Bottom Stone Chapter: A Room with Taboo
A power outage strikes New York City and a low-rent apartment complex is struck with terror. During the worst power-outage in decades, a gruesome slaughter is committed in small apartment on the lower east side. Room 237 has been shut off from the grid, a supposed gas explosion.
Plot points/Scenes
Power-outage Panic
A call from the Null
(Who Saw What?)
Approaching the room
Knee Deep
Survivor of Guilt
Body of Knowledge / Hounded / Interview with a demon
Themes
Trans-humanisn, Hedonism, Suffering
Structure
Exposition
Something horrifying happened in apt 237 last night. Something not meant for this earth. There is a wound in New York City that's still leaking blood and pus. Can somebody staunch the bleeding? What will happen to the people who do?
Conflict
The Authorities want to close down the apartment complex until they know what's going on. Getting in and getting samples won't be easy, and the room in question does NOT want to be sampled.
Rising Action
What happened in that room?
Climax
The room fights back
Falling Action
With time to breathe and analyse your actions, what can you gather before getting away?
Resolution
What have we learned about apt 237 and what happened there?
Components
Goals
Take samples and ask questions of people in the know.
Hooks
Why is the governement hesitant to let people know what happened?
Is the room related to the power-outage?
Stakes
Is the room dangerous? Will what happened to the first responders happen to me?
Moral Quandaries
Will we be disturbing something we don't understand? Will we be unleashing something we can't understand?
Relations
Allies
Plot type
Chapter
Parent Plot
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