Milk & HONey
STORY OUTLINE
Story of Adam and Eve
Into story of Flint and LeVil of Fester
Ends with Flint sacrifice of daughter and then God going to destroy the world of magic and replace it with world of science
Tells LeVil he can have a special role and tells him to go to the top of a mountain to avoid the deadly mist
But it’s just to strike LeVil with lightning at the top of the mountain and the site of the transformation to science
But three monsters overheard the god and LeVil convo (one is Merv a vampire ghoul, one is minotaur, other is mysterious third demon)
They hide up on the mountain and are able to survive
Then it is the world we know – our world (estrosapien world)
The story of minotaur
The story of Rasputin and vampire Jesus (Rasputin is the vampire ghoul Merv)
All the way to modern era with Rasputin in hospital discovered and then detective’s pursuit
With Jesus who decides to step in and fix the world despite being an evil vampire
Three monster.. set up crusader cabal and cult of canaan (Zionism)
Into story of Flint and LeVil of Fester
Ends with Flint sacrifice of daughter and then God going to destroy the world of magic and replace it with world of science
Tells LeVil he can have a special role and tells him to go to the top of a mountain to avoid the deadly mist
But it’s just to strike LeVil with lightning at the top of the mountain and the site of the transformation to science
But three monsters overheard the god and LeVil convo (one is Merv a vampire ghoul, one is minotaur, other is mysterious third demon)
They hide up on the mountain and are able to survive
Then it is the world we know – our world (estrosapien world)
The story of minotaur
The story of Rasputin and vampire Jesus (Rasputin is the vampire ghoul Merv)
All the way to modern era with Rasputin in hospital discovered and then detective’s pursuit
With Jesus who decides to step in and fix the world despite being an evil vampire
Three monster.. set up crusader cabal and cult of canaan (Zionism)
ODE (Minotaur Story)
Act 1 – Ode is slave in ancient Egypt working on a pyramid project
In the basement dungeon of the pyramid a monster has been birthed from a woman
She gave birth to the minotaur
Ritualistic cult around the mother
They kill the mother
The baby minotaur gets older in the pyramid
The slave drivers feed the minotaur children
They threaten slaves that if they don’t work hard they get fed to the beast
Ode injures himself and begs for a second chance… the slave driver instructs him to take meals to the minotaur
He jokes that if the minotaur decides to eat Ode then it will be justice for being a useless worker
Ode starts to take minotaur food
Then he tries to replace the children with animal meat
Tries to sneak a child out and is successful
Then puts clothes on the minotaur
There are hieroglyphs all around the minotaur dungeon
The minotaur has started to paint with the blood and his work is very advanced for the era
Ode notes the artistic talent and realizes the minotaur is intelligent
Ode is healthy enough to work again but makes a plan with the minotaur that they will escape together
Ode is attacked by the slave driver and the minotaur emerges and kills the slave driver
The pair escape up the nile
Act 2 – the pair arrive at the mouth of the nile at a town with a powerful governor
They settle into a hut away from the town
The minotaur lives in a grotto and Ode lives in the hut
Ode brings parchment to the Minotaur and he starts drawing on it
Ode keeps the drawings in the hut
However, the minotaur is capturing kids secretly and eating them… he has an addiction
Ode doesn’t know
But the governor’s magistrates come by and investigate
They find remnants of the children around the grotto and assume Ode is responsible
They raid his hut and take him captive
The lead magistrate finds the artwork interesting and brings it to show the governor
The governor is presented with Ode and the artwork
The governor is impressed
But the pharaoh’s representative has shown up to reclaim the fugitives
The governor puts the pharaoh’s rep in his place and makes a deal with Ode… that if he can design a great palace for the governor and oversee its construction then the governor will protect Ode from the pharaoh while the project is underway
Of course Ode agrees but stipulates that he must be allowed to work in his hut
The magistrates object and the governor agrees to the terms but that Ode will be under house arrest and two of his magistrates will be stationed at the hut at all times
Ode goes back to his hut and has to sneak over to the grotto to get the minotaur to draft the blueprints for the governor’s palace
The minotaur is despondent because he needs children and can’t get any
He doesn’t want to do the work
Ode pleads with him
He does do the work but later one of the magistrates gets curious and investigates the grotto
The minotaur kills the guard
The minotaur emerges and the other guard runs to tell the governor but Ode kills him
They flee by ship and head toward crete
Act 3 – a storm blows their ship apart and Ode lands on Crete but doesn’t know the fate of the Minotaur
The Minotaur did make it to Crete but was later captured by the King’s soldiers and taken to the King’s palace
The Minotaur was put in a labyrinth under the palace and brought children
The King is corrupt and evil and gets off on the ritualistic killings
Meanwhile Ode found a village on Crete and was taken in by a woman and her child sister
He enjoys life with the two girls, Thea and Mina
But one day the King’s soldiers arrive in the village and they take away the little sister for the minotaur
Ode and the woman travel to the palace to save the little sister
This is where they discover the Minotaur
The Minotaur is freed by Ode
He kills the King and many of the soldiers but he is about to kill the woman and Ode is forced to kill the Minotaur
The trio escape with the woman suffering a serious injury but surviving
Act 1 – Ode is slave in ancient Egypt working on a pyramid project
In the basement dungeon of the pyramid a monster has been birthed from a woman
She gave birth to the minotaur
Ritualistic cult around the mother
They kill the mother
The baby minotaur gets older in the pyramid
The slave drivers feed the minotaur children
They threaten slaves that if they don’t work hard they get fed to the beast
Ode injures himself and begs for a second chance… the slave driver instructs him to take meals to the minotaur
He jokes that if the minotaur decides to eat Ode then it will be justice for being a useless worker
Ode starts to take minotaur food
Then he tries to replace the children with animal meat
Tries to sneak a child out and is successful
Then puts clothes on the minotaur
There are hieroglyphs all around the minotaur dungeon
The minotaur has started to paint with the blood and his work is very advanced for the era
Ode notes the artistic talent and realizes the minotaur is intelligent
