SINNER’S MOON Podcast Episode 1 - FACTORIES OF RUIN

Frank Juchniewicz

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SINNER’S MOON PODCAST EPISODE 1 - FACTORIES OF RUIN

SCENE 1 - A DREAM SHE HAD

DREAM SEQUENCE

(ETHEREAL MUSIC OR DRONING TO CONVEY SURREAL STATE)

NARRATOR

It was a dream she had. Where she found herself wandering through the woods at night, lost and alone. But, to her horror, she realized she wasn’t alone after all.

SOUND: A WOMAN’S RAGGED BREATHS. HER FOOTSTEPS THROUGH THE WOODS FOLLOWED BY RUSTLING UNDERBRUSH OF MULTIPLE THINGS FOLLOWING HER.

NARRATOR

A rustling in the underbrush stalked her every move, followed on her heels. With each glance over her shoulder she would catch quick glimpses of dark figures darting behind a tree trunk or veering into the brush, ducking momentarily from her view. Twigs and thorns cut her into her bare feet. The branches and bramble scratched at her face and her arms like grasping claws trying to slow her escape. Fighting the rising panic that surged through her, she pushed on at a quick clip. "Don’t run," she told herself, certain that if she broke out into a sprint the panic would overcome her, that her fear would trigger an attack from her pursuers, that she would likely trip over the exposed root of a tree or uneven ground. If she surrendered to fear and ran now, all would be lost... And just then the trees thinned and parted, and she found herself in a clearing. The things that pursued her to this point stopped where the treeline ended. She knew instinctively, this was a safe place. A sacred place. The trees encircled this clearing like silent guardians who, in their time-worn wisdom, knew better than to encroach upon this space. She wandered further into the clearing, a sense of wonder filling her now, pushing out any remaining vestiges of fear. Above her a radiant silver moon hung low and full in the night sky, its pale light filtering down to the clearing. Before her, a cluster of stone ruins jutted up from the ground like broken teeth - the jagged, scattered remains the only testimony to whatever vast and ancient structure held this ground. The dreamer finds herself moving steadily now towards the stone ruins, drawing closer and closer

. . . This is the kind of dream that leaves one with the sense that more occurred, but upon waking the

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NARRATOR (cont’d)

memories of the dream slip away like wisps of smoke...

This is the kind of dream that means something.

Something important. But what?

(SWELL OF INTRO MUSIC THEN TRANSITION TO NEXT SCENE)

SCENE 2 - ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?

INT. GIRLS’ APARTMENT-DAY

NARRATOR

Ithica, New York. Nestled in the Southern valley on the banks of Cayuga Lake, home of Ithica College and the visual splendor of countless gorges and waterfalls, this is the town the three girls had called home for the entirety of their twenty five years. Three childhood friends, now in early adulthood, living together as roommates. Difficult as it may be to carve out a little quiet time within the apartment, whenever Robin Bradley found such an opportunity to study she took advantage of it. Face-down in her Anatomy text, Robin prepped for her coming exam, completely unaware of the events that were about to occur and the horrors that waited to swallow her up.

BRIANNA

Oh hey, are you studying?

ROBIN

...Huh? Oh, yeah. My exam’s next Friday. WHYYYY are there so many parts to memorize in the musculoskeletal system?! Brianna, can you tell me why???

BRIANNA

That’s really weird.

ROBIN

Well I don’t know if it’s weird, but it’s definitely annoying that we can’t break apart the muscular system and the skeletal system and be tested on them separately. How do they expect us to memorize all this?

BRIANNA

No, I mean it’s weird as in I just had this major deja vu moment. Like this moment already happened in a dream, or something.

ROBIN

Huh... Yeah. That’s always weird when something like that happens.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 3.

BRIANNA

Anyway, what I was going to tell you is: we don’t have much of anything in the fridge and I don’t feel like cooking tonight. So, you good if we order out?

ROBIN:

Fine by me.

BRIANNA

Cool. I’m sure Chrisine will be down with that.

(A BEAT)

ROBIN

Hey Brianna, did you get a chance to go over to the rental office about the cats?

BRIANNA

Yeah, I mentioned it to them.

ROBIN

You did? And what did they say?

BRIANNA

(SOUNDING LIKE A QUESTION RATHER THAN A STATEMENT) They said they’d look into it. Uh, see what their options are.

ROBIN

You didn’t talk to them about the cats.

