THE SECT

LEFT TO RIGHT: KELLY, ANDY, LLOYD, EMMA, CHRIS, THE PROFESSOR.

OVERVIEW:

THE TOWN OF ASHWOOD IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND HAS A DARK SECRET. BEING ONE OF ONLY THREE PLACES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD TO HOST A PORTAL FROM DEMONIC DIMENSIONS PLUS SUPPORT A WATER SOURCE DEMONS CAN SURVIVE OFF OF, THE TOWN HAS A SERIOUS DEMONIC ENTITY PROBLEM.

FOR CENTURIES THE MAGES OF THE WORLD GATHERED IN ASHWOOD TO BATTLE THE DEMONS. THEY WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE AND AS THE ART OF MAGIC BEGAN TO DIE OUT, THE MAGES WERE FORCED TO TAKE DRAMATIC ACTION. SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THE LAST REMAINING MAGES FORMED A MAGUS SECT AND UNITED THEIR POWERS TO CAST A SPELL TO PASS ON THEIR SKILLS AND THE WILL TO FIGHT TO THEIR DESCENDANTS. TODAY, ASHWOOD REMAINS A HAVEN FOR DEMONS AND DARK ENTITIES BUT THE BATTLE STILL GOES ON THANKS TO THOSE KNOWN ONLY AS "THE DESCENDANTS OF THE SECT".

BASIC STORY:

HAVING FOUGHT EVIL ALL THEIR LIVES, ANDY, CHRIS, EMMA AND LLOYD AREN'T SURPRISED TO SPOT TWO DEMONS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE ON THE STREETS OF ASHWOOD. AS THE TWO EVILS ATTACK THEIR TARGETS, AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR AND HIS SECRETARY, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE YET ANOTHER DAY IN THEIR ACTION PACKED LIVES. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW HOWEVER, THE PROFESSOR HIMSELF IS A DESCENDANT OF THE SECT AND THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE WAS NO RANDOM INCIDENT.

GIFTED WITH THE POWERS OF A SEER, THE PROFESSOR JOINS THE SECT AS THEY GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY STRUGGLES TO RID THE TOWN OF EVIL. IT'S A NEVERENDING AND THANKLESS TASK, BUT SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT.

THE WRITING:

ORIGINALLY, THIS WAS WRITTEN AS A DRAMA AND SUBMITTED TO BBC TELEVISION'S DRAMA DEPARTMENT. A SHORT WHILE AFTER SUBMITTING IT TO THE BBC, HOWEVER, WE READ IT BACK AND DISCOVERED ONE MINOR FLAW. IT'S NOT A DRAMA! HAVING LAUGHED OUR WAY THROUGH BACK TO BACK EPISODES, WE REALISED WE'D ACCIDENTALLY WRITTEN A DARK COMEDY WITH A SLIGHTLY SERIOUS EDGE. WHOOPS. THAT WAS SPRING 2003.

DUE TO SHEER LAZINESS, WE PUT THE SECT TO THE BACK OF OUR MINDS AND GOT ON WITH OTHER THINGS. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN CLOSE TO OUR HEARTS, HOWEVER, AND AT THE END OF 2010 WE CONVERTED IT FROM TELEVISION SCRIPT FORMAT TO STORY SCRIPT FORMAT WITH A VIEW TO UPLOADING IT HERE ON OUR WEBSITE. AND HERE WE ARE.

HAVING ALWAYS PLANNED TO MAKE A THIRD SERIES, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF PLANNING AND WRITING WILL BEGIN SOON. WATCH THIS SPACE.