Cycle of the Shen outline

  • The Shen Ring which established Cleopatra's power was an alien artifact used to defend earth from an ancient Dentarg attack.

  • Upon word of a new attack, an emisary brings the Shen Ring back to earth, and hands it to Tilsdale (TJ) as a nerdy kid with his nerdy buddy, Noah.

  • we see TJ as an adult, and see hints of the ring's power.

  • the ring compels women to do anything to try and get it off his hand.. with comical predictability for TJ

  • Ring gets more aggressive, speaking through a girl and warning about the Dentarg. They are coming.

  • Dentarg alien race arrives, declares peace, share a fantastical story about how they are there to save earth from a powerful ruler who we knew once as Cleopatra

Intro - Act 1

    • Adult nerdy TJ is at a bar with his lifelong friend Noah. TJ is goading him on, but Noah is shy as usual.

    • Noah makes a reference to how he doesn't have the girl-magnet ring. TJ sluffs off his comment and says it's not the ring, it's all style. Noah says he should give him the ring to try it then. TJ "would if he could, you know this thing is on so tight I can't get it off anymore"

    • TJ stops two hot women walking by them with a cheezy line...

  • The woman starts to laugh and sluff him off before commenting about his odd-looking gold ring. she tells her friend about it, who is equally interested, making it seems like they are after money...

    • TJ throws out an intellectual joke about the ring, flirts back, and introduces himself, getting their names and shaking their hands.

  • A moment later these super-hot women have changed their tune and are interested and opening-up.. explaining how they were being hounded by some jerky meat-heads anyhow.

  • TJ offers to buy them a drink.. then suggests her friend get to know Noah. That's he's a bit nerdy, but he's an incredible kisser.

    • Noah is about to slug TJ for the dig, when the girl starts flirting with and quizzing him about his kissing skills.

    • (noah and TJ have some non-verbal communication about their constant ring-vs-mojo debate, and noah recollects..)

    • childhood flashback - first contact

      • alien ship crash-lands behind a rural farm

      • young boy and his friend find it, find an alien inside as she's dying.

      • she hands them a ring, and uses her last breaths to explain it's purpose as a computer translator attempts to convert her words into English

      • the translation makes her meaning hard to understand... 'object of unimaginable power', 'need to find it an operator (with some cryptic obscured reference to gender)', 'the dentarg are coming', 'get out now'

    • they leave the ship and shortly after it disintegrates into ash in the ground

    • hook up at their apartment

      • TJ's bar-hookup is back at his apartment

      • we hear some saucy dialog "wow, it feels nice. kinda tingly when I rub it".. turns out she's talking about the ring

      • he's slurring his words as he tells her she can touch it as much as she wants if she gets naked... they make out

      • she admits to being kinda drunk as she undresses. comments about how his hands tingle (really the ring).

      • she's flirty and flaunts her perfect perky tits, while also teasing that guys always seem to want them bigger

      • in his drunken state he has to squint just to get the room to stop spinning, and when he finally gets a good look, her teasing seems like sarcasm as she rubs his hands against an ample rack (really she's trying to get the ring off his hand)

      • next morning -- girls both are hyper focused on the ring, double-team TJ, eventually he boots them out and apologizes to Noah

    • .. other ring comedy ensues

    • ring speaks

      • ring takes full possession of a woman, introduces herself

      • "we met long ago, when my spacecraft crashed", "i trust you've enjoyed my gift to you", "now it's time to give it back"

      • "heh. you think you can keep it from me? from what i've seen, the men of your species are easily influenced."

      • sexual flirtation gets her close and intimate. she's advancing on him aggressively.

      • she asks him if he'd like any improvements to the host. "certainly you've noticed the ring contains the power to make certain adjustments"... which he's sort of noticed, but sort of denied

      • she laughs at his having missed out. "maybe i should just take the liberty. may I touch it? no the ring silly"

      • she chastises him for how predictably men think sex. She starts stroking him, teasing him. then abruptly stops, asks to touch the ring, if she can just touch it she'll continue. so he does, and she does.

      • she makes some "adjustments", talking him through them. her last set of adjustments are to make her rack bigger, but he quickly starts to realize she's getting taller too. he yanks the ring away, but not fast enough to stop her from becoming nearly a foot taller than him.

      • she uses her size both to intimidate, and tease him. talks him through how she's making it 'worth his while', and how if he hands over the ring, she can keep this body and continue to make it worth his while.

      • she continues, bringing him to climax and then

    • having failed, she explains the threat of the dentarg. TJ isn't buying it. She gives up in exasperation. 'think about it. i will leave you this one to play with. for now.'

      • the girl comes-to, surprised at how she got there, got unclothed, and then finally goes into shock about her body's improvements. asks how it happened. after that exchange, she asks if he wants to play with her.

      • when TJ declines, she turns to Noah. He's shocked and can't refuse TJ smiles and nods. we see the beginning of their engagement.

    • dentarg arrive

      • we get to see the story from the dentarg's position

      • how they are here to save earth from a terrible threat

    • discuss peril - indulge in the ring

    • at a bar, noah and TJ discuss the threat, passing it off as wacky but pretty unbelievable. their girl-pet is with them.

      • after some discussion, a special bulletin comes on, with a message about an arriving alien spacecraft

      • noah throws out his overly simplistic view (ill take the ring and the women any time)

      • TJ is skeptical that giving up the ring will get him anything.

      • Discussion turns to their 'new information', "besides, why would we give this up?"

