are, if not 'stock' characters in terms of physical handicap, than certainly sort of 'themes' when having a physical deformity or handicap or what have you is a characteristic, rather than say the focus of the narrative. Demonstration of a previous physical history is one such obvious trait.  Like the veteran mentioned above, it combines suggesting 'loss' but also 'this is some-one who has put themselves in danger in the past'.
I can think of a few villains in that mold, and very often they are, like say Captain Hook, villains with a certain degree of cerebralness, where their physical 'otherness' perhaps represents, but doesn't necessarily define their villainy.
On a seperate note there is also the use of physical handicap in juxtaposition; The Blind Swordsmen, the Blind Psychic, the paraplegic with immense mental or even physical abilities.
I'll think on this more actually.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Roderick Edwards - Vice President - Dark Tavern Press, Inc. <r...@sotarpg.com> wrote:
    Hi Mike,
    1998?
    Well, for a locale, how about a dead millionaire’s castle. Even if it’s set in the US, it could be that the millionaire had it shipped from Scotland brick by brick and took years to build. In fact, that’s better. The spirits that haunted the castle became angry and took it out the Americans. There could have been several deaths during the “cursed” construction.  Then, months after moving in,  the wealthy millionaire died of a heart attack, even though he was in good health.
    Rod Edwards
Elevator 2020
Idea for something, a film in horror, set in the Idanha?
Namely a story of a resident that died while trying to escape/get to the hospital and now is a ghost and still trying to get out?
Any ideas of settings? We have how many people that still have apartments in the building that they can not live in due to the elevator being out?
I know like has been done in the past, its a major part of old Castle Horrors and like after all.. now its just a Gothic Hotel/Apartments.. add in several other fun elements and you never know? Old tunnels and more? I get along well with the Sikh down stairs in Bombay..
Working on ideas for a horror/drama/mystery or like book/story idea, any one have any ideas? I know of the elevator operator that was having to much fun and a husband did something?

Someone talks about an elevator is broke again in Boise and they know its the one at the Idanha in Boise. Might even know more.

Elevator as the entry point for the movie/event/escape?

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The things that can and do happen in the woods? Positive and negative. I know as I get older, getting an RV or cabin and living in the woods, away from people and the type of people that you can meet there? Criminal, enviromental, tourists, and more. Or just local wild life? to space aliens, or just persons lost?
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https://www.amctheatres.com/amc-scene/10-elements-every-horror-film-needs


https://storygrid.com/secrets-of-the-horror-genre/

https://www.scribd.com/document/513764977/3d6-Random-Campaign-Generator


https://sites.google.com/site/abrigon/poetry/sci-fi

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https://sites.google.com/site/abrigon/gaming/lab-goes-dark-2019

http://www.plot-generator.org.uk/create.php?type=14

https://letterpile.com/writing/horror-story-ideas-story-writing-for-scaring-people

http://listverse.com/2015/11/20/10-creepy-improbable-horror-movie-plots-that-actually-happened/

http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/07/40-freaking-creepy-ass-two-sentence-stories/

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/creepypastaplot.htm

http://www.everywritersresource.com/10-horrifying-horror-story-prompts/

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/03/two-sentence-horror-stories/

http://canyouactually.com/9-of-the-most-terrifying-two-sentence-horror-stories-ever-told/

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/153/20-Terrifying-Two-Sentence-Horror-Stories-I-Didn-t-Think-It-Was-Possible-Until-5-When-The-Hair-On-My-Neck-Stood-Up

http://www.everywritersresource.com/10-horrifying-horror-story-prompts/

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/03/two-sentence-horror-stories/

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/03/two-sentence-horror-stories/

http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/07/40-freaking-creepy-ass-two-sentence-stories/


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T-Horror Story Ideas 2020
11/2020

B-Wood Kid

Idea is to be a kid that is pushed out of society due to being a geek/nerd and ends up growing up in the woods near by.
Does he go to school or home schooled or not at all? Learned by finding books and figuring things out.

Nice person. Seen alot of how "normal" society can be and their violence and bullying.

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Its a story I am working on for a possible novel. The kid meets along the way various types of beings.. Some very nice, be it the old veteran that got burned out by the world and now lives in the woods. I get along well with animals of all kinds, be it bears to ravens..

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One story idea is the below..

Spaz kid
hyper
abandoned

forgotten and got on the city bus by accident on his first day of school, due to parent had forgotten him/her?

Got beaten by someone on his first day.

hides/gets home via the woods and not risk being hunted by the popular kids.

meets a spirit of the woods? bear or bird?

then what?

they find a serial killer or ... the serial killer is human or animal or spirit or horror of some sort?

or what else?