Ode is healthy enough to work again but makes a plan with the minotaur that they will escape together
Ode is attacked by the slave driver and the minotaur emerges and kills the slave driver
The pair escape up the nile
Act 2 – the pair arrive at the mouth of the nile at a town with a powerful governor
They settle into a hut away from the town
The minotaur lives in a grotto and Ode lives in the hut
Ode brings parchment to the Minotaur and he starts drawing on it
Ode keeps the drawings in the hut
However, the minotaur is capturing kids secretly and eating them… he has an addiction
Ode doesn’t know
But the governor’s magistrates come by and investigate
They find remnants of the children around the grotto and assume Ode is responsible
They raid his hut and take him captive
The lead magistrate finds the artwork interesting and brings it to show the governor
The governor is presented with Ode and the artwork
The governor is impressed
But the pharaoh’s representative has shown up to reclaim the fugitives
The governor puts the pharaoh’s rep in his place and makes a deal with Ode… that if he can design a great palace for the governor and oversee its construction then the governor will protect Ode from the pharaoh while the project is underway
Of course Ode agrees but stipulates that he must be allowed to work in his hut
The magistrates object and the governor agrees to the terms but that Ode will be under house arrest and two of his magistrates will be stationed at the hut at all times
Ode goes back to his hut and has to sneak over to the grotto to get the minotaur to draft the blueprints for the governor’s palace
The minotaur is despondent because he needs children and can’t get any
He doesn’t want to do the work
Ode pleads with him
He does do the work but later one of the magistrates gets curious and investigates the grotto
The minotaur kills the guard
The minotaur emerges and the other guard runs to tell the governor but Ode kills him
They flee by ship and head toward crete
Act 3 – a storm blows their ship apart and Ode lands on Crete but doesn’t know the fate of the Minotaur
The Minotaur did make it to Crete but was later captured by the King’s soldiers and taken to the King’s palace
The Minotaur was put in a labyrinth under the palace and brought children
The King is corrupt and evil and gets off on the ritualistic killings
Meanwhile Ode found a village on Crete and was taken in by a woman and her child sister
He enjoys life with the two girls, Thea and Mina
But one day the King’s soldiers arrive in the village and they take away the little sister for the minotaur
Ode and the woman travel to the palace to save the little sister
This is where they discover the Minotaur
The Minotaur is freed by Ode
He kills the King and many of the soldiers but he is about to kill the woman and Ode is forced to kill the Minotaur
The trio escape with the woman suffering a serious injury but surviving
GRIM (Merv Story)
I have been writing screenplays for fifteen years and have been making games for five. I am particularly keen and enthusiastic about developing this project through the guidance of professional screenwriters and through the feedback of fellow screenwriting students and game designers. Recently, I conceived of a story which I am tentatively entitling, “Grim”. The story is of the horror genre and the vampire subgenre. My influences are the works of Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, EAP, RLS, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker and Stephen King. The protagonist of the story is Merv Payne, a disillusioned ancient vampire on the verge of a state previously thought improbable for vampires - death. Ideally, this story would manifest as a horror-survival video game, with the first iteration likely being an interactive narrative game.
SYNOPSIS/TREATMENT
The story begins in the ancient Roman province of Judea, where a young doctor (Merv) is instructing his servants to drag a cart with corpses from a morgue at the edge of Jerusalem. There are crucifixes in behind the morgue. As they depart into the desert, a fellow doctor comes running out of the morgue to ask medical advice for an autopsy he is performing. Merv establishes his medical reputation but also his eccentricities. Merv is cordial, even endearing, yet at the same time inexplicably frightening. Merv’s servants continue hauling the corpses across an open desert. They arrive at a tower before nightfall. It seems that a storm is brewing.
Merv is on top of his tower, adjusting a lightning rod which predates Benjamin Franklin’s invention. As he comes back inside his tower, we can see the cadavers set up. He has cadavers at different height levels on metal plates, giving the impression of a macabre spiral staircase. Presumably if lightning struck, the Frankensteinian experiment would involve the bodies conducting the charge all the way down to the main experiment table at the base of the tower. Merv’s servants help to setup and arrangement the corpses. The main door to the tower swings open and a blond, fair woman is gagged and bound. A sleazy merchant holds her in place before Merv. The merchant looks around outside, more concerned by the storm than by the heinous experiments conducted inside.
Merv reaches in his cloak pocket and pulls out a bag that must be full of gold pieces. He hands the money to the merchant who pushes the girl through the doorway and departs. The girl’s body is limp and Merv catches her and stops her from falling to the ground. He appears to be kindly as he takes out her gag. His fingernails are long and sharp and he uses them to slice the cords binding her hands. She becomes barely conscious and holds onto Merv as if he were her savior. He exploits this misplaced trust and reveals his surreally sharp canine teeth unbeknownst to the damsel. He sinks his teeth into her throat as he has his way with her.
The girl is placed on the metal slab at the base of the tower which sits in a kind of empty pool or pit. She is unconscious once more. Merv whistles and one of his larger servants moves forward. They leave the tower and head out into the thunderstorm. They arrive back at Jerusalem. Merv explains to his servant that the cadavers are appropriate conductors of bile life force but that the experiment requires a subject more recently deceased for sanguinary life force. The servant only partially appreciates this information. They arrive at a place of crucifixion just outside the city. Some of the men on crosses are still alive, although they have the countenance of concentration camp survivors. Most of the dying men on crosses look on silently as Merv and the servant try to determine which of the men are in fact deceased. They come upon a man with long hair who appears to have just died. They poke at him. Crosscut reveals the blond, fair woman’s eyes opening and lightning striking.
