Post by Kriss on Aug 17, 2009 9:42:20 GMT -5
Summary:
As Sinbad and his crew come ashore to sell a load of cargo, a villager hands Sinbad a small bundle containing an unsigned note asking him for help, a map to the village on a nearby island and Dim-Dim's teaching stone. Sinbad shares the information with Maeve and Doubar, who each have a memory of their student days with Dim-Dim when they hold the stone. Although Dim-Dim has not written the note himself, they fear for his safety and sail off to help him.
Landing on the island, they hike toward the village, passing the ruins of the East Village, a hamlet that was thriving when Firouz visited just two years ago. When they arrive at their destination, the villagers are hostile towards them, but the kind Milasco greets them and urges the rest of the people to allow Sinbad and the crew to stay in the city. Sinbad is soon approached by the lovely young Casendra, who hopes that Sinbad knows of a cure for her dying father. Upon examination, the man turns gray and disappears. Casendra tells Sinbad that several of the villagers have disappeared from the same mysterious malady. Meanwhile, Firouz picks up Dim-Dim's teaching stone and has a memory of learning from Dim-Dim, but Firouz was never one of his students. Sinbad realizes that the stone must have been enchanted with Dim-Dim's memories in order to lure them to the island, but cannot figure out why.
The villagers, led by the hot-headed Belkor, engage Sinbad and his crew in a fight but Milasco risks his life to save Sinbad. It is revealed that the villagers believe that Sinbad has been sent to destroy the village so that the plague will not spread elsewhere. Maeve explains that it is not a plague, but rather a magical spell. As Sinbad and his crew decide to leave, they encounter an invisible magical wall, which has trapped the villagers since the "plague" began a few days ago. Sending an arrow over the wall, Sinbad learns that it is 50 feet tall. Maeve tries to breach it using her magic spell, but is unsuccessful and is then mysteriously attacked by falling branches. Firouz tests the wall by catapulting a barrel of rocks over it, only to find that the wall has grown taller. Dermott flies high enough to scale the wall, but turns gray and vanishes. They deduce that someone or something must control the wall.
Distraught over Dermott's disappearance, Maeve talks to a squirrel who tells her that the curse is actually a creature. She and Sinbad remember Dim-Dim telling them about the Vorgon, a creature that drains the life essence from others just before they vanish. In Dim-Dim's book of magic, Maeve learns that the Vorgon in its own form must remain in the darkness to survive. It has lived for centuries, passing from one location to another masked in a human host, and in this way can live forever. They also learn that only when the last member of the village was drained of life would the village die completely. Since not all of the villagers had disappeared, they conclude that the rest must still be alive in another realm and could be saved. Maeve conjures up a portal to this realm and sees the departed villagers, including Dermott and Rongar, wandering. Since the only way to break the spell they are trapped in is to kill the one how has cast it, Maeve and Sinbad decide to find and kill the Vorgon. In the course of their quest, the rest of the villagers, and ultimately Maeve, Firouz and Doubar disappear, leaving Sinbad alone to battle the evil Vorgon.
If the Vorgon conquers Sinbad and inhabits his body, he will have unlimited access to any port in the world. Alone in the village with the monster, Sinbad lures it over to Firouz's catapult. He then launches the evil Vorgon into the sky where it combusts as the rising sun scorches it. The villagers and Sinbad's crew reappear.
Starring:
Zen Gesner (Sinbad), George Buza (Doubar), Tim Progosh (Firouz), Oris Erhuero (Rongar), Dermott (Himself), Jacqueline Collen (Maeve)
Guest Stars:
Dennis O'Connor (Milasco), Gavin Van Der Bergh (Belkor), Bianca Amato (Casendra), Anthony Bishop (Traxis)
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