Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-34853659-20180913215844/@comment-9041013-20180915000625

DrBobSmith wrote: Bloody Spaghetti,

I can see the local cops being called first, and then them calling the Federal Government or the Governor or something. Then they should get out of there. If someone had a M1A tank storming through Main Street of a small town, smashing buildings and firing its guns, the sheriff wouldn't stand there and unload buckshot into it. He'd call for backup from someone with appropriate firepower and focus on keeping people far away. This - it's bigger than a tank.

As for how to get rid of it, yeah that's a problem. Could Satan explain that it's his baby? Could it not be a demon but some underground lava monster that broke through? That does ditch the religious end though.

I don't know RCMP procedure well enough to comment on that. My gut feel is that any details with the cops are minor in comparison to the whole overall idea of a small town cop trying to fight a monster with a borrowed handgun. The concept of a demon monster that conventional forces can't handle and a spiritual, supernatural one does handle eventually may still work.

It needs a  lot of work, but to scrape the whole idea... dunno.