DAL - Story Tiedown Notes - 012226

POLTERGUYS STORY BEATS

• Two characters who are killed and become spirit detectives for the afterlife.
• Both characters have normal lives that seem normal or mundane.
• Characters both looking for jobs and see an odd job listing on a telephone pole ad and newspaper ad.
• Both characters are hit by a train at the same time and forced to become spirit detectives
• One wants to run away from their problems and stay a detective and the other wants to return home.
• The goal is to return to their original bodies as they wait for theirs to be recreated by the agency.
• Their soul powers use their own lifeforce which give them the ability to possess peoples bodies dead or alive. (Dead body does not recover if it is mangled.)
• Soul energy can be infused with gadgets and weapons created by the agency's tech department.
• They’re both stupid and share the same braincel.
• Surprisingly somewhat good at solving crimes and defeating bosses, but usually not through competency.
• Agency is secretly the bad guy for the main characters as a misdirect from the “big bad” demon/ghost/monster.

New Notes From 01226 Meeting:

• One could change their mind later from wanting to go to not. (or Both)
• One is a scammer/con artist who is selfish and remembers they did this for a good reason and wants to go back later.

Why Does the Agency Exist?

• To solve ghost related cases that humans cannot solve.

What are the two characters' main goals?

• Got get their real bodies back

How do they achieve their goals?

• In some way of collecting the ghosts/demons souls either eating or absorbing them.

What is the true motive of the agency chief?

• Currently Unknown

What does reconstructing their bodies do?

• Currently unknown might not even be a plot point.

How does doing these jobs reward them?

• It rewards them by earning them their real lives back.

What is the concept of these powers?

• Spiritual Power that comes from anyone's soul. 
• They can only use it on the base level to possess dead or alive people.
• They can also channel it into gadgets provided by the Agency at the moment.
• Everything is themed about possession.

What are the ghost rules:

• Ghosts can possess dead bodies, but they don't repair.
• Ghost cant possess ghosts
• Ghosts can possess living bodies, animals or humans.
• If the individual they are trying to possess has higher spiritual power than the invader they will struggle to take control.

What is the Tone?

• Tone Percentage: Comedy 40% / Action 40% / Drama 20% ???
  Comedy:
• Lots of verbal and physical humor.
  Action:
• woven into each episode level depends on the event taking place. Does not equate to hand to hand combat style fighting.
• Could be chase sequences, fighting, weaponry, tussling around, random actionable movements.
  Drama:
• is woven in the overarching plot and random episodes we feel appropriate based on the type of detective case we are dealing with.
• However, in this case the Main Characters will still be humorous in these tones, but more suited for a serious situation, not in an insensitive way or making light of something that could be tragic for a viewer.
• (Unless our tone is to shift our Main Characters into being total douchebags? I don't think we are.)