#plot outline *

[dungeons-and-dictions]

[corruflood]

Choking (On Grave Dirt)

Revived GN!Darling x Necromancer M!Yandere x Knight M!Yandere x King M!Yandere

Summary: You were murdered years ago, soul never put to rest waiting for retribution that will never come. That is until a necromancer finds your body, chaos, love and obsession ensues.

TW / CW: Gore, Death, Blood

If you want to use the idea -> TERMS OF USE [basically tag me so I can read it and if your okay with it I'd love to add the link to this post! Also have fun and change whatever you want to]

Up to chap 5 complete will be finishing soon.

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ೃ⁀➷ 01 : REVIVED

Dead, buried and suffering. Soul slamming into the dirt above over and over again clawing and begging for some sort or reprieve.

You died unjustly and painful, phantom pains of death ricochet against the confines of your nearly faded spirit.

Magic courses through the ground similar to lightning in water, scouring the earth in search of something, panic and delirium threatening to fracture your remains you desperately cling onto a stray bolt tugging it towards you.

Buck was anti - social. He didn't like talking to anyone and became uncomfortable around any living sentient thing.

It's why he chose to become a necromancer most undead were barely coherent and just did what he said. It was perfect well it was until he needed help with something that needs more of a delicate touch.

Honestly it was just his luck that the new tome he found specified a sentient, coherent person with the ability to memorize and adjust according to the spell itself. He hated chaos magic almost as much as he loved it.

It's why he's trudging through the forest resource gathering so he didn't have to go out and find a poor sod with okay ish understanding of magic to drag back to his home and force to do a powerful and deadly ritual because that would be so fucking easy.

What he didn't expect to find was something latching onto his magic like a lifeline, following the pull lead him to a patch of vibrant flowers and moss, the feeling of dread curls around Bucks spine a tell tale of a body near by. A body underneath his feet.

Well if he had to choose between a desperate soon-to-be revenant and talking to a person well he might of been too eager in the resurrection process.

You didn't need to breathe anymore, being dead does that to a person if only your body understood that, instead it insists on heaving on dirt and worms.

There's a man passed out beside you, all choppy hair and the beginning of scruff on his chin, he's passed out, brows furrowed. You can smell the magic on him were it pools in his skin and how it stretches still beyond him. Apart of you wanders if that's normal to just know when magic is afoot. The other apart of you groans at what must be done. He saved you after all.

ೃ⁀➷ 02 : WHAT ARE YOU REALLY?

Darling drags Buck back to his cove in the mountain, they found it by following the magic back. Darling can't remember anything except that they died and it hurt beyond death.

Darling takes care of Buck for days and cleans the place up a bit, they go hunting at some point and find themselves dangerously well acquainted with a bow and arrow, the weight of a dagger firm on their side a comfort with a fuzzy memory.

Buck wakes up in a panic and tries to attack Darling who finds themselves dodging before their brain catches up with it. Darling explains that they are the one that took care of him after he was passed out for atleast 7 moons.

Buck is shocked downright flabbergasted at the situation. A dead with no memories and a level of humanity he's never seen before and him passing out and slipping into an impromptu coma for over a week as his body tried to fix himself.

Expirements and research is in order immediately, Buck throws out boundaries and anxiousness. Darling is a shiny new thing and he needs to understand it as soon as possible.

Another week goes by Buck wrotes down everything, they try a few things out making Darling do exercises, math, poetry eventually they try magic and it's stunning.

It flows from his darlings arms in crashing waves breaking on shorelines. He doesn't even realize when he started considering Darling his.

Another week passes Darling remembers faint things, while eating they get a memory of a dining hall, they hear faint laughter some times. There's a whole life just underneath the surface and Darling wants to know who they were.

Buck isn't as happy about it. He starts keeping Darling closer and closer, a hand always resting on them, grabbing them to cuddle, relishing in the fact that no one is around and it's just them away from everyone. This is good this is great! There's a knock on the door. This is bad.

ೃ⁀➷ 03 : COMFORT ZONES.

Regretfully opening the door stands none other than Kures one of the knights of King Likin both of which unfortunalty call Buck a friend. He doesn't mind them. He likes them far more than any other people but this is his place and his darling is right there and this is really annoying until the glass shatters.

"Y/n?" The knight speaks almost afraid they would dissappear if he blinks.

"Kures?" Darling asks confused, pain tinged their face as much as shock does, despite knowing the knights name it seems they can't remember anything else.

This is troubling.

Kures rushes inside and everything is explained, MC can't remember shit, Kures came because Buck missed a meet up explains MC went missing years ago, MC still looked pretty much exactly the same as the last day he saw them.

