My WOTW 24 Style

[Commandingtripod]

I've been thinking about this for a while now.
I've made myself a WOTW story in 24 (TV show) style:

This is only a rough idea since I haven't come up with a complete script or story either.

Oh yeah I also sped it up to.
I mean, the Martians land, build and deploy their FM's in one day rather than the three in the book.
If I didn't do that I discovered that I'd turn into PP and have a lot running scenes.

The following takes place between:
5:00 am - 7:00 am

Ogilvy finds the cylinder.
Runs back into Woking to raise the alarm.
A few people head down to the cylinder to see what's happening.
People are slowly digging away the dirt around the cylinder when the top slowly starts unscrewing..........

8:00 am - 10:00 am
The crowd flees the pit and scrambles up the sides.
One man can't make it up.
The top comes off and a Martian appears at the rim.
The crowd screams and withdraw back from the edge.

The Martian goes over the rim and a second one appears in its place.
The man who could make it over the edge almost gets away when a Martian grabs him and pulls him back.

The crowd start to edge their way back to the pit.

A strange device appears out of the cylinder........

11:00 am - 1 00 pm
The device is revealed to be a heat ray when it starts torching people.
3/4 of the crowd die and the Narrator flees back to his house.

Once there he convinces his wife to go with him.
They leave in the cart.

Else where soliders begin leaving for Woking.

Meanwhile the Narrator has taken his with to Leatherhead (?) and is on his way back when a giant leg lands in front of him - the horse rears................

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The horse and cart topples over and the Narrator is thrown out as a tripod stomps past thinking he is dead.
The Narrator heads back to his house to find many of the houses in Woking burnt to a crisp but his is still intact.

The Artillery Man staggers towards his house as it is still whole and the Narrator goes out to stop him before inviting him back inside.
Once inside the Artillery Man tells the Narrator what happaned:

Several Companies of soliders tried to storm the pit from all sides as the guns shelled the cylinder but in a swift motion the heat ray wiped them out.
The heat took out a few exposed cannons as a fighting machine rose up.
The troops see this and start to target the machine.
Many of them panic as the fighting machine starts destroying the artillery.
The Artillery Man is thrown backwards in an explosion and lands underneath with bodies which pile on top of him hiding him from view of the machine.
But he can see everything and watchs as the machine wipes out what ever is left and then moves out towards Woking.
A second rises up and follows the first.
The Artillery Man escapes and some how finds the Narrators house.

The two agree that they can't stay in the house any longer and must leave and then suddenly hear a deafening 'ULLA'!............
To be continued

And that's all I can think of for now.
Let me know what you think of it.

[EvilNerfherder]

Interesting idea. Are you going to flesh it out properly?

[Commandingtripod]

Yeah I might when I get some free time.
I'll finish it off first and then try and write it out properly.

[Luperis]

Looks good so far.
A great start - I'll certainly be interested to see where you go with this.

[wotwfan48]

Hey i almost missed this, very good idea, keep up the good work. Chantale. ;D

[Commandingtripod]

wotwfan47 said:

Hey i almost missed this, very good idea, keep up the good work. Chantale. ;D

Awww, thanks! ;D

I've got some more down:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Narrator and Artillery Man begin their escape towards Leatherhead.
On the way out of Woking, they jump into a ditch to avoid a Martian tripod on the look out for survivors.

After they make it out of Woking they keep walking along and find a Hussar Patrol who informs them to head to Weybridge.

Once they reach Weybridge, they find out what sort of confusion and panic everyone is in.
About five minutes after they've reached the town, five Martian tripods appear.

Artillery guns open fire on the Martians who advance with little care.
Finally, an Artillery shells smashes into the formost tripod.
It reals back with its operator dead and walks straight into the church which comes down.

The other Martians first destroy the Artillery guns before levelling the town and withdrawing with the remains of the first tripod.

During the course of the events, the Narrator is seperated from the artillery man, lands in a boat and drifts down the river......

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Narrator wakes up to find the Curate next to him.
The Curate goes on to explain how these things cannot exist and how Weybridge was destroyed along with the Church.

The Narrator tries to get the Curate to see sense and then gets up and starts leaving.
Soon they arrive in a town having avoided two different Martian tripods, discover another using a black smoke canister.

Thought neither of them know what to make of it at the time, they both hurry away.

Soon, they break into another house and look around.
The Narrator finds new clothes to replace the old.

They are about to leave as they watch a canister of black smoke fly over the house and land below (The house being on a hill), a tripod then stomping past the house.

The Black smoke spreads and they are trapped.........

11:00 pm - 12:00 pm

After a while, another tripod comes through and eliminates the smoke using steam.

Once its gone, the two decide to leave the house.

Elsewhere, the Narrators brother is woken to the sound of "Black Smoke run for your life!"
Going onto the street, he sees the panic and confusion as the people of London try and flee the new terror.
The brother then gets knocked into the crowd and swept along as people try and escape.

Eventally, he pulls free and starts out on his own path.

The Narrator and Curate in the mean while, have broken into another house and are eating.
Suddenly there is a bright flash, the ground shakes and the house caves in.........

1:00 am - 3:00 am

The Narrator comes to and discovers what happened.
A cylinder has hit the house.

The Narrator pulls some stuff free and looks out of the now made slit.
He sees the Martians going to and fro around their cylinder working with their machines.

He watches some machine (Later called a 'Handling Machine') as it pulls pieces of machine out of the cylinder and assemble them into another Handling Machine.

The Curate is starting to go mad.
When he gets the slit, he watches as the first humans are bought to the pit.
He watches as one tentacle grabs a man, and pulls him behind a small mound and then hears the Martians start hooting.
He recoils and gives the Narrator a look.
The Narrator sees another tentacle go into the the basket and grab another human this time a middle aged women.
Rather than place her behind the mound, it places her infront of it where the Martians are waiting.

They start hooting before each places some sort of bone into her arms and legs.
The Narrator recoils instantly and hears the Curate start to raise his voice.
He turns around and after unsuccessfuly trying to stop the Curate, knocks him out.
A Handling Machine then appears at the window slit having discovered it..........

4:00 am - 5:00

The brother rescues two women from a group of men and starts on their journey towards the coast.
They arrive and see an amazing site - hundreds of different types of ships.
The Brother sees a warship - HMS Thunder Child - as he boards a steamer.

Three Martains appear and strides out to sea blocking the escape route of the ships.
The HMS Thunder Child then enages the tripods destroying two before being destroyed herself.
The other Ironclads then attack the remaining Martian forcing it to retreat.
At the end of the battle, the Martians flying machine arrives, studies what happened before retreating.

The body of the curate is dragged away as the Narrator hides in the coal.
A Martian tentacle grabs a piece of coal and leaves.
The Narrator falls to sleep.

When he wakes up, he finds the Martians gone.
Tearing at the slit, he escapes and clambers up out of the fallen house.

He looks around to find red weed haven taken hold and the entire area around him red.

He then hears an "Ulla!" and starts running for his life......................

End

And that's all I have thought of so far.

[richardburton]

Interesting premis - keep going with it

[Commandingtripod]

richardburton said:

Interesting premis - keep going with it

Thanks.

Looking back I probably made that second part go a bit too fast.
I'll try again except write it out slightly differently and then keep going.