Story improved.

The same story, but it makes a little more sense now. Sort of. Even if it's bad, the characters' names make up for it, because they're so awesome.

The series is called “Abraxas and Apology” and follows the expeditions of Abraxas and his sister Apology as he tries to get-rich-quick and she tries to live her life normally around him.

In the first episode, the story used for this brief, Apology is in her living room attempting to write a poem after watching a documentary about the soothing effects of poetry-writing. Abraxas, her rowdy brother, interrupts when he arrives on her doorstep and begs her to let him live with her. She initially refuses, as she knows Abraxas is generally hopeless and untrustworthy; years ago he caused her to get fired by a long and complicated expedition involving raw cow mince (she doesn’t like to think about it and thus, the story is never fully revealed in the first episode).

Abraxas begs her forgiveness, rounding on her name ‘Apology’ to use as blackmail against her. Exasperated, she agrees but demands he work hard to get back on his feet. He consents, claiming he’s ‘got a plan’. She decides to leave him be, attempting to go about her own life without his interruptions – she works from home as a multimedia designer – and continue to write poetry.

As she sits in her living room, Abraxas comes in and out of the apartment carrying televisions into the spare room she has given him. Apology tries to ignore her brother, but eventually gets too frustrated by her poetry-writing attempts and asks him what he is up to. Abraxas pulls out a brochure he swiped from somewhere about the Guinness World Records. He explains that he’s going to break a simple, but interesting world record and the publicity from it will undoubtedly make them all rich. She asks him what the TVs are for and he explains the record he is breaking is the largest number of TVs on in one room and is filling his room with televisions, much like the game Tetris, to break it.

Apology is wary and asks Abraxas where is getting the TVs from. He claims to have a ‘friend down at the electric store’. She is sceptical, but decides to give him another chance. Abraxas then asks her what she’s been doing all day and she admits she’s been trying to write a poem. He laughs at her, then starts to make up his own, mostly limericks. She gets annoyed and leaves him to continue stacking the TVs and calling out limericks.

When night-time comes, Abraxas calls out to Apology and says he is finished and is about to switch them all on to test it. She comes to watch at the doorway of the spare room. He plugs in the cord attached to the many powerboards to the wall and immediately causes a black-out. Apology rolls her eyes and walks away in the dark. Abraxas, however, is not at all deterred from his mission and calls out to his sister, asking if she thinks there’s a world record for ‘the worst poem ever’.