Number: 29

Title: Legends of Durankov

Type: Original fiction

Action Thriller


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Synopsis:
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"Every story has a beginning; that's where you find out who fucked up."
- James Rahn.

At a fundamental level, Legends of Durankov is about human foolishness,
at all levels. About there being no point to picking sides. It's a
classical tragedy about this foolishness.

A nuclear strike wipes out Durankoville. Hijacked planes knock down
buildings. James Rahn, the lone Durankoville survivor (oddly enough on
vacation New York at the time), goes into hiding. Without ally or
friend, he finally puts into motion his original plan--destroy the
Conspiracy by kill of it's members and physically destroying it's
capacity to make war and brain-wash the population.

Free the people.

For five years, he plots and plans in total secrecy. Fifty of the
world's best assassins are hired by him, trained by him, and become the
weapon that will change the world.

James takes to not even sleeping without being fully armed. He's quiet,
observant, and harshly judgemental. Always on edge, he perpetually
handles a deck of odd playing cards. Each one has the face, name, and
statistics of one of the assassins in little cabal. Fifty for the
"hired" guns, one for himself, and one...


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Scenes:
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"What's on those cards?"

"Us."

"Us?"

"Yep. There you are," James held up on card with a picture and vital
information printed on it. "the two of diamonds. There's a whole deck
here. Fifty for the men and women I've recruited, one for myself, and
one more."

"One more what?"

"Card."

"Of who?"

"Oh, don't worry about it."

"Not the mad scientist?"

"No, not the mad scientist."

"But then who?"

James just smiled sadly.

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