Merv and his servant work to get the deceased man down off the cross. At first they seem uninterested in prying eyes. A Roman centurion is passing through the streets and will soon arrive at the edge of the city and will see the doctor’s nefarious machinations. Merv realizes this instinctively. A sub-Saharan man with shoulder-length dyed red hair has managed to distract the Roman centurion at the gate. They flirt and it seems they may both be gay. The black man makes eye contact with Merv. Is he a vampire? Why is he helping?
Merv and his servant get the body off its cross. The servant throws the body over his shoulder and they haul him back to the tower. When they arrive back at the tower, all the other servants have been killed. The floor of the tower is covered in pools of blood and fresh corpses. Merv moves toward the woman who seems chuffed with her murderous rampage. The bulky servant takes the crucified man down to the metal slab in the pit and lays him on the slab. Merv acts enticed by this woman and they begin flirting, however, Merv is the experienced predator and soon shows his dominance over her. Merv grabs her by the scalp and rushes her down to the metal slab in the pit. He tears off her clothes and exposes her naked body. She resists but cannot break free from his powerful grasp.
Merv instructs his servant in a foreign language. The servant begins preparing for the experiment. Blood begins filling the pit. It is up to their waists and the height of the metal slab table. The blood stops just at the point when the body on the slab is semi-submerged. Lightning is striking across the sky and close to the tower. Merv takes the woman and forces her up onto the slab. Metal poles connect the series of metal slabs that rise up to the top of the tower. Merv with one hand on the throat of the girl holds her in place on the slab while he brings the last metal pole into contact with the metal slab in the pit. The circuit is complete. Merv turns his full attention back to the girl and forces her to straddle the crucified man. We assume there is penetration with the crucified man as Merv then penetrates the woman’s wrist with his teeth again and the woman falls into a state of ecstasy. The paroxysms of the woman are matched by the frenetic dance of lightning in the sky as it seems to draw nearer to the tower’s lightning rod. When she orgasms, lightning then strikes. The cadavers on the slabs surge with electricity. The bodies char and black bile begins to leak from their eye sockets like dark tears. The lightning continues through the corpses until it contacts the final slab with the woman and crucified man on it.
The lightning surreally continues to strike the lighting rod, sending additional charges into the tower. The woman is still in the throes of perverse, sexual passion. Merv denies joy by taking the metal pole at the bottom of the circuit and pulling it off its table connector and running it right through the woman’s body like a pig on a spit. Her ecstasy becomes agony, but the crucified man is getting the best part of the electrical charge. He is convulsing. Merv looks pleased. Her eyes close, and the crucified man’s eyes open. He has been resurrected.
The resurrected man pushes the woman off of him and rises from the slab. He extends his arms as if to encourage an embrace with Merv. Merv is disgusted, wades through the blood and out of the pit and into his private chambers in the tower. The resurrected man seems confused and does not reveal his appreciation of being an undead vampire.
Merv now begins writing in his journal. His voiceover narration provides English explanation for a more ancient written word filling the pages of the journal. He explains that his experiment was a success but that the resurrected man in his current form is unacceptable. The resurrected man is not a success for being a resurrected human, but for being a resurrected human who then became a vampire. As a scientist, the distinction of undead and immortal is critical for Merv while he seems to have proven the existence of a vampire “germ” which seems important because Merv notes his previous distress regarding the seeming inability of vampires to have vampire children.
Merv seems concerned with how willful this undead vampire is proving to be as the intent of the experiment was to design a kind of slave caste for vampires. The journal dictation becomes a montage sequence starting with a more drawn out scene of Merv and the undead vampire in a subtly romantic affair. The undead vampire now ventures back to Jerusalem and Galilee where we can see him performing “miracles” such as walking on water, turning water into “wine” (really blood) and we see the adulation of his followers to raise him to the status of a messiah despite him only performing rather pedestrian vampire abilities. The sequence retains the voiceover commentary of the misanthropic and suspicious Merv.
Merv stands in the crowd at one of Christ’s public speeches. Merv seems disgusted. He ventures back to his tower and opens a latch door to a small chamber at the top of the tower. There is a sarcophagus in the chamber and Merv slinks into it and puts a heavy marble lid in place to cover himself.
Time passes… and people continue to believe in Christ. There is an ellipsis. It is winter in a harsh environment. Merv is in his cloak still but has grown out his beard so that it is long and dark. A carriage pulls up to him and we now realize that there is a change in the period of the story. It is near the end of Tsarist Russia. Merv rides in the carriage back to the Winter Palace. He is greeted by Tsarina Alexandra, who pleads for him to hurry because their son Alexei is getting sicker. Merv asks for time alone in the room with the boy. It is soon revealed that the boy does not suffer from haemophilia but is instead a vampire. The boy calls Merv, ‘Rasputin‘… and Merv corrects him by reaffirming that the boy knows Merv’s real name.
The boy warns that he is experiencing a desire for his sister, the Duchess Anastasia. Merv disapproves and begins using a power we haven’t seen yet. Merv’s eyes turn black and a mist seeps out, now breathed in by the boy. The boy appears to have been hypnotized and agrees with Merv about leaving Anastasia alone and not troubling the mother any further. Merv leaves, but there is a subtle indication that the boy may have been aware of the trick and was perhaps faking compliance. Merv and the Tsarina reconvene in the palace. The tsar passes by them, only shooting dirty looks at the pair. The tsarina offers Merv a room to stay for the night and Merv accepts.
