The Devils Punchbowl

THE JOKE

Luke Webster, Pepper O'Brien Rodriguez, and Benny Steinbeck,
seniors at Del Norte High, plan what they consider a perfect joke to pull on
their girls. But, as sometimes happens, jokes backfire, and they meet an
unknown entity in the local graveyard, on a dark foggy night.

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

Graduation looms just around the corner and, their girls, still mad
about the gross joke in the graveyard, refuse to have anything to do with them,
so they spend their last day of school alone.
That night at their senior prom, Benny and Lily are an instant hit,
when they sing a special song they have composed. The evening ends in happiness,
the girls forgive them for their bad joke.

THE DEVILS PUNCHBOWL

Backpacking into a rough, craggy wilderness area, they hike 4,800
feet up along an extremely arduous switchback trail to the awesome beauty of
a lake . . . a glacial cut cirque set deep within the Siskiyou National Forest
Wilderness Area, The Devils Punchbowl.

THE CAVERN

Returning to the fissure they had discovered the year before, they
struggle through long crevices, narrow passages and ancient underground
waterways to find the immense cavern still brilliantly lit by a mysterious
unknown source; explore a cave filled with stone tablets, examine a robot and
discover a spaceship.

ALIENS

In nervous anticipation and excitement they explore the spaceship
and surrounding caves and caverns . . . until subtly moving shadows form in
the entrance to a hall they have dubbed the weird corridor. Billowing inward,
its undefined edges hover, vague and fuzzy within a darker mass, and meshing,
became part of the ship's wall. Deep, within its entrance choked with layered
stacks of moving clouds, a void forms. A black hole.