Core Narrative 5

**Title:** The Now with Merrick

**Macro-Story Beat:** Venti Failure

**Logline:** When something goes wrong with the dome, Merrick feels like its his responsibility to make sure everyone in the dome what is happening.

**Short Story Synopsis:** Merrick is a radio talk show host who talks about the news and his personal life. He loves entertaining his listeners. One day, Merrick gets news that there is a crack on the north side of the dome. The crack is not big, at first, but over time the crack starts to get bigger. Merrick gets information on where the crack has appeared from. The crack is being caused by outside forces that they can't explain. Merrick wants to tell everyone about this discovery. However, the politicians don't want the people in the dome to freak so the politicians decide to tell the radio station owner that if Merrick does what he wants they are going to cancel the show. The radio station owner don't want that to happen because Merrick's show is the biggest show that they run. The radio station make a deal with the politicians to cut the show short if the crack is mentioned. Merrick does not like this idea but he loves hosting so he agrees to not bring it up during the show. However, the listeners start bring up the crack when they call in. The radio station owner always cut the listeners off mid sentence and goes on to the next one. Eventually, every listener who is calling in wants Merrick to talk about the crack in the dome and after a couple of shows with people calling in; Merrick finally tells the people what they want to know. After this the politicians cancel the show and Merrick is kicked out of the dome. Merrick is able to find a way to still broadcast in the dome when he is outside it and is still running his show, just from the outside with all new adventures.

**Genre:** Nonfiction/Drama

**Protagonist:** The radio host named Merrick. He is a middle aged male, who fits in the pragmatic group. He is neutral in every way. He covers the news in a neutral way. He sometimes gives his opinion on what he is talking about, but most of the time he doesn't. His goal is just to get the news out there.

**Antagonist:** The politicians in the South Africa dome because they don't want people to freak out about something being wrong with dome. Politicians want to make everyone believe everything is fine and under control but Merrick knows the truth. The people who run the radio station because they don't want the politicians shutting down the radio station because of Merrick. They try to control Merrick as much as possible and make it hard for him to get his opinion or even the bad news out to people.

**Main Supporting Characters w/Description:** The main supporting characters are the people who listen to his radio station who want to know everything. They call in asking questions even when the radio station owners. They support Merrick in his goal to tell the truth.

**Primary Locations w/Description:** The primary location will be the South Africa dome. It will only be inside the dome.

**Additive Comprehension:** Anticipated Shadow and Stormworld Reveal because it's a new dome.

**Target Market:** Males between the ages 18-40

**Medium:** Podcast

**Why it works in this medium?:** This works in this medium because we can make the story like a news broadcast. Each episode is a news update on what is happening in the dome in South Africa.

**Platform:** Digital

**Why it works in this platform?:** This works in this platform because we can upload the podcast anywhere as a free audio thing. We can upload it to soundcloud, iTunes and even Youtube for free.