Day 3: Potential Plot Outline

As long as I keep mulling the subject over and keep my mind fed with awesome (mostly) related stuff (did you know that Danger Man and Secret Agent Man are the same show?), my subconscious handily strings along plot points for me, in that wakey-sleepy period that's always so awesome because it's gone the unrestrained creativity of dreaming with the purposeful direction of consciousness.

Came up with this this morning; I'm not sure how well it will fit in, if it's even going to be in the final thing and if we open on it have more introductory material before getting into the plot like this or what. Too early in the writing stage to really need to care; any writing is good writing at this draft. There's a lot that has yet to be explained whether it be with character motivations or anything, but it's a crackly starting point and a great framework to start discovery writing around:

1. Michael (Buckland?) infiltrates vampire party under cover id of vampire-- heart stopped, but with (magic injection stuff) providing his cells with oxygen without blood. (Vampire party provides neat balance of "martini" flavor espionage and "stale beer" flavor espionage- classy poshy stuff but with plenty of paranoia and moral ambiguity, in enemy territory undercover as bloodsucker who really has to sell his part.) He's after one particular asset, who would otherwise be sacrificed during the party.
2. Awesome wham one-liner when asked why he's after this one particular mortal- "Because I'm also mortal," as heart restarts beating and he grabs asset- vampires "oh crap" and converge, but Michael and asset escape (are teleported over short distance (still inside room in different area! like the teleporter in Asteroids) but at the same time being rendered invisible, (disguising among and perhaps breaking out other mortals in process to disguise sound of heartbeats.))
3. Back in safer place (ostensible safehouse or what, IDK,) there is a close call (Michael escaping of course) but asset is killed, but (not before?) the information asset has is discovered to be a (leather-bound codebook? in a typical modern-day spy scenario this would be a flashcard with all the data on it, but the supernatural world here has got kind of a schizoid take on tech, where if it's reliable they'll use it and so they're cool using anything from electronics to magical artifacts and everything in between; there's a big pastiche of technology levels coexisting I think, but perhaps slightly leaning rather steampunk (though not in so many words.) Wax recording cylinder, I'd been thinking at first, but that's a bit too large to conceal on one's person.) Team escape with artifact.
4. Other plot bits, possibly dealing with Michael's life in the mundane world, happen in between here. Attempt at using intel meanwhile goes on.
5. Asset appears to Michael in dream, revealing key detail in (decryption stuff or something?) that team would absolutely have screwed up otherwise.
6. Later at some point. Team member lets slip detail that Michael realizes he shouldn't know, intelligence revealed by asset in dream. Michael discovers bug in dream and realized he is being surveilled by his own agency for some reason...

That's what I've got, and I see multiple ways it could go from here (the infinite possibilities! isn't that always the most exciting?)

It's always hazy knowing what's part of the half-dream itself and what's just your own extrapolation, but there's not really a difference that much since you are technically awake when all this goes down. There are a few aspects of this I knew were going to be in here already, either way: the agency has the ability to bug your dreams, for one. Also- if Michael is really this guy with this awesome power to get himself out of supernatural danger (regardless of how he got in in the first place,) you wouldn't have him in as an analyst- you'd have that guy out on extraction task forces and everything.