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crossover_chickHappy "only time BTTF actually goes to the future" day! Of course, considering both Marty and Jennifer get to learn their future lives kind of suck (Marty from impersonating his son, Jennifer from watching her future family inside her future house), Marty narrowly avoids getting his teeth knocked in, and Jennifer's taken away by the police after being dumped in an alleyway, it's probable none of them WANT to go back to the future.
-D: My movie counterpart really could have planned all this better.-
Indeed.
Been a productive day today, at least. Got a couple of pages done on "There's Always Tomorrow," and a good chunk done on "Forgetting You." I'm adding a new sequence to better show the timeskip that has to occur at the beginning of Chapter 3 -- which, incidentally, I've just started:
Alice Progress: Up to Chapter 3 - Threadneedle Street, "Alice: Madness Returns" (Current Dress: Late But Lucky, Using: Vorpal Cleaver)
Yeah, I'll take the "constant slow heal" dress and "halves all received damage" weapon for fighting my first Colossal Ruins. Well, the first ones I need to KILL -- I naturally had to take on the one that runs away to finish off Chapter 2. It'll definitely make navigating the Vale of Doom easier (Ruin rivers -- gotta love 'em).
-TTV: How are things with "Forgettng You?"-
Okay at the moment. I think the timeline's in a good place -- now I'm just fussing with the chapter breaks. So far I'm giving each new "segment" its own chapter (more or less, I've combined a few things), but I don't think that's gonna work in the long run. Most of the Wonderland stuff is actually pretty short. I thought about giving each jaunt in Wonderland its own chapter, but that's not going to work. Some of it works best if it's sandwiched around a London segment. *sigh* I'll figure something out.
Also, I owe you a virtue, don't I? Here you are:
10. Charity
Fandom: Nightmare House
“You don’t get it, do you? Do you think you crashed in front of the old Houndsditch Home, and then ended up here, by accident? She’s using you – you’re just a pawn in her game! Once she’s done with you, you’re finished. She’ll tear you up just like anyone else.”
Victor glared up at Dr. Bumby, trying to ignore the fact that his head felt like it was about to split in half. Every vibration from the doctor’s mysterious core sent a fresh wave of agony through his skull. Not to mention those strange spindly creatures were still appearing from nowhere, raking at him with their claws. Even if they weren’t real, the damage they inflicted certainly seemed to be. It was only through the grace of multiple painkillers and more bandages than were on your average mummy that he was still standing upright.
But he was going to fight on. He was going to end this or die trying. Slamming his axe into the head of the last monster, he raced toward the rotating core. Bumby tried to lift the shield, but a whine from the machinery told Victor it didn’t have sufficient power. Thank God – he wasn’t in the mood to be shoved off his feet again. Skidding to a stop next to the nearest support beam, he began chopping at it wildly, ignoring all of Bumby’s protests. He didn’t care what damage dropping the core would unleash on himself. This – this madman had be stopped before he hurt more innocent people. Victor’s stomach twisted as he remembered his adventure in the abandoned orphanage – all those children, reduced to mindless monsters. . .and then there was what had happened to Alice. . . .
He could feel her presence still – weaker now, because of the core, but there. Whispering encouragement, lending him strength. Victor found himself repressing laughter. Was it really just this morning that he’d been terrified of her – that he’d thought her a monster, with her bloodied hands and red eyes? What a fool he’d been. Now she was his closest ally – his savior, his protector. And he was going to give her the chance to get her revenge.
The plank split and crashed to the ground. Maybe you’re right, Dr. Bumby, Victor thought, darting away from the core before a power surge could make his brain hurt even more. Maybe she is just using me. But given all the pain you’ve caused, all the lives you’ve destroyed – I’ll gladly let her use me. Taking you down is far more important.
Horror games ahoy! This is an adaptation of the "boss fight" of "Nightmare House 2," a mod of the Half-Life engine about a mysterious young man who gets caught up in a struggle between the rage-filled shade of a woman and a crazy doctor whose experiments into the human mind tend to create zombies. I first saw this game thanks to Helloween LPing it (along with the first one, which is included with NH2 as a prologue), and I love it. It's creepy, but it's also rather touching. By the end of everything, you really do feel for Emily (the ghost of the original).
Anyway, I found this disturbingly easy to adapt to a Victor/Alice universe -- Dr. Bumby may not be as over the top as Dr. Romero, but I can see him as an evil scientist who doesn't care about how many lives his research wrecks. Alice in Hysteria Mode is plenty creepy as the mysterious Emily, who wants revenge and to stop the evil doctor whom she once trusted (in fact, Emily is in fact Dr. Romero's WIFE). And Victor -- well, it's a first-person game with a blank slate protagonist, sooo. . . Also, it allows me to indulge my strait-jacket fetish a little, as the Patient was admitted to the hospital as a lunatic. :p There's also something kind of fun about picturing Victor pulling himself through all the puzzles and creepy shit the game throws at you. Poor guy, I put him through so much. . .
The next prompt is actually another NH one, so I'll talk more about it then -- specifically, what the plot to this crossover would be. It wouldn't be too different from the game itself, but as you can see from this short, there's going to be a pretty dark twists on the zombies you meet in NH1. . . .