Merv takes to a desk and begins writing more pages from his journal. His voiceover narration explains some of the context. He explains that the tsar is uncomfortable with his presence and suspects many wrongdoings. He believes that it is a matter of time before the tsar orders something to be done about Merv. In that moment, imperial guards enter Merv’s room, roughhouse him and defenestrate him from the palace. There is a small funeral that follows. Few attend and the tsarina attends secretly. Merv’s trusty, bulky servant shows up and digs Merv out of his mass grave.
Merv is back in the palace and enters the tsar’s chambers while sleeping. He does his hypnotic trick again. Later, the tsar refuses to accept what guards and advisors tell him about Merv having died and the tsar rejects their suspicions of Merv being a demon or worse. Some of the clergy band together and poison Merv at one of the tsar’s dinner parties. Merv dies again. There is a more grandiose funeral for him this time and he is buried in a coffin with the tsar in attendance. He is dug up again and freed by the loyal servant. Merv is getting frustrated. He visits the boy this time but finds the boy in the middle of seducing his sister, Anastasia. Merv isn’t sure at first how to intervene. Just before the boy can execute on his plan to turn Anastasia into a vampire, Merv is inside the room like an apparition and physically breaks multiple bones in the boy’s body. The boy is a contorted lump in the corner of the room. Anastasia is dazed. Merv can see that her neck hasn’t been penetrated but Merv then loses his own self-control and turns her.
The guards break into the room. They begin shooting up Merv, who uses his wispy apparition form to avoid getting hit. The guards stop shooting and look terrified. Merv laughs but then a hole opens up right in his forehead and we can see that the tsar has shot him right through the back of the head. Merv’s body drops. Merv’s voiceover narration explains that this time his body was not trusted to stay in Moscow (intercut embalmed Lenin and hinting that he is a vampire as well). Merv’s body was transported to the most secluded regions of eastern Siberia. When Merv arrives he feels safe in relinquishing the illusion of death.
There is now a voiceover montage explaining his journeys from the winter climes to more tropical Asian destinations. His voyage involves him victimizing numerous kinds of different peoples - Tatar, Mongolian, Chinese, South-east Asian, etc. He explains something about an ethnic quality of vampirism and that the most ancient vampires were of certain ‘primitive’ racial profiles. It seems that a black vampire can only turn someone who is at least half that race themselves. Same goes for the other races. Merv is half Jewish and half Indo-European so his victims in the east could not be turned and instead they had to be murdered. It also becomes known that his servants were not vampires apart from his trusty bulky one. That servant had been turned by an ancient vampire, more ancient than Merv even, and one who taught Merv most of what he knows about dark arts and the power of vampires.
Another ellipsis brings us to Hiroshima, 1945. Merv is sitting outside a restaurant writing in his thousand-year old journal. The atomic bomb is dropped and Merv is near the center of it. Everyone is eviscerated of life. Merv on the other hand is reduced to a Romeroesque zombie state. He stumbles and shuffles through the ruins of the city in its aftermath. His body is smoking and flesh hangs off in places. He makes his way to the edge of the city where people are trying to help those who may have just survived the fallout. Most people don’t notice Merv at first. It is surreal. Then an old man helps Merv into his hovel. The old man attempts to nurse Merv back to health. Merv has only mere threads of his cloak left fused to his charred skin and his journal is all but ash on his fingertips. Over time, the old man tries many things to heal Merv and although Merv never dies, he also never gets better. Animal flesh seems to have a slightly better nourishment effect for Merv than vegetables and fruits. The old man finally thinks up a new heinous plan. He pays for a prostitute and brings her back to the hovel. He kills her and lets Merv feed on the girl. The blood appear to do some good. The old man notices and has begun his own journal of scientific medical discovery… although it is a crude log at best. The old man begins chopping up the girl into pieces for easier consumption. The old man encouraged by progress and adds victims to the toll. Merv is healing and coming back to life.
Merv is now back to his former self and looking healthier and more revitalized than ever – he looks like a vital young man. The old man is still trying to push human meat on Merv. Merv appears disgusted. Merv rejects the offering and kills the old man for his trouble. As the old man is being sucked dry, he appears to look as if it was what he had always wanted. Merv leaves the hovel, throws-up outside and then disappears into the woods.
The second half of the story is in a contemporary setting. There are now dual protagonists - a detective and Merv. There will no longer be voiceover narration which had dominated most of the first half.
The second half of the story shows us Merv as a Westernized, urban, anti-social old hermit. He has grown old and there is clear indication that he will die. Instead of keeping a journal, he surrounds himself with old newspapers and magazines and lives in a run-down house in an otherwise well-maintained, upper-middle class neighbourhood. He is that type of old man that the neighbourhood kids stigmatize into urban legend. It appears that Merv is growing old because he can no longer feed on human blood. The cannibal behaviour has effectively spoiled his palette and sated his appetite.
While Merv is out late one night, doing some kind of oddball, odd job - that presumably provides him a modest income - he is hit by a car in a hit-and-run. The ambulance arrives and Merv is taken to the hospital. He is admitted but has no ID and no one knows who he is. They give him a blood transfusion to keep him alive. The transfusion has the effect of making him young again. There is a nurse in the room who finds him transformed and seems very surprised. The doctors are brought in and Merv wakes up. They are freaking out. Merv tears out his IV and jumps out the window where he turns into his black mist apparition form and in bat-like movements, glides away to safety.
