Here's the skinny:
I've decided to write a book...
Trilogy. It's called "Adventures in Low Rudge" (working title), book 1 is so far untitled, book two is 'Sons of Low Rudge' and Book 3 is 'The Giant of Man'. I also had kind of a crazy idea for a fourth sequel, but we'll get to that.
The Book centers around Three sets of Characters, Cris Laimon and Daniel Chimera Jesfort are the first. They were both born in Low Rudge and currently work for the city (Cris to pay off his comatose father's Hospitable bills and Daniel because it's an easy lifestyle). They serve as the protagonists in the first book. The second group is composed of Demigods in human form, Hank Trucker (who is the same Hank Trucker I've previously wrote about) god of The Interstate and road-based Asphalt and Cement, Radigan Tallspider, a 'trainee' god who's still very new to it. He can bend Radio towers to his will, but only if they're in sight and for a very limited area around their placement. He is being showed how to work on Earth by Hank... and Jackie Chan, a senior Demigod of grease and oil. He looks like a bald older Asian man and is initially mistaken to be an 'Out of Makeup' Jackie Chan (actor). Set 3 is Richard Kookwire and Marshall Haynut. They're both in their mid 20's and moved to Low Rudge from different cities. They operate a scrapping, welding, and amateur engineering business in the woods of Low Rudge. They are a secondary plot in the first book.
Cris Laimon is permanently tied to Low Rudge, his father having been severely injured in a Landscaping accident when Cris was 15, and being in such delicate condition that the equipment required to keep him alive (On floor 3, top) at Low Rudge General Hospital put his mother into severe debt . He was forced to work for the city from then on, assisting his mother in paying for the Hospital bills and rent often in order to avoid homelessness. The first book starts with a flashback to Cris having a cutesy, fun childhood, finding friendly dogs (Ban, Do, Leer and Iceman) all the time, to a laketrip where he witnesses his father injuring himself and put into the coma, to Cris waking up at 19 years old, lying on his bathroom floor amid a puddle of toilet water and the smashed remains of his toilet. Cris was very stupid until his father's death, and couldn't even pronounce the letter 'G' until the emotional trauma shook it out of him. His happy-go-lucky attitude has been drained and he's extremely cynical of Low Rudge. He lives on his own in a City-owned home that has a Trailer integrated into it, his mother having moved to the Big City (POSSIBLY Big Rudge?) when Cris was offered the townhome. Cris drives an
18 wheeler Tow-Truck , modified to carry a modular truck bed/container/utility storage locker, and painted a faded, organic golden color. It belonged to his father when he tried to start a towing business (which failed) but he managed to keep the truck, which Cris' had refitted and repainted, dubbing it 'The Wax' for its color.
Daniel Chimera Jesfort is Cris' best friend, having met soon before Cris' dad died. The two of them are well-known among the community, as Cris works for the city's privately-owned Landscaping and repair service and Daniel works for the Parks and Recreation department maintaining Playground equipment at Low Rudge's three elementary schools and two high-schools. Daniel could leave Low Rudge at any time, but prefers to live cheaply and save his money, planning on buying and reopening the Cinema in Low Rudge and adding smell-o-vision and other tricks to modern movies. Daniel lives on the edge of town on a large plot of land. Nobody is quite sure where his house is as usually he goes to other people, and most of the land is covered by trees. Daniel is introduced to Cris in High School and revisited when they start their last year of High School, he joins the story shortly after Cris wakes up, having gone over to Cris' house and fallen asleep sometime early in the morning, well after whatever happened to Cris transpired. Daniel is a crack shot and owns a rifle with "Justin Wins!" engraved on it.
I'll leave the others for now, because those guys are just the main cast.
Low Rudge (try 1)
