Sacrificial Lambs

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Gianna
Ivy
Suzannah
Ice Bucket Guy
Joel Woodard
Liang Li
Miranda Verande
Squatters: Brenda, Charlie, Chip, and Luke
Teresa McVey
Unknown Assailants
Vincent Anderson

	1. On her way home from an extraordinarily long shift, she gets a call from her son Vincent who has had a car wreck - he swerved and hit a fire hydrant, possibly because he saw something, but he wasn’t coherent enough to say.
	2. Su rushes to find him and has an ambulance called to take him to the ER.
	3. One of the paramedics who arrives, Teresa “Terry” McVey, Suzannah knows.
2. Gianna “GG” Greer - Introduction
	1. Working out in the gym with her best friend Miranda “Monday Blues” Verande.
	2. Miranda cuts out early, after much teasing from Gianna, because Miranda has a date with someone she bumped into outside of a bar recently.
3. Ivy woodard - Introduction
	1. Ivy, home after a traumatic injury puts a hitch in her equestrian sports career, is watching TV while icing her knee when her brother, Joel, returns from closing down the stables for the night.
	2. Joel attempts to talk to her, but the conversation turns sour due to Joel’s concerns that Ivy is really just giving up instead of trying to work through her injury in addition to his anger over her having left home the way that she did prior to coming back because of her injury.
4. Declan Hayden Carver - Introduction
	1. He is at a house party with his best friend Liang, an alternative model, so that he can play wing man.
	2. Declan dislikes it but accompanies her anyway.
	3. While Liang is circling in on her quarry for the night, Declan is unceremoniously disturbed by another jaded party-goer who insists on occupying the open corner of the ottoman he’s sitting on.
	4. They end up making a bet over how long it will be before Liang agrees to fly the coup with her new boy toy, and the bet turns into a sports-like narration of the back and forth between Lian and her boytoy.
	5. The girl wins the bet, then leaves 20 bucks richer before  Carver also heads home for the night.
5. Suzannah - Kidnapping
	1. Suzannah on the way to the ER stops to respond to a domestic disturbance but finds no one inside.
	2. She becomes suffocated by the air around her and passes out just as someone’s hands wring her throat.
6. Gianna - Kidnapping
	1. Gianna gets an SOS text from Miranda wanting G to drag her out of her now failed date.
	2. Gianna arrives to find Miranda standing frozen and terrified in the alley next to the bar.
	3. When Gianna tries to pull Miranda away, G is knocked clear across the alley into a dumpster, which knocks her unconscious.
7. Ivy - Kidnaping
	1. Ivy and Joel hear a horse screaming in from the stables.
	2. Ivy hobbles out with Joel to check on them.
	3. A doberman somehow got loose in the barn and was spooking the horses, causing Sundance to break out of his stall and run into the adjoining paddock.
	4. When Joel attempts to bring Sundance back inside, the dog attacks him.
	5. Ivy, running to help, falls, and something hits her head, knocking her out.
8. Carver - Kidnapping
	1. He arrives home to his boat and hears the sound of a sparkler followed by the sound of leaking gas.
	2. He tries to get out of the boat before it ignites, but can’t, and is thrown into a wall when it combusts.
9. Sacrifice
	1. The four awake bound and gagged inside an old, dusty altar room.
	2. Voices are heard talking in the room, at least one female, and at least one with a deep accent.
	3. Gianna breaks loose but her hand is caught, and she then dislocates her shoulder attempting to strike out at her assailant.
	4. Suzannah works out of her gag and tries to talk to them, but they won’t answer or questions or give her their name.
	5. The four are pulled up on their knees as their assailants begin chanting.
	6. Their blindfolds are removed as the four are doused in blood, but their assailants are hooded. Between that and the blood being poured in their eyes and down their faces, into their mouths through the corners of the gags, they cannot see.
	7. Their throats are then cut as the chanting rises to a pitch, and the four suffocate/drown  from the lack of oxygen and the blood pouring into their slashed windpipes.
10. Waking
	1. The four awake in an abandoned morgue observatory amidst a piley of other decaying bodies. As they leave they discover it is the abandoned Charity Hospital.
	2. They head out and encounter a group of squatters, whose names they never learn due to frenzying on them instantly (with the exception of Carver who fed only after the other three began splattering the room in blood.)
		1. All of them feel the emotions, the resonance, of their targets and see something of their prey’s last thoughts.
		2. Suzannah kills a woman and sees the vision of a blonde girl; shadows cling to the woman’s body after.
		3. Ivy kills a young man and sees the vision of a wedding ring; the scene is rendered in stark clarity as Ivy’s eyes glow red.
		4. Gianna kills an old man and sees faded photos; her nails become claws with scales growing around them.
		5. Carver sees a uniform and feels his prey’s fighting spirit; for a moment after the man seemed fine, but then the it was suddenly obvious he was dead.
11. Escape
	1. They manage to clean themselves up somewhat and depart the hospital, making their way to a fourth-rate hotel where they are able to secure a room thanks to 60 bucks stolen from the murdered squatters and Ivy’s Presence.
		1. They don’t submit any ID and pay less than cost for the room.
	2. They discover how long it’s been since they were taken and call their love dones.
		1. Ivy’s brother doesn’t remember her being home and insists she was “staying with a friend.”
		2. Miranda doesn’t remember Gianna arriving or anything bad about the way the date ended.
		3. Suzannah’s car was found when she didn’t report in; her partner agrees to investigate Charity Hospital.
		4. Carver calls his security personnel and finds everything has been normal; his boat is fine.
	3. Ivy tries to have a smoke, but the flame causes Gianna to frenzy. G breaks the door to their room as she runs out.
		1. She comes to a stop in the hall below about 20 feet from another guest who had just gone to get ice.
		2. Her sudden, monstrous appearance causes him to drop his ice bucket and freeze, staring at her.
		3. Carver runs out after her, just as fast, and then clotheslines the poor witness, knocking  him out.
		4. They ransack his room, stealing some cash, and making it look like he was drunk.
		5. Ivy accidentally triggers an anti-theft tag on some pants found in the guys’ room, becoming covered in blue ink.
	4. The pair then leave the hotel and instead take a taxi to Carver’s place, stowing away in his boat to talk out a plan. But they pass out when the sun rises, unable to do anything else.
12. End Game.