Rising Action
Scene Purpose:
The Antagonist marshals all his/her forces against the Protagonist/Main Character.
–The Antagonist is directly opposed to the Protagonist and seeks to prevent the Protagonist from achieving the goal. Through mental effort, the Antagonist gets others to Reconsider their attempts to attain the Overall Story Goal. Using physical effort, the Antagonist tries to Prevent or Avoid the Overall Story Goal from being achieved.
Character and Plot Dynamics: Limit — Optionlock
Kō is just a little human, she must find and employ the help of gods to stop Tāwhiri. She will try several things, until at last she has no option but to [go to the underworld to retrieve the last piece?].
Overall: Throughline — Situation
Most want to stop the destruction of the world.
The situation is that with Tū incapacitated, no one can stop Tāwhiri from crushing the world with the bodies of his parents.
At the moment when it appears the sky will begin to crash into the world, Ko emerges from the underworld with Maui in the nick of time. Maul grabs the sky with one hand and grows to massive proportions to hoist it back up into the air. She grabs onto his grass skirt as he’s growing (while it’s still low enough for her to grab from the ground), and ends up dangling from Maui’s massive body.
She must climb his body while wind creatures try to kill her. Some fly and swoop, others just land on the platforms to attack.
She climbs up the skirt, past the abdomen, and face, and eventually up one of Maui’s arms, where she emerges into…