BRIANNA

(SIGHING)

They’re not hurting anything, Robin. I’m just worried that if animal control comes out they’re going to take them and euthanize them. I can’t live with that on my conscience.

ROBIN

Cats are not our friends, Brianna. The only reason you’re not afraid of them, too, is because they’re small. If they were bigger, like other predatory cats, you wouldn’t see them as pets.

BRIANNA

Yeah... I see what you’re saying, Robin, but they’re just housecats. Domesticated little housecats.

ROBIN

They’re feral. They live by the dumpsters.

(CONTINUED)

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BRIANNA

They won’t bother you if you don’t bother them... And how is that you can always tell when I’m bending the truth?

ROBIN

You mean when you lie. You should know better than to lie to me, Brianna. Detecting lies is like my superpower; I mean, that’s why Mike got the boot, right?

BRIANNA

Hashtag: Truth.

ROBIN

Now can I get back to studying, please?

(A BEAT)

SOUND: THE FRONT DOOR OPENING AND SLAMMING SHUT.

CHRISTINE

Ladies! Good, good! You’re both here.

BRIANNA

Good timing, Christine. We were just talking about ordering out for dinner...

CHRISTINE

You’re going to want to hear this first. I’ve got scoop that you’re not going to believe.

ROBIN

Ok, so studying time is over for me unless I lock myself in my room.

CHRISTINE

Forget that. This is like a ten on the Richter scale.

BRIANNA

A ten, huh? Okay, spill. What do you got?

CHRISTINE

So you know that big house on the cliffs off Taughannock Boulevard?

BRIANNA

That creepy place; it’s like a mansion. Isn’t it supposed to be haunted or something?

CHRISTINE

Or something. This was all before we were born but I remember my parents talking about it. The guy who owned

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CHRISTINE (cont’d)

it originally had two women living there with him. Like younger, hotter women.

BRIANNA

Ooh, kinky.

CHRISTINE

I’m sure. Rumor has it that it was some kind of weird sex cult or something. And the things they were into-like devil worship, black magic, stuff like that- it didn’t go over too well in town, as you can imagine. So a lot of people talked about it, avoided the place and shunned the people who lived there. Now I don’t know what happened exactly, but those people are long gone.

BRIANNA

Didn’t they die there? Or someone died there, I think I heard that somewhere.

CHRISTINE

Oh, I don’t know. That wouldn’t surprise me, given its histsory. Anyway, it’s always been kind of an infamous place on the edge of town.

ROBIN

This is all very interesting, but I’m not seeing where this is a ten.

CHRISTINE

Patience... is a virtue, Robin. I’m getting to my point... So, Camila at work is assigned to that house. She said there’s some guy who lives there now. Just him, all alone in that big place. He’s got some kind of disability or something, so he has her come and clean every Friday morning. She’s had that assignment for as long as I’ve been working there, and she’ll mention it from time to time - how creepy it is there, even in the morning. Like you can just tell some really bad things went down there. So anyway, I traded her two of my assigned houses for that mansion.

ROBIN

Why? Why would you do that?

CHRISTINE

I’ll tell you why. And this is where the ten comes in, ladies, so brace yourselves. You know Factories of Ruin.

ROBIN

The band? Uh, yeah we drove all the way to Madison Square Garden for their Strangulation Tour.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 6.

CHRISTINE

Well apparently rumors of the stuff that went down at this mansion got their attention. They’re renting the place from the owner for the next six weeks. They’re moving in to write and record their new album there.

ROBIN

Get out!!!

BRIANNA

Wait, what???

CHRISTINE

Yeah! I guess the spooky vibe of that place is what they’re looking for to inspire the new album.

ROBIN

Christine. Hold on. You’re telling me that Factories of Ruin is moving into our town for the next month and a half, and you’re going be their cleaning woman?

CHRISTINE

I told you this scoop was a ten.

BRIANNA

(GASPS)

You’re going to be in the house with Everett Nicholas! And the rest of the band! You’re going to meet them in person!

CHRISTINE

We ALL are.

ROBIN

What do you mean?

CHRISTINE

This is Factories of Ruin, ladies! They’re going to be looking to party, and I’m going to bring the party right to them. Three young, attractive, fun ladies who are single. I mean, when has that happened that we’ve all been single at the same time?

BRIANNA

Not since junior year of high school when Craig Bowers dumped Robin right before prom.

