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Sun Witch Beat Sheet

Tale 1: Watching All these Dreams Go Up in Smoke

• Scene 1:
  • Cold Open, introduction to enforcement arm of main antagonist, Sigma-12. Hard action establishment.
• Scene 2:
  • Introduction to Ericc (Circe), establish cryptic intent of the viewpoint character, alarming nature of things that they are becoming aware of. Discovery through electronic records of the central protagonist characters. Introduction of time-manipulation and Ericc's intent.
• Scene 3&4&5:
  • Scene 3&4: Introduction of protagonist #1: Melina (Medea), her core obstacles (emotional and historical) of her changing magic (manipulation through her mother in vagueries), her distress over this and what happened to her and Cardea (Carissa) and her sleep deprivation induced anger/irriation with the Foundation limiting their operational capacity such that they cannot function.
• Scene 5:
  • Ericc's distressed realization of what he may have to put Melina through to achieve his goals. Reveal of outside interference in Melina's magic, and set-up for Medea's SCP (Ericc confronting and ripping the strings from Melina's mother out of her back, and ripping Ilya out of the temporal bubble, returning the ancient city of Aea to baseline reality beneath the modern city of Kutaisi).
• Scene 6:
  • Introduce Cardea and Melina's relationship in more proper terms from Melina's POV, how Cardea attempts to cheer her up, how they communicate/confront an issue between them. Still unsure if I should introduce Cardea's viewpoint more thoroughly here or not? Feel like we lose something by not doing so. Maybe excise and use for elsewhere.
• Scene 7:
  • Ericc returning to his body, encounter and warning from his Cosmic Patron, wrestling with what he needs to do and setting the plan in motion.
• Scene 8:
  • Cardea's POV of her relationship with Medea, establishing them in a much softer, happier environment with hopes and looking ahead, only to be snatched away by the snatch and grab shown at the start of the tale.

Tale 2: You Won't Drown With Your Lover

• Scene 1:
  • Establish Cardea and Temis as both characters, and their internality. Demonstrate the way Sigma-12 treats Cardea due to her physicality, power, and intensity (IE, strapping her down and muzzling her), how she reacts to this and environmental stimuli and the means they go to to control anomalies (threatening to kill Melina) and how this effects Cardea.
• Scene 2:
  • Introduction of antagonist, Eulades Eurylochus, her internality, history and motivations. Need for exact order, categorization, neat segmentation of reality and conditions, hatred of anomalies and especially reality benders.
• Scene 3:
  • Introduction to Site-198. Melina's reaction and attempt to look for a way out of the current situation, proper realization that there is no way out, fear and growing terror as she's forced into an ontokinetic nullification field. Fear, despair, panic and then major feverish disruption of her nature and abuse at the hands of Site Security. How powerless she is, and how much it psychologically unwinds her when they separate her and Cardea.
• Scene 4:
  • Establish Ericc's dynamic/relationship with Eulades, demonstrate how he views her, his concern about Melina and Cardea's treatment, and the increasing disgust/distress he feels about how they are being treated.

Tale 3:These Prayers Ain't Working Anymore

• Scene 1:
  • Melina Psychological breakdown as they 'sweat' her in a high activity Scranton Reality Field. Panic, desperation, grief over what she thinks is about to be their deaths. Honed in on feelings of oppression, powerlessness, and at the mercy of their captors. Hoping they'll be rescued, found, bargaining with herself for it.
  • Deepening of the abuse of reality benders, parallels and mental comparisons between Eulades and Melina's mother. Three dimensional chess, manipulation, and sparring between Eulades and Melina to figure out what the other wants, demonstration of how Eulades treats anomalies directly. How Melina confronts her fear. Ultimately the coercion and agreement to serve as a guide and bulwhark for Eulades's plan to penetrate 8711, with the caveat that she must display her capabilities first.
• Scene 2:
  • Demonstration of Melina's capability, further abuse of reality benders/anomalies by making her target Cardea without her knowing as a guinea pig to test the latter's healing abilities. Tries to stay in control but manipulation, abuse, Melina's loss of control through her mother's manipulation of her magic, and her impotent rage when she realizes Cardea is on the other end of her magic.

