IFALES / Run Run Radio / 2

as an instinctual animal, humankind back I the food chain as cannibals. Though a place where is one is not hungry, they do not kill.

Morality is truly a luxury here where kids band together, but by the time they are twenty there is always only one, who has likely eaten the others. To kill one’s best friend or closest relative to survive, and eat them is almost a rite of passage. This is the home to Vermel, where her mother landed nearly two decades earlier.

This is the south to west of the whole expanse of the landscape, lasting for miles with some areas simply rubble resembling deserts, others bombed out, to have a building with a roof is a rarity. There are few roads, and tanks rarely even make runs.

A DRAFT LIST OF SOME THINGS PRESENT. The outer song, the ambient noise are the incessant sounds of war, struggle, survival, cannibalism, shelling, air strikes, helicopters etc.

The shells falling like rain Ground burst and rumble Jets flying, fighting Helicopters sweeping, spraying the ground Constant aerial strafing Other ‘orange’ sector scavengers Light ‘green’ sector hunters always hunting The rhythms of each static, the ambient, the radio/thoughts meeting Moment of fear Heart pounding Heart racing Breathing Tune out Sweating Tiredness Hunger Night Day Flash of war Value of a full stomach Footsteps running, breathing shouting running The glitches and sounds of shifting radio signal Brutalist architecture razed rubble Jet streams of thought Post apocalyptic, alternate planet Just a life, alive Gliding alive Among the corpses Tank tracks Adrenaline of survival Helicopter wind The river styx, is the Danube here Gameshow silence Wiz of oz city that only Vermel perceives Veins of stone soften

Because of terraforming attempt the weather shifts by biome by the day sometimes over only a few hours, often in transition from one to the next.

Rubble streets, partial structures Swelling soils Rain forest Silt swamps Grass lands Green glass winds Alpine today desert tomorrow Gypsum salts Yellowstone geysers Tundra Balkan rock lands Hell city What once was granite Chemical bog Holy industrial, due to MEA Over the black metal fence Horror or prison camps A perpetual pestilence pollutes the air

RELATIVE THINGS Peoples of the ravage plains City states of fallen mankind Chemical fallout bleaching land Rampant Disease resulting from instant lack of antibiotics Culture of the enslaved Society allowed by safety, price of safety Humans back in the food chain, against each other The vanity of suffering Morality as a luxury Civility born of perpetually filled stomachs Round ups of the weaker Female voice over the loudspeakers speaking in orwellian code A place to sleep Sleeping hungry Bruised, dirty nails, broken teeth, busted tongue, hand to mouth Hoping not to be known as a woman (for safety in context of story) All humans are animals, a well fed step out of the natural cycle Slave prison camps Snipers nest Down the barrel In books Runner’s high Sectarian violence Sponsored atrocity which allows civility Inner static Outer static She as needle

People as the batteries for stronger civilizations Code breaking MEA movements Traps in their lives Plumes of smoke and funeral pyre A bite to eat, any human or morsel no matter how spoiled Perception born of information portrayed(media) Flood of warfare More bullets than bread Silence is death Lagoons and marshes Pickoff peoples, peoples as urban wildlife Satire of neo-liberal capitalism’s effect on 3rd world Contrasts different people’s lives The life allowed by the stronger Eastern European Danube, Bulgaria, Romania, city as base setting blended with images, atmosphere and mood of Stalingrad during WWII. Benefactors and degenerators of any circumstance Out of control capitalism consumes itself Feed the machine P.o.v. is all, P.o.v. is vanity Morality and civility are choices arising out of full stomachs Escapism radio The MEA is emerald city to Vermel What is destiny. Is destiny real Changing channels, (of radio, of thought) The laugh track Civilization is based on the least human traits

SCENES 1-12

DETAILING SKELETON OF STORY ARC acting as path for her to follow while always on the run. 0. The pregnant jet pilot, introducing the setting, the context, the ‘rush’ of flight that equates to Vermel’s running, Arielle’s down the barrel, and Melvin’s in books. The birth of Vermel.

1. The rubble, hand to mouth, she is injured with a busted hand and broken lip/teeth making it hard to eat as empathizer. Seeing the city through Vermel’s emerald eyes behind shades, listening to radio, waiting for the right time listening ears and minds. War all around, the sound of exaggerated reality. Disturbed by an air horn.

2. Sleeping in pile of rubble looking forward, fantasizing of dread and delusional bliss, of fresh bread and to be out of the rain. Begin run to pantry.

3. Pantry bombed out on the way, a sweep of war from MEA and ‘Green” troops, she creeps through the streets, becomes caught in sunken doorway intersection, shrapnel minutes long allies in machine gunners. Pinned down, hand to mouth trying to chew, reaching for a gun just out of reach. Flee under others cover, down alleyway two kids eat apple, two kids alleyway with AA gun unveiled. Over small wall, down street into building, to 3rd-floor hide side of wall.

