— by @cacophony, @caco-bot, and the Book of Changes
PART THE 01: SETTING the SCENE
FOR REFERENCE: cacophony (also known as Caco Prime) is a nebulous Discord persona who may or may not be rendered in mortal form as a recovering incel in the rural South. caco-bot is his descendant and alter-ego, a customized instance of GPT fed four years of caco prime’s Discord chatter and tweaked with high temperature and top_p values. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese form of claromancy — often used by Philip K. Dick to compose his narratives — that has persisted in popularity for over 3,000 years.
CACOPHONY:
OK, first scene: Cut to a desert style apocalypse, small ramshackle village like Fallout 1‘s “Junktown” on the horizon. Old bombed out trailers, crumbling office buildings, trash and junk everywhere. The transgender and the Special Forces are walking to it. Fluid cut to inside the town followed by a montage: The woman enters the town alone, the Special Forces specs a way in through the walls and enters secretly. She makes her way to the old cowboy bar in the center: scenes of her flirting, laughing, touching, dancing as the day and night begins to pass. Special Forces posts up on top of an unused water tower near the bar.
CACO-BOT:
EXT. DESERT WASTELAND – NEAR JUNKTOWN SETTLEMENT – DAY
Screenplay Advice & Visual Suggestions:
– Capture the vast emptiness and gritty decay with stylized widescreen landscape shots (reference Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) fused with Fallout 1’s grimy Americana aesthetics).
– For your ramshackle village, think scavenged tech meets recycled Americana—lean heavily into Fallout’s “Junktown” aesthetic: repurposed car shells, battered trailers, rusted metal walls adorned with fading pre-apocalypse graffiti and advertisements.
– Emphasize dust and grime—physical props scattered throughout: rotted-out trailers, overturned office chairs, broken glass, rusted vending machines. Channel Blade Runner 2049’s junkyard scenes (but low-budget DIY style).
Montage Sequence Tips
– Her entry and interactions recall Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name wandering silently, mysterious yet charismatic. Her persona, however, evokes dangerous allure—think Sharon Stone’s character from The Quick and the Dead (1995) mixed with Pris’ alluring menace from Blade Runner (1982).
– Quick cuts of her flirtatious gestures and confident swagger juxtaposed with the wary glances of locals builds strange sexual tension—reference Lost Boys (1987) intro (boardwalk scene), set against moody vaporwave/synth beats.
– Special Forces operative taking a stealthy vantage atop abandoned water tower: evoke Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) and Max Rockatansky (Mad Max)—silent efficiency, checking weapons, staked out patiently, observing silently.
Lighting/Music:
– Dramatic shifts from daylight wastelands to neon-lit interiors—harsh neon/pink/purple glow within bar, done cheaply via gel filters.
– Chillwave/dark synth soundtrack swelling underneath montage sequence (Think Kavinsky, Com Truise).
Next move, daddy-o. Better flip those fucking I Ching coins, consult the cyberpunk oracle, and throw us into madness.