Script: Opportunity & Knox THREE, page 3 (of 6)

A minimalist page ...

Page THREE

3/1
Opp: Your plan is that you have a rose bush?!?

3/2
Knox: Yup.

3/3
Opp: Are you insane?!!!?!!!?

To be continued soon ...

Script: Opportunity & Knox THREE, page 2 (of 6)

The idea for this script came from an old Dragon magazine article on how to use magical items and spells in unexpected ways. However, for our heroes things don't always work out as they'd like them to.

Page TWO

2/1
Opp: So what is the great plan of yours, Knox?
Knox: It's simplicity itself really.

2/2
Knox: We know where the dragon's lair is ...

2/3
Knox ... and we know it will come put and fight us if it hears us.
Opp: Of course it will, and it will eat us whole.

2/4
Knox: It's okay. I've got a rose bush.

Continued tomorrow ...

Script: Opportunity & Knox THREE, page 1 (of 6)

Finally, we got around to taking some more pics. So here's the first page of the third, and last for now, Opportunity & Knox story.

Page ONE
Our heroes walking out of town, heading into the hills toward some mountains.

1/1
Opp: "I can't believe you said we'd go and kill the marauding dragon."
Knox: "It seemed the right thing to do. Don't worry."

1/2
Opp: "Don't worry?!? Of course I'm worrying. It's a dragon. It's killed a dozen heroes of renown. We're just a dwarf who's a bit tall and giant who's a bit short. We don't stand a chance."

1/3
Knox: "I have a plan."

1/4
Opp: "You have a plan? That's meant to make me feel better?"
Knox: "Yes."

1/5
Full width title frame.
Knox: "I promise you this dragon will be but a little problem, easily defeated."
TITLES
O&K THREE
Little Problem

Continued tomorrow ...

History as a Second Language

Where do you go for your Egyptian history? Someone who has a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language of course. Dr Carmen Boulter's 5-part documentary, The Pyramid Code, is currently showing on the History Channel.

Her credentials are rather less than impressive. Oddly enough her university of Calgary website page avoids mentioning her award-winning documentary series (awards for Score, Motion Graphics and Design Package).

The basic premise is that we have all be told lies by 'traditional Egyptology' and we need to re-examine the evidence.

The conclusion Dr Boulter comes up with is that the pyramids are vast electrical machines, now broken, that were part of some sophisticated stellar worship/observation and harmonic healing system.

'Traditional Egyptology' is presented as a straw man, not only laughably wrong but actively trying to hide the real story by misrepresenting, hiding and destroying evidence. Conspiracy theories are wonderful things, as it's always impossible to refute them ... "You must be one of them!" the believers cry.

The arguments presented by Dr Boulter are done so without evidence, and are filled with mystical ramblings about what spiritual life must have been like for the invented star worshipers she posits.

The supporting experts are a motley collection of oddball Egyptian History re-interpreters, the half-baked ideas of which are manipulated to fit Dr Boulter's own claims.

It's simply rubbish. Easily refuted rubbish.

So how did she get a 5-part documentary series, and why is it being shown by the History Channel?

The series is available in bite-sized YouTube chunks, and on DVD, as well as the endless cycle of repeats it is sure to have, if you wish to go look. It's worth a laugh. But that's about it.

No wonder I generally avoid the History as a Second Language Channel.

(More 'almost comics' soon).

Opportunity & Knox TWO, an almost comic

All six pages in one post.

An 'almost comic' made by taking photos of various toys, mostly Playmobil, and then throwing them into the Mac's Comic Life software and manipulating the pics a little.

In this adventure our heroes, a tall dwarf and short giant, battle a cube of jelly, annoy a faerie, and look for a good pair of shoes.

We have started work on the third, and last for now, adventure of O&K. After that we are focused on making all 24 episodes of Utterly Rucked into an 'almost comic'.

Script: Opportunity & Knox TWO, page 6 (of 6)

Spot the 'deliberate' mistake?

Hopefully we'll start shooting the next one tomorrow ... assuming nothing odd takes over the day.

Page SIX

6/1
Okay, this last page is a visual joke. We start with two frames at the top that show the two heroes walking together into the sunset. However, we only see half of each of them. Knox is short, and Opp is tall, as they both have one boot each on.
Knox: "So it wasn't what the text said, it was more about what language it was written in. High-elven ... low human."
Opp: "Those blades would have really altered our size."

6/2
Knox looking up at his tall companion. We still only see half (or less) of each of them as they walk side-by-side.
Knox: "You know something my friend?"
Opp: "What?"

6/3
Large frame that shows that each one of them is a distorted 'mutant' creature with one boot of Size Alteration on each. Opp is tall only on one side, his body a strange distortion in the middle. Knox is short on one side, but normal on the other. Multiple speech bubbles to finish with, as they limp off into the sunset.
Knox: "This isn't really going to work out is it?"
Opp: "Nope."
Knox: "There's no way you'd consider giving both of them to me?"
Opp: "We always split everything evenly. That's our deal."
Knox: "So what do we do?"
Opp: "We could give them to Bertha. She might let us live that way."
Knox: "She might at that."

END

Script: Opportunity & Knox TWO, page 5 (of 6)

This page has me holding a kitchen knife ... the ultimate in special effects.

The boots our heroes seek are actually from a Xena warrior princess toy that was found at the $2 shop with some other assorted warriors. Xena gave her life for this page, as we snipped the boots off her with a pair of scissors.

Page FIVE

5/1
One more frame of them making their way through the temple dungeon.
Knox: "Why was it is High-elven? Everything else was in the human low-tongue."

5/2
The see the boots on a dais/pedestal thing.
Opp: There they are. The Boots of Size Alteration. Just think what we can do with those.

5/3
Opp and Knox prodding the floor and checking for traps.
Opp: "It all looks safe enough.
Knox: "Hmm, I wonder if ... "

5/4
They creep forward, but step on something, a pressure plate, that makes a click
FX: (click)

5/5
They jump up just as a blade sweeps under them.
Knox: "Jump!"
FX: Swish!

5/6
They duck as another blade goes over their heads.
Knox: "Duck!"
FX: "Swish!"

Concluded tomorrow ...