Scene 1 · band_van_exteriorThe van idles in front of the plantation. Engine ticking. Headlights illuminating a wrap-around porch sagging under its own history. Every window glows warm but nothing moves insid…Scene 2 · band_motelroom_interior_windowThe band enters through the front door into a grand foyer. Dust sheets over furniture. A wide staircase. Portraits on the walls with the eyes scratched out — every single one. A ch…Scene 3 · band_motelroom_interior_windowThe band splits to search. Immediately bad idea. Jezz wanders into a children's nursery on the second floor. Rocking chair moving by itself. Toys arranged in a circle on the floor.…Scene 4 · band_parking_structureShadow finds the root cellar. Stairs going down into darkness. Shelves of mason jars filled with murky liquid. Things floating inside them. Things with eyes. Things whose eyes foll…Scene 5 · band_motelroom_interior_windowEveryone reconvenes in the ballroom. Jukes has swept the dust off the floor to reveal an enormous binding circle carved into the hardwood — intricate, layered, centuries old. Recen…Scene 6 · band_motelroom_interior_windowRick makes the call. No way out. No client. No plan. But they've got instruments in the van and the van's right outside. The only play is the one they know: get on the circle, get…Scene 7 · band_motelroom_interior_windowMontage energy. Shadow distributes doses. Jukes chalks counter-sigils around the circle's perimeter in precise geometric patterns. Chuck tunes his guitar with shaking hands. Jezz a…Scene 8 · band_motelroom_interior_windowThey play. An empty ballroom. No crowd. No lights except the chandelier and the glow of the sigils. The music is raw, furious, primal — echoing through the plantation's acoustic ar…