Tale 4: No Gods Here

• Scene 1:
  • Cardea waking up after being blasted repeatedly by Melina's magic. Her mental and physical struggle with despair, how weak she feels, how powerless she is to protect herself, much less Melina in this situation. Questioning if she ever was able to do that, if she even knows who she is anymore. Temis pep-talk through this, resulting in overexerting too much.
• Scene 2:
  • Cardea's introduction to Eulades Eurylochus, direct demonstration of her strength and physicality even with the scranton fields. Deepening reality bender abuse, further demonstrations of increasing cruelty against anomalies, including poisoning Cardea, coercing her to agree to help in her ultimate plan to destroy 8711.
• Scene 3:
  • Cardea forced to demonstrate her marksman capabilities by shooting Melina. Melina's forced through thaumically interfacing neurological devices to use magic both against Cardea, and to manifest shields and effects. Cardea's psychological shattering as she relieves every time she's been forced to do harm or kill against her will or to survive. Can't shut it off and retreat to being numb as all her mental and emotional armor is stripped bare.

Tale 5: From the Great Heavens to the Great Earth

• Scene 1:
  • Cardea and Melina reunited in a containment cell. Cardea emotionally devastated, Melina attempts to comfort her, and together they try to figure out what comes next. Figure the best approach is to play the long game, hope they won't be disposed of, and just try to survive. Neither really confident in this plan, and cling to the other, fading into an uneasy sleep.
• Scene 2&3:
  • O5-01-03 anger at the failure of Site-212A's security personnel in failing to appropriately handle security protocols. Visible expression of this emotion.
• Scene 3:
  • O5-01-03 informing "the twins" what has happened, and asking for their aid in tracking down Cardea and Melina and bringing them home, revealing what the rogue Foundation site is like to entice their cooperation. They agree.
• Scene 4:
  • Departure of Site-198's expedition for SCP-8711. Buildup that something is coming, initial panic and communication storm/chaos as Site-198 comes under attack. Melina's realization that their rescue has come.
• Scene 5:
  • The expedition runs out on deck of the corvette and watches the complete obliteration of Site-198 at the hands of two Beasts of Natures (the twins) when they discover what was being developed inside the Site (not explicitly shown) and how anomalies were being destroyed. Twins then realize what they are after is still within reach, fly towards the ship, prompting Ericc to force the sun to rise early. Hope snatched away.

Tale 6: Strings of Bleeding Crimson

• Scene 1:
  • Melina waking up in 8711, realizing hope was snatched from the jaws of rescue, confronting the biggest failure of her past. Realizing she is not just anywhere within the pocket dimension, she's been placed in her room, her childhood room. She vows to do now what she failed to do in the past, and is interrupted by her Mother's voice.
• Scene 2:
  • Her mother stands in the doorway, only she realizes its not her mother, but the main antagonist (Eulades Eurylochus) in the skin of a Hermeneutic event. She proceeds to try to kill her mother multiple times, each time either her mind or body or both are twisted out of her control, as she becomes her mother, or a servant of the Scarlet Monarch. Undertones of manipulation, emotional abuse, physical abuse/sexual abuse. She reveals that she is Medea of the Noble Daevic House of Colchis, accepting this reality, stripping off her false ontokinetic skin.
• Scene 3:
  • Medea realizing her approach is wrong. She can't kill her mother, no matter how many times she tried. Starts to spiral into despair, not understanding what she's doing wrong, not able to think fully clearly. Questioning what is wrong with her. The creator of the Cosmic Garden (The Mither, Mother of the Astral Sea) seizes control of the Hermeneutic to speak with Medea, occupying Eulades in disguise as her mother, treating her like the mother she has wanted all these long years. A stabilizing moment as she's about to shatter under pressure. Then issues a warning to Circe about how recklessly she is treading.
• Scene 4:
  • Meldea subjected to the full depths of her mother's covetous behavior once again, the realization that she has never been anything but a backup vessel, a phylactery for her mother to shape in her own image, a representation of her legacy and not an independent person with their own thoughts and feelings. Ilya takes Medea's body for her own, indulging in the emotionally/mentally/physically abusive enjoyment to show her the truth, that she made a pact with the Scarlet Monarch to ensure that her legacy would propagate on in Medea by feeding her Ilya's blood. Shattering realization that Ilya wants to be killed at Medea's hands, wants her to steal Ilya's fleece, that the only way to bring her down is to find another way to free her people, revolution, or some other method. Killing is not the way for her to move forward. End with Medea asking Circe to help her find a way to stop her Mother.