Kures talks about life before. Buck continues to get more upset by the end of the convo Buck is practically wrapped around MC extremely displeased.

They talk and chat for a long time and settle on a plan to make there way into the castle so more people can figure out what is happening. Buck attempts to deny everything but Darling is barreling through. They want to know what happened.

Buck and MC pack and MC promises it will be okay and makes sure to stay close to Buck.

They travel a week together comradery pulling them all into a tight knit group and as they make it into a town MC finds out first hand how much Buck doesn't play nice with anyone else.

ೃ⁀➷ 04 : A LITTLE MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS

One of the staff at the inn tries to flirt with you laughing it off and head to bed, I'm the morning you here some of the other staff complain about him bunking work again.

A stall owner berates you after you bump into there crate, later in the day Kures comes to you with a couple of (insert thing that was in the crate)

Both Buck and Kures barely leave your side at least one of them is on you at all times, it's usually you and Buck in the inn room as you wait til dusk to head onwards, being subtle is key here.

You brush off the clinginess as nerves of being around people, Buck is severely anti social and Kures is a knight who is tasked in getting people back alive it's not his fault for being overly cautious.

Except the edge never dwindles ever when you all are way out of town with no one able to touch you, they stick as close as they physically can, Buck always has a hand on you, Kures is within touching distance more likely to follow you around than direct contact.

It leaves you on edge but it's fine, there nice and Buck helped you. He saved you and Kures someone you regretfully don't remember but most definelty know is risking everything to help you. You can only imagine how much it would tank reputation if they knew to be helping a random undead because that's what you were now and it's painfully obvious in the right light. So you stay close for them.

As soon as you cross the cities borders, memories twirl and spin out of reach. Your from here, not born but defiantly spent most of your life. Your feet unconciously carry you to a small bakery. The owner looks like theve seen a ghost before giving you the biggest hug.

It's the same story. Fine one day. Missing the next.

Mc thanks them and leaves with a fresh loaf of bread.

ೃ⁀➷ 05 : A KING AND HIS MEN

pending...

[apilgrimpassingby]

Midnight Circle Plot

So, I made up a bunch of Victorian monster hunters (best to read that post first) and now I've devised a storyline for them; tagging @kaleb-is-definitely-sane, @colorful-cryptid and @charlies-palace, who I've been sharing the Midnight Circle with. Here is the plot:

The story starts with Sybil getting ready for a ball, where she talks a little about her disabilities and her psychic powers with the maid while dressing. At the event proper, she meets up with Ethel; the two walk away to a private room, where the two talk about some occult topics after Ethel has deduced some of her psychic powers and invites her to the next meeting of the Midnight Society (exactly what that is is still unclear).

Cut away to Isaac returning to Britain after an excursion in Sweden, carrying a large number of wolf pelts with him; he meets up at port with Captain Jonah, who's waiting for him, and we get to see the contrast between Isaac's irreverence and fun and Jonah's haunting guilt. Dr. Mortimer meets up with them a little later, and when he starts talking about his latest translation project Isaac comments that he saw a ship bringing in mummies, at which point Dr. Mortimer has a little rant about how mummy-unwrapping parties are all sensationalism and prurience and have contributed very little to Egyptology. At the end, Dr. Mortimer says he's glad they're both back from overseas for the next meeting of the Midnight Society. After that, we get a brief scene of Fr. Peter saying Mass, with Marianne waiting outside and hoping she can enter; nonetheless, her supernatural curse makes her unable to enter as always. Fr. Peter leaves, makes some ineffectual efforts to comfort her and tells her to get ready for the next meeting of the Midnight Society.

After all this, we finally get the meeting of the Midnight Society, hosted at Ethel's home, specifically the laboratory in her attic, and we finally meet Simon. Sybil realises by his accent that he's not British, and so we get both his backstory and the backstory and the purpose of the Midnight Circle. Isaac chips in, stating that he's been killing werewolves along with regular wolves, while Sibyl shares her story of night hag attack and psychic powers with the rest, and thus gets a tentative membership.

After the meeting is over, they descend downstairs to find the doors open, her husband Robert bound and gagged and her children missing. She naturally begins by untying Robert, at which point it's discovered that Robert is possessed, and she calls the others down to help. Simon starts drawing magic circles, but Fr. Peter knocks him over, saying "good heavens, man - can you not see this is not the time for your negro devilry!?" The two start fighting at this point, but Sybil has deduced what's going on by her sense for evil spirits and so goes and fights it via astral projection. Having subdued the spirit (and hence the possessed Robert) in this manner, they tie him up again, Fr. Peter conducts the exorcism, and afterwards Simon traps the demon in a magic circle in order to interrogate it - the demon does reveal that the children are currently alive but are going to be sacrificed in a satanic ritual, but beyond that just laughs about "the god Maozim" and "the son of perdition", and so Simon locks the demon inside a sigil written on paper. Fr. Peter recognises the latter as a reference to the Antichrist, because he's Catholic and so reads the Douay-Rheims Bible, at which point he has to inform the others that, no, the Papacy is not the Antichrist.

