The Lost Islands

This was a script I wrote as an idea for a friend of mine who wanted to develop his own, Far Cry style survival game.  It is an introductory cinematic and should be read as such

>> Black Screen, with video intro

EXT. PLANE. DAY

Camera starts as a fixed point from behind the shoulders of the PILOT and COPILOT.  The PILOT is talking to a camera over the shoulder of the COPILOT.  PILOT voice is grainy as being heard through the headset of the plane. 

Outside the window can be seen a light blue ocean with a seemingly endless amount of green jungled islands with pure white sandy beaches.  Some seem to have towering cliffs while others seem completely flat

PILOT

As you can clearly see out the window, we have completely left the civilized world behind for favor of these beautiful jungle islands.  Most of these pockets of land remain unexplored to this day and some are even rumored to host a tribe that has the potential to be as ancient as any other civilization on Earth.

-PILOT pauses his speech to reach behind and grabs a small stone snake from a bag stashed behind the seat. The sculpture is about a foot long and pretty crude in its make as if the sculptor did not have refined tools

PILOT

Now this small figurine is all we’ve been able to find of this so-called lost tribe.  It seems to be a depiction of a large sea monster that according to this inscription here,

-PILOT points to a small section on the fin where worn symbols are visible

PILOT

This is the (insert name), a massive sea serpent that is seen as a God of this tribe we call the Orokai, or the Lost ones.  Now you might be wondering how we were able to translate this inscription if no one has ever seen this tribe before. Well that is a good question you see…

COPILOT

Lookout!

-The PILOT looks away from the camera and turns his eyes back onto the front of the plane where suddenly a great many trees move into frame

PILOT

Shit! Hold on!

-The PILOT drops the figurine onto the cockpit floor shattering it while he grabs hold of the steering wheel but it is already too late.  The left wing gets clipped on a palm tree, sawing the light metal in half

PILOT

Fuck, I can’t hold her.

-The COPILOT grabs the radio and begins to call mayday

COPILOT

Mayday, Mayday, this is Sierra-Three-Niner-Zero, we’ve lost our left wing and are going down somewhere over the Orokai island chain.  Send help immediately!

-Screen goes black abruptly followed by the sound of a crash and an explosion. 

>>The player now sees things from the eyes of the PILOT, who is shielding his eyes from the bright flames. 

-The plane seems to have drifted further on the beach and not caught fire to any of the palm trees on the island.  Only a few of the trees seem to have been disrupted by the plane at all. 

-The COPILOT holds his hands to his head and watches the plane burn out

COPILOT

Dude! Our footage is still in there.  What are we going to do?

PILOT

I don’t know dude, I don’t know.

-PILOT puts hands to his head, then pushes the COPILOT

Why didn’t you pull the camera out when you climbed out of there?

-The COPILOT looks shocked and angrily at the PILOT

COPILOT

Me? It was your job to keep us in the air, good fucking job, Dude.

-The COPILOT pushes the PILOT and a fight ensues before both of them calm down

COPILOT

Look we both made mistakes but we aren’t going to be able to fix them just by sitting on our asses.

-The COPILOT looks across the shallow water and sees that the next island over has a large mountain tower that would be easy to climb and is no more than a hundred meters away.

COPILOT

I am gonna go climb that tower on the other island and see if I can’t spot any ships.  With any luck someone saw the smoke and is headed over now.  You gather what supplies you can find.

-The PILOT walks back to the plane and begins to gather supplies.  As the player and the PILOT watch the COPILOT swim across the water, a ripple can be seen approaching rapidly with a massive fin cresting over the water.  Before the PILOT even has time to call out, the COPILOT can be heard screaming as the crystal blue water turns red until the fin moves back under and the water returns to its calm state as if nothing happened.  The PILOT stares at the water and falls to his knees

PILOT

Shit man, how.  The FUCK! Did I let myself get talked into this

>> The player now gains full control of the PILOT also known as MICHAEL CONNORS, a celebrity survivalist and frequent travel documentarist.

>> Before the death of the COPILOT, MICHAEL had collected a pocketknife (1), a medkit (3), some paracord (100 ft.) (can be cut into short rope strips) and a giant parachute for hang gliding.

>>QUEST: Get back to civilization without touching the water

>> Player will begin to cut wood and use his prepared schematics to create a glider which he will have to run off the beach, jump and then land on the other island

>> ISLAND2:  A rounded island with in the middle a massive stone tower from where the PLAYER can look where they want to go next

>> The map icon is shown to plot the progress of the PLAYER’

>> The PLAYER will have to carry the glider up to the top of the tower and then fly off from there (easiest way would be to tie one end of the paracord to the glider and the other to the waist of the PLAYER and then carry it up thusly)

>> If the glider develops a tear in the fabric, the player can repair the damage with a limited roll of duct tape.

>> When at the top of the tower and looking down (cutscene?) the PLAYER will see, under the crystal clear water a massive sea snake over a hundred feet in length and well over the width of a school bus

PILOT

Holy cow, how am I gonna get out of here?