Tale 7: Hello From the Other Side

• Scene 1:
  • Deconstruction of Cardea, psychologically fragmenting and throwing off, digging to the core roots of who she is, and finding she doesn't know who she is. Circe meets her in the Noospheric void of the Pocket dimension and offers to walk with her through the life, saying she can't find her name and identity for her, but she can walk with her. Evaluating Carissa to see if she's worth the mantle, and a worthy partner for Medea. Giving her a chance to do things differently.
• Scene 2:
  • The first time Carissa ever hunts, introduction to Black and the Hunter who kept her as a slave. Carissa's refusal to kill, getting hit for it, and Black standing up for her. Protecting Black by shooting the deer, and first demonstrating her power. Conversation with Circe about recent events, what she did. Kills the deer, grieves for it, and the hunter forces her to skin and preserve the meat. Where she earns her name. Where she and Black grieve together for what she has done.
• Scene 3:
  • Carissa resolves to grow stronger, Physical workouts, training with the bow, teaching herself math and then Black as well. Changes how she does things, defends Black from his abuse, starts beating him up when he comes at her drunk. Kills two centaurs in the woods who wanted to do horrible things to her, still trembles and weeps. Finds a different way to cope other than being numb. Necklace to remember each and everything she has killed.
• Scene 4:
  • Discussion with Circe about how she'd like to have been born Daevae, and Circe's disagreement. Slowly starting to fall in love with Black. Training with the Village soldier so she can protect Black from the bullies in the village. Her rage and anger at Black getting beaten up. Black's death at their hands, the first time she kills another human person. Persons. Her grief and anger at Black being gone, still too slow to save her even with a supposed second chance. The first time Artemis appears before her, and offers her a chance at a name, to be her champion. Artemis memorializing Black as a tall and powerful weeping fig tree, whose fruits she so very much loved, in a place they used to come and sit and watch the world tick by.
• Scene 5:
  • Carissa reaching late-teens, no longer being challenged by the Hunter for whom she's a slave. The reveal that he arranged for Black's death, set Carissa up to kill the village boys, and then intended to take her in and sell her for her crime of murder. Freeing herself by killing him, finally.
• Scene 6:
  • Arrival at Calydon, treatment at the hands of the hunters who think a woman should not be there. Meeting with Artemis as a 'adult' for the first time. The chessmatch between them, knowing that Carissa is here to make her name, but is also a tool for Artemis to achieve her own goals. Choice is hers to make, her own fate, no longer a slave.
• Scene 7:
  • The Hunt for the Boar, Carissa moving before anyone else can. Battling the beast in it's marshy forest, wearing it down and killing it. The other hunters attempting to steal the credit from her, holding her down, taking the hide for themselves. Meleanger killing his uncles, taking the hide and returning it to Carissa, and then dropping dead as his mother throws the lethal brand into the fire. The unraveling of the hunt party, as they turn against one another. Carissa and Artemis slipping away into the wilderness, Artemis telling Carissa where next fate may await her. She walks off with the hide to find herself a boat, certain in who she is, and with the reveal of her true name and title.

Tale 8: The Lion of Arcadia

Core Thematics: Medea and Carissa grow in their love and teamwork through righting the mistakes of their past when propelled against obstacles instead of working purely alone.

• Multiple mini-scenes(?):
  • • Transit through memories of Medea and Carissa's initial meeting at Sea, the Finnfolk, Finnfelheim, Troy, and their parting. Carissa disoriented but realizing she's on the Argo with Jason and the others, Jason (As Eulades) regards her as Useful, but misogyny and prejudice from others.
• Scene 3: Arrive in the city of Aea to meet with the Daevic entourage. Illustrate what happened in the past and Carissa's decisions now. First reunion with Medea. Faux pas's are made(?) by a crewmember demanding the fleece (work on this motivation) Ilya consigns the Argonauts to complete trials to be able to leave. Circes way of testing them before to fix their past mistakes and lead to a better outcome for Medea's overthrow of her mother. Jason innurement with Medea, jealousy when her eyes are only for Medea (like in the past). Carissa volunteers for the trials, aware of Jason's eventual intent.
• Mini-Scenes (?) 2:
  • • Medea and Carissa meet in private in a sacred font. In the Orchard. On balconies. Away from prying eyes. Planning their approach, using cryptic references.
• Either separate scene 5 or Tale 9: The Trials of Colchis
  • • Carissa is given various trials (plow the fields with fire breathing oxen, fight warriors sprung from dragon teeth, think of others symbolic to the journey of the Argo). Rebuilds confidence in herself as a hero, while Medea assists from the crowd and foils Jason's attempts at sabotage. Ilya is furious and impressed with Carissa's resolve, seeing her feats and bravery sway her people.