ROBIN

Thanks, Brianna. Thanks for bringing up that memory.

CHRISTINE

Point is, I’m going to get in good with a famous rock band, and we’re going to party with them. This is the chance of a lifetime.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 7.

(THE THREE OF THEM SHRIEK IN EXCITMENT)

SCENE 3: A BURNING MESSAGE

DREAM SEQUENCE

(ETHEREAL MUSIC OR DRONING TO CONVEY A SURREAL STATE)

NARRATOR

The mansion on the cliffs of Lake Cayuga is a place where the dreamer has never been. She has never set foot inside its walls, and yet here she finds herself beneath its vaulted ceilings, wandering the hallways, moving from one grand room to the next in search of something. Just as they are in dreams, the details of things appear softer and blunted, like moving through a thin layer of clouds. The dreamer is aware that there are others in the house somewhere, but they are not who she seeks. The dreamer carries with her a message: an urgent warning that glows white-hot inside of her. Deliver the message. As she exits one of the rooms, returning now to the hallway, she startles, nearly bumping into a lone figure slinking through the darkness. In a state of momentary shock, the dreamer finds herself standing face-to-face with . . . herself. How can this be, she muses, but in dreams anything can be. The message now grows to the point of intensity where it can no longer be contained. Leaning in close to her duplicate self, the dreamer whispers her message. Her urgent warning is delivered. And upon this, she awakens.

SCENE 4: THE SEVEN SACRED

FREQUENCIES

INT. THORNE MANOR, BASEMENT - DAY

SOUND: THE BASEMENT DOOR CREAKING OPEN AND A LONE SET OF FOOTSTEPS DESCENDING THE OLD WOODEN STAIRS. THE DISTANT AND SHRILL HUM OF A TUNING FORK GROWS LOUDER AS THE FOOTSTEPS REACH THE BOTTOM OF THE BASEMENT STAIRCASE.

DYLAN

Hey, man.

(A BEAT)

DYLAN

Everett.We’re ready.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 8.

EVERETT

...Dylan. Have you been here long?

DYLAN

Nah, man. Just came down. Didn’t want to interrupt your meditation but we’re plugged in and amped up in the backroom. We’re ready to lay it down on that untitled track.

EVERETT

All right, cool. Let me just put my tuning forks away.

SOUND: THE STEADY WHINE OF A TUNING FORK IS SNUFFED.

DYLAN

Didn’t you tell me Gottschalk gave you those?

EVERETT

That’s right. Each fork in this set was specifically crafted so the pure tone corresponds with one of the Seven Sacred Vibrations. And it works, Dylan. It opens one to energies that would normally fall outside of our range of human perception.

DYLAN

That’s funny, man. Who would have guessed that self-help talk-show guru was really into the occult.

EVERETT

You’d be surprised.

(A BEAT)

DYLAN

Yeah, so this place is amazing. I can feel the vibe in here and it’s dark as shit. Can’t wait to feel it through my guitar. Everything feels like it’s got its own story, like it’s powerful, like it’s cursed.

EVERETT

Oh there’s a lot to pick up here. A lot of residual energy all over this place from the things they did here. Thorne moved to Ithaca for a reason. He selected this very spot because there’s a confluence of power here. And he knew what he was doing - he believed the shape of a structure could conduct subtle energies and amplify their power. This one guy he ran with in occult circles was an architect who shared that belief. So Thorne had him design this manor for just that purpose.

DYLAN

No joke. You’re saying this house was built to channel energy?... Man, Thorne was the real deal.

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EVERETT

He was. He and his two priestesses -- they did some real powerful stuff here.

DYLAN

Yeah, I was just looking through his library a little earlier. His memoirs and mystical diaries are still up there. Man, they were into some kinky shit... and his priestesses-- oh hell man, the one with the tatts all over! Back in the day chicks didn’t do that so much.

That lady was HARD CORE. The things I would have done with her...

EVERETT

These weren’t kids in momma’s basement with a Ouija board. They opened doorways. They spoke with things on the other side. And down here in the basement, this is where they tapped into something really big and really dark. You can feel it if you allow yourself to be open. Like really open.

DYLAN

Oh, I felt it the moment I came down those steps, brother. Black magick.

EVERETT

(CHUCKLING)

I think they killed someone down here.

DYLAN

Badass, man. Ritual sacrifice...Hey, maybe that’s what we should name the track! Ritual sacrifice. I kinda dig the sound of that.

