9 The System Rewards (2/2)

Putting your financial troubles aside, you began typing on the typewriter. You need to concentrate on your screenplay before everything else. If you have a good screenplay in your hand, you can use it ways to fund your movie.

Only through hard work and dedication, extraordinary achievements can be reached!

In the following week, you put aside all financial burden and concerns about the future and use all your energy and time into creation of your first screenplay.

You use one of the standard commercial screenplays as a template while you compiled a very detailed character's outline and dialogues. For one, it easier to fill in the template. For two, it far easier for a standardized screenplay to be accepted by investors.

You did forget a lot of finer details in the dialogues between the characters, but you always found a suitable alternative to fill in the missing lines. Sometimes, you find your own dialogues sounded much better in the moment.

Maybe this is your chance to right whatever wrong you found in your previous world movie? This way, the screenplay would be your creation, instead of a pure copy.

Days and months gradually pass by as you concentrated on your script. The weather changes, cold to hot, and blooding sucking mosquitoes fill the air.

You ignore them and continue to work, only stopping when you are stump or exhausted.

First act, scene one.

In the near darkness of the basement, a security guard makes his way into the inner cellar. His flashlight finds a man in work clothes bend over a panel, his back to the light.

”Hey! This is a restricted area!” – the guard.

The man doesn't look around. We could just almost see his face as he talks.

”Yeah. I, uh, got called in…. some of this wiring got screwed up.” – the man.

”Nobody called it down to me. I'm going to have to see a work order.” – guard.

”Yeah… just one second…” – the man.

The man passes a piece of paper to the guard.

The guard distracted by the paper. The man reaches into his toolbox.

He rises, turning, and a knife is shoved through the guard's ear.

The knife is pulled back with calm efficiency.

The guard turns, wide-eyes, hand to his ears. Mouth opens in silent protest. Out of his hand drops the work order. He slumps over. He dies.

Scene after scene you write, and eventually the screenplay complete. Only then you let out an air of relieve. You didn't remember every scene of the movie, but you did well to fill in the blanks with your ingenuity.

Now that the screenplay is complete, you could estimate the exact funding you required base on the amount of scene and shootings needed to be done.

Before you revise your screenplay. A voice speaks into your mind.

[Congratulation in creating your first Screenplay!]

[You are one step towards the best fucking directory.]

You smile. At least the System acknowledges you. Its next announcement surprises you.

[A random reward has been awarded to you. The item is placed into your Inventory.]

”Wait, wait, I have a fucking inventory!?”