Shortly after, the nurse is being questioned by a detective and a female doctor approaches the pair. The detective is trying to figure out who Merv is. The doctor coyly seduces the detective, who quickly dismisses the nurse. The doctor is a hematologist and seems to be interested in finding out about Merv, as well. Her interest is explained as being related to a now elderly relative whose rare terminal condition drove the doctor into the field of medicine and hematology in the first place. This is a ruse as the aging devout Christian relative alluded to is in fact the doctor’s child and the doctor is actually, Anastasia Romanova. Anastasia has promised her child that she will cure herself by finding the vampire who turned her and in turn kill him. This will appease the child’s Christian morality that was disturbed through having discovered that Anastasia was a vampire.
The detective seems quite competent in his investigation but this too is misleading. He is on a wild goose chase, but is pointed in the right direction time and time again, as if by the grace of God. Jesus is behind the scenes working in mysterious ways. The detective works with Anastasia to track down Merv who has attempted to go back to his sarcophagus, now located underneath the subway lines in a small electrical room. As Anastasia and the detective descend into the underground of the city, they are witness to a supernatural battle between lame Alexei and the bulky servant down in an abandoned subway. The bulky servant has been using the subway as a killing room and the space is littered with corpses. The bulky servant is like the Minotaur. He charges at Alexei and eventually grabs hold of him by the throat. The bulky servant completely crushes Alexei’s skull as the body runs toward the detective and holds onto him surreally.
The detective is trying to break free and Anastasia takes the opportunity to break away from the detective. She did not want him to find Merv in the first place as she must kill Merv not that he has re-emerged in the contemporary moment. Her search is over and she is closing in on the electrical room. Meanwhile, the detective is held down by Alexei’s body as the bulky servant approaches. The detective must battle the Minotaur-like servant of Merv. The detective is saved by Jesus! It becomes plain to see that it was Jesus helping the bumbling detective the whole time. Anastasia confronts Merv and kills him. She is mortal once more which is shown through lacerations no longer healing supernaturally. She can be redeemed in the eyes of her child.
Jesus’s guidance has yet again brought light to dark, order to chaos, and good to evil!
I have been writing screenplays for fifteen years and have been making games for five. I am particularly keen and enthusiastic about developing this project through the guidance of professional screenwriters and through the feedback of fellow screenwriting students and game designers. Recently, I conceived of a story which I am tentatively entitling, “Grim”. The story is of the horror genre and the vampire subgenre. My influences are the works of Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, EAP, RLS, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker and Stephen King. The protagonist of the story is Merv Payne, a disillusioned ancient vampire on the verge of a state previously thought improbable for vampires - death. Ideally, this story would manifest as a horror-survival video game, with the first iteration likely being an interactive narrative game.
SYNOPSIS/TREATMENT
The story begins in the ancient Roman province of Judea, where a young doctor (Merv) is instructing his servants to drag a cart with corpses from a morgue at the edge of Jerusalem. There are crucifixes in behind the morgue. As they depart into the desert, a fellow doctor comes running out of the morgue to ask medical advice for an autopsy he is performing. Merv establishes his medical reputation but also his eccentricities. Merv is cordial, even endearing, yet at the same time inexplicably frightening. Merv’s servants continue hauling the corpses across an open desert. They arrive at a tower before nightfall. It seems that a storm is brewing.
Merv is on top of his tower, adjusting a lightning rod which predates Benjamin Franklin’s invention. As he comes back inside his tower, we can see the cadavers set up. He has cadavers at different height levels on metal plates, giving the impression of a macabre spiral staircase. Presumably if lightning struck, the Frankensteinian experiment would involve the bodies conducting the charge all the way down to the main experiment table at the base of the tower. Merv’s servants help to setup and arrangement the corpses. The main door to the tower swings open and a blond, fair woman is gagged and bound. A sleazy merchant holds her in place before Merv. The merchant looks around outside, more concerned by the storm than by the heinous experiments conducted inside.
Merv reaches in his cloak pocket and pulls out a bag that must be full of gold pieces. He hands the money to the merchant who pushes the girl through the doorway and departs. The girl’s body is limp and Merv catches her and stops her from falling to the ground. He appears to be kindly as he takes out her gag. His fingernails are long and sharp and he uses them to slice the cords binding her hands. She becomes barely conscious and holds onto Merv as if he were her savior. He exploits this misplaced trust and reveals his surreally sharp canine teeth unbeknownst to the damsel. He sinks his teeth into her throat as he has his way with her.
The girl is placed on the metal slab at the base of the tower which sits in a kind of empty pool or pit. She is unconscious once more. Merv whistles and one of his larger servants moves forward. They leave the tower and head out into the thunderstorm. They arrive back at Jerusalem. Merv explains to his servant that the cadavers are appropriate conductors of bile life force but that the experiment requires a subject more recently deceased for sanguinary life force. The servant only partially appreciates this information. They arrive at a place of crucifixion just outside the city. Some of the men on crosses are still alive, although they have the countenance of concentration camp survivors. Most of the dying men on crosses look on silently as Merv and the servant try to determine which of the men are in fact deceased. They come upon a man with long hair who appears to have just died. They poke at him. Crosscut reveals the blond, fair woman’s eyes opening and lightning striking.
Merv and his servant work to get the deceased man down off the cross. At first they seem uninterested in prying eyes. A Roman centurion is passing through the streets and will soon arrive at the edge of the city and will see the doctor’s nefarious machinations. Merv realizes this instinctively. A sub-Saharan man with shoulder-length dyed red hair has managed to distract the Roman centurion at the gate. They flirt and it seems they may both be gay. The black man makes eye contact with Merv. Is he a vampire? Why is he helping?