SOUND: AN OMINOUS FUNEREAL CHIME RINGS OUT ON THE FLOORS ABOVE THEM

DYLAN

Is that the doorbell?

EVERETT

Who the hell oould that be?

SOUND: FROM THE FLOOR ABOVE THE FRONT DOOR OPENS AND A FEW TENTATIVE CREAKS ON THE FLOORBOARDS

CHRISTINE

(MUFFLED AND DISTANT)

Hello?!...Cleaning lady. Is anyone home?

DYLAN

Shit.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 10.

EVERETT

No worries, we can still record with her here.

SOUND: THE SOUNDS OF MUFFLED DISTANT CHATTER AS CHRISTINE INTRODUCES HERSELF TO DOUG, WHO GREETS HER

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS RACE TO THE BASEMENT DOOR AND HALF WAY DOWN THE STEPS

KEITH

Yo, the cleaning chick’s here and she’s a total beast - she’s hot as hell!

EVERETT

No need to sulk around in the basement, then. Let’s go up and say hello.

SCENE 5: LATE TO HER OWN FUNERAL

INT. CROWDED BAR- NIGHT

SOUND: BACKGROUND NOISE OF A BUSY BAR

NARRATOR

Brianna, one of the three roommates, tends bar at The Breeze Bar in downtown Ithaca. Most nights find the bar packed with students from the college, loud and emanating the frenetic energy of directionless youth looking to explore the limits of their alcohol tolerance, tumble headlong into an adventure and find a hook-up for the night.

ROBIN

I swear, if one more guy tries to hit on me I’m going to punch him.

BRIANNA

What?! I can barely hear the drink orders, let alone hear myself think. How can you study here?

ROBIN

(ANNOYED, RAISING HER VOICE)

I’m trying, but not very successfully... Bad idea of the day: agreeing to meet Christine here rather than stay home and prep for this exam. Aaaand she is now twenty minutes late.

BRIANNA

That girl will be late to her own funeral... Can’t you just study while you’re doing your old people visits?

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 11.

ROBIN

’Old people visits’? I have to help with meals, do laundry, light housekeeping -- it’s active work, Brianna. And even when it’s not and there’s downtime, I can’t just ignore them - they want to talk. Being an in home companion means, like, actually being a companion!

BRIANNA

Here she comes.

CHRISTINE

(FLUSTERED)

Hey, sorry I’m late!

BRIANNA

IPA?

CHRISTINE

Please.

SOUND: BOTTLE CAP BEING PRIED OFF, BEER POURED AND SET DOWN ON THE BAR

ROBIN

So what happened? How did it go? Did you meet them?

CHRISTINE

Oh, let me tell you: I ring the doorbell, I use my keys to open the door, and no sooner than I step inside, who do I see coming towards me? . . . Doug Hicks!

ROBIN

The bass guitarist.

CHRISTINE

Uh-huh. And there’s the drummer guy - what’s his name?

BRIANNA

Keith Huff!

CHRISTINE

Yeah, Keith. He runs off to get the others. And here comes Dylan Lynch and Everett Nicholas out of the basement to say hi.

BRIANNA

WHAAAAAT?!

CHRISTINE

Everett’s not wearing a shirt, and he’s all tatted up with that mohawk of his . . .

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 12.

ROBIN

(GASPS)

What did you say?

CHRISTINE

I don’t know, I don’t remember!

BRIANNA

You don’t remember?!

CHRISTINE

Apparently I was so caught up in the fact that I was talking to him that I kind of blanked for a few seconds there, so . . . Anyway, next thing I know they’re offering me a beer. They invited me to sit with them while they recorded a brand new song!

BRIANNA

You’re kidding me.

ROBIN

You didn’t get much actual cleaning done, did you?

CHRISTINE

NONE!

ROBIN

So how’s the new song?

CHRISTINE

It is sickkkkkk! You’re going to die when you hear it.

And Everett sang it shirtless.

ROBIN & BRIANNA

(BOTH GASP)

CHRISTINE

Wait, here’s the best part: We really seemed to hit it off and they invited me back - in a non-cleaning woman kind of way.

ROBIN

Christine! You’re going to go hang out with them! This is really happening.

CHRISTINE

WE are going to hang out with them. I told them I have a couple of roommates and they said to bring you over.

ROBIN

Holy shit, Christine!