At this point, the party splits - one part, consisting of Isaac, Fr. Peter, Capt. Jonah and Ethel, will look for Ethel's children, and another, consisting of Marianne, Simon, Dr. Mortimer and Sibyl, will look into this satanism stuff. In an actual book, these plots would alternate with each other, but I'm dividing them into separate blocks in this post for the sake of convenience.

Ethel and co. start by interrogating the three people present for the kidnapping: Robert, the nursemaid Anne, and the housemaid Jenny. Robert testifies to being ambushed and tied up outside, some spell being said over him while blood was dripped on him, and blacking out afterwards, Anne testifies to being ambushed while in the bedroom and tied up by them in the room, and Jenny to being (surprise) tied up by them and locked in the coal cellar. Upon piecing together the evidence, they realise an important contradiction - Anne's account requires there to have been three intruders (her and both of the children had a knife held to their throats), but her statements and those of everyone else say there were only two intruders. Additionally, they had been assuming that they took Robert's keys to enter the house, but his keys are still in his jacket pocket; someone granted the kidnappers entry. Upon this realisation, Anne tells all: she collaborated because she hated working long hours for a pair of ungrateful brats who didn't even use her real name (it was a family tradition to call the nursemaid Anne, regardless of her actual name - this was a real thing in the 19th century). Before turning her into the police, they ask her where she was approached by the satanists, and she answers - Shadwell. They set off there, but not after a brief bit where Robert asks if "a woman of her station" should enter a rough place like Shadwell, to which she replies that women of her station don't generally do chemistry or fight monsters and she thinks these gender restrictions are silly.

Anyway, they arrive at Shadwell, and split up - Capt. Jonah uses his maritime contacts to get information, and the rest generally asking around. Ethel is appalled at the conditions poor people live in, while Fr. Peter is unfazed by urban squalor, having grown up in rural squalor, and Isaac didn't personally experience it growing up but, being a member of London's Jewish community, knew several people who did. The experience makes Ethel reflect upon what Anne said - her initial reaction was to dismiss it as the ravings of a rebellious ingrate, especially since she didn't have to live in poverty due to employment, but upon seeing the attachment the people of Shadwell have to it (it may be a shithole, but it's their shithole) and realising that the servant class exists because of this kind of poverty, she starts to question her classist views and see class oppression as comparable to gender oppression. After interviewing a bunch of people, they confirm that there's been a spate of disappearances, mostly of children, which all radiate out from Milk Yard street.

Meanwhile, Capt. Jonah's been investigating, and found a revivalist movement from America, the Church of the Root and Offspring of David and the Bright and Morning Star, referred to by most as the Lieblingites, for their leader Richard Liebling. He goes to one of their meetings, and sees the Rev. Liebling cure people of all kinds of things, and testimonies of alcoholics cured of their disorder. He thus takes part in their altar call, pledging himself to join them, at which the Rev. Liebling lays his hands on him and claims to cast out numerous demons; Capt. Jonah gets suspicious when one of them is "the spirit of whoredom" when he hasn't had sex in nearly twenty years and has given money (and tracts) to prostitutes for free as part of his many attempts to atone for drinking, but is mostly caught up in hope and the emotional swell of it all.

When the four meet up, they come to an awkward realisation - the Lieblingites are also based in Milk Yard, and the disappearances started around the same time the Lieblingites appeared in town. To everyone else this looks suspicious, but Capt. Jonah defends them. Nonetheless, they agree for him to stay in - that way, he can spy on them. In the meantime, they start spying on the group more generally. In the meantime, Capt. Jonah comes across a hidden door in the floor of the building they're using for meetings, and the others follow him down it at night. They stumble upon a Black Mass being celebrated with human flesh and blood as the bread and wine, and when the satanists realise they're being intruded upon, they throw a human head at the intruders. The head in question is the head of Paul, Ethel's son, and when she keels over sobbing and the head cultist starts laughing, Isaac whips out his rifle and begins shooting them, with Capt. Jonah using good old maritime fisticuffs to finish off the ones who get past - the exception is the head cultist, who they spare in order to find out some stuff about where he came from (New Orleans) and what happened to Ethel's daughter Margaret (she's somewhere else, probably New Orleans; that guy was unsure, but is certain he didn't kill her) and give Ethel the privilege of avenging her son once he's interrogated.

