kongisking
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Hey everyone! I would like to maybe share an idea I had for my very own adventure story, which I am writing! I have included a number of Indy homages and references, and if the tale seems derivative: you?re absolutely right. This story is meant to be one, big, fat, action-packed love letter to the adventure genre. At the moment, my title is Lost and Found: The Sword of Souls. (Yes, I am very proud of this title.) I want to share a little piece of the beginning of a synopsis I have laid out for the book, typed below. Read, enjoy, and PLEASE tell me what you think of it!
*=This mark tells when the current excerpt begins and ends. Just wanted to tell ya.
*Many centuries ago, there was an ancient civilization, hidden away from the world on a forgotten island. These advanced people (calling themselves the Furians) possessed a magical sword, known as the Sword of Souls, with the power to open a portal into the ghostly netherworld (Hell). This was how the Furians kept their empire alive, by using the sword?s power to resurrect the dead.
However, civil war broke out between the Furians for control of the sword. In an attempt to make sure that the sword did not fall into the rebels? unstable hands, a ship was sent out by the King to hide the sword somewhere secret in the world.
Now only one more step was needed. The sorcerers of the Furia King placed a spell on a small gold medallion; whenever the medallion was stained by blood, it would magically reveal the location of the sword, and hopefully would be used for the good of the world. An added difficulty was that the sword?s power could only be used for a maximum of 20 minutes. If someone tried to bring a soul back from the otherworld, it would need a living body to possess. After the 20-minute-window closed, if the spirit was still in the body of a being in our world, that spirit would stay on our plane?forever.
For the next few centuries, the medallion became lost, disappearing completely without the knowledge of the world. But then, in the year 1901, an American explorer named Jonathan Cruise discovered a cave in a remote jungle, where he found the medallion buried under mud. The Furians had put it there after endowing it with its powers.
Jonathan returned to America, where he married and had many children, who in turn made their own families, continuing the Cruise line. Jonathan considered the coin to be a good-luck charm.
The Medallion became a family heirloom, and so, through the decades all the way to the 2000?s, the powerful coin was passed down to each new generation of Jonathan?s children?eventually down the line to a certain adventurous man named Brad and his younger, naïve sidekick brother Rodney. (?Rod?)*
Okay, so there?s Part I of my synopsis. If you like what you have read so far, tell me and I?ll show the rest one section at a time (in honor of the matinee serials). So tell me! I would love to have someone interested in my own adventure tale!
P.S. No copying and stealing please, OK?
*=This mark tells when the current excerpt begins and ends. Just wanted to tell ya.
*Many centuries ago, there was an ancient civilization, hidden away from the world on a forgotten island. These advanced people (calling themselves the Furians) possessed a magical sword, known as the Sword of Souls, with the power to open a portal into the ghostly netherworld (Hell). This was how the Furians kept their empire alive, by using the sword?s power to resurrect the dead.
However, civil war broke out between the Furians for control of the sword. In an attempt to make sure that the sword did not fall into the rebels? unstable hands, a ship was sent out by the King to hide the sword somewhere secret in the world.
Now only one more step was needed. The sorcerers of the Furia King placed a spell on a small gold medallion; whenever the medallion was stained by blood, it would magically reveal the location of the sword, and hopefully would be used for the good of the world. An added difficulty was that the sword?s power could only be used for a maximum of 20 minutes. If someone tried to bring a soul back from the otherworld, it would need a living body to possess. After the 20-minute-window closed, if the spirit was still in the body of a being in our world, that spirit would stay on our plane?forever.
For the next few centuries, the medallion became lost, disappearing completely without the knowledge of the world. But then, in the year 1901, an American explorer named Jonathan Cruise discovered a cave in a remote jungle, where he found the medallion buried under mud. The Furians had put it there after endowing it with its powers.
Jonathan returned to America, where he married and had many children, who in turn made their own families, continuing the Cruise line. Jonathan considered the coin to be a good-luck charm.
The Medallion became a family heirloom, and so, through the decades all the way to the 2000?s, the powerful coin was passed down to each new generation of Jonathan?s children?eventually down the line to a certain adventurous man named Brad and his younger, naïve sidekick brother Rodney. (?Rod?)*
Okay, so there?s Part I of my synopsis. If you like what you have read so far, tell me and I?ll show the rest one section at a time (in honor of the matinee serials). So tell me! I would love to have someone interested in my own adventure tale!
P.S. No copying and stealing please, OK?