The Drums of Umunaji
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Let’s begin this adventure
🌺 AMAKA/ protagonists
Age: 22
Height: 5'6"
Skin: Smooth bronze with a soft glow that seems to catch moonlight.
Hair: Long, thick black braids often decorated with cowries and beads.
Eyes: Dark brown with a strange shimmer — almost mystical.
Build: Graceful and slender, but strong from carrying water pots daily.
Voice: Gentle and melodic; when she laughs, it sounds like river water flowing over stones.
Personality: Calm, kind, yet secretive. She hides an inner conflict — torn between love and destiny.
Amaka: priestess’s daughter
🎭 Character Profiles
🌾 OBINNA
Age: 26
Height: 6'1" (tall and broad-shouldered)
Skin: Deep brown, sun-kissed from farming.
Hair: Short, coiled black hair; a thin beard around his jaw.
Eyes: Warm hazel-brown, steady and honest.
Build: Muscular, the kind of strength that comes from years of tilling land.
Voice: Deep and calm — the kind that can silence a quarrel or melt a heart.
Personality: Brave, loyal, quick-witted, sometimes stubborn. A dreamer at heart, he questions old traditions but respects them deeply.
Obinna – A young farmer, strong but curious.
THE WHISPERS IN THE FOREST
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Welcome back cupcakes 😚🙃
Night in the village of Umunaji, the moon glows pale over tall palm trees. The faint sound of drums echoes from deep within the forest
Soft drumbeats echos, Obinna enters holding a lantern he pauses listening to the winds whisper through the trees.
Obinna/ the farmer
*looks around* 💭Who beats drums at this hour? No festival, no moon dance… yet the forest sings.
Obinna/ the farmer
*He steps forward cautiously* 💭the talking drums of Umunaji beats only when spirits walks among men.
Obinna/ the farmer
*He laughs nervously*😅👀
💭Maybe the spirits are drunk on palm wine tonight.
The drums stops
The forest became as quiet as a graveyard suddenly
A whisper of a woman’s voice drifts through the trees.
Obinna/ the farmer
*startled*😟
Who’s there? Show yourself!
* He raises the lantern* 💭No one.
Obinna/ the farmer
*hurries away* 😟
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Stream At Dawn
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Welcome back
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Without wasting too much of your time
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Let us begin this journey of untold secrets
The sound of birds filled the air with
Amaka kneels by the stream, filling a clay pot with water
Her breath taking reflection ripples in the water
The sun shone upon her beautiful caramel skin
Her hair fell below her shoulders
Amaka/protagonists
*signing* orubibata~~hear my voice…….. 🎶
Amaka/protagonists
*interrupted* 😒
Obinna/ the farmer
*joyful* 😄Good morning, daughter of the priestess.
The stream is blessed to see your face before the sun itself.
Amaka/protagonists
*Laughing softly* 🤭 You speak as if your words can get me married before noon.
Obinna/ the farmer
*smirking* If my words had that power
Amaka, I would have spoken them since last farming season.
They both laughed out loud. Then suddenly, a red-feathered bird falls from a tree beside them — dead.
Amaka/protagonists
*shocked* 😨
Obinna/ the farmer
*shocked*
Obinna/ the farmer
*shields Amaka*
Amaka/protagonists
*startled*
O my gosh! 😰What sign is this?
Obinna/ the farmer
*picks the bird carefully*🤔
A bird does not fall unless a hand pulls its wings.
*He looks up.*🤔
But whose hand — man or spirit?
Amaka/protagonists
*exchange looks*
Obinna/ the farmer
*exchange looks*
The drumming sound softly echoed through the forest 🌳 again
Bum…..bum……
Amaka/protagonists
*scared*
The drums again… do you hear them?
Obinna/ the farmer
*worried*
Yes. They called my name last night
Amaka/protagonists
*uneasy* 😥Do not answer My mother said those drums speaks for the ancestors. If they call you they want something.
Obinna/ the farmer
*smiling* 😁 let them wait For now, my heart answers only one call.
Amaka/protagonists
*blushing*
Obinna, stop 🫣 The spirits might be listening
Obinna/ the farmer
*smirking* Then let them listen 😏maybe they’ll learn how love speaks.
Obinna/ the farmer
*coming close to her*
He takes her hand gently The drums beat louder for a moment, then stopped
Nwunye okeke
*interrupts them*
Ehen! Amaka! So this is where priestess’ daughter fetches love, not water!
Amaka/protagonists
*rolling her eyes*🙄
Oh no… not her again.💭this woman is so annoying
Amaka/protagonists
*turns to obinna* please help me carry the pot let’s leave this place
Obinna/ the farmer
*smiling* anything for you my love 😚
Amaka/protagonists
*rolls her eyes*
They both walked away laughing leaving the woman ignored
Nwunye okeke
🪶 NWUNYE OKEKE (Market Woman)
Age: 40
Height: 5'5"
Skin: Medium brown.
Hair: Wrapped in colorful Ankara scarf.
Eyes: Sharp, always watching for news.
Build: Curvy and energetic.
Voice: High-pitched and dramatic.
Personality: Nosy, talkative, gossiper
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