Going back to the other party, they begin by having Simon interrogate the demon again, and in between cackling and taunting manages to tease some information out of the demon - namely, the name "Northwoods". They search the London copy of Kelly's Directory, and find mention of Rupert Northwoods, a landlord living in Croydon who owns several boarding houses, including in Shadwell. They go up to his house and notice several occult items on the walls. Simon thus starts geeking out with him about occult topics, and Dr. Mortimer is similarly lured in by Mr. Northwoods' copious collection of Egyptian papyri. With them thus sufficiently seduced, Mr. Northwood summons his mummy servitors (confirmed, here or later, to be from the shipment of mummies seen in the intro) to capture them all; Dr. Mortimer is chained to a desk to translate papyri (to be killed when done), Sybil is tied to her wheelchair, Marianne is tied up in the basement and Simon is also tied to a chair with a mummy holding a khopesh to his neck, staying alive for as long as he shares occult knowledge. Fortunately, night comes and Marianne is now easily able to burst her bonds, break open the cellar door, subdue Mr. Northwoods and rescue the others. In the scuffle, she rips off the pendant on one of the mummy's necks, which results in it standing still. Thus, having restrained Mr. Northwoods, they remove the pendants from all the mummies - Simon now starts interrogating Mr. Northwoods, while Dr. Mortimer unwraps the mummies' faces so they can talk. Simon founds out that Northwoods has a link to the Satanist coven in New Orleans he fought against years ago, that the coven has set up shop in London and that the headquarters is in New Orleans, though he is unsure where. Dr. Mortimer, meanwhile, finds that Northwoods has magically enslaved the mummies, who simply wanted a decent burial and apologise for attacking the visitors; hence, he buries them with simple headstones in Northwoods' yard. Since enslaving mummies with magic isn't a crime but they need some way to dispose of him, they hold him prisoner for a few days until the next Black Mass is held in his house, at which point they can call the police. During the time, they learn how he got into it; he was inducted through a now-defunct revivalist sect, and was drawn into the deeper ranks and, with it, into Satanism and attempts to create the Antichrist. In it, he reveals that there have been numerous potential antichrists, but there is yet to be a single successful Antichrist. When the time comes, some cultists assemble in the attic, together with a kidnapped child they're going to kill and eat, and they call the police, who arrest all the Satanists in the room.

Afterwards, the two parties reunite, and agree to take Capt. Jonah's ship (which I'll name later) to New Orleans, not only to hunt down the Satanists and perhaps rescue Margaret but because they've just kidnapped a prominent citizen and so should be out of town soon (plus Isaac is now a murderer, but that happened in a poor neighbourhood so the police will probably ignore it). Anyway, they hop aboard the ship - with the exception of Ethel, who's staying behind to mourn Paul.

During the trip, Isaac mentions that it'll be Passover some time soon, and starts singing "Dayenu". Dr. Mortimer gets irritated at it, and the others say (in Victorian terms) "knock it off, dude" to both of them. Afterwards, the two talk in their shared cabin, and Dr. Mortimer explains his irritation - despite being a devout Anglican, he's increasingly doubting the reliability of the Scriptures due to the lack of attestation of the Exodus in Egyptian writings, tries to forgot this and so dislikes being reminded of the Exodus. Not a lot else happens on the ship, and hence we can skip ahead to them arriving in New Orleans, although we see more of Dr. Mortimer in general as he and Simon both get close to Sibyl due to their love of weird topics.

Once in New Orleans, they have no leads, but decide to have Sybil sense some demons in order to decide where to go. Sybil locates the house of one Louis Boudreaux as a place to investigate - unfortunately, Louis remembers Simon from all those years ago, and so summons a mob to take him to the police. Simon gets locked in jail to await trial and has his suit searched for magical items, but summons a storm spirit with an incantation he memorised and a magic circle drawn in urine (make do and mend and all that), which destroys the roof and thus allows him to escape.

The others regroup and decide that they need to be more careful and spend some time planning and watching. Simon, though on the run, eventually makes his way to them, and thus they start planning.

The next day, Rev. Liebling is preaching outdoors, but this time, he's promoting proslavery theology and saying that slavery will spread to the North and from there to all the world. Despite all our protagonists being repulsed by this speech, Capt. Jonah runs into the crowd, kissing the Rev. Liebling's feet and bowing before him. Rev. Liebling takes advantage of this, saying that some day soon, all the damn Yankees will do this to the South and all "the coloured races" to the white race. Jonah looks up, at which point Rev. Liebling looks down, his eyes flash black, and he whispers "and all the peoples of the whole earth to me." Capt. Jonah is horrified, but stays stock still, entranced by the Rev. Liebling. The others try to pull him away, but to no avail, and near the end of the scene Sybil sees a host of demons around Rev. Liebling.

