Pen’s Unofficial Challenge Draft: The Necessary Components of any Play’s Plot

The following is a script found featuring the notable person known as the Actor that may have actually have occurred and points to the Actor getting his roles from an entity. ~ M.E.G.

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INT.

The Narrator:
The only things Cally Adams had left other than the clothes she had on were her phone, its charger, and an adapter. She had lost everything she cared about. It was difficult for just a twenty-three-year-old woman who wasn't prepared to have her life stripped away from her to end up in the Backrooms. But because she still had her phone, which had several things on it that reminded her of home and gave her a reason to keep living, she coveted it most dearly. So when her phone went from being her prime treasure as she found her way through Level 0 to the Manilla Rooms, and into Level 1, there was little she could do other than lose her reason and panic when it became her main torture in Level 2. Can she survive the troubles the Backrooms bring? Or will she succumb to it like so many others? Learn that and more, right here, right now.
Please note that the following play is not suitable for some younger audiences, as it contains a brief description of murder. It is to be best considered a horror suspense. Enjoy.

INT. Level 1

Adams
(thinking aloud):
I've been wandering around this place longer than I did in 'Level 0', the 'Manila Rooms' combined. And I somehow haven't come across a single one of those "entities". I wonde-

She screams as she seems to trip and fall through the ground.

INT. Level 2

Adams
(gasping):
I'm never going to get used to that…

Adams starts patting herself down. She pulls out a standard white phone charger and a blue power outlet adapter, but continues rustling through her coat' and pants' pockets. A distressed look passes over her face when her search yields no other results.

Adams:
Oh, where is it? Please don't let me lose it…

As if on cue, a pleasant dinging noise is heard. Adams spins around and spies the phone.

Adams:
There it is!

Upon picking it up, she looks confused.

Hmm…that's weird…I thought I put it on silent…and to get a text from anyo…

Cally trails off as she reads the sender's message and who they are.

Mysterious Text #1:
"We have started the story; it's the exposition."

Mysterious Text #2:
"We have reached the catalyst of the story. Some plays or stories don't use a catalyst, but in our situation, we'll use one. It's essentially a rising action that starts everything."

Adams:
What in the world?

Footsteps are heard, their volume increasing as if someone was approaching. Cally whirls around to find no one there.

Adams
(frowning):
Great, now I'm hea-

A pipe right next to her lets out a whistle of hot air. Cally screams and jumps up in the air.

Adams
(regarding the pipe angrily):
Aren't the pipes supposed to be nearly non-functional and noiseless?

She examines the pipe thoroughly, but it makes no more noise and gives no sign that it had ever worked in the first place.

Adams:
Stupid pipe…

She starts to walk down the corridor again.

Adams:
The sooner I can get out of here the better…

30 minutes pass without anything else happening. After a while of wandering around, Cally ends up at a turn in the system of tunnels. As she rounds it, she hears footsteps running away from her. She stops.

Adams:
Am I going crazy?

She slowly peeks around the bend and breathes in quickly.

Oh my God, there's someone there…or something…

Her phone pleasantly dings, signaling a text. In consequence, she jumps.

Oh no…did it hear that?

She looks around the corner again and screams. In front of her stands a man. With barely a glance at him, she turns and runs until she is out of breath.

She is now in the middle of a long stretch of pipe, which makes a slight U shape. She sits down, panting. Wiping her forehead with the sleeve of her shirt, she turns on her phone and groans just as it dings again.

Adams:
Not another one…

Mysterious Text #3:
"We have reached the actual rising action, which is before the climax."

Adams:
That's the text that was sent to me when I saw that man…Is he responsible for all of this?

Mysterious Text #4:
"This is the build-up, a temporary null in the action that is to leave people wondering what is going to happen next. Not all stories or plays use one. Enjoy it while you can. 🤣"

Adams:
Come on Cally, calm yourself down…Let's see here; so the situation is that you're being chased by a madman who somehow has gotten your cell phone number, and is texting you strange messages. He's wearing a collared, white-colored, button-up T-shirt. Over that, he has a black zip-up jacket with no hood. It looked like he had some kind of…puffy scarf? It looked green and purple and was draped all over him. It seemed to intertwine with his whole body. He looks to be Japanese-American with black hair…

Cally takes another deep breath.