Merv and his servant get the body off its cross. The servant throws the body over his shoulder and they haul him back to the tower. When they arrive back at the tower, all the other servants have been killed. The floor of the tower is covered in pools of blood and fresh corpses. Merv moves toward the woman who seems chuffed with her murderous rampage. The bulky servant takes the crucified man down to the metal slab in the pit and lays him on the slab. Merv acts enticed by this woman and they begin flirting, however, Merv is the experienced predator and soon shows his dominance over her. Merv grabs her by the scalp and rushes her down to the metal slab in the pit. He tears off her clothes and exposes her naked body. She resists but cannot break free from his powerful grasp.
Merv instructs his servant in a foreign language. The servant begins preparing for the experiment. Blood begins filling the pit. It is up to their waists and the height of the metal slab table. The blood stops just at the point when the body on the slab is semi-submerged. Lightning is striking across the sky and close to the tower. Merv takes the woman and forces her up onto the slab. Metal poles connect the series of metal slabs that rise up to the top of the tower. Merv with one hand on the throat of the girl holds her in place on the slab while he brings the last metal pole into contact with the metal slab in the pit. The circuit is complete. Merv turns his full attention back to the girl and forces her to straddle the crucified man. We assume there is penetration with the crucified man as Merv then penetrates the woman’s wrist with his teeth again and the woman falls into a state of ecstasy. The paroxysms of the woman are matched by the frenetic dance of lightning in the sky as it seems to draw nearer to the tower’s lightning rod. When she orgasms, lightning then strikes. The cadavers on the slabs surge with electricity. The bodies char and black bile begins to leak from their eye sockets like dark tears. The lightning continues through the corpses until it contacts the final slab with the woman and crucified man on it.
The lightning surreally continues to strike the lighting rod, sending additional charges into the tower. The woman is still in the throes of perverse, sexual passion. Merv denies joy by taking the metal pole at the bottom of the circuit and pulling it off its table connector and running it right through the woman’s body like a pig on a spit. Her ecstasy becomes agony, but the crucified man is getting the best part of the electrical charge. He is convulsing. Merv looks pleased. Her eyes close, and the crucified man’s eyes open. He has been resurrected.
The resurrected man pushes the woman off of him and rises from the slab. He extends his arms as if to encourage an embrace with Merv. Merv is disgusted, wades through the blood and out of the pit and into his private chambers in the tower. The resurrected man seems confused and does not reveal his appreciation of being an undead vampire.
Merv now begins writing in his journal. His voiceover narration provides English explanation for a more ancient written word filling the pages of the journal. He explains that his experiment was a success but that the resurrected man in his current form is unacceptable. The resurrected man is not a success for being a resurrected human, but for being a resurrected human who then became a vampire. As a scientist, the distinction of undead and immortal is critical for Merv while he seems to have proven the existence of a vampire “germ” which seems important because Merv notes his previous distress regarding the seeming inability of vampires to have vampire children.
Merv seems concerned with how willful this undead vampire is proving to be as the intent of the experiment was to design a kind of slave caste for vampires. The journal dictation becomes a montage sequence starting with a more drawn out scene of Merv and the undead vampire in a subtly romantic affair. The undead vampire now ventures back to Jerusalem and Galilee where we can see him performing “miracles” such as walking on water, turning water into “wine” (really blood) and we see the adulation of his followers to raise him to the status of a messiah despite him only performing rather pedestrian vampire abilities. The sequence retains the voiceover commentary of the misanthropic and suspicious Merv.
Merv stands in the crowd at one of Christ’s public speeches. Merv seems disgusted. He ventures back to his tower and opens a latch door to a small chamber at the top of the tower. There is a sarcophagus in the chamber and Merv slinks into it and puts a heavy marble lid in place to cover himself.
Time passes… and people continue to believe in Christ. There is an ellipsis. It is winter in a harsh environment. Merv is in his cloak still but has grown out his beard so that it is long and dark. A carriage pulls up to him and we now realize that there is a change in the period of the story. It is near the end of Tsarist Russia. Merv rides in the carriage back to the Winter Palace. He is greeted by Tsarina Alexandra, who pleads for him to hurry because their son Alexei is getting sicker. Merv asks for time alone in the room with the boy. It is soon revealed that the boy does not suffer from haemophilia but is instead a vampire. The boy calls Merv, ‘Rasputin‘… and Merv corrects him by reaffirming that the boy knows Merv’s real name.
The boy warns that he is experiencing a desire for his sister, the Duchess Anastasia. Merv disapproves and begins using a power we haven’t seen yet. Merv’s eyes turn black and a mist seeps out, now breathed in by the boy. The boy appears to have been hypnotized and agrees with Merv about leaving Anastasia alone and not troubling the mother any further. Merv leaves, but there is a subtle indication that the boy may have been aware of the trick and was perhaps faking compliance. Merv and the Tsarina reconvene in the palace. The tsar passes by them, only shooting dirty looks at the pair. The tsarina offers Merv a room to stay for the night and Merv accepts.
Merv takes to a desk and begins writing more pages from his journal. His voiceover narration explains some of the context. He explains that the tsar is uncomfortable with his presence and suspects many wrongdoings. He believes that it is a matter of time before the tsar orders something to be done about Merv. In that moment, imperial guards enter Merv’s room, roughhouse him and defenestrate him from the palace. There is a small funeral that follows. Few attend and the tsarina attends secretly. Merv’s trusty, bulky servant shows up and digs Merv out of his mass grave.
Merv is back in the palace and enters the tsar’s chambers while sleeping. He does his hypnotic trick again. Later, the tsar refuses to accept what guards and advisors tell him about Merv having died and the tsar rejects their suspicions of Merv being a demon or worse. Some of the clergy band together and poison Merv at one of the tsar’s dinner parties. Merv dies again. There is a more grandiose funeral for him this time and he is buried in a coffin with the tsar in attendance. He is dug up again and freed by the loyal servant. Merv is getting frustrated. He visits the boy this time but finds the boy in the middle of seducing his sister, Anastasia. Merv isn’t sure at first how to intervene. Just before the boy can execute on his plan to turn Anastasia into a vampire, Merv is inside the room like an apparition and physically breaks multiple bones in the boy’s body. The boy is a contorted lump in the corner of the room. Anastasia is dazed. Merv can see that her neck hasn’t been penetrated but Merv then loses his own self-control and turns her.
