A Plot Twist
The Legend of Macbeath
With research vessel Bowser on the Rocks since November 2024, back story meandering has our writers seeking refuge at the Better Duck Inn. Located just a mile from where Netflix is building its massive New Jersey production complex on what was Fort Monmouth, The Better Duck Inn is where the Bowser’s captain was raised.
Estuaries are magical places for those who do not understand physics. I am fine with this.
“Physics is the branch of science that explores the fundamental nature of reality—how matter, energy, space, and time interact. At its core, physics seeks to uncover the rules that govern the universe, from the tiniest particles to the vastness of galaxies.”
There is, in one square inch of the estuary, all of this. Hence the plot twist.
I like the Idea of The C3PennyOpera, as homage to what was, is, and will be in one made up word, all be it abstractly. We can see a bit of Gandalf and OB in Macbeath, projected in holograph from Prince Edward Island, via the 36th signal regiment into the writer’s room of the Better Duck Inn.
Macbeath is no shaman, or human. I’d say he is as much of a pirate as he is anything. He moves through time and space with a band of prankster photons, an illusion crafted via merging Macbeth and Captain Macheath. No one on PEI really knew what to do with him, or the prankster photons that bend perception into pretzel like moments that defy explanation: Dreams turn to nightmares in milliseconds and back to dreams again.
Long before Europeans renamed the river Shrewsbury, Macbeath and his prankster photons had scouted the location. They bounce around the universe pranking various lifeforms but took a particular liking to these wetlands. Location, Location, Location.
The legend of Macbeath is as old as the oldest drop of water in the universe. A friend to green head flies and mosquitos, and every blade of marsh grass, the natives had their own name for him but never shared it with the Europeans.
