Chapter Two

Alright, so the spear that punched through the windshield turns out to be thrown by a fomorian goon and the hero and the other characters easily mop them up. It isn't a real battle but more like a way to prove that the heroes are really bad-ass before they face actual troubles. They meet a girl who convinces them to trust her for a little while even though the readers are going to be screaming 'Don't Trust This Girl'. We've got to establish the the characters as fallible, you don't want anyone looking like a Mary Sue.

The main character offers to take her back to the cabin and call a friend to pick her up and take her to the hospital while the others start following the tracks the fomorians left. Just like you expected the woman was bad news and ends up calling up some more fomorians that try to jump our heroine, but she's been keeping in contact with her buddies by walkie talkie.

So our heroine valiantly holds off about a dozen thugs but there are just way too many, so she's got to retreat upstairs and burst out of the window in a complete action-hero kind of way. She's sporting a few new bruises to show she is dashing but vulnerable. Cue dramatic arrival of the other characters who had overheard the start of the battle over the walkie-talkie and turned back.

With everyone working together, the heroine and her sidekick burst into the house to mop up the rest of the mooks while the other supporting characters guard the door. Cue some cool explosions but nobody is hurt very badly after a moment of tension. The mooks get taken out by the sidekick who is seriously competent at this kind of thing, like Kato from the Green Hornet.

The hero boldly incapacitates the villainous wench and it is revealed that what the reader suspected all along is completely true. She's a bright one, one of the fomorians known for being attractive as opposed to being an ugly lump of inbred badness. The supporting characters fetch some rope and iron to keep her bound and they find out just how Crazy Prepared our heroine actually is.

Chapter One

The story begins with our heroic protagonist riding in the passenger seat of a 4x4 jeep, gazing out over the woods and mountains with an amused air. Her sidekick, a fiery redhead named Alanna who really put the 'beat' into the word 'beat cop', was blasting the music so loud you couldn't even hear the roar of the engines struggling to compensate for the steep incline of the road. She packed everything she could think of, but since whole towns had been vanishing without a trace it was hard to prepare for something completely unknown. Alanna forgot to pack her swords, but our heroine brought them anyway knowing it would earn her some extra fun that night.

Pulling up to the cabin revealed it to be a pretty decent affair, enough bedrooms to suit four people which meant one was getting used as a spare. The heroine hoped out of the jeep and drug her bags to the door, but peeked in a window just to be cautious. Someone else was already there, waving back to her, and another person was walking up the long road they had just drove along. Supporting characters.

So they get everything from the jeep brought in and made their introductions. The girl who was there first came off as clever and intelligent. Probably 'The Smart Girl' if you tried to put it into the context of the Five-Man Band. She immediately suspected spy cameras and went searching for them, but turned up nothing. The girl who showed up last was aloof and sarcastic, which probably makes her 'The Lancer' but we don't see a lot of leadership qualities, just a Deadpan Snarker. Might need to delve into her background further if the reader is really going to take an interest. Maybe something anguishing happened in her past.

Speaking of Deadpan Snarkers, Alanna has a real tongue on her and harasses our heroine something fierce but the reader can tell based on the casual way they address each other that they are longtime friends. The protagonist takes the remarks of her sidekick in stride, and feigns indignation which is the best kind of indignation to have. Everyone eats the sandwiches our heroine made, proving once again that it is always good to be Crazy Prepared.

After some friendly banter the bedrooms get picked and then everyone is off to the town below to ask around about rumors and leads regarding what's happening. Only, the town is gone when they get there. Definitely a twist that would make M Night Shyamalan pleased with himself. Absolutely nothing is left but holes in the ground and those are not very deep. Our heroine wanders around searching for clues, but the sidekick chimes in like she was Dr Watson and proves her value to the readers. There's a brief debate over leaving the jeep to follow the tracks, but that ends in irony when the jeep gets impaled by a massive spear.

Announcing a New Novel!

Alright, since truth is stranger than fiction the next novel I'm going to write is going to be based an awful lot on truth. It's up to you dear reader to figure out just how much is truth, how much is deception, and what kind of metaphor and allegory I'm creating. This is going to be a rough outline to give you readers something to sink your teeth into; when the real thing is ready to roll off the printing press you can rest assured it will be another bestseller.

Oh, due to popular demand one of your favorite characters will be returning: Alanna. Two new characters are being thrown into the mix so there are all kinds of interesting dynamics to explore. Without further ado, I'll post up the first chapter outline.