The guards break into the room. They begin shooting up Merv, who uses his wispy apparition form to avoid getting hit. The guards stop shooting and look terrified. Merv laughs but then a hole opens up right in his forehead and we can see that the tsar has shot him right through the back of the head. Merv’s body drops. Merv’s voiceover narration explains that this time his body was not trusted to stay in Moscow (intercut embalmed Lenin and hinting that he is a vampire as well). Merv’s body was transported to the most secluded regions of eastern Siberia. When Merv arrives he feels safe in relinquishing the illusion of death.
There is now a voiceover montage explaining his journeys from the winter climes to more tropical Asian destinations. His voyage involves him victimizing numerous kinds of different peoples - Tatar, Mongolian, Chinese, South-east Asian, etc. He explains something about an ethnic quality of vampirism and that the most ancient vampires were of certain ‘primitive’ racial profiles. It seems that a black vampire can only turn someone who is at least half that race themselves. Same goes for the other races. Merv is half Jewish and half Indo-European so his victims in the east could not be turned and instead they had to be murdered. It also becomes known that his servants were not vampires apart from his trusty bulky one. That servant had been turned by an ancient vampire, more ancient than Merv even, and one who taught Merv most of what he knows about dark arts and the power of vampires.
Another ellipsis brings us to Hiroshima, 1945. Merv is sitting outside a restaurant writing in his thousand-year old journal. The atomic bomb is dropped and Merv is near the center of it. Everyone is eviscerated of life. Merv on the other hand is reduced to a Romeroesque zombie state. He stumbles and shuffles through the ruins of the city in its aftermath. His body is smoking and flesh hangs off in places. He makes his way to the edge of the city where people are trying to help those who may have just survived the fallout. Most people don’t notice Merv at first. It is surreal. Then an old man helps Merv into his hovel. The old man attempts to nurse Merv back to health. Merv has only mere threads of his cloak left fused to his charred skin and his journal is all but ash on his fingertips. Over time, the old man tries many things to heal Merv and although Merv never dies, he also never gets better. Animal flesh seems to have a slightly better nourishment effect for Merv than vegetables and fruits. The old man finally thinks up a new heinous plan. He pays for a prostitute and brings her back to the hovel. He kills her and lets Merv feed on the girl. The blood appear to do some good. The old man notices and has begun his own journal of scientific medical discovery… although it is a crude log at best. The old man begins chopping up the girl into pieces for easier consumption. The old man encouraged by progress and adds victims to the toll. Merv is healing and coming back to life.
Merv is now back to his former self and looking healthier and more revitalized than ever – he looks like a vital young man. The old man is still trying to push human meat on Merv. Merv appears disgusted. Merv rejects the offering and kills the old man for his trouble. As the old man is being sucked dry, he appears to look as if it was what he had always wanted. Merv leaves the hovel, throws-up outside and then disappears into the woods.
The second half of the story is in a contemporary setting. There are now dual protagonists - a detective and Merv. There will no longer be voiceover narration which had dominated most of the first half.
The second half of the story shows us Merv as a Westernized, urban, anti-social old hermit. He has grown old and there is clear indication that he will die. Instead of keeping a journal, he surrounds himself with old newspapers and magazines and lives in a run-down house in an otherwise well-maintained, upper-middle class neighbourhood. He is that type of old man that the neighbourhood kids stigmatize into urban legend. It appears that Merv is growing old because he can no longer feed on human blood. The cannibal behaviour has effectively spoiled his palette and sated his appetite.
While Merv is out late one night, doing some kind of oddball, odd job - that presumably provides him a modest income - he is hit by a car in a hit-and-run. The ambulance arrives and Merv is taken to the hospital. He is admitted but has no ID and no one knows who he is. They give him a blood transfusion to keep him alive. The transfusion has the effect of making him young again. There is a nurse in the room who finds him transformed and seems very surprised. The doctors are brought in and Merv wakes up. They are freaking out. Merv tears out his IV and jumps out the window where he turns into his black mist apparition form and in bat-like movements, glides away to safety.
Shortly after, the nurse is being questioned by a detective and a female doctor approaches the pair. The detective is trying to figure out who Merv is. The doctor coyly seduces the detective, who quickly dismisses the nurse. The doctor is a hematologist and seems to be interested in finding out about Merv, as well. Her interest is explained as being related to a now elderly relative whose rare terminal condition drove the doctor into the field of medicine and hematology in the first place. This is a ruse as the aging devout Christian relative alluded to is in fact the doctor’s child and the doctor is actually, Anastasia Romanova. Anastasia has promised her child that she will cure herself by finding the vampire who turned her and in turn kill him. This will appease the child’s Christian morality that was disturbed through having discovered that Anastasia was a vampire.
The detective seems quite competent in his investigation but this too is misleading. He is on a wild goose chase, but is pointed in the right direction time and time again, as if by the grace of God. Jesus is behind the scenes working in mysterious ways. The detective works with Anastasia to track down Merv who has attempted to go back to his sarcophagus, now located underneath the subway lines in a small electrical room. As Anastasia and the detective descend into the underground of the city, they are witness to a supernatural battle between lame Alexei and the bulky servant down in an abandoned subway. The bulky servant has been using the subway as a killing room and the space is littered with corpses. The bulky servant is like the Minotaur. He charges at Alexei and eventually grabs hold of him by the throat. The bulky servant completely crushes Alexei’s skull as the body runs toward the detective and holds onto him surreally.
