This is the original outline for Eidolon. As you can see it's not that great and that's why we didn't film this version. That and I couldn't even write the first script! I only made it four pages in. Each episode was called a “step”, so the first episode was “Step 1”.
How to Save the World
Step 1 – Get It Together, People!
An
introduction to all of the characters and setting up the main plot.
Zelda
gets cursed thanks to Mordecai, Maria has a magical encounter with a lens flare
in a lake, and Atropos and Baste appear to inform them all (plus Skyler) that
the world is going to end, so they have to save it. They get a magic
compass and hunt down the first of the seven demon lords - James Ford.
Obviously Zelda and Mordecai hate each other, Maria and Mordecai get
“reacquainted”, and we all meet Skyler, who has no idea why he’s there.
Step
2 – Learn How to Get Along
They
hunt down the second demon lord, Namtaru, the God of Nightmares, who in turn is
hunting down Zelda and trying to get to her through her dreams. Zelda
joins his side after he promises to remove her curse. When Namtaru
tries to kill Maria, Zelda betrays him because Maria is the only one who has
ever been nice to her. Namtaru is
about to tell Zelda the truth about Maria, but before he can Maria destroys
him. Somehow that wakes up the original Maria inside of new Maria (see Dream
Chasers, i.e. Confusomatic.)
Step
3 – Don’t Ignore the Details
Maria
discovers she is pregnant (what?!?). Mordecai gets all overprotective, which
weirds out everyone, and Skyler gets ignored. They meet Athena (from Dream
Chasers) and think that she is the third demon lord, but the real demon is
someone we’ve never met who specializes in seduction and seduces Skyler. He joins her side and nearly kills both
Zelda and Mordecai (who often made fun of him) but at the last minute Maria
convinces him not to kill them and the others apologize.
Step
4 – Know That Your Parents Aren’t Always Right
They
hunt down the fourth demon lord and find out it's actually Mordecai's father. Mordecai can't fight him because he's
afraid of him, but in the end he does manage to destroy his father in order to
protect the others.
Step
5 – Find Out the Truth, Even If It Hurts
Mordecai
is a mess after killing his father and the gang takes a well deserved
break. However, the fifth demon
lord comes after them. He’s an insane,
paranoid, serial killer who doesn’t have a body, preferring to stay in ghost
form, and he possesses Mordecai. Skyler is the first to figure out that
Mordecai hasn’t just gone insane from grief and guilt, but is possessed by the
fifth demon. Things get messy at
this point. Multiple people are
possessed, multiple people are severely injured, Skyler almost dies, Zelda
remembers her past life as Zoey which turns her against Maria, and the heroes
split up.
Step
6 – Dream a Little Dream, Then Wake Up
Morpheus
and Athena try to get the group back together by overlapping their dreams and
forcing them to talk things out.
This is when the sixth demon lord – Labarta – seizes her chance for
revenge against Mordecai and turns their dreams into a nightmare. She manages to stab Mordecai and he
dies before they all wake up. It ends with his funeral.
Step
7 – Make Sure Check Your Sources
Mordecai
wakes up in the Dream World staring into the Pit of Lost Souls (which appears
in the Curse). Atropos and Baste
appear beside him and spend half the episode convincing him that everything is
Maria’s fault, that she’s actually pregnant with the anti-christ (wtf?!?), and
if he kills Maria they will resurrect him from the dead. Meanwhile, the others
find out that Atropos is actually being possessed by Ahriman, one of the most
powerful demons in the world, Baste is actually being possessed by Athena’s
soul (again, see Dream Chasers), and Bastes soul is actually inside Athena –
which is why Athena has been helping them. They also discover that the whole “end of the world” thing
was
a
lie – a set up to get them to kill off Ahriman’s competition, and everything
they’ve done to try and save the world has actually brought disaster to it.
Oops.
Step
8 – If You’ve Made a Mistake, Now’s the Time to Fix It
This last episode starts with a major clusterfuck that is figured out
by the end. It would take too long
to explain so I won’t, and it would be more confusing, not less. It ends with some of the Spirit
Sorcerers dying and being replaced with the heroes. Mordecai becomes the God of Dreams, Zelda becomes the
Goddess of Nightmares, and (bizarrely) Skyler puts in a bid to become the God
of Evil (again wtf?!?). Maria
gives birth to a healthy baby girl (who has the soul of the original Maria from
Dream Chasers) and Maria and Mordecai get married. Happy and confusing endings to all.
