The Floral Underworld Outline

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1	THE FLORAL UNDERWORLD OUTLINE
2	SCENE	DESCRIPTION	TIME / DATE	PLACE	CHAPTER	WORD COUNT	CUMULATIVE WORD COUNT	AVERAGE SCENE LENGTH:	1,118
3	2. STASIS	The character or their world is in a state of stagnation.	Autumn 1875	London		5,678	5,678	TOTAL NUMBER OF SCENES:	25
4	1	Prunella is trying to cut Mr. Larkin's advances short. She needs a reference, but the lecturer she was hoping to approach is replaced by Mr. Little.	Day 1 - evening	London Pteridological Society - Auditorium	The First and Last Emotions of Love	1,500	1,500
5	2	Desperate, Prunella decides to ask Mr. Little instead, but overhears him talking to Mr. Larkin. Little disappears, Prunella snubs Larkin and steals a matchbox from his pocket.	Day 1 - evening	London Pteridological Society - Backstage	The First and Last Emotions of Love	1,734	3,234
6	3	Prunella goes home, opens the matchbox and finds an exquisite clockwork flower inside.	Day 1 - evening	Prunella's room - Whitechapel	A Wormgear i' the Bud	1,641	4,875
7	4	Prunella goes to work & talks to her colleagues.	Day 2 - morning	Munroe & Boyle - Oxford Street	Danger Blooms	803	5,678
8	4. TRIGGER	Something happens, or the character does something to set the story in motion.				2,271	7,949
9	1	Mr. Larkin visits her at work and asks for the clockwork flower.	Day 2 - late morning	Munroe & Boyle - Oxford Street	Danger Blooms	1,082	6,760
10	2	The shop is infested with flies. The poppy blooms. Prunella leaves work early to go to the LPS to give Larkin back the flower.	Day 2 - afternoon	Munroe & Boyle - Oxford Street	Danger Blooms	1,189	7,949
11	5. QUEST	The character or one of their allies has a plan. For better or worse, they decide to follow it.				17,711	25,660
12	1	Prunella arrives at LPS. It's Mr.Little again. Everyone falls asleep but her. She's taken prisoner by a band of smugglers (including Larkin). She escapes and hides in a crate.	Day 2 - evening	London Pteridological Society - Auditorium & Underground Caves	The Somnifugous Smugglers	3,773	10,281
13	2	The smugglers take the crates somewhere.	Day 2 - night	Underground tunnels	The Somnifugous Smugglers	677	13,325
14	3	Larkin rescues her from the crate. Draws smugglers away while she waits in the tunnels.	Day 2 - night	Nursery - Cheapside & Underground tunnels	Escape Roots	2,325	14,053
15	4	Prunella finds her way into a secret laboratory and then up to street level.	Day 2 - evening	Laboratory, Underground, Queen Street	The Infernal Engine	2,332	14,824
16	5	Prunella goes back home but the smugglers are waiting for her. Larkin helps her escape.	Day 2 - night	Pru's lodgings - Whitechapel	Home Sweet Home	3,044	15,829
17	6	Larkin takes her to a brothel to stay the night.	Day 2 - night	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The Sisters of Floral Street	728	16,600
18	7	Prunella is woken by a client who mistakes her for a prostitute. She understands where she is.	Day 3 - early morning	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The Sisters of Floral Street	771	17,605
19	8	Prunella talks to Pansy & Mr. Figgsley.	Day 3 - morning	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The Sisters of Floral Street	1,005	18,610
20	9	Prunella goes to her workplace & gets fired.	Day 3 - afternoon	Munroe & Boyle - Oxford Street	The Sisters of Floral Street	853	19,463
21	10	They hatch a plan to rescue the plants Pru threw into the river.	Day 3 - afternoon	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The Best View in London	2,203	21,666
22	3. SHIFT	The character undergoes the essential change that begins to transform them into their end state.				3,160	28,820
23	1	Pru and Pansy talk. Pru realises she wants more than to be a shop girl. She has an idea to save the plants.	Day 3 - evening	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The Best View in London	1,276	22,942
24	2	Pru and Larkin search for the sub. The Captain's boy helps them.	Day 3 - night	Upriver from LPS	The Opium Dream	1,118	24,060
25	3	Prunella sneaks into opium den to steal Captain's key to the sub.	Day 3 - night	Opium Den	The Opium Dream	766	24,826
26	7. BOLT	The plan falls victim to a surprise attack, a set-back, or a diversion.				2,030	30,850
27	1	They steal the sub, get the plants back but then are caught by the smugglers.	Day 4 - early morning	The Thames	The Iron Victoria	2,030	26,856
28	8. DEFEAT	The jaws of defeat. All hope is lost. Allies fall and the quest now seems impossible.				859	31,709
29	1	Pru confronts the Lord, but he condemns them to the pit.	Day 4 - late afternoon	Underground Laboratories	The Pit	859	27,715
30	6. POWER	The character finds the power within themselves to change and complete the quest.				2,197	33,906
31	1	She manages to save herself and Larkin. They go back to get the plants.	Day 4 - late afternoon	Nursery - Cheapside	The Pit	2,197	29,912
32	1. RESOLUTION	The character has reached their new state, which is the opposite of their Stasis state.				2,362	36,268
33	1	Pru takes Mr. Larkin back to Floral Street.	Day 4 - late afternoon	Figgsley's - Floral Street	The End of Mr. Larkin	629	30,541
34	2	Larkin asks Pru to deliver a message to a house on Dendron Road.	Day 4 - late afternoon	Dendron Road No. 9	The End of Mr. Larkin	693	31,234
35	3	Mr. Larkin returns to Dendron Road.	Day 4 - night	Dendron Road No. 9	The End of Mr. Larkin	1,040	32,274
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