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 13.

CHRISTINE

Holy shit is right. This time tomorrow night we’ll be partying with rock stars. So get your sluttiest dresses, get your whore paint on, and start your engines.

ROBIN

Nice. Very classy.

SCENE 6: WE’RE HERE TO HAVE FUN

EXT. THORNE MANOR- NIGHT

SOUND: THREE CAR DOORS CLOSING AND A TRIO OF HIGH HEELS CLACKING ON THE DRIVEWAY

NARRATOR

The little access road off of the main road was easy to miss, but Robin, Christine and Brianna managed to find it on the second try. They drove slowly down the incline that sloped towards the cliffs overlooking Lake Cayuga. The mansion that Caleb Thorne had built sat well below the main road, hidden by trees, its splendor visible mostly from a vantage point along the massive finger lake below. They inch slowly up the long drive towards the house itself.

SOUND: CAR ENGINE CREEPING SLOWLY AND THEN IDLING AS IT IS THROWN INTO PARK AND THE ENGINE IS KILLED. CAR KEYS JINGLE.

ROBIN

Oh my god, look at this place.

CHRISTINE

It is definitely a lot creepier at night.

SOUND: THREE CAR DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING. THEIR ADVANCING FOOTSTEPS COME TO AN END AND THEY RING THE FUNEREAL-SOUNDING DOORBELL

BRIANNA

I can’t believe we’re actually doing this. I’m sweating from the palms of my hands.

ROBIN

(LAUGHS)

CHRISTINE

They’re totally cool, I’m telling you. Just relax and be yourself. We’re here to have fun, that’s all.

SOUND: MUFFLED FUNEREAL DOOR CHIME. THE FRONT DOOR OPENS

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED: 14.

CHRISTINE

Hi, Everett! Here we are: these are my roommates Robin and Brianna.

EVERETT

Christine! Ladies, nice to meet you. Come on in, don’t be strangers.

BRIANNA

(HER VOICE GROWING DISTANT AS THEY ENTER THE THRESHOLD) Oh wow, look at the inside of this place, it’s actually beautiful.

EVERETT

(HIS VOICE ALSO GROWING DISTANT AS HE SHUTS THE DOOR) It is. We were really lucky to find this place. Our manager reached out to the current owner...

SOUND: THE FRONT DOOR CLOSES. MUFFLED, MUTED VOICES INSIDE THE HOUSE, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOSED DOOR AS THEY MINGLE.

SCENE 7: SINNER’S MOON

EXT. THORNE MANOR, BACK DECK -

NIGHT

NARRATOR

After the initial meeting and pleasantries and drinks, after the initial period of starstruck giddiness, the band members bring the girls out onto the back deck where there are cigarettes and more stiff-drinks to be had beneath night’s shroud of stars.

SOUND: CRICKET SONG.

KEITH

So what’s the scene here?

ROBIN

Ithaca? It’s kind of dead unless you’re a tourist doing touristy things. Growing up here, it’s different. When Christine told us you guys were coming to town, that’s pretty much the big news of the century. You can only do so much hiking, wineries and waterfalls. Oh, and there’s boating if you’re into that.

CHRISTINE

There’s the college, too, so you know... there are bars and stuff. Brianna tends bar at one of them.

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DOUG

Yeah, we’re kind of dodging publicity while we’re here.

So bars are out. It’s nice to have company, though.

DYLAN

Yeah. Three beautiful girls like yourselves.

KEITH

Who would have thought when the cleaning lady showed up she was this young, hot, blonde girl. It sounds like the setup for a porno flick, right?

CHRISTINE

Oh my god, I’m blushing. But go on!

(THEY ALL LAUGH)

BRIANNA

Soooo, I have to ask - the story about the Albuquerque hotel room. Did that really happen?

(A BEAT)

DOUG

One hundred percent true.

(THE GIRLS GIGGLE)

BRIANNA

I knew it!

SOUND: SLIDING GLASS DOOR OPENING TOO THE DECK AND THEN CLOSING. FOOTSTEPS ON THE DECK APPROACHING.

EVERETT

Drinks, everyone. Take ’em before I spill ’em.

CHRISTINE

Ooh, what’s this?

EVERETT

It’s a cocktail I whipped up. You’ll see.

KEITH

Better watch it, Everett. This one here’s a bartender. Brianna, is it?