Rev. Liebling recognises Capt. Jonah, who he takes into a backroom afterwards, and reveals all to him - he put an enchantment on him when he laid hands on him, and he is ready to corrupt (or, as he sees it, transform) Christianity with a racist and tyrannical theology, make that the religion of the world and declare himself God's vehicle on earth. Notably, he seems to consider himself sincerely Christian, thinking that the faith needs to be cleared of Jewishness and that he's God's implement for it. After forcing Capt. Jonah to humiliate himself a bit, he then locks him in that backroom (you could play a drinking game with people getting locked in rooms in this story). Stuck there, Capt. Jonah begins to pray, and it breaks the hypnotic hold Rev. Liebling has over him; however, it does nothing to change the fact that he's still a prisoner. He gets moved to a prison with Margaret, who's been revealed to have initially been prepared for a sacrifice in London, but was moved to New Orleans once the Midnight Circle started winning fights to use as a hostage.

Going back to the Midnight Circle members, their plan is to launch a double magical attack on Rev. Liebling, with Sibyl astrally projecting and Simon summoning angels to fight him. The attack happens, but it goes wrong - the demon inside Rev. Liebling is actually Belial, the god Maozim and spirit of the Antichrist himself. Thus, he fights off the magical attack against him, and they have to beat a retreat and replan. Nonetheless, Rev. Liebling is quite disturbed by this situation, and Belial appears to him as an angel, telling him that the demons will attack him, but everything will be alright in the end.

With the new situation present, the new plan is to have Fr. Peter say Masses, particularly invoking St. Michael and St. Joseph Terror of Demons, while Simon draws defensive sigils all around the boarding house they're staying it and Sybil does some more astral surveying. Isaac is impatient with all of this and waits outside the Rev. Liebling's latest speech, shooting at him from a covered location; the shot does not kill him, due to demonic protection, but it blows off a portion of his jaw, making him unable to speak intelligibly. While lying in bed recovering, Belial appears to him in his true form, brags about how he effortlessly corrupted him, gloats to a panicking Rev. Liebling that he's going to drag him down to Hell, and says "you were always replaceable" just before he strangles the would-be Antichrist.

The next day, Louis gives a speech (which he says was written by the now-mute minister) in which he declares himself the new leader of the Lieblingites, using his Belial-granted hypnotic sway over the followers to get them out. In the meantime, we see Capt. Jonah and Margaret having bonded, as well as a cultist saying to them "you'll be the perfect pair to offer up - the sinner and the innocent." Louis is much sharper about this Antichrist business, and promptly identifies the place blocked off from demons as where our heroes are staying. He promptly sends a hitman there; the hitman, being a Satanist and all, decided that the priest is his number-one target, and goes and attacks Fr. Peter. While Marianne fights the attacker off with her night-activated powers, Fr. Peter is mortally wounded, but refuses medical aid - he wants to be a martyr and die saying Mass and invoking St. Michael, and after making apologies to Simon for his racism throughout his life, he goes back to priestly duties.

Overnight, Fr. Peter finally dies (after Simon kept watch over him as a conciliatory gesture on his part), keeling over with the Prayer to St. Michael on his lips, and they get an anonymous note saying "the sinner and the virgin die tonight. Belial laughs". They hence decide to go and storm Louis' house as soon as the night falls (before then, Marianne doesn't have her strength), the law, planning and common sense be damned. They break down the door, find a secret door and burst in on the Black Mass' beginnings, with cultists (wearing evening dress and not robes, just to break some cliches) watching their leader, wearing parody priestly vestments, and with Capt. Jonah and Margaret bound at the foot of the altar. Marianne starts dispersing the celebrants and untying Margaret, but Belial appears and starts tempting her - look at you, you half-vampire averse to all things holy, aren't you much more comfortable here than at church? At this, Marianne's despair takes over and she collapses on the floor. The cultists have additionally regrouped and have pinned down the others. However, Simon completes the prayer to St. Michael that Fr. Peter died with half-finished, and the Archangel Michael appears. Sybil's astrally projected self fights alongside the Archangel, and together they banish Belial, and Marianne gets up in encouragement and slays Louis.

St. Michael firstly, he approaches Capt. Jonah, and explains to him that alcoholism effects brain chemistry (although not in those words) and says "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Well done, thou good and faithful servant". Secondly, he turns to Marianne, lays hands on her, and she feels her scars vanish, along with her fear of the holy and her strength; her quasi-vampirism is gone, and she can lead a normal life.

