TAKE OUT
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| TITLE: TAKE OUT GENRE: SCI-FI MEDIUM: WEBSCRIPT STATUS: DONE (2025) | MATURE | DEATH | CRIME | UNREALITY | BODY HORROR | IDEATION | BLOOD |
Working for the mob isn’t exactly what JD had in mind when they were shipped off their home planet to get away from a life of crime… and yet.
episode breakdown
TAKE OUT is a story written out as a script and posted online to read for free on HIVVER.CA.
EPISODE 1: DINE ‘N DASH
JD finds out day 1 that cleaning up after a crime you didn’t commit sometimes gets you a job working for the mob.
EPISODE 2: GREENHORN
JD finds out that, actually they’re not too shabby at this mob job. Cleaning up is pretty easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
EPISODE 3: CLEANUP
JD finds out that working hard doesn’t fill the entire void in their life. They meet a gnoll… she’s pretty cute. But that’s a distraction.
EPISODE 4: LIQUID COURAGE
JD finds out that it’s totally normal having someone that’s gets you when you talk about crimes, especially after they buried a body with you.
EPISODE 5: HEARTTHROB
JD finds out they’ve fallen ass over teakettle for that funny little gnoll they keep bumping into.
EPISODE 6: IN TOO DEEP
JD finds out that, uh oh they’re absolutely smitten with this gnoll. Maybe they can just live out a normal life even with all the crime around it.
EPISODE 7: COLD FEET
JD finds out that life on this station can’t really be normal and starts to plan an escape, what if they just ran off with their partner in crime? Took a ship out into the stars…. uh oh.
EPISODE 8: BITE OR BARK
JD finds out that–wait this gnoll is connected… like really high up… wait who are her parents?? Fuck.
EPISODE 9: ALL TIED UP
JD finds out that this gnoll they’ve been dating isn’t the best at setting up gigs.
EPISODE 10: EYE FOR AN EYE
JD finds out that making small talk with the rival mob has its consequences.
EPISODE 11: ROCK BOTTOM
JD finds out that they’re real SOL and has to get the fuck out of dodge before their old mob finds them.
EPISODE 12: AT SQUARE ONE
JD finds out that getting a job in food service might be their best cover story yet. Yeah, its JUST for a little while…
EPISODE 13: STRANGER
JD finds out that their past really is hard to leave behind.
That’s all folks!
Thanks for reading!
THE OTHER LANDING PAGE
TAKE OUT is currently being posted on my other website: HIVVER.CA, you can find out more about the project on that page by clicking the link above. This page goes over more in depth trigger and content warnings, how to read a script and some more info on the tabletop system it’s based out of (STARFINDER by PAIZO).
PLAYLISTS
JD
- Nowhere Kid – Des Rocs
- Goodbye Stranger – Supertramp
- Aha! – Pentatonix
- Happy Idiot – TV On The Radio
- Love Me, Normally – Will Wood
- Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
- Back Against The Wall – Cage the Elephant
- Spanish Armada – Ratatat
- Two Against One – Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi, Ft Jack White
- Leave Me Alone – I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
- Lost It To Trying – Son Lux
- Lampshades on Fire – Modest Mouse
- Makeshifter – Kite Machine
- Dangerous – Big Data, Joywave
- The Rifle’s Spiral – The Shins, James Mercer
- Tick – Des Rocs
- The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) – Fall Out Boy
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FRANKIE
- Hit and Run – LOLO
- Pop Pop Bang Bang – Chantal Claret
- U Make Me Sick – HOLYCHILD
- I Don’t Wanna Wake Up – Ivy Levan
- Bad Karma – Ida Maria
- Criminal – Tidal
- Gold Guns Girls – Metric
- Oh No! – MARINA
- Lowlife – That Poppy
- Pretty Girls Don’t Cry – Anna Akana
- loud mouth – tiLLie
HONOURABLE MENTIONS (Woops they broke up)
- Red Wine & Wilde – Bastille
- The Way It Has To Be – Des Rocs
- Ruby With The Sharpest Lies – Des Rocs
- Hold Me Like A Grudge – Fall Out Boy
- Hate Me – P!nk
INSPO & VIBES
Just a couple things that helped develop these characters as I was writing the story (I’m gonna update this now and then because I’m really bad at thinking of this stuff on the spot).
- Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
This project is completed (2025).