EVERETT

Oh man, I should have had you mix them. I’m sure it’s not as good as what you make. Don’t judge me.

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CONTINUED: 16.

BRIANNA

I won’t judge, I promise.

EVERETT

Beautiful country here. Look at that moon. When it hangs low and large like that, they call it a "Sinner’s Moon." Do you know why?

CHRISTINE

Why?

EVERETT

Because it is looking down on all the sins that are being committed under its watchful eye down here. But that’s what the night is for, right? For letting go... Ladies...and gentleman, a toast: to the Sinner’s Moon.

(ALL IN UNISON)

The Sinner’s Moon.

(A PAUSE WHILE THEY ALL DRINK)

EVERETT

Just think, this glassware that we put our lips to is the very same glassware that Caleb Thorne and his priestesses drank from.

ROBIN

That’s why you chose this place, isn’t it? Because it belonged to Thorne.

EVERETT

That’s right. What do you girls know about him?

ROBIN

That was before we were born, so not much. Not much about the guy who lives here now, either.

BRIANNA

I overheard a few things once at the bar from some of the older customers. Wasn’t he into black magic and rituals and stuff? He had kind of a cult going on here.

EVERETT

That’s pretty accurate. He lived here with two female followers that he called his priestesses. They had a reputation for doing some really dark stuff. Claimed to be in contact with entities from the other side. They disappeared in ’74, were never heard from again. Eventually they were legally declared dead.

(CONTINUED)

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CHRISTINE

What do you think happened to them?

EVERETT

...I think they opened a door to somewhere else. And I think they went through.

ROBIN

Have you experienced anything... you know, paranormal since you’ve been here?

EVERETT

Not yet. But we only just got here.

DYLAN

If there is something here, maybe we’ll wake it up.

EVERETT

How about you girls? You ever experience anything supernatural? See ghosts or anything?

ROBIN

We did go through a phase in middle school where we borrowed Christine’s brother’s Ouija board. I swear it spelled out some things that... It just knew some things about us that no one else would know.

CHRISTINE

Okay...soooo, full confession time.

ROBIN

No! Christine, you didn’t.

CHRISTINE

I did. I was moving it the entire time. And it was funny. Brianna just about peed herself.

BRIANNA

You bitch!

DOUG

That’s awesome. I love it!

BRIANNA

You know, I’ve never seen ghosts or anything like that but I do get this weird sense of deja vu at times. It happened a lot when I was little and then kind of died off, but it’s starting to happen again lately.

DOUG

I get that sometimes. It’s like a time slip or something.

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BRIANNA

Maybe. I don’t know. It almost feels like I dreamed the moment in vivid detail before it actually happens. And then I forget about it until it happens in real life.

And that makes it all come rushing back. And if I think about too hard, I get this really eerie feeling like I’m not supposed to be thinking about it. (SHUDDERS)

I’m getting goosebumps.

ROBIN

I used to sleepwalk a little when I was young. And I remember having these recurring dreams that I was being chased by someone who wanted to murder me.

DYLAN

Did they ever catch you?

ROBIN

I don’t think so. I think I’d always wake up right before it happened.

DYLAN

That’s cool.

(A PAUSE)

EVERETT

Anybody want some?

CHRISTINE

Is that... blow?

EVERETT

Mmm-hmm. Little pick-me-up.

CHRISTINE

Yeah, sure. I’m game.

EVERETT

Ladies?

BRIANNA

Why not.

CHRISTINE

Judging by that look I take it you’re not cool with this, Robin.

ROBIN

I’m not your mom, you do what you want. But I’m out.

I’ll stick with alcohol.

(CONTINUED)

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EVERETT

That’s cool. It’s not for everybody.

(A BEAT)

EVERETT

So why don’t we put some music on and take this party inside.

CHRISTINE

Yeah, good idea.

DYLAN

Maybe we’ll stir up some demons.

NARRATOR

A lone, dark figure skulking around on the grounds of Thorne Manor that night, peering in through the windows towards the orange glow of activity within, would have seen alcohol and cocaine being used freely; would have seen topless women dancing on the furniture for their rock star idols. This lurking figure would have seen the girls pair off with members of the band and move to the bedrooms to consecrate that night with a communion of the flesh. Watching from the shadows, she would have felt the subtle sensation of the mansion “waking up” in response to these revelries. And she would have rejoiced at the horrors that were to follow.

TO BE CONTINUED