Saturday, May 14, 2011

Dreamscape: General Plot – Part One

It all starts with the death of Tiberius Nocibur.  After his death, the gods begin their plans and grant the six chosen their gifts and calling.  The initial story concentrates on Zach, Cait, and Taylor (who are the grandchildren of Tiberius).  Zach and Cait start to experience their gifts... both having strange dreams.  Cait's show her how to accomplish/achieve things she wants while Zach's seem to be trying to tell him to do something.  Zach tells Cait about a recurring dream he has about a gate where he feels like he needs to find it and go through it.  Cait dreams that night of where to find the gate, she also dreams that they need to take Taylor along with them.  They go that next day after school and have Taylor open the gate.  They go through and apparate into an abbey where the the first person they meet is a novice named Gage.

There is a bit of excitement and the abbot, Khalil, tells Gage to keep them in his charge.  He is to look after them, learn their language, etc... they must not be known to the public or the government.  ZTC return to Earth that day but they decide to return that weekend and stay longer under the guise of a camping trip.  The next time they visit Kesh, ZTC try to see more of the city outside the abbey.  They learn of the political troubles on Kesh and get frightened.  They are forced to leave when the abbey is inspected by a government agent looking for reported refugees.  ZTC decide not to go back... but then Zach is troubled by visions exhorting them to return.  Zach convinces Cait, but they end up having to trick and drug Taylor in order to get him to the gate.  Here, Cait learns that the solutions she dreams of aren't always the only or best way to do something.

When Taylor comes to he is furious but even more scared.  He heads for the gate without a thought for Zach or Cait.  As he steps through the gate he is stopped in limbo by some of the gods.  They persuade him to return using shame, intimidation, and a call to trust that ZTC are needed in Kesh.  Taylor decides to return.  Zach and Cait arrive back near the gate to find Taylor awake, not knowing that he had tried to desert them.  Zach apologizes, Taylor forgives him (given he now understands how much pressure the gods can put on someone).  Zach, in the meantime has made some strides with Gage linguistically: it turns out that this dialect of Kesh is a derivative of Latin.

The visits continue more or less daily for some time.  ZTC learn Kesh and Gage learns English fairly well.  Later, Zach begins to have visions again.  He sees that there is someone(s) they need to find.  They speak with Khalil about seeking these people.  He says they should follow the visions because they are from the gods.  Gage begins to manifest his question ability and helps Cait know what to seek for in her dreams.  Cait is directed and they go out one day, into the market, and find Kastor.  Kastor is persuaded to join up, but his parents are helped along by being led to believe that their son was being employed by the abbey to do chores.

Next, TCG leave ZK to language and search for the 6th. They craft a portkey for Zach that allows him to use the gate without Taylor.  Plus, Zach gets to explain their absence from Earth.   They head off to the countryside where they find Tarja.  The girl is an orphan and a servant on a plantation.  They offer to pay her debts and bring her back to the abbey.  On the way back she tries to run away but is stopped by a vision.  Taylor realizes why she stayed and they have a bonding moment.  Before reaching town the group is ambushed by highwaymen.  They run for their lives, but Taylor is wounded by a magical weapon.  Cait rushes Taylor back to Earth and he is taken to a hospital.

Khalil is enraged when he finds out about their impulsivity.  Taylor needed to stay on Kesh: a magic wound need to be treated by a physician who knows how to cure it.  Zach knows none of this.  But in the morning as he is on his way to school, he has a vision that he needs to go to Kesh immediately.  He goes through the gate and meets Gage who updates him.  They must get Taylor back through the gate!  Gage and Zach go through the gate but they are stopped in limbo.  Zach is conscious but Gage lies comatose and it seems that they are in the middle of the Arizona desert.  Apollo appears and tells Zach that it is not safe for any of the Kesh to come to Earth yet.  He show Zach how to push people through realms and crafts power into the portkey to guarantee a one-time safe trip.  Zach gets the premonition that he and Cait might not be back to Kesh for a while.  He gives the sleeping Gage a kiss and walks out of limbo into Earth.

Zach goes to the hospital and sees a very sick Taylor.  He tells all and breaks the portkey over Taylor, sealing the spell.  Taylor must fall completely unconscious to be ported safely.  Taylor is being prep'd for surgery and is generally in a drug-induced semi-coma.  A dragon visits him in his delirium and gives him the power to break free of the drugs.  Taylor wakes and is inspired to wreak havoc.  As he is smashing the ward, bouncer-nurses grab him and inject a sedative.  As he slips out of consciousness the doctor turns the corner in time to see Taylor vanish.

Taylor's unconscious form is belched out in the abbey.  Khalil is able to cure him, but won't let Taylor near the gate for some time.  They do allow that he activate the gate so they can slip a message back to Earth.  Zach and Cait have to come up with a story as to where they were, how Taylor was hurt, and now everyone thinks Taylor is dead.  Even Zach and Cait are unsure until they get the message from Taylor at the mouth of the gate.  Zach and Cait graduate and prepare for college at ASU, but eargerly await Taylor's return and their own return to Kesh.

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