Well, he might not be the one sending the messages, but his appearance corresponds with the "rising action" text that I just looked at, so he has to be involved in this somehow.

Cally rests her head against her knee as she sits in the center of a U-shaped tunnel. Suddenly, she hears footsteps approaching. She looks around and sees the strange man coming towards her, holding an object that looks like an umbrella. Terrified, she stands up to run, but the man throws the object at her. In the light, she sees that it is actually an oar-like weapon known as the ieku, with a needle-sharp end. As she tries to run, she trips and the ieku grazes her right hand, which is holding her phone. The phone falls to the ground and makes a ding, while the ieku slides several feet away. The man picks up Cally's phone and puts it in his pocket. He then retrieves the ieku and stands there, watching as Cally runs away.
And although no one is there to hear him, he speaks to himself:

Unidentified Man:
You can't leave the stage yet. We're only halfway through.

He then continues down the tunnel after Cally, and as he does, an interesting feature about him can clearly be seen. Something Cally had been mistaken about when detailing his appearance. The "scarf" was not a scarf at all. It was truly a length of flowers spanning across his entire body. The flowers were rhododendrons of the purple variety, which are normally a flower that grows on a type of plant that fits under a category called "woody plants", not vines.
In the man's pocket, Cally's phone was still displaying the text it had received:

Mysterious Text #5:
"It's almost over…for you, anyway. We have reached the climax. It only goes downhill from here."

Cally, quite a distance ahead of the man, has reached a place where the pipe tunnels branched off into three different directions.

Adams:
Oh, I don-

She hears a faint noise echoing down the tunnel behind her. She whirls around. In the distance down the long stretch of pipe-lined tunnel, by squinting, she makes out the small figure of the man slowly and forebodingly approaching.

Adams
(in a shaky voice):
Ummm…

She randomly picks the left path and starts down it. She goes halfway down it before checking behind her.

Adams:
How is he already at the split in the path? He was walking and he was so far away…

She stops talking to run. After going a quarter of the distance of the entire tunnel she was in, she realizes that…

Adams:
Oh no!…It's a dead e- No, wait. There's a door! Hallelujah, it's a door! It might be an exit-

She stops talking when she feels a tap on her shoulder. She slowly turns around to face the person she knows is going to be there. The man. She screams and pushes him away. Instead of falling backward and landing on his back, or at least stumbling, the flower-vine (which she just realized wasn't a scarf) seemed to prevent him from falling straight down by tightening, and they lifted him slowly back into an upright position. Cally goes and flings open the wooden door, revealing a black void. She hesitates before jumping in, but a glance at the man makes up her mind for her. The door shut itself behind her, killing all the light.

After he had been brought back to an upright position, the man stood outside the door, thinking. But he is interrupted by a noise coming from the inside of his coat pocket. A dinging noise.

Mysterious Text #6:
"The falling action has been reached."

The man starts scrolling through the texts Cally has received. An interesting look passes across his face, and he sends a text of his own to the mysterious sender. A question, to be exact. In response, he is sent an answer and some simple instructions. Following the instructions, he opens the door and throws the phone into the void.

INT. The Void
In the void, Cally was taking a much-needed breather and a moment to herself.

Adams
(to herself):
At least I'm safe here…

She gasps as in front of her face, her phone lights up and lets out a pleasant ding. Just as she finished reading the message and the shock just began to show on her face, a certain object struck her fatally in the heart, killing her instantly.

FADE TO BLACK
The man, upon pulling Cally and his weapon out of the black void, reached into Cally's pocket and grabbed an interesting object from it. A flower, known as both the belladonna and "nightshade". It had been with her, no, in her ever since she had been in the Backrooms. Having gotten what he wanted, he threw her body back into the void, and thus satisfied, the man started to walk back down toward the start of the section of the tunnel. However, he suddenly stopped and read the new message on it.

Mysterious Text #7:
"We have come to an end, the resolution. We will see you again, Role. Or at least the Actor will. It was fun participating in this one! Until we next meet!"

The man, who was truly known as "The Actor" throughout the Backrooms no-clipped through the ground suddenly, leaving Cally's phone in front of the wooden door.

Narrator.:
Thank you for watching this week's program. We hope you enjoyed it. It is unfortunate that Cally is unable to join us in a Q & A closer. Oh, well, can't be helped. See you again next episode!

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