Today is all about chapter two. I will be attaching my chapter one break out below and putting two below it (then three and four…etc in subsequent tasks) I may be tweaking the chapters as I go but hopefully by the end of the set up I will have my roadmap through the story for November. And so…
Act 1 (Chapters 1-4)
Chapter 1: Ames is running late, he gets ready in a hurry, races to the university and makes it to his class where he uses a reproduction of an artifact showing the Couran to lecture about the difference between myth and history ending the chapter asserting that he does not believe in the Couran as anything more than supersticion.
- show that his apartment is all about work, no family or significant others, his work is his life.
- show that he has many real objects as well as relics.
- Also show him refuse to leave the house without checking to see if he has the protective amulet on.
- he is a well liked professor and habitually runs late.
- physical characteristics of ‘native population – blue eyes, high cheekbones and blue-black hair.
- Note that almost no one else on the university staff shows these characteristics, they are all either empire of earther mixes
Chapter 2: After class Ames runs into his academic enemy (Drogan) and they exchange poisoned barbs that sound like friendly banter to those around them. It is clear Drogan has heard news that he hopes to take advantage of and is hoping to scoop Ames, buts of info leak out.
- their offices are next to each other so they are talking in the hall. Drogan knows that someone with a big prestigious project is coming and hopes to make the project his. He is kind of lying in wait and had hoped that the project would come in when Ames was still with his class.
- During the conversation Ames learns that the project involves flooding and a potential dig site in the mountains where the Couran myths seemed to have started.
- As he talks to Drogan he mentally sifts through information for specifics that will let him claim the project over Drogan.
