Sitting here thinking about 2000ad and accidentally came up with a terror tale pitch. Sometimes I post these half hearted thoughts on twitter and I get people saying “you should have sold that as a story” and the reality is i lack time(and possibly ability) to do so. So instead I’m gonna do these half formed thoughts here where if I *do* decide to actually pitch them then I can.
so here we go:
Terror tale: Tower
a team of modern day abandoned Building spelunkers have found an enormous tower, with vast basements. As they get further and further into the basements there are ghostly apparations. Then we see another character. Tall and in shadows, beside him a shorter character with a stammer sh..sh..should we stop them? No let’s see where this goes.
the climbers discover wonders machinary not unlike the mines in forbidden planet. The ghostly things get weirder and weirder.
soemthing happens. The shadowy figure decides to intervene, but it’s too late.
the people become trapped in the machines.
short guy “th… they’re trapped”
shadowy figure “yes. I’m afraid they are. No matter. The machine will consume them and use them and when the time is right I’ll send some droids in to harvest the new thrills. It’s been a long time but Kings reach tower may yet prove useful”
and With that Tharg and a run down, almost Frankenstein-like shell of Burt-1 walk away from the long abandoned Kings Reach Tower.
Happy birthday 2000ad