Scene 1 · LA Freeway OverpassDawn. The white Chevy Express van rolls out of Houston onto an open highway, the rising sun catching the windshield. Inside, six people who used to be a band sit in unsettling calm…Scene 2 · AMpm Gas Station ForecourtAn AMpm gas station on the edge of nowhere. The van pulls up to the pump island. Chuck gets out to fill the tank. A bored attendant watches from inside the store. A customer at the…Scene 3 · AMpm Convenience Store InteriorThe massacre. Natural Born Killers, gleeful and unbothered. The band moves through the gas station like it's a game they're all enjoying. No nether forms — they don't need them any…Scene 4 · AMpm Gas Station & Convenience StoreAfter. The gas station is silent. Bodies everywhere. The band gasses up the van like nothing happened, grabbing snacks on the way out, stepping over the dead with the casual indiff…Scene 5 · Dive Bar ExteriorEvening. A nowhere town. A gritty dive bar with a red neon BAR sign, peeling show posters, and a row of motorcycles out front. The van pulls into the lot. Gary's already booked the…Scene 6 · Dive Bar InteriorInside. The bar is packed and buzzing. Marlowe the bartender — leather-skinned, silver mohawk, glass eye — holds court behind the bar, pouring whiskey like a last rite, thrilled to…Scene 7 · Dive Bar InteriorThe set begins. Dead Muse takes the stage and the crowd ROARS. They launch into their music — the gutter-punk séance sound, but harder, darker, FORGED. The crowd eats it up. They m…Scene 8 · Nether City StreetTHE PORTAL OPENS OUTWARD. Instead of pulling Dead Muse INTO hell, the portal rips open OVER THE CROWD and hell pours OUT. A vertical violet wound splits the air above the dance flo…Scene 9 · Dive Bar InteriorThe bloodbath. The bar is a charnel house. Demons tear through the crowd while Dead Muse plays the most savage set of their lives. Marlowe — the bartender who sensed something was…Scene 10 · Dive Bar InteriorThe encore. The massacre is complete. The bar is a still, red ruin — corpses everywhere, demons feeding in the shadows, the portal still glowing above the stage. And Dead Muse fini…Scene 11 · band_van_exteriorLater that night. The van idles in the empty lot outside the silent, red-lit bar. The band loads their gear with the easy efficiency of pros after any other gig — except the bar be…