Ideas is the kid goes nature, knows things that most humans no longer know, such as how to hide in plain site, but since your 30 feet up, they do not see you cause most humans only see a narrow 30 degree or so right/life, up/down and if your outside of that zone, they might not see you, until you jump down and ..

The kid is very friendly with other animals but does not always do well with "normal" humans, they think him a bit odd/wierd and take advantage of his good nature, and need for social connections and purpose.

Parents, especially mother, keeps him in his room, in part due to his odd nature, hyper, and seemingly moronic or just odd nature. Reading but not very well kept, seeming they care more for their dog? Even put him in special need schools/classes and not having any friends, he is alone and has to deal with many things, runs alot, even if not being hunted.. Even put into a school, that seems they think he maybe possesed?

Sibling does not want him around, he ruins her social life and is creepy?

Spends alot of time in the library, where it is quiet, and safe.. Quiet helps him with his attention issues and he is well read.

What might else be out in the woods?

Another like him/her much the same, or very different?

Toy master or like person?

Aliens or like, friendly or not so friendly?

Droid maker?

Veteran gone to ground and just wants to be left alone?

Horror ideas or something else?

Mike

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Been working with several authors and like, one a military related super natural. The other about aliens that are trading with some earth humans.. Just for fun and ideas.. Yes, once had CN-ELF, an alternate earth, where the aliens arrive on large off shore islands to build things and infiltrate things, and then one day they rise up and take things over, and your a group of kids/young adults that are mounting a resistence against them and their habits of turning humans into slaves and also eating them and like..


Yes, working with a local gal, on a horror story or like for possible filming.. Will see how it all goes.. I still prefer my Bus-13 story line.. Of a group of special needs kids that deal with supposed evil creatures, but often find they are just special needs themselves and pushed out due to their being "different".. Trolls, Gargoyles and like.. The bus driver is a very dedicated to his kids, later found out that he has been undead for a while, dedicated to his kids..



https://www.facebook.com/groups/Horrorwritersgroup/T-Horror Story Ideas 2020
11/2020

B-Wood Kid

Idea is to be a kid that is pushed out of society due to being a geek/nerd and ends up growing up in the woods near by.
Does he go to school or home schooled or not at all? Learned by finding books and figuring things out.

Nice person. Seen alot of how "normal" society can be and their violence and bullying.

-------
Its a story I am working on for a possible novel. The kid meets along the way various types of beings.. Some very nice, be it the old veteran that got burned out by the world and now lives in the woods. I get along well with animals of all kinds, be it bears to ravens..

-----------
One story idea is the below..

Spaz kid
hyper
abandoned

forgotten and got on the city bus by accident on his first day of school, due to parent had forgotten him/her?

Got beaten by someone on his first day.

hides/gets home via the woods and not risk being hunted by the popular kids.

meets a spirit of the woods? bear or bird?

then what?

they find a serial killer or ... the serial killer is human or animal or spirit or horror of some sort?

or what else?

Ideas is the kid goes nature, knows things that most humans no longer know, such as how to hide in plain site, but since your 30 feet up, they do not see you cause most humans only see a narrow 30 degree or so right/life, up/down and if your outside of that zone, they might not see you, until you jump down and ..

The kid is very friendly with other animals but does not always do well with "normal" humans, they think him a bit odd/wierd and take advantage of his good nature, and need for social connections and purpose.

Parents, especially mother, keeps him in his room, in part due to his odd nature, hyper, and seemingly moronic or just odd nature. Reading but not very well kept, seeming they care more for their dog? Even put him in special need schools/classes and not having any friends, he is alone and has to deal with many things, runs alot, even if not being hunted.. Even put into a school, that seems they think he maybe possesed?

Sibling does not want him around, he ruins her social life and is creepy?

Spends alot of time in the library, where it is quiet, and safe.. Quiet helps him with his attention issues and he is well read.

What might else be out in the woods?

Another like him/her much the same, or very different?

Toy master or like person?

Aliens or like, friendly or not so friendly?

Droid maker?

Veteran gone to ground and just wants to be left alone?

Horror ideas or something else?

Mike

------------
Been working with several authors and like, one a military related super natural. The other about aliens that are trading with some earth humans.. Just for fun and ideas.. Yes, once had CN-ELF, an alternate earth, where the aliens arrive on large off shore islands to build things and infiltrate things, and then one day they rise up and take things over, and your a group of kids/young adults that are mounting a resistence against them and their habits of turning humans into slaves and also eating them and like..


Yes, working with a local gal, on a horror story or like for possible filming.. Will see how it all goes.. I still prefer my Bus-13 story line.. Of a group of special needs kids that deal with supposed evil creatures, but often find they are just special needs themselves and pushed out due to their being "different".. Trolls, Gargoyles and like.. The bus driver is a very dedicated to his kids, later found out that he has been undead for a while, dedicated to his kids..



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