Plotting episode 3 Tuesday, 24 March 2009

We’ve posted an outline of the plot for episode 3. This is the story behind the story: the tale of how the plot developed and who was involved…

Aileen was invited to Copper Beeches Café at the end of episode 2, which was posted just over two weeks ago (watch the story so far before reading any further!).

Lots of comments (especially from mIsS rEaDaLoT, Qwuno, LaLaLaLara, Robota and Miss amazing!) and a vote decided that Aileen would go to the café. Angus, Nadia and Tom all felt that she would meet Lyn there (although there were a few dissenting suggestions, mainly involving father figures, from Ellen and LaLaLaLara/Miss amazing!). We also decided that Lyn is a goodie not a baddie.

We decided that the café wouldn’t be linked to Sally Challenger, although this suggestion from Snaknap was very nearly popular enough to be included.

There were quite a few suggestions about what Lyn could tell Aileen. Firstly, KBE stands for Keep Books Extinct, suggested by Bibliomane. The KBE is only after the Challenger journal at the moment – they are hired to assassinate particular books. Nadia and Tom suggested that Lyn might tell Aileen what books they have removed in the past.

So, we’ve created a dossier that holds all Invisible Inc.’s information about KBE. It will include some books that KBE has removed over the centuries – we’ll be talking to an expert on lost books to get some titles to include.

It was decided Kyle would get suspended after episode 1, but Aileen didn’t find out about this in episode 2. This means poor Kyle has had to admit to it this time around.

There were some great ideas about what would happen at Copper Beeches Café (particularly from Headlong, Bibliomane and Snaknap) and after much discussion and a close vote Tom’s suggestion that Watson would sniff out the bad guy who’d destroyed Doc Rebus’s book won. Robota had also had the idea of there being a scary man at the café.

Watson had a good sniff at the book in Doc Rebus’s and it’s great to see his tracking skills being put to good use here – although, he’s a little slow and misses catching the bad guy. It was decided that Aileen would follow the baddie (it was close, with 46% voting for a chase but 44% thinking she might find a clue instead). This is brilliant because we can include the line “follow that cab” which Aileen has always wanted to say!

The bad guy is, as yet, unnamed – we should have a shortlist for you to vote on later today (thanks to Headlong, Impish, Tracy, Carolina, marco167, mojosmom, Nu-Knees, anaonthenet, time-traveler, katiesmama, keitje, Guinevere, AliMcJ, Snaknap, Katie, Ellen, HINERANGI and Dee Fanego for suggestions).

We decided that Lyn would go with Aileen. Their next destination is Christchurch, New Zealand, suggested by Erik the Read so the episode ends with the two of them, plus Watson, heading towards the airport in hot pursuit.

Thanks also to: everyone who’s voted in our polls, The critics of a lifetime!!!, Whos out there, Matthew, Blue, Chekhov, Erica the Red, terriertim, Troy and ResQGeek.

And, last but not least, the writers of The Lost Book: Matthias, Bookaddictus, Norvaljoe, Rocketboy, Mary, QueenofSheeba and BananaGirl. If you’d like to help write the Lost Book, Sally Challenger’s expedition journal, read the story so far and then tell us what happens next!