Indy

Venice is Sinking spent two days in ‘Indy’, and for the sake of time, we’ll combine them into one entry. The first, and most pressing, event to report is our screenplay. We feel that the tyranny of New York City’s stranglehold on movie set location has to come to an end, and our film, “Monumental” (working title, patent pending) will take care of that. This portion of the entry will be provided by Steve Miller:

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Downtown Indianapolis has got to have more monuments than any city I’ve ever been to, except of course for D.C. And they’re all insane. Let’s list them, shall we?
-The WWI memorial: large, squarish, imposing. Seems to be modeled after a large tomb.
-The Obilisk: imagine the Washington monument made of black marble with a copper top.
-The other WWI memorial: a black marble tomb on a floor of black marble with a column in each corner. Each column is topped by a golden eagle in the Egyptian style.
-The center tower: large statue on a massive stone base flanked with huge fountains. Located in a big traffic circle in the center of downtown.

Looking back at the city from the top of the tower you can see all the other monuments lined up on a big grassy mall, just like in D.C. On one side of the mall is the National Headquarters of the American Legion. On the other side of the mall is the Scottish Rite Cathedral, a huge gothic style cathedral. It has no religious symbols or iconography any where on it. Strange. At the end of the mall is the marble tomb with the eagle columns.
On the other side of the tomb is the Indianapolis Public Library.
And now, the Plot:

The Earth has a second, invisible moon. The scottish rite free masons have been keeping this a secret from the public for years. They have a plan for world domination (of course)
involving this hidden moon. Oh yeah, they’re also vampires that can only be killed by copper, not silver. That’s just a myth.
They are opposed by the American Legion, whose true purpose is keeping America safe from the masons. They have waged a secret war for years, and now the American Legion has the masons in a bind. They’ve got the STAFF.
What staff, you ask?
Well, this is the mason’s plan:
get the staff
wait until the secret moon lines aligns with the other moon
place the staff in the slot on the tomb monument at the end of the mall
stand the hell back, because it gets intense. The light from the moons hits the staff and shoots a beam at the top of the obilisk. The obilisk is really a power conduit, and it shoots a beam back to the tomb where it hits the four eagles and forms a power grid. Then the power grid shoots a beam to the WWI memorial, which houses the remains of every Indiana soldier killed in combat. The dead soldiers come to life and take over the world, and everything sucks.

But the American Legion has the staff. It’s being guarded by Abraham Lincoln, who lives in the basement of the Public Library. Or more specifically, in the underground river that has a mouth in the basement of the Public Library. Because he has gills. All presidents from Lincoln onward have been dipped in the fountain of youth, which Ponce deLeon found and the government pumped under the white house. They all fight for the American Legion. And they all have gills. The fountain of youth gives you immortality, but you have to live in the water and breathe through gills. Luckily, Indainapolis has a complicated system of underground canals.
And Lincoln has the staff. He also swims up into fountains and steals all the copper pennies, which he melts down into copper weapons for fighting the mason vampires.

So, some kids roll into town, sneak into the Library, meet Lincoln, accidentally allow the staff to be stolen by the masons, fight vampires in a race against time, and save the day just as the dead soldiers start coming back to life amongst the glowing power beams and glowing monuments, all the while learning fun facts about Indiana history.

For real.

We leave it open for sequal based on the Immortal Presidents fighting crime in the ocean.

Also, everyone got silly drunk and took off their shirts last night.
There are pictures.

Steve.