Losing entry for the AFI/ Australia Post competition.
THE ADVENTURES OF JARDIN GUIS
- CHAPTER FOUR -
PURSUIT OF THE ALCHEMIST'S COMPOUND
As the tyrannical PARTY's domination of more and more planets continues unabated, the mobilised RESISTANCE receive news the violent political organisation is subjecting unwilling volunteers to its quantum experiments, resulting in madness... and worse.
Hell-bent on successfully sending a PARTY MAN through time, the mechanical claw-handed SENIOR GROUP LEADER LEDUC travels to OBISPO, where he kidnaps the renowned ALCHEMIST PROVOST's wife, forcing the hermit to work on a drug that will stave off the mind-bending affects of time-travel long enough to achieve the PARTY's nefarious plans.
Getting coded word to the RESISTANCE, the ALCHEMIST explains LEDUC has him confined to his cottage in the OBISPO ETHERLAND, promising to return in 12 hours for the COMPOUND.
Slumping at his desk, the ALCHEMIST continues his alchemical computations on his ELECTROMAGUS, unaware LEDUC has laced the device with the posionous pulp of the TAJWEED, engineered to infect and make pliant PROVOST, but which, when combined with the powdered remains of the inhabitants of OBISPO's SHEPHERD MOON which comprise the time COMPOUND, is lethal.
Flying to the ALCHEMIST's aid, beautiful RESISTANCE leader MION LEAVE promises to rescue PROVOST and his wife and retrieve the drug.
No sooner has LEAVE arrived on the planet OBISPO, than the wily operative seduces off-world anthropologist JARDIN GUIS, believing he knows the whereabouts of PROVOST's cottage. But before the two can consummate the union, three cassocked PARTY MEN wrestle the two, dragging LEAVE away to an unknown fate.
Investigating, GUIS discovers LEAVE's true identity and is tasked by the RESISTANCE to finish the job LEAVE began. Wizened RESISTANCE commander TRISTAN DACHUNA instructs JARDIN GUIS to take LEAVE's high-powered SPEEDLAUNCH across the ETHERLAND FLATS and retrieve the ALCHEMIST and secrete the COMPOUND on his person before the PARTY arrive.
While rocketing across the barren desert, GUIS spies through his VIDI-GOGGS a VELOCIRIPPER swooping down out of the darkening sky. The screeching jet fires a FUSION BLAST at GUIS's SPEEDLAUNCH.
His vehicle damaged, GUIS emerges, wrapping torn strips of clothing around his nose and mouth to protect them from the whirling ETHERLAND sands. GUIS finds himself confronted with the imposing visage of BYRNSTAR, the notorious mercenary.
Discovering GUIS when he expected LEAVE, BYRNSTAR spares the anthropologist's life after scanning LEAVE's SPEEDLAUNCH for traces of the COMPOUND. But the black-clad soldier of fortune becomes enraged when he discovers GUIS and LEAVE shared the night. The two figures duel in the inky darkness. GUIS gains the upper-hand, blocking the HELIDYNE flowing through the CHOKE POINT connected to BYRNSTAR'S mask, rendering the bulky warrior unconscious.
Unable to fly the hovering VELOCIRIPPER, GUIS sets off on foot across the remorseless ETHERLAND. With the winds howling around him, tearing at his poncho, GUIS is relieved to spy a warm orange glow in the distance - the ALCHEMIST's cottage....
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Art Department! nice!
Oliver31770 2 years ago
fantastic !!! i wanted it to go longer, very good indeed.
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