PILATE: Director’s Cut Authored by The Grim Reverend Steven Rage

Pilate’s legend in The Harbor is so vicious, the body count so high, his ruthlessness so ingrained in the local lore that Theodosius has trouble believing he’s even real. It feels to him like all the frightened whispers are nothing more than a series of ever-exaggerating tall tales. And even if he does exist, the dirty cop firmly believes that all those stories are way overblown. Is Pilate a real live human being? Maybe. But a vampire? Not so much. But we believe only in what allows us to get through the day and sleep well at night. Especially when potent narcs are being peddled and so much money is on the line. Unfortunately, Pilate is very real and every bit the horror he’s heard to be. As poor Theodosius will soon witness himself, much to his chagrin.

Pontius Pilate is cursed to be a vampire. Life after life after life. And for the Plata dealing Pilate, his life is more like a death sentence. His only chance surviving is to keep on selling his monthly quota of Plata. This new man-made narcotic is a potent speed-ball designed to amp up the user, while also numbing the conscience into euphoric oblivion. To nullify the pain. To stifle the torture. To run and to hid from all the anguish inside. PILATE is a drug lord vampire in this re-telling of Christ’s final days. When given yet another chance to save the Earth’s latest Christ, will the re-incarnated Pilate choose to protect Her? Or to save his drug business, his money and his friends, will the modern day Pilate instead choose to wash his hands of the whole ordeal? Pilate shall have to allow the torture and death of a Holy Person in order to save his very own life. ” For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” This is a truly Brutal Bible Tale. A dismal post-industrial future. A look at man defiled and in decline. Evil has arrived and Dominion has been taken by the damned, the demons, vampires, vicious ghosts and strange halflings. The cast-aside by-products of all the debauched rampages and scientific sins against nature. Sex, drugs, and broken souls are the only trade commodities left.