Our protagonists finally return to London, and Margaret is reunited with her mother. We meet the new nursemaid, Sarah, who goes by her real name, is allowed to live in her own home and has more pay and leave than her predecessor. Simon and Sibyl marry, since the two have bonded and she has few other marital prospects (and, due to the age gap, they have agreed to not have intercourse) and settle down in a townhouse full of occult tomes and books on psychic phenomena (he reads them out to her). Fr. Peter is buried in his old church, where Marianne becomes a congregant, Capt. Jonah sets out to sea again while Isaac heads back to the Canadian frontier to lie low for some time while hunting wolves and the occasional wendigo. And Dr. Mortimer is as much of a geek as ever.

[thesorcerersapprentice]

Habemus the first fully functional Act One outline since I began the big re-write! I'm so excited! I went through about 50 of these before one of the plots finally passed muster. A huge shout-out to @sodaliteskull for their incredibly helpful suggestion on this post. Everything clicked into place after reading your advice! Thank you ♡ P.S. The image is blurred so I don't give the game away too soon for potential future readers out there ♡

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[amnenome]

Sabezra high school au where Sabine is also the heir to a mafia crime family so it’s just like

Ezra: Kanan do you think Sabine ever thinks about me??

Meanwhile Sabine: I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse

[talefoundryshow]

We’ve all seen a story of revenge that starts out with good intentions before devolving into a cautionary tale of morality. Justice is a tricky thing, isn’t it?

[ryukang1995]

Mortal Kombat (2021 film AU) - plot summary/outline part 1

The story begins with a prologue showcasing the battle between Goro and The Great Kung Lao. GKL puts up a good fight, but he is ultimately no match for Goro, and ends up being brutally killed by the Shokan, who then offers his soul to Shang Tsung.

After the title card, we cut to Liu Kang waking up from a nightmare of the time his family was murdered. He and Kung Lao are preparing for the Mortal Kombat tournament. Kung Lao wishes to honor his ancestor GKL and become a great hero like him, but Liu Kang wants nothing more than revenge for Shang Tsung murdering his parents (and possibly his brother Chan). We get to see the dynamic between the two monks, with Liu Kang being rather rebellious and Kung Lao being much more reserved and noble. Knowing that Liu Kang can’t compete with vengeance on his mind, Raiden tells Kung Lao to look out for his cousin.

We then cut to Hong Kong where we see Sonya Blade and Jax chasing down Kano and his Black Dragon gang. We get to know about Sonya and Jax through some dialogue about how Jax was the partner of Sonya’s father before his disappearance, and how she wants nothing more than to live up to his legacy. We also see how Kano and Kabal are working with Shang Tsung to lure both Sonya and Jax into Mortal Kombat.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, we see Cole Young partaking in a cage fight where he wins, but the money he earns is not enough to pay the bills. We also see Cole bonding with his wife Allison and daughter Emily, who continue to support him throughout their struggles. Cole then gets an invitation to Mortal Kombat from his old fight coach (actually Shang Tsung in disguise). Allison shows concern for Cole and expresses how the tournament seems rather suspect, but he tells her not to worry, and he goes in order to provide for his family.

We then cut to the Lin Kuei temple in China where we see Bi Han (codename: Sub-Zero) approaching the grandmaster, who tells him about the tournament and the mysterious deaths of certain clan members. Bi Han has been assigned to kill Shang Tsung, but he also wishes to find out what it is that has been wiping out his fellow Lin Kuei. We also get dialogue about Hanzo Hasashi and his Shirai Ryu clan being murdered.

To be kontinued…

[cepheusgalaxy]

🔆Ein Plotline🔆

Ein is one of my trhee current projects

Kaiki sucks (initial situation)

Ari saves Kaiki (spark)

Kaiki goes to infirmary (hurt)

Kaiko goes onemia (magical landscape)

Kaiki goes training (magic school)

Meets Lis

Kaiki and Lis get in trouble. QG wants to see them (Ari has to go too)

Alli gets in Kaiki's mind (villain manipulations)

Kaiki meets Simba (the prince)

Shit goes crazy (?)

Kaiki has to go get shit fixed

Ari gotta fix the shit. They end up in this together

Lis sees it *smashes window* gotta help *grins*

Simba joins

Gotta find Villain

Who's Villain (spoiler, it's Allen)

Villain kills

Another country (traveling around da world)

Kaiki sucks (fall)

Okay I kind of that love u (that's Simba)

Gotta rise

Lis shines (Lis rocks)

Gotta kick everybody's ass (rise, pt 3)

Goes to Villain

Gets a little cocky with Alli

Rocks

Open up new thing (new begining potential)

This may seem a little crazy

(Because it is)

Kaiki uses he/him

Ari (Arielle) uses she/them

Lis uses she/her

Allen (Alli/Villain) uses they and he

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

🧩 How to Outline Without Feeling Like You’re Dying

(a non-suffering writer’s guide to structure, sanity, and staying mildly hydrated)

Hey besties. Let’s talk outlines. Specifically: how to do them without crawling into the floorboards and screaming like a Victorian ghost.

