Sandra Gray
sandragray@rica.net
copyright (c) 1999 Sandra Gray
600 words

Assignment 5:

Write the outline of a story which tells how the
protagonist and his/her conflict will be presented
in the opening scene, and then event by event how
that conflict drives the story and the plot hand
in hand.


Tentative title: Elysian Fields

1. The protagonist, a Sime scientist, wants to find a
   way to increase selyn production among Gens so that
   a Gen can service more than one renSime and without
   dying. Because the scientist isn't making good
   enough progress in making superior kill Gens (his
   original assignment), he loses his financial
   backing.

2. The scientist feels he is close to a breakthrough in
   his research. So he decides to continue his
   research by paying Raiders to bring him Gens to
   experiment upon.

3. The scientist succeeds in making a Gen with
   increased selyn production. But the Gen's selyn
   production increases to levels intolerable for the
   Gen.

4. Because the Gen is so high field, he becomes
   attractive to the head Raider who has been
   supplying Gens to the scientist. The Raider
   attacks the Gen. The Gen wants relief from the
   pain he has from the increased selyn production, so
   he quells his fear to give the selyn to the Sime.
   But the transfer just causes another spike in the
   Gen's selyn production. The Raider, his system
   overloaded with selyn, dies. The scientist hides
   the death.

5. Because of the Gen's increased selyn levels, his
   high field attracts the Sime scientist's son when
   he changes over to Sime. The scientist's son is
   killed during the transfer and the Gen escapes.
   The is the low point, the point at which the
   Sime scientist has experienced a profound loss
   because of his experiments.

6. Because the Gen killed his son, the Sime scientist
   sets out to hunt down and kill the Gen.

7. The escaped mutant Gen kills other renSimes who
   try to attack him by lethal transfer. The Gen is
   hunted by both the Raiders and the townspeople.
   Because the Raiders and the townspeople know that
   the Sime scientist is to blame for the mutant Gen,
   they go after the scientist too.

8. The Sime scientist sees the Gen in the woods, a
   crackling energy over his head. Shocked by this
   development, the scientist hesitates in shooting
   him. The Gen vanishes into some bushes and the
   townspeople capture the scientist.

9. The townspeople put the Sime scientist on trial
   for his crimes. They convict and jail him.

10. Because the mutant Gen wants to get back at the
    Sime scientist for his pain, he breaks the
    scientist out of jail. The Gen carts the
    scientist deep into the woods.

11. The Sime scientist suspects the crackling around
    the Gen (which is more noticeable than before)
    is some sort of growing imbalance of universal
    energies. He warns the Gen that his condition
    may be causing a rift that could destroy the
    whole earth. The Gen tells him he thinks the
    crackling is evidence that he is meant to wipe
    Simes from the planet, as it has increased some
    with every kill he's made. The Sime asks him if
    the kills have decreased his pain. The Gen
    replies no. The scientist asks, "Isn't that
    proof that killing more Simes will only increase
    your problem and your pain?"

12. The Gen thinks about this and decides that the
    Sime is right. But because the scientist is
    reponsible for mutating him, the Gen decides
    that one more Sime must die. He kills the
    scientist. The energy rift crackling increases.

13. The townspeople and Raiders follow the rift
    crackling to the Gen. They kill the Gen.

14. THE END