Bloodwrath

Creator: Jamie
Age rating: 13 and older
The small city of Fair Haven has a dark history. Twenty years ago, something terrible happened at the Shady Acres Research Facility. A large number of people went missing, presumed dead. Now, a new doctor is trying to replicate the experiments.
Project collaboration: Open
Full synopsis
Synopsis: Fair Haven's Past

Oliver and Sarah

Sarah leads the charge

Oliver and Bill

Oliver goes to the Acres

Oliver awakens Sarah

The small city of Fair Haven has a dark history. Twenty years ago, something terrible happened at the Shady Acres Research Facility. The facility was started by a man named Dr. Jacob Wagner and funded by his silent partner, Julian Ramure. Wagner had developed a technique called "Advanced Cellular Regeneration," which had the potential to bring the dead back to life. A string of disappearances raised suspicions about the ethics of the Facility. When a woman was murdered, and Wagner suspected, the doctor disappeared.

Now a man is killed outside the abandoned compound, and the local coroner, Bill Hammond, suspects that it is linked to the murder of the woman. Her brother, Patrick Jensen, is now an agent with the FBI and is also investigating the most recent murder. Because the victim is an organ donor, Dr. Oliver Campion is called in to harvest the organs. Campion has come to Fair Haven because he is studying Wagner's ACR techniques, and is able to partially revive the dead body in order to harvest viable organs. This unpopular research could potentially change medical science forever.

Campion is engaged to Bill's strong-willed daughter, Sarah, who is hell-bent on uncovering the truth about the Shady Acres Facility so that her fiance can continue his valuable work unimpeded. However, there is more to the story than most want to believe. An ancient legend about the Bloodwrath weighs heavily on Bill's mind. The Hammond family is part of a line of men who have sworn to exterminate a race of bloodthirsty immortals called the "Pyrkhari". Fair Haven is built near the site where their queen was put to death, and a prophesy says that the Bloodwrath will bring her back to life. Bill suspects that this is the reason that Ramure funded Wagner's project.

Despite being barred from going into the Facility, Sarah, her brother Josh, and their friend Bruce venture into the woods only to be attacked. Wagner re-appears in order to tell Campion that Sarah has been killed, and the Bloodwrath has taken Josh captive. Campion feels he is left with no choice but to bring Sarah back from the dead, for which he must confront Jacob at the Facility. In the meantime, Josh discovers strength he didn't know he had as he holds his own under captivity, and discovers that there is not one, but two Bloodwrath. Brothers, who have been hatching a plot together for decades to bring back their queen--using Sarah as the host body!

Campion drops the act and admits that he is Dr. Wagner, and that part of what happened during the incident was that he was turned into an immortal. All of these details are part of collecting what is needed for the pagan ceremony of rebirth. With Bill and Patrick's help, Campion ventures back into the compound in an attempt to rescue Sarah, though he knows what must be done. Ultimately, it is the conflict between the Bloodwrath's two different understandings of love that is used to drive a wedge between them and put an end to the nightmare, even at the high cost of Sarah's life.

At Sarah's funeral, the Bloodwrath who ultimately understood love best shows that he has turned over a new leaf by using a medication created by Campion to turn from the path of darkness.

Latest Work

  • Script 1 - Jamie's Original Draft
    05/16/12
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    Creative Notes:
    There is a lot of mythology behind this story, much of which is only hinted at. This includes several lines in another fictional language. This mythology is based upon my limited understanding of pagan practices, and my not seem believable to those more well-versed in the subject. Also, some elements of earlier drafts may remain, that will need to be corrected.
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