If just hearing the word “outline” sends your brain into chaos-mode, welcome. You’re not broken, you’re just a writer whose process has been hijacked by Very Serious Advice™ that doesn’t fit you. You don’t need to build a military-grade beat sheet. You don’t need a sixteen-tab spreadsheet. You don’t need to suffer to be legitimate. You just need a structure that feels like it’s helping you, not haunting you.

So. Here’s how to outline your book without losing your soul (or all your serotonin).

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🍓 1. Stop thinking of it as “outlining.” That word is cursed. Try “story sketch.” “Narrative roadmap.” “Planning soup.” Whatever gets your brain to chill out. The goal here is to understand your story, not architect it to death.

Outlining isn’t predicting everything. It’s just building a scaffold so your plot doesn't fall over mid-draft.

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🧠 2. Find your plot skeleton. There are lots of plot structures floating around: 3-Act. Save the Cat. Hero’s Journey. Take what helps, ignore the rest.

If all else fails, try this dirt-simple one I use when my brain is mush:

Act I: What’s the problem?

Act II: Why can’t we fix it?

Act III: What finally makes us change?

Ending: What does that change cost?

You don’t need to fill in every detail. You just need to know what’s driving your character, what’s blocking them, and what choices will change them.

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🛒 3. Make a “scene bucket list.” Before you start plotting in order, write down a list of scenes you know you want: key vibes, emotional beats, dramatic reveals, whatever.

These are your anchors. Even if you don’t know where they go yet, they’re proof your story already exists, it just needs connecting tissue.

Bonus: when you inevitably get stuck later, one of these might be the scene that pulls you back in.

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🧩 4. Start with 5 key scenes. That’s it. Here’s a minimalist approach that won’t kill your momentum:

Opening (what sucks about their world?)

Catalyst (what throws them off course?)

Midpoint (what makes them confront themselves?)

Climax (what breaks or remakes them?)

Ending (what’s changed?)

Plot the spaces between those after you’ve nailed these. Think of it like nailing down corners of a poster before smoothing the rest.

You’re not “doing it wrong” if you start messy. A messy start is a start.

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🔧 5. Use the outline to ask questions, not just answer them. Every section of your outline should provoke a question that the scene must answer.

Instead of: — “Chapter 5: Sarah finds a journal.”

Try: — “Chapter 5: What truth does Sarah find that complicates her next move?”

This makes your story active, not just a list of stuff that happens. Outlines aren’t just there to record, they’re tools for curiosity.

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🪤 6. Beware of the Perfectionist Trap™. You will not get the entire plot perfect before you write. Don’t stall your momentum waiting for a divine lightning bolt of Clarity. You get clarity by writing.

Think of your outline as a map drawn in pencil, not ink. It’s allowed to evolve. It should evolve.

You’re not building a museum exhibit. You’re making a prototype.

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🧼 7. Clean up after you start drafting. Here’s the secret: the first draft will teach you what the story’s actually about. You can go back and revise the outline to fit that. It’s not wasted work, it’s evolving scaffolding.

You don’t have to build the house before you live in it. You can live in the mess while you figure out where the kitchen goes.

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🛟 8. If you’re a discovery writer, hybrid it. A lot of “pantsers” aren’t anti-outline, they’re just anti-stiff-outline. That’s fair.

Try using “signposts,” not full scenes:

Here’s a secret someone’s hiding.

Here’s the emotional breakdown scene.

Here’s a betrayal. Maybe not sure by who yet.

Let the plot breathe. Let the characters argue with your outline. That tension is where the fun happens.

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🪴 TL;DR but emotionally: You don’t need a flawless outline to write a good book. You just need a loose net of ideas, a couple of emotional anchors, and the willingness to pivot when your story teaches you something new.

Outlines should support you, not suffocate you.

Let yourself try. Let it be imperfect. That’s where the good stuff lives.

Go forth and outline like a gently chaotic legend 🧃

— written with snacks in hand by Rin T. @ thewriteadviceforwriters 🍓🧠✍️

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[ouroborosreilig]

a post-apoc sci-fi laichi focused au

[dungeons-and-dictions]

Here’s how I keep my stories and their notes organized. Since I’m a hot mess, I figured out a low-maintenance “system”.

