The Hundred is the new story that I've started telling Jack and Veda. It starts out like this:
"In ancient days there was a man who had great magic. His powers were contained in a deck of one hundred enchanted cards. With them he could perform miracles of such astonishing scope that kings and rulers from the around the world gathered to ask for his help in matters great and small.
One day a king from a foreign land returned to his own kingdom telling everyone of the amazing cards and the magician who wielded them. Upon hearing this, the king's own wizard fell into a rage of jealousy and began scheming to ambush the famous magician and get his amazing one hundred cards for himself.
In order to do this, the jealous wizard began following the other magician and planning to steal the cards. He conjured up a huge storm and attacked the magician, but in the process, the cards blew away and scattered in the four winds, to the ends of the earth.
Hundreds of years later, the cards remain separated, but they are so powerful that even a single card is capable of working small miracles, and so it is that our good friend, Danny Prince, the poorest kid in school, witness to his grandfather's slow demise and heir to nothing more than a life of quiet desperation, opened a box of comic books at a neighborhood garage sale and found, tucked between the pages of an old Superman comic, a single card...the Ace of Hearts."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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3 comments:
That's cool :)
Although my logic-obsessed brain is wondering what number the suits go up to if there's an Ace of Hearts, but 100 cards in total. Are Jokers included? Should I just leave it there until I hear more about the story? :xp:
On an unrelated note, I read the Amazon sysnopsis for Deathtroopers via TheForce.net yesterday, and I am getting SERIOUSLY pumped for this. Combining two of my favourite genres ever... if you can include beer in there, I'll probably explode.
Keep up the good work chap, your kids are so lucky to have a professional storyteller for a dad! :D
Wow! That sounds simply great!
Will it become a novel too???
If you want a totally frustrating viewing experience, check out the Peter Krause miniseries The Lost Room, available on DVD. It's a similar premise, but about a hotel room rather than a deck of cards. It's great when they're trying to set up an ongoing series; when they realize they're not going to get funding and have to hurry to wrap it up as a miniseries it gets bad enough to make you angry.
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