ADMIN: Section 3 first draft extension - REALLY IMPORTANT
PLEASE READ - VERY IMPORTANTSection 3 first drafts are now due Thursday 19th Nov (due to certain work commitments which make this weekend a real pain in the rear [it looks like I'm going to be working until around 10pm today and I started at 7 am]). Artists will be given their assignments on Friday
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“Get a grip, Kaulitz,” Striker was saying, his handsome face twisting into an unattractive sneer.
Bill focused beyond him. This time the panic was his own. “Look out!” he screamed, raising his own charge-rifle.
A couple of heavyweight, low-slung Armors were rounding the bend from the compound toward the tarmac. They lifted their black-crested heads as though scenting, then tooth-studded muzzles gaped. Instead of baying like a hound would, their rattling, resonant chitter traveled through the air, carried along by the wind that strummed over the tarmac and whipped around the buildings.
Bill was running, pulling the trigger of his charge-rifle as he went. If he was yelling, he never knew. His charges streaked through the grit-laden air, joined by a second set as Striker got with the program and fired on the approaching Armors.
One of them was bristling, flaring out a row of spines around its head like a sleek black lion. It was big enough to be one of those transplanted Terran desert cats that Bill had read about.
3) This story is NC-17 because it has a couple of explicit sex scenes, though overall it would probably be R for horror elements and violence. The setting is a bleak, rocky planet at an unspecified but distant period in the future. The focus is on the Kaulitz twins (Tokio Hotel - alternate universe) as the sole survivors of a brutal alien invasion known as the Incursion, which decimated their entire colony in a matter of days. For three years they've been waiting to die, basically, as the hope of rescue and their stockpiled supplies dwindle to nothing. The arrival of a shuttle from an orbiting starship changes that, but the twins soon discover that the military elite squad was sent not to rescue them, but to retrieve the rare mineral that their colony mined before the Incursion. The twins have to contend with not only the renewed threat of aliens but conflicting human interests in order to survive.
The settings are visually bleak - a rocky planet bare of vegetation; a living compound that is spare and steely gray; a mine installation. The twins at sixteen years old are the main characters. There's also the aliens, which go through a few distinct cycles of development; I don't want to give too much away, but it's everything from relatively straightforward bipedal humanoid to a creature with a black, chitinous outer armor-like shell. There are a couple of shocking scenes that might lend themselves well, visually, to illustration, as well as quiet eye-of-the-storm moments with the twins and other characters.
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