The detective is trying to break free and Anastasia takes the opportunity to break away from the detective. She did not want him to find Merv in the first place as she must kill Merv not that he has re-emerged in the contemporary moment. Her search is over and she is closing in on the electrical room. Meanwhile, the detective is held down by Alexei’s body as the bulky servant approaches. The detective must battle the Minotaur-like servant of Merv. The detective is saved by Jesus! It becomes plain to see that it was Jesus helping the bumbling detective the whole time. Anastasia confronts Merv and kills him. She is mortal once more which is shown through lacerations no longer healing supernaturally. She can be redeemed in the eyes of her child.
Jesus’s guidance has yet again brought light to dark, order to chaos, and good to evil!
BOOK 3 (Third Demon story)
Cult of Canaan/Crusader Cabal (Book 2)
The three magic monsters that survived the flood (Merv, Ode, Baal)
Baal… political and setting up the Cult of Canaan vs the Crusader Cabal
Noah…
Simply a man lost at sea who found an island and became isolated
He went nuts on his own and decided that he was the last person on Earth
He whittled and crafted a menagerie of figures that were his companions… animals that would create a kingdom on the island
Eventually, ex-convicts and con-men, Terah and Abraham, escaped their captives and found Noah
The notion of being the only person gave them an idea to promote one ethnicity as the best in the eyes of God
Abraham…
Canaanites were in the Levant and prospering as part of a crossroads network
However, Semites had moved up from Yemen into Mesopatamia and then were booted
They arrived in the levant and weren’t doing great
Abraham pitched the religion to the elders and they liked it
They promoted the religion
Eventually, the Egyptian slavers arrived and the Canaanites secretly negotiated with them in order to get rid of the Semites
Moses and his son…
Moses is stuck in Egypt and wants to build on the old testament religion to rally his people into returning to the levant
Big spectacle will be the 10 commandments
Son wants to understand why the fudging of the 10 Commandments
Moses explains about sexual titillation
Parting the seas is just about getting two gay slave drivers to split up and thus they don’t guard their post
They return to the levant
Cato the Elder…
Attempts to improve Rome but uphill battle
Jesus…
Gay with Judas
Influential but won’t give thumbs up to gay
Meets St. Paul
Sold out by Judas, encouraged by Paul
St. Paul…
Relationships with governors and entrepreneurial class
Paul writes the New Testament and sets up chapters with sons of entrepreneurs he trusts
(so now we have Judaism and Christianity established)
Mohammed…
Maurice was making big moves (proto-formation of the Crusader Cabal… was creating a storage house of the most important texts and relics)
Made Gennadius the exarch of Africa… in Carthage
Gennadius commissioned Mohammed to start a religion and gave him select items that were given to him by Maurice
This would legitimize Mohammed’s position
The goal was to set up islam which would then provoke the crusades once Europe bounced back
Crusades…
Destruction of history
Smearing polytheism
Make greek and roman culture look homosexual
Then three orders set up strategically (Knights)
Spread of semites through Europe (miscegenation for some, help with later multiculturalism)
Crusader orders preparing for Napoleon and Hitler
Then we have FDR, Nixon (JFK), Reagan…
Cult of Canaan/Crusader Cabal (Book 2)
The three magic monsters that survived the flood (Merv, Ode, Baal)
Baal… political and setting up the Cult of Canaan vs the Crusader Cabal
Noah…
Simply a man lost at sea who found an island and became isolated
He went nuts on his own and decided that he was the last person on Earth
He whittled and crafted a menagerie of figures that were his companions… animals that would create a kingdom on the island
Eventually, ex-convicts and con-men, Terah and Abraham, escaped their captives and found Noah
The notion of being the only person gave them an idea to promote one ethnicity as the best in the eyes of God
Abraham…
Canaanites were in the Levant and prospering as part of a crossroads network
However, Semites had moved up from Yemen into Mesopatamia and then were booted
They arrived in the levant and weren’t doing great
Abraham pitched the religion to the elders and they liked it
They promoted the religion
Eventually, the Egyptian slavers arrived and the Canaanites secretly negotiated with them in order to get rid of the Semites
Moses and his son…
Moses is stuck in Egypt and wants to build on the old testament religion to rally his people into returning to the levant
Big spectacle will be the 10 commandments
Son wants to understand why the fudging of the 10 Commandments
Moses explains about sexual titillation
Parting the seas is just about getting two gay slave drivers to split up and thus they don’t guard their post
They return to the levant
Cato the Elder…
Attempts to improve Rome but uphill battle
Jesus…
Gay with Judas
Influential but won’t give thumbs up to gay
Meets St. Paul
Sold out by Judas, encouraged by Paul
St. Paul…
Relationships with governors and entrepreneurial class
Paul writes the New Testament and sets up chapters with sons of entrepreneurs he trusts
(so now we have Judaism and Christianity established)
Mohammed…
Maurice was making big moves (proto-formation of the Crusader Cabal… was creating a storage house of the most important texts and relics)
Made Gennadius the exarch of Africa… in Carthage
Gennadius commissioned Mohammed to start a religion and gave him select items that were given to him by Maurice
This would legitimize Mohammed’s position
The goal was to set up islam which would then provoke the crusades once Europe bounced back
Crusades…
Destruction of history
Smearing polytheism
Make greek and roman culture look homosexual
Then three orders set up strategically (Knights)
Spread of semites through Europe (miscegenation for some, help with later multiculturalism)
Crusader orders preparing for Napoleon and Hitler
Then we have FDR, Nixon (JFK), Reagan…