Story Outline (detailed)

* Parents meet and mate, dance around the column
---dance, parents' costumes, woodsy setting projected (to be similar to forest woman set at end)

* Monster is born, belly projection on mother, birth out the funnel, consumes mother and is thereby full-grown, perhaps close-up projection of hero saying "Mother?"
---setting projection of body interiors: blood flow, organs. belly projection of animated growing fetus, mostly dark besides projections, projection of close-up of hero face saying "Mother?"

* trance dance with the elements. when they enter into their trance, the hands take over, and puppet poles.
---air, land, water, fire, dead, meat, plant, nuclear. we need to look at trance ritual footage for dance. our hero sees Peeker and is chasing him around looking for him during dance. Wind god appears and battles with Air element. Wind Gods blow the trancers into the distance!

* Wind gods
---setting projection of desert after they blow trancers into distance. sand in stage box with slight fan blowing sand projected. third Wind God cuts mouth open and blows others away. then our hero appears again, after chasing the Peeker, walking through desert

* a dangerous dragon needs food to be thrown at it to save the travel writer (meeting of the travel writer who follows our hero)
---walking... hero comes across travel writer, trapped. the dragon has 2-3 people inside, head has moveable mouth to eat thrown food-things. travel writer gets audience to throw things

* shrimpies meeting, hunting and mauling of shrimpies
---after walking Hero and Travel Writer come across shrimpies, hero makes friends with them and licks the one life-size shrimpy, they dance together while projection puppet shrimpies bounce in background. Travel Writer is chasing Peeker. Predator appears. the predator is the badger. "Let the bells in cities and towns be rung often, and great ordinance discharged, thereby the air is purified." chases shrimpies away

* hero is put to sleep by badger who holds up false image of Forest Woman. must be revived by music and noise by audience. travel writer gets audience going
---cave-like setting, under ground, under a house. like the inside of a mine.

* meeting of the forest woman, he tries to make her circle the poll, she begins to then leaves him teasingly, she begins to consume hero with tree trunk
---woodsy setting projected similar to beginning but different, leaves and glitter held and moved in front of live cam feed

* evocation of the mysterious recurring character, peeker/spy, to lop off trunk of forest woman and save hero
* hero pushes dead forest woman around column, then slowly consumes forest woman (sans trunk)
* hero has stomach ache and regurgitates forest woman, transformation into a shrimpie
* reuniting with the shrimpies
* regurgitated forest woman becomes predator, death of our star and the shrimpies. she eats hero, lights fade out, we hear eating/digesting sounds, Eben and Nick at box make a "THE END" sign and hold up to project on set.