As some of you know, I write stories for role playing games. Not all of those stories find the light of the page. I wanted to use today’s space to exorcise one such story from my mental garage. This one is a semi-sequel to a novel called Burning Bright by Tom Dowd. See, when you write in a shared world there is a likelihood that your character will be written up in another story by another author. This story features the protagonist of that story, Kyle Teller, and a character from my high school group of friends called Riser.
Riser was the leader of a group of assassins known collectively as the Smokers Club. He was involved in a number of underworld circles and as a result kept is personal life very secret as to avoid blowback.
In the beginning of the story we get a character perspective of detective. We see them researching a crime scene that looks like a ritualistic or serial killing. The magical energies in the space point towards one person: Kyle Teller.
The story goes like this: Riser’s sister is kidnapped and as the story unfolds we discover that the person who took her is not associated with Riser’s criminal past as suspected. Instead she was snatched by a serial killer. As Riser seeks out his sister’s murderer he picks up the trail of Kyle Teller. He eventually tracks the man and captures him, hoping to get him to confess to his sister’s murder before he kills him–Judge, Jury, Executioner kind of stuff here–however it wasn’t Kyle like everyone suspects. It was someone else.
Riser and Kyle end up running from the authorities and working together to expose this terrifying murderer and together they take him down.
That’s the story. It never got written past the first scene. So, I thought it might be fun to share it and all its siblings in this space over the next few months. I’m cleaning out my mental garage.
Some Thoughts:
- Every night I go to bed looking forward to that morning cup of coffee. It is always the little things.