4. Waiting the night, and morning out while war happens, outer static inner static mix with her breath as they look. Out of desperation for food and water, she runs again, hide survive. Drifting aimlessly after a while.

5. One the run from, then captured by hunters, thought a male, dragged to the prison as animal, seeing hearing the work camp nearby, she in captivity for a few days with ‘animals’ confront price of light green society persisting is selling people they capture into the prison camps, how much per head, their worth, to purchase from x for y, to show society cost.

6. Lead outside, ‘into the sun’ chain gang ambushed by sniper(s), the guards melee, struggle nearly dies, chains remain, runs gets stuff survives, barely escapes, lays low for a day or two more, Melvin subtle message leads to Melvin, Melvin leads to nest.

7. Meeting Arielle, the nest, first family. Relating to each other, all are human, resist hamartia to kill and eat them. New family, down the barrel, in books. Makeshift missions flock hunting, finding a book for Melvin, radio relating, the MEA city spoken best she can.

8. Different vantages, on the rooftops, as the war floods the fields, raging firefights flaring greater, MEA on yonder erupting as well, new vantages of the city, through slots and holes. Moving north.

9. Make for the wall as turmoil grows and the work camp rebels, big sweep through city, more chaos. Bombs falling everywhere. Through the hunters grounds, over rooftops. Above the flood of carnage and chemical water, the desperation. Melvin distracted by jets overhead falls into the flood. Loses glasses is killed by MEA downed pilot.

10. Rooftops ‘river styx’ overflowing, Arielle injured leg gets worse, infected, sniper cover self, left behind by Vermel, makes west toward wall, fairly close. Last light of her barrel is seen, last fire is heard by Vermel.

11. @ the wall across the river Styx maybe into the city, stuck, the wall is blown by falling bomber and jet, she climbs through flaming wreckage, see the world from in the wall, atop the wall between two worlds. Seeing the cityscape she dreamed of through the radio her entire life. Her emerald city. The city is in mimicry of a city of today as they try to recreate the time before the nuclear war.

12. Through the city, as it is in tumult people fleeing where ever in every direction, all scrambling toward specific sector of their city, she runs faster outrunning the authorities and boarding a shuttle. She notices she is pregnant presumably by Melvin but never stated and no love scene previously occured. She rises into the atmosphere, out of the outer static, into silence seeing the hundreds of jets fighting above the clouds. Her radio is off static glitching as she leaves range. She is the needle lifted off the track.

STORY IN ACTS Does not follow strict acts if produced as survival variant, but this is for framework purposes as everything inevitably has a beginning middle and end.

ACT I. Meet Vermel, hurt hungry, humanize. Hand to mouth. Vermel lives, how she survives, room to run to. Migrate south-east, away from known areas, the line.

ACT II. Fleeing, around farther into enemy territory. Captured by hunters, the hunters, imprison. Freed when sniper aids, intro Arielle & Melvin, as run. Meets friends Melvin, and Arielle, @ nest humanity unveiled.

Through dead lands w/ friends, proactive path, and rooftops. Toward MEA, to the impending toward the storm.

ACT III. Friends separate, the group, separates as war intensifies. Melvin lost, wonders out on his own, alone. Arielle left behind, she was rear on sniper. Over the wall, a crash, and collision. See the City, her view meets perception and reality meet. Through city, new city, now city replica. Into shuttle, she escapes, relief.

End seeing the whole world she thought was all things shrink and fade away as the music plays. Symbolically rising out of both statics as a needle is lifted off the record and no more music plays.

EVENTS LIST:

Radio transitions, three factors of every scene 1. The radio, subconscious, her mind, her thoughts. Inner 2. Constant warfare, physical, the ‘song’ to all. Outer 3. Vermel’s precise circumstance, the meeting of the two. Vernel as needle.

. *the pregnant pilot, is first episode arc and is meant to be the birth of Vermel, giving context to her life as being between two worlds.

. Hand to mouth, injured hand recently busted mouth = humanizing . Land gunfight, stuck in sunk in doorway . Alleyway two kids AA guns . Jets fleeing injured under air assault . Over alleyway, into third floor, hiding behind wall . Waiting out the night . She seeks a familiar rabbit hole . Thinks of the size of the dead expanse . World map, thinks of where to run . Wandering weary away from her area, further form MEA walled city . Winding up toward south-east, toward hunters . Running rubble rooftops, . Is sought specifically . Flees . Is captured . Dragged to cell, hunters up close . In cell, androgyne, scared . Still in cell, some to prison others killed . Radio dreamlike escape with no radio, morph of logic . Chain gang to prison camp . Freed by sniper ambush . She gets her radio, supplies back . Breadcrumbs left by Melvin . Meeting Melvin . Making way to nest, testing her nerve . Meeting Arielle in nest