Tale 9: The Height of Sorcery

Carissa helps Medea overcome the failures of her past to choose a different future for her people.

• Multiple Scenes:
  • • Flashbacks to Medea working in the shadow of her mother to forge bonds and alliances with the slaves and lower class beneath her people's thumbs. Secrets and vulnerabilities, kindness. They don't trust her at first. Maybe spin into several scenes for the purposes of illustrating what waits in the wings.
• Scene 3:
  • • Jason seeks to remove Carissa with the final trial planning to use the Colchian Dragon. He attempts to meet with Medea in private to confess his attraction, but she rebuffs him. Something happens, the Argonauts are forced to flee or be enslaved and barely evade capture by Ilya.
• Scene 4:
  • • Medea sneaks Carissa and Jason into the palace in the night. They are met in the deep tunnels by thousands of slaves and lower class who are ready to rise up. Jason is ignored, and carried along as Medea speaks with the True Dragon of Colchis and persuades it of the dangers her mother poses. The dragon grants them the fleece and puts its claws on the scale.
• Scene 5: Rebellion
  • • Medea leads the revolt against the noble house of Colchis upon the true dragon's back, crushing the soldiers of her mother's house in ways she failed in the first go. In the throne room Medea confront her mother, in a nasty loop of fighting, loosing, and being consumed before finally finding a way to unbind her shackles. End of tale and end of Circe's trials with the triumph of both Carissa and Medea over their theoretical demons.

Tale 10: So Dance Alone to the Beat of Your Heart

Thematic Core: Return to reality except in Circe's pocket realm. Abuse doesn't end until we act to make it.

• Scene 1:
  • • Everyone wakes up on the shore, no memory of what happened, the Frigate anchored off the shoreline. Medea and Carissa are back in their ontokinetic disguises, the field reset as they are bound in scranton-anchored cuffs. Eulades and Jacobs press their abuse as they reestablish control.
• Scene 2:
  • • On the path to the village after wandering for hours using Medea and Carissa as guides, Sericc resumes his role in softening the abuse. Growth in that Medea and Carissa control their outrage, and trip up their captors to miss or hurt themselves in attempting to abuse them. Cuffs are Ericc.
• Scene 3:
  • • Village in the Night, Medea and Carissa attempting to map out their opportunity to spring. Ericc gives signals of some sort to be ready. Spikes the stew with beast brew to turn some of the captors into animals.
• Scene 4:
  • • Medea and Carissa awoken by the screams of some of their transforming captors. Sense hostile presence coming. Fight scene with the Monsters including the Chimera/manticore. Medea and Carissa flex capabilities to mask the whittling down of their captor's forces. Eulades and Jacobs flee up the cliffside towards Circe's palace with M&C when the situation becomes overwhelming. Scene with the plant allowing them to enter the forest.

Tale 11: The Sun Witch of Aeaea

Thematic Core: Resolution of the Major Plot, reveal of Circe, reunion, acceptance and looking towards what comes next in the deep caverns beneath Colchis.

• Scene 1:
  • Running through the forest, the deaths of many captors. Transitions into Circe's palace, Eulades demands the Anomaly show itself. Ericc steps forwards towards the throne laughing. Eulades interrupts asking what he's doing, only for him reveal the truth. Twists of reveals as Eulades godkilling weapon fails as her helicopter is torn from the sky. Demands Carissa and Medea act as her prisoners or else. They laugh and refuse, and Circe removes the cuffs. Remove the ontokinetic disguises and reveal their identities. Give the captors time to run to make the coming hunt fun.
• Scene 2:
  • • Circe Waits for the hunt to conclude, with Carissa and Medea both dragging their prizes back. Circe Confronts Eulades. Eulades springs her trap with a god-killing dagger. Circe acts like it succeeded, twisting and distorting her body. Only to spring the truth again after a second, the final humiliation. Does away with Eulades with the snap of a finger, and then greets Medea and Carissa proper. Proper reunion, exchanges and final judgements and offers with wedding. Heartfelt reconcilliation and reunion and emotional resolution of the major Series conflict and setting up Medea's SCP.
• Scene 3:
  • • Carissa and Medea are returned to Site-212A where they are debriefed with everything that happened and boons given.
• Scene 4:
  • • Abigail and Aleah confront Circe in her pocket realm.
• Scene 5:
  • • Medea entering Eurtec and taking public transit to the Silicon Nornir. Lead in to both Dancing in the Dark and Medea's SCP with Onyx greeting her.