      • TJ recklessly uses the ring's power to draw a new girl, since the pet is playing with Noah. he struggles to make tiny improvements to her.

      • TJ uses his normal routine, and the girl plays along to a point. then the ring possesses the pet again, she makes an off comment to TJ's new girl, and she puts him in his place, laughs, and moves on.

      • "your use of the ring is at my gratitude. have you thought about my offer? if you give me the ring now, you may both have as many pets as you like." She reaches over and touches the ring, and suddenly every female in the bar stops and turns to look at him. "see? which would you like? Choose." even just his glances are enough. "As you wish." The women in the bar return to what they were doing, except one, who walks right up to them.. leaving her table of friends staring at her odd behavior."

      • Then in an instant the pet is back to her normal self doting on Noah, while she's inhabited the favored girl. "I see this is the one you like best." She reaches out, touching the ring, and quickly making shocking improvements to her figure. "I'll forgo adjusting her stature too much, her friend's would not understand. I am going to give you one more day to think it over, and then I'm going to recind my offer. Enjoy your evening."

      • Then we get to see the new pet snap into her altered personality and interest in TJ. They all decide to head out of there.

    • dentarg update

      • a human dentarg emisary explains they had shot the ship out of hyperdrive, though it may have arrived years, even decades before their own ship.

      • the fact that the planet is not currently under rule is a good sign

      • the humans are surprised at the suggestion that this alien would so easily control humans

      • he starts to reel out the details of the story, eventually connecting it to cleopatra. how that reign would be going today if they had not stopped it.

    • back at the apartment

      • the pets act as third person minions of the ring-owner. teasing and pleasing as they work their propaganda on Noah and TJ.

      • after they are both sated. TJ's pet suggests she's envious of the other pet's stature. So gorgeous, like a personal goddess. 'may I try it?' TJ's dubious he can even create the changes without the ring-owner's presence, but he lets her touch the ring, and to his surprise it works better and faster than he expected.

      • she uses her new stature to arouse and pamper him, and then presses the issue again. don't you think you should take her offer? While she's caressing the ring, TJ finally lets his guard down, admits he should, and doesn't resist as she pulls the ring from his finger.

      • She places it on her own finger and responds in the voice of the ring-owner. "A wise choice. Had you made me wait much longer I might have decided to remove your prized member and make you my own pet. I still might."

      • "Now, make yourself useful, and show me a look befitting your new queen ruler. It should be equal parts sexy and intimidating." In just seconds, her appearance dramatically changed... her outfit was electric blue, with a floor length skirt cut on bot sides, a halter top, and a jeweled metalic arm-band, and belt. the halter covered most of her top, leaving defined cleavage in the center. Her chest shrank slightly as muscle definition appeared beneath thin ropes of fabric winding around her torso. As the look settled, so did her new eight foot height. She looked like a sexy playboy model who could lay you on your ass in a heartbeat.

    • "As I told you, the men of your species are so amusingly predictable."

Act 2:

    • first Shen / Dentarg confrontation

      • "ohh noes!"

      • in the blink of an eye, cleopatra arrives outside the Dentarg ship.

      • Some brief dialog with the Dentarg. How they have failed. How they were lucky to rest this world from her once, but not again.

      • The dentarg taunt that she is powerless against his ship, and his fleet coming shortly behind.

      • "I am, but he is not. Captain. Fire on the Dentarg ship."

      • "Miss, I don't know who, or what, you are, but I don't take orders from you. I take orders from the president of th..."

      • She stepped close to the captain, imposing her two foot height advantage over him. She struck a sexy pose with her hands on her hips, and noticed him stare nearly straight across into her patch of exposed cleavage.

      • Before her hand had reached his chin, the Captain's right-hand had loosed his handgun and was pointing it at her. She merely waved towards it, and it lept out of his hand into hers before the metal was bent and smashed between her deceptively dainty looking fingers.

      • (she gives a monologue to the captain about how men in her army will be rewarded. how their wives and sexual servants will be nearly as beautiful as she is. his wife appears, disoriented, and hugs him. he's trying to keep up appearances, but she transforms his wife while she asks if he will be a servant in her army. in moments she looks more beautiful than even in her youth, though moments later she begins to age. the queen explains that those who are not with her are against her. That perhaps he wishes to watch her die right here.)

      • "no no! stop!" he finally cries out, as he has to hold her frail body from crumpling. The queen nods, and he ducks his head in shame as he gives the order to fire on the dentarg ship.

      • Missiles sail over there heads, exploding into the side of the ship. Others reflexively shield themselves from the blast, but the Queen stands unfazed. When the noise and dust settles, she wrinkles her finger for the captain's wife to stand from the ground, now looking even more ravishing than she had moments ago. "A wise choice, my captain."

      • "You see Dentarg. Your ships, and your fleet will meet great resistance if you attempt to land on my planet. Now, begone."

    • enslaved, treated, toyed-with

    • The Shen raises pyramids of earth right out of the ground

    • TJ witnesses the Shen's terrible power

    • maybe she takes him as her "king" ?

Act 3:

    • how does TJ resolve the takeover of earth?

      • 1. he realizes he's been the master of the ring all along

        • suddenly he takes it back and the queen's body wilts into the shell of a person she inhabited

      • 2. maybe he never took the ring at all, maybe this is all at the singularity frontier of the ring. just a glimmer of the future his desire creates.

        • he rejects it, causing it to unwind, and he's standing, about to take the ring, when he turns away

        • ...moments later he turns to see his buddy take the ring

      • 3.