Clockwork Watch - Transmedia Story
Clockwork Watch: The Arrival, Breakaway, Countenance
Chapter 1
The Arrival, Breakaway, & Countenance
“We are going to change the world” — Chan Ranbir
When British society is promised something new, Her Majesty’s Government appoints a group of esteemed scientists to create a brighter future, they look to an Indian visionary to help. Chan Ranbir, Master Kineticist at Calcutta University - a man with dreams of a clockwork world.
Technological and social change is in the air – human-clockwork hybridisation is the talk of the town; the unwise employment of science has led to amazement and outcry. The Arrival, Breakaway, & Countenance introduce the amazing Steampunk world of Clockwork Watch.
The story is told through the eyes of Janav Ranbir, an 8 year old Indian boy who comes to England with his parents at the invitation of Queen Victoria. In The Arrival, the first novel, we follow Janav’s father – Chan Ranbir – a leading kinetic engineer and mastermind of a new technology powering the production of Clockwork Servants.
Chapter 2.
Tick Tock IPA - 1, 2, & 3
Clockwork Watch: Tick Tock IPA - 1, 2 & 3
“Is it true that a man who has everything has nothing?” — Ervin Hodgson (Clockwork Servant)
Ervin is the ‘one in a million’ Clockwork Servant. Mistakenly jailbroken from servitude, he won his master’s trust, and now controls his own destiny, but the world isn’t ready for a Clockwork managed business. Ervin stands as the poster child for Clockwork freedom in a world of slaves.
Tick Tock IPA is a continuation of the Clockwork Watch story from a new perspective - that of Ervin - an automaton that becomes a sentient being. The story is a tale of perseverance against the odds, the fight for civil rights, and a history of the Victorian era’s first internationally renowned Indian Pale Ale, surely a Steampunk icon of a forgotten age.
This trilogy looks at how development of Clockwork Servants, once heralded as the thing that put Great, back in to Great Britain, shakes the moral fabric of British society, industry, the church, and the crown.
Tick Tock IPA pre-dates Clockwork Watch: Breakaway, and is about the liberation of Clockworks from servitude. It has certain parallels with the abolition of slavery amongst other historical signposts.
Chapter 3.
Evolution
Clockwork Watch: Evolution - 1 & 2
"When does a boy become a man? Is it when he goes through the rites of passage or when he makes peace with the voices and bright ideas in his head?”
- Saccadius Cartwright
The words of Saccadius Cartwright, a man born into a world in the throes of chaotic change. Guided by his imaginary friends, he railed against authority and many of the things his guardian expected of him.
Evolution offers a third perspective of the Clockwork Watch story,. Saccadius is a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders and the fate of humanity at his fingertips.
Guided by the voices in his head, and his guardian - the elusive Alchemist, Saccadius grows up to realise that his actions will always impact the future of mankind.
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Chapter 4.
Sins of My Father
Clockwork Watch: Sins of My Father- 1 & 2
"So much has changed since the battle of Arnold Circus. They now walk among us, as if they are real people”
- Janav Ranbir
Dark forces are at work, as society comes to term with the emergence of a Clockwork Class - automata and their demand for equal rights.
Chan Ranbir’s latest project - Amelia, is a Clockwork that could easily pass for a human, and this makes Janav, his son, furious.
The fight for Clockwork liberation quickly morphs into a fight for survival, when Janav seeks Royal approval to put an end to what he sees as betrayal.