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Thursday, August 15, 2013

New Fiction Idea #31

Inspired by the new television series Whodunnit?, although I didn't want to sound too similar to it.

Working Title: Contestant Zero

Genre: Horror

Protagonist: Edgard, a faux-British 25-year-old with messy, brown hair and a crisply-cut beard. He's tall, with dark, blue-green eyes and a decently filled-out frame. He scores a bit high on the neuroticism scale, and he can be a little too strongly attracted to the ladies.

Other Main Characters: Jerry, a 24-year-old carpenter and the "hot thang" of the show. Tall, dark, and handsome, he's good at wooing the ladies but not at keeping them. He's a well-known trickster yet so excellent a liar it's hard to believe.
Candace, the 29-year-old host. She has straight, brown hair a bit past her shoulders and a face that requires a devoted makeup entourage. Used to success, she has a charming personality and excellent sense of humour, although they don't always continue when the camera shuts off.
Marisa, the sassy Latina. At 24, she's a bit heavy but still shapely. She tends to be rude towards strangers, but she has a good heart and isn't afraid to show it to those who get close to her. She's trying to get money to pay for nursing school, although she already works as an unofficial nurse for a poor clinic in her rural hometown.
More characters will be involved.

Antagonist: A virus of (officially) unknown origin. Spread by touch, it manifests itself as a rash beginning on the forearms, headache, disorientation, failure of clotting factors, skin lesions, and finally death.

Setting: The set of The Makeup Shakeup, a new reality game show where the amateur contestants live together and compete in movie makeup competitions to win a cash prize. The contestants sleep in bunk beds, two beds to a cabin, with their meals in the mess hall and competitions in the Powder Room, another building. The contestants cannot have phones or computers, lest they leak any spoilers before the show airs.

Plot: The show is in full swing, two contestants already sent home, when one of the contestants falls ill. She's dead before her illness is identified; by then, the set and a few miles radius around it are quarantined to prevent the danger from spreading to the major city (and international airport) nearby. But the contestants and crewmen can't escape, the virus is still ready to spring at any one of them, and few steps have been made to save the quarantined before madness and murder set in.

Point of View: Third person, objective.

2 comments:

  1. Oooh, I like it. I almost wonder if the virus is something created by the hosts to liven up the show, or if that's just too insane (even for a Journey story.)

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    1. It could be interesting, although at this point it's an accident. There should be a reason it's in the area in the first place, though, so we'll see.

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