No Tale Today
Dec. 3rd, 2012 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickIt was my long day at school, and I never got around to getting a page ready to post. I'll try to get back on track tomorrow.
But! You shall not go updateless. Time for some more Sins and Virtues, I think! We're up to that angriest of Sins:
6. Wrath
Fandom: Nightmare House
Her rage was all she had left.
She was convinced that it was her anger that held her to this plane. Her anger, and her burning desire for revenge. God knew she’d rather be with her parents and sister in Heaven (hopefully) than stuck in this broken-down wreck of a house, with only her memories and a flock of half-dead monsters for company. But her rage against Bumby wouldn’t let her pass on. She had to see him punished for everything he’d done – to her, to her family, to the children who’d once lived here. He couldn’t be allowed to get away with this. There had to be justice!
Unfortunately, she couldn’t get out. She was trapped in this house, unable to follow the coward as he fled from his just desserts. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t go any further than the shed out front. This simply enraged her more. How could she be stuck here? How could the world be so cruel as to deny Bumby his rightful punishment?! Five long nights she spent at the borders of her kingdom, clawing at the invisible barrier and screaming her rage for all to hear.
It never gave. Eventually, she gave up and retreated back into the house, stalking the corridors in a haze of anger and grief. She would be bound here until the end of time, she was sure. Trapped in this hell with no way to seek her revenge. A furious spirit that no one would remember.
And then, one night, she heard the crash from the street.
Curious, she went to the window. There was someone stumbling past the shed out front – someone tall and thin, with pale skin and black hair. A rather handsome someone, if she were honest. But most importantly, he was an alive someone. Someone with the ability to enter and leave the house freely. And if she found a way to bind herself to him. . . .
Yes, she decided. Let him come into the house. Let him see what it once was, and what it had become. She’d keep him safe from the monsters that lurked within – safe as she could, anyway. And when he left, so would she. And she’d guide him to Bumby so the real monster behind all this could be destroyed.
The young man limped up to the front doors and knocked. “H-hello? Anyone? Please, I – I could u-use some ice. . . .”
Alice felt a flicker of guilt as she looked down at him. The poor boy seemed scared enough already. Was it really right to use him like this? To make him a pawn in her plans for revenge?
Maybe not – but Bumby must be punished, she told herself as the young man knocked again. I’m sure that, once he sees what the bastard has done, he’ll be willing to help. And – and maybe. . .maybe I can find a way to help him too. Closing her eyes, she reached out with the telepathy Bumby’s wretched invention had gifted her with and just brushed the young man’s – Victor’s, apparently – mind, showing him the entrance to the cellar –
And the axe in the shed he’d need to survive.
Okay! Charity talked about the end of the story, and this here talks about the beginning! It's sort of an explanation as to why Alice-as-ghost is hanging around, and how she first met Victor. And why she needed him as a ride out of the house. (Don't ask what was keeping her there -- I haven't quite figured that out myself.) This is adapted from the beginning of the first Nightmare House, which is included as a prologue on the fuller Nightmare House 2. You really do start as the victim of a car crash limping up to this abandoned house. I haven't quite decided if this is steampunk!AU or modern!AU, but either way there was a crash involved.
Anyway, I believe I promised to talk about the plot here: Dr. Bumby in this version of reality wasn't using the children as prostitutes, but rather as test subjects for his experiments in psychic powers and mind control. Alice's sister Lizzie was an early victim of his interest in such things -- he forced her to burn down the Liddell house after she spurned his advances. Alice lived with him as his maid at first, but when she discovered the experiments and his role in the deaths of her family, she tried to stop him. Dr. Bumby naturally just turned her into an experiment, and tormented her so much she slit her wrists and killed herself. However, her spirit lingered on to torment Bumby, and he fled the house for a nearby hospital, leaving Alice and a whole flock of zombified kids.
Enter Victor some time later. He crashes in front of the abandoned Houndsditch Home and is led through it by Alice, having to fight zombies and suffering hallucinations because of Alice's presence. Eventually he flees the house chased by zombies -- Alice hitches a ride, saves his life from the zombies, then possesses him to avoid being pulled back to the house. Victor's discovered screaming about flesh-eating children and horrible bloody eyes (remember, ghost!Alice is Hysteria!Alice), and is taken to the psychiatric ward of the same hospital Bumby's hiding at.
A few months after Victor's been committed, Bumby tries his mind control experiments again, zombifying the staff. Alice wakes Victor up a little while afterward and helps him make it through the haunted hospital, although Victor doesn't see it that way at first. Eventually he learns what Bumby has done and willingly destroys the "core" responsible for so much misery, allowing Alice to get her revenge and pass on. Of course, all that time spent as an inadvertent experiment himself has left its mark. . .
So yeah, that's how I'd tweak the game's plot to work with these characters. I dunno what I'd do about the SWAT Team that shows up in Nightmare House 2. . .their only real purpose is to die messily. But I do like the image of Alice comforting one in his last moments. . . *shrug* Hypotheticals. Gotta love 'em. And yes, I couldn't resist giving Victor some mild telekinesis at the end. XD Yay superpowers!
Okay! That's another one down. The corresponding virtue will clear out the Hot Fuzz pair, and then we've just got the WALL*E pair to go! Right now, though, I've got tumblr tags galore, so later!