I hope you enjoyed that! I've got stuff to catch up on on tumblr. See you in the future!
-D: My movie counterpart really could have planned all this better.-
Indeed.
Been a productive day today, at least. Got a couple of pages done on "There's Always Tomorrow," and a good chunk done on "Forgetting You." I'm adding a new sequence to better show the timeskip that has to occur at the beginning of Chapter 3 -- which, incidentally, I've just started:
Alice Progress: Up to Chapter 3 - Threadneedle Street, "Alice: Madness Returns" (Current Dress: Late But Lucky, Using: Vorpal Cleaver)
Yeah, I'll take the "constant slow heal" dress and "halves all received damage" weapon for fighting my first Colossal Ruins. Well, the first ones I need to KILL -- I naturally had to take on the one that runs away to finish off Chapter 2. It'll definitely make navigating the Vale of Doom easier (Ruin rivers -- gotta love 'em).
-TTV: How are things with "Forgettng You?"-
Okay at the moment. I think the timeline's in a good place -- now I'm just fussing with the chapter breaks. So far I'm giving each new "segment" its own chapter (more or less, I've combined a few things), but I don't think that's gonna work in the long run. Most of the Wonderland stuff is actually pretty short. I thought about giving each jaunt in Wonderland its own chapter, but that's not going to work. Some of it works best if it's sandwiched around a London segment. *sigh* I'll figure something out.
Also, I owe you a virtue, don't I? Here you are:
10. Charity
Fandom: Nightmare House
“You don’t get it, do you? Do you think you crashed in front of the old Houndsditch Home, and then ended up here, by accident? She’s using you – you’re just a pawn in her game! Once she’s done with you, you’re finished. She’ll tear you up just like anyone else.”
Victor glared up at Dr. Bumby, trying to ignore the fact that his head felt like it was about to split in half. Every vibration from the doctor’s mysterious core sent a fresh wave of agony through his skull. Not to mention those strange spindly creatures were still appearing from nowhere, raking at him with their claws. Even if they weren’t real, the damage they inflicted certainly seemed to be. It was only through the grace of multiple painkillers and more bandages than were on your average mummy that he was still standing upright.
But he was going to fight on. He was going to end this or die trying. Slamming his axe into the head of the last monster, he raced toward the rotating core. Bumby tried to lift the shield, but a whine from the machinery told Victor it didn’t have sufficient power. Thank God – he wasn’t in the mood to be shoved off his feet again. Skidding to a stop next to the nearest support beam, he began chopping at it wildly, ignoring all of Bumby’s protests. He didn’t care what damage dropping the core would unleash on himself. This – this madman had be stopped before he hurt more innocent people. Victor’s stomach twisted as he remembered his adventure in the abandoned orphanage – all those children, reduced to mindless monsters. . .and then there was what had happened to Alice. . . .
He could feel her presence still – weaker now, because of the core, but there. Whispering encouragement, lending him strength. Victor found himself repressing laughter. Was it really just this morning that he’d been terrified of her – that he’d thought her a monster, with her bloodied hands and red eyes? What a fool he’d been. Now she was his closest ally – his savior, his protector. And he was going to give her the chance to get her revenge.
The plank split and crashed to the ground. Maybe you’re right, Dr. Bumby, Victor thought, darting away from the core before a power surge could make his brain hurt even more. Maybe she is just using me. But given all the pain you’ve caused, all the lives you’ve destroyed – I’ll gladly let her use me. Taking you down is far more important.
Horror games ahoy! This is an adaptation of the "boss fight" of "Nightmare House 2," a mod of the Half-Life engine about a mysterious young man who gets caught up in a struggle between the rage-filled shade of a woman and a crazy doctor whose experiments into the human mind tend to create zombies. I first saw this game thanks to Helloween LPing it (along with the first one, which is included with NH2 as a prologue), and I love it. It's creepy, but it's also rather touching. By the end of everything, you really do feel for Emily (the ghost of the original).
Anyway, I found this disturbingly easy to adapt to a Victor/Alice universe -- Dr. Bumby may not be as over the top as Dr. Romero, but I can see him as an evil scientist who doesn't care about how many lives his research wrecks. Alice in Hysteria Mode is plenty creepy as the mysterious Emily, who wants revenge and to stop the evil doctor whom she once trusted (in fact, Emily is in fact Dr. Romero's WIFE). And Victor -- well, it's a first-person game with a blank slate protagonist, sooo. . . Also, it allows me to indulge my strait-jacket fetish a little, as the Patient was admitted to the hospital as a lunatic. :p There's also something kind of fun about picturing Victor pulling himself through all the puzzles and creepy shit the game throws at you. Poor guy, I put him through so much. . .
The next prompt is actually another NH one, so I'll talk more about it then -- specifically, what the plot to this crossover would be. It wouldn't be too different from the game itself, but as you can see from this short, there's going to be a pretty dark twists on the zombies you meet in NH1. . . .
I hope you enjoyed that! I've got stuff to catch up on on tumblr. See you in the future!