Each story has its own folder, by the story’s title. Because I can’t be bothered to type out the title again, I break it down into initials for files. In this case, my title is a single C-word:

C is where I write the story itself

C o3s is C’s out-of-order scenes

C Outline is the plot outline, and other important notes a la Brandon Sanderson.

C Header Excerpts is my compilation of epigraphs for chapters, like in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, but focused on world and lore.

I’m in the process of transferring notes to the Obsidian app rn too! 🤞

[dollygirl808]

When past you leaves present you a little note about your past writing choices.

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Can confirm you are not the first person to have this idea!!! I like what you did with Will not necessarily being the Ripper himself, but being guilty of planting evidence that suggests that Hannibal is. (Perhaps it was Matthew Brown all along?)

I will now subject you to politely invite you to read my version.

(Please feel free to opt out, though. No hard feelings. I assure you I do not own a rolodex.)

Okay. Here goes:

For whatever quixotic reason, I envision Hannibal as a hostage negotiator (who actually had a reason to be on the phone to the Hobbs residence).

He is married to Alana, and their marriage is strained because she had an affair. There are signs she might be having another one, but Hannibal is ignoring them.

(Alana Bloom character assassination, I know, but I felt it worked in the context of the story.)

Hannibal is the long-suffering martyr in their failing marriage, patient to the point of passivity, and he is unwilling to admit it’s doomed even though she’s clearly got one and a half feet out the door.

Alana is out of the country on a teaching secondment when our story begins, so she asks (tells) Hannibal to look out for her former T.A., Will.

Hannibal tries to do so, and grows close to Will - even though he sees that Will is sinking even deeper into alcoholism, and is slowly losing his grip on reality.

Eventually, Will turns on Hannibal spectacular-style, and Alana comes back and is like “What the hell is going on? What did you do to cause this, Hannibal?”

Eventually, in the heat of a rather mean argument, she says something that suggests that maybe she’s entertaining the idea he is the murderer (he does cook a lot of organ meat) and the sheer cruelty of that jab finally snaps Hannibal out of his sort of ‘If I’m just patient enough…’ posture.

He tells her to get the fuck out of the house.

In hindsight, it’s pretty clear to him that Alana didn’t really mean it, and that she was instead convinced that Hannibal was having sex with Will, and hella mad about it.

But Hannibal also realizes that’s not really better?

Because he’d never been unfaithful, and she most definitely had. And he’s done.

(And also he does kind of want to sleep with Will. If Will ever gets his shit together. And if they can get past the whole ‘accusing Hannibal of murder’ thing. )

Bonus round:

- Hannibal and Jimmy Price are work-chums, and Jimmy is perennially puzzled that Hannibal is with a woman.

- Dr. Du Maurier is Alana and Hannibal’s marriage counsellor. She has been trying for the last ten months to nudge Hannibal around to the realization that he cannot possibly compensate for the fact that his wife just doesn’t really want to be there.

- The incredibly cheap whiskey that Will hides in his desk drawer at work is named Muskrat Farms.

( Was this probably all inspired by my extremely-incorrect initial attempts at figuring out where we were going with the stag symbolism?

Yes. I am bad at interpreting symbolism. #1 Symbolism Misinterpreter over here.

But it was fun for me, because I love a non-evil Hannibal Lecter, and I love to see a protagonist whose arc is just finally getting the courage to nope the fuck out of a bad relationship. Catnip to me. )

Hannibal AU where Hannibal truly is just an eccentric European phsyiciatrist that has a passion for the culinary arts and Will is simply losing his mind on his own.

Will convinces himself that the reason he's losing his mind is because someone is tugging on the strings, because it can't just be him..

He picks his phsyiciatrist as the ring master of his mental decline, he's the one he's around the most, the one who has gained his trust, he's always vigilant around everyone else but him, so it can't be anyone else.

Will searchs and searchs for the evidence that should be there, but he can't find any. So he plants it, fulfilling the prophecy his mind has set up for him. Once Hannibal is sent away, then it will all make sense. And he'll be free.

Bonus points if Hannibal can see how quickly Will is degrading and Will is subtly threatning him every session but he stays with Will and keeps being his phsyiciatrist because he wants to take care of this broken man, unknowingly putting his faith in a man on the edge of insane who is currently framing him for being he most dangerous cannibal anyone has ever seen, will wants a physical manifestation of his demons, so he makes Hannibal into that manifestation.

[dionysiaproductions]

[untitledrockstar-if]

mc vs paparazzi gotta be my fave genre fr. from breaking a camera to throwing a vase at them to this in chapter 4