But! You shall not go updateless. Time for some more Sins and Virtues, I think! We're up to that angriest of Sins:
6. Wrath
Fandom: Nightmare House
Her rage was all she had left.
She was convinced that it was her anger that held her to this plane. Her anger, and her burning desire for revenge. God knew she’d rather be with her parents and sister in Heaven (hopefully) than stuck in this broken-down wreck of a house, with only her memories and a flock of half-dead monsters for company. But her rage against Bumby wouldn’t let her pass on. She had to see him punished for everything he’d done – to her, to her family, to the children who’d once lived here. He couldn’t be allowed to get away with this. There had to be justice!
Unfortunately, she couldn’t get out. She was trapped in this house, unable to follow the coward as he fled from his just desserts. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t go any further than the shed out front. This simply enraged her more. How could she be stuck here? How could the world be so cruel as to deny Bumby his rightful punishment?! Five long nights she spent at the borders of her kingdom, clawing at the invisible barrier and screaming her rage for all to hear.
It never gave. Eventually, she gave up and retreated back into the house, stalking the corridors in a haze of anger and grief. She would be bound here until the end of time, she was sure. Trapped in this hell with no way to seek her revenge. A furious spirit that no one would remember.
And then, one night, she heard the crash from the street.
Curious, she went to the window. There was someone stumbling past the shed out front – someone tall and thin, with pale skin and black hair. A rather handsome someone, if she were honest. But most importantly, he was an alive someone. Someone with the ability to enter and leave the house freely. And if she found a way to bind herself to him. . . .
Yes, she decided. Let him come into the house. Let him see what it once was, and what it had become. She’d keep him safe from the monsters that lurked within – safe as she could, anyway. And when he left, so would she. And she’d guide him to Bumby so the real monster behind all this could be destroyed.
The young man limped up to the front doors and knocked. “H-hello? Anyone? Please, I – I could u-use some ice. . . .”
Alice felt a flicker of guilt as she looked down at him. The poor boy seemed scared enough already. Was it really right to use him like this? To make him a pawn in her plans for revenge?
Maybe not – but Bumby must be punished, she told herself as the young man knocked again. I’m sure that, once he sees what the bastard has done, he’ll be willing to help. And – and maybe. . .maybe I can find a way to help him too. Closing her eyes, she reached out with the telepathy Bumby’s wretched invention had gifted her with and just brushed the young man’s – Victor’s, apparently – mind, showing him the entrance to the cellar –
And the axe in the shed he’d need to survive.
Okay! Charity talked about the end of the story, and this here talks about the beginning! It's sort of an explanation as to why Alice-as-ghost is hanging around, and how she first met Victor. And why she needed him as a ride out of the house. (Don't ask what was keeping her there -- I haven't quite figured that out myself.) This is adapted from the beginning of the first Nightmare House, which is included as a prologue on the fuller Nightmare House 2. You really do start as the victim of a car crash limping up to this abandoned house. I haven't quite decided if this is steampunk!AU or modern!AU, but either way there was a crash involved.
Anyway, I believe I promised to talk about the plot here: Dr. Bumby in this version of reality wasn't using the children as prostitutes, but rather as test subjects for his experiments in psychic powers and mind control. Alice's sister Lizzie was an early victim of his interest in such things -- he forced her to burn down the Liddell house after she spurned his advances. Alice lived with him as his maid at first, but when she discovered the experiments and his role in the deaths of her family, she tried to stop him. Dr. Bumby naturally just turned her into an experiment, and tormented her so much she slit her wrists and killed herself. However, her spirit lingered on to torment Bumby, and he fled the house for a nearby hospital, leaving Alice and a whole flock of zombified kids.
Enter Victor some time later. He crashes in front of the abandoned Houndsditch Home and is led through it by Alice, having to fight zombies and suffering hallucinations because of Alice's presence. Eventually he flees the house chased by zombies -- Alice hitches a ride, saves his life from the zombies, then possesses him to avoid being pulled back to the house. Victor's discovered screaming about flesh-eating children and horrible bloody eyes (remember, ghost!Alice is Hysteria!Alice), and is taken to the psychiatric ward of the same hospital Bumby's hiding at.
A few months after Victor's been committed, Bumby tries his mind control experiments again, zombifying the staff. Alice wakes Victor up a little while afterward and helps him make it through the haunted hospital, although Victor doesn't see it that way at first. Eventually he learns what Bumby has done and willingly destroys the "core" responsible for so much misery, allowing Alice to get her revenge and pass on. Of course, all that time spent as an inadvertent experiment himself has left its mark. . .
So yeah, that's how I'd tweak the game's plot to work with these characters. I dunno what I'd do about the SWAT Team that shows up in Nightmare House 2. . .their only real purpose is to die messily. But I do like the image of Alice comforting one in his last moments. . . *shrug* Hypotheticals. Gotta love 'em. And yes, I couldn't resist giving Victor some mild telekinesis at the end. XD Yay superpowers!
Okay! That's another one down. The corresponding virtue will clear out the Hot Fuzz pair, and then we've just got the WALL*E pair to go! Right now, though, I've got tumblr tags galore, so later!
