{"id":518,"date":"2008-12-11T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:57:20","slug":"evil-dead-meets-tarzan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Evil Dead meets Tarzan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So my 10 Word Plot from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mwhuffman\/status\/895905660\">April 22, 2007<\/a>&nbsp;was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>10 Word Sci-Fi Plot: Scientist creates worm-hole, unleashes elder-gods; man, gun, and monkey save world. Think Evil Dead meets Tarazan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm&#8230; This could be the plot of the next Hell Boy movie; substitute man and monkey with Hell Boy and you almost have the plot of the first movie&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2280\/2481561976_674a729491_m.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>Or you can set the story in a steam-punk world, full of mad-scientist, blitzkrieg-bots, and blimps (or airships built using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cavorite\">Cavorite<\/a>). Areas on earth still untouched and unexplored by men. Primitive cultures living nearby lost civilizations (maybe long descendants). World political tension building towards a world war; each country trying to build armies or the next super-weapon. Then from out of the jungle, a half naked man &amp; his monkey emerge with a monster from the ancient world &#8212;\u00a0<em>elephant gigantus<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; a elephant twice the size of any ordinary elephant, with two trunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or hero, Jack Howard, was orphaned in the African jungle until the age of 12. Jack was rescued by local natives &amp; turned over to the US embassy. From there, he was adopted by Nathan &amp; Martha Howard, former ambassadors to Africa. Jack was a bright boy, curious, with a strong affinity for science. The Howards sent Jack off to Yale, where he majored in anthropology, girls, and football. After college, Jack was quickly recruited by the US government as a kind of exploratory anthropologist &#8212; which gave Jack an opportunity to return to the jungles of Africa, where he met his monkey companion, Kima. Unknown by Jack, this gigantic elephant was the weapon the US government was looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile in Bavaria, scientist Josef Fuchs is performing an ancient Thule blood ritual, which he thought was to bestow more savage strength on to warriors, but they were swallowed up by a portal into another universe&#8230; and an ancient evil was released, the lesser of the ancient gods&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quick Wrap Up<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever creature the lesser god is based on, begins to reproduce and spread out from Bavaria&#8230; to the point where other nations are taking notice &amp; Bavaria is asking for help. The US government calls in all &#8220;exploratory adventurers&#8221; to form a plan. Jack recognizes symbols on a picture taken from ground zero &amp; realizes from African folklore what evil has been unleashed&#8230; the\u00a0<em>elephant gigantus<\/em>\u00a0is the key to earth&#8217;s salvation&#8230; and of course, Jack&#8217;s 50 cal pistol, Bess.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Evil+Dead+meets+Tarzan\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=518\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my 10 Word Plot from&nbsp;April 22, 2007&nbsp;was this: 10 Word Sci-Fi Plot: Scientist creates worm-hole, unleashes elder-gods; man, gun, and monkey save world. Think Evil Dead meets Tarazan. Hmm&#8230; This could be the plot of the next Hell Boy movie; substitute man and monkey with Hell Boy and you almost have the plot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil Dead meets Tarzan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[57,58,59],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plots","tag-10-words","tag-plot","tag-steam-punk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMpv-8m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":538,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=538","url_meta":{"origin":518,"position":0},"title":"An Asgard Romance!","author":"mhuffman","date":"June 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Sci-fi Plot: 10 Word Sci-fi Plot: Boy-meets-girl in mining camp on Callisto. 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