Chapter 2

Chapter synopsis of 3D game content:

Actors:

Talon Brave

Saurian Cat variation

Cyber-zombie tripod

Cyber-zombie leader

“Away” Keeper

Mary Thunder

Indian captives (male and female?)

Inventory/gameplay objects:

Weapons locker

Weapons:

Colt Peacekeeper

Level 2 Mod blaster

Level CH2L1 – Trocaran shuttle ship

Scene 1

Environ: Storage room

Actors: Talon, Zombie guard, beast

Objects: Crates to move, hide behind

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: Get out of room and shut down alarm

Cinema:

Plot progress: sets up the Trocaran shuttle environment, and makes the player really feel like he’s cruising away from Earth

Scene 2

Environ: Hallways

Actors: Talon, beasts

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: find trap-door down to service area

Cinema:

Plot progress: give the player the desperate sense that he is alone, set up the feel of the ship

Scene 3

Environ: Service conduits

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: get to electrical service bay undetected

Cinema:

Plot progress: get the player used to the fact that he will explore “hidden” areas like this often

Scene 4

Environ: Electrical service bay

Actors: Talon, zombies

Objects: Weapons locker, mod blaster batteries

New weapons: level 2 mod blaster

Puzzle:

Challenge: get weapon, find schematic\map

Cinema:

Plot progress: give the player a sense of the ship as operating without him, also gives him the first taste of a weapon’s locker

Scene 5

Environ: Service conduits

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 6

Environ: Double-door puzzle

Actors: Talon, zombie-guards

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle: open first door, shoot out portal before gas fills up room (w/colt), destroy override switch, open second door

Challenge: kill first guards, get doors open

Cinema:

Plot progress: present a mental puzzle to the player—get him using his brain, but also make the player feel like he’s affecting things on the ship (when the state of alarm brings other cyber-zombies, etc.)

Scene 7

Environ: Cells

Actors: Talon, Mary, “Away” keeper, captured men and women, mutilated corpse

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: destroy second door’s controls, turn on emergency lights, shoot men free from cables, find hidden panel to exit room

Cinema: Talk to Mary about cell, learn about the bended bars, some of the horrors of the Keepers (though we still have no clue as to what they are)

Plot progress: make Talon feel that he’s in a leadership role here—only he has the power to change things at this moment—also make Talon know that these are not the only captives, just part of them in this cell block

Scene 8

Environ: Back exit from cells

Actors: Talon, 2 Indians

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: discover (but can’t open) Keeper door, find stairs up

Cinema:

Plot progress: Talon as a rescuer

Scene 9

Environ: Zombie guard recharge room

Actors: Talon, 2 Indians, 4 re-charging zombies

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle: wire the systems so that you can kill the zombies w/o waking them up

Challenge: find the map to the bridge

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 10

Environ: Ship hallways near bridge

Actors: Talon, 2 Indians, zombies, beasts

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: get to the bridge w/o getting killed

Cinema:

Plot progress: give Talon a sense of the desperate nature of his situation, and that he can’t control everything himself

Scene 11

Environ: Bridge

Actors: Talon, 2 Indians, zombies

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: close bridge door, gain some control of the ship

Cinema: door bursts open, Indians are killed, Talon is swarmed

Plot progress: when the Indians are dying, Talon feels helpless, unworthy of his role as hero, but he regains some sense of confidence when he begins to control the ship—when the doors break down, and the Indians killed and Talon captured, Talon feels helpless, hopeless and trapped

Chapter 3

Chapter synopsis of 3D game content:

Actors:

Talon Brave

Lesser Keeper

Staleene Keeper

Mary Thunder

Indian male

Great grandfather

Humanoid beefy chick guard

Humanoid noble

Generic Cvamp

Hataa-skeen

Hovering thing

Bird thing

Inventory/gameplay objects:

Weapons:

Colt Peacekeeper

X5

Mod blaster-level 1

Vamp spear

Level CH3L1 – Humanoid prison

Scene A

Environ: Prison—dissection room

Actors: Talon, some strange Keepers

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema: Talon wakes up as he’s being dissected, passes out, wakes up to empty room, sees leg and arm on table, passes out again

Plot progress: Talon learns that he is a prisoner now, and that something horrible has been done to him

Scene 1

Environ: Prison platforms

Actors: Talon (should we have a few other dudes here as well?), hovering thing

Objects:

New weapons: Talon finds his colt peacemaker

Puzzle: figure out how to leap on the automated drones to get from platform to platform (too Mario-esque?)

Challenge: get to the wall

Cinema:

Plot progress: Talon realizes that he is not dead—feels the scars and some of the strange mental effects, knows he must escape the prison, knows that he’s no longer on the ship, but someplace altogether different and alien

Scene 2

Environ: Prison sloping wall

Actors: Talon, bird-creatures

Objects: ammo for the Colt

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: get up the wall, avoid the bird creatures

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 3

Environ: Prison ledge/entrance

Actors: Talon, 2 beefy-chick humanoid guards

Objects:

New weapons: Humanoid weapon (X5?)

Puzzle:

Challenge: knock out the 2 guards, get a weapon

Cinema:

Plot progress: learns that he was meant to be kept here

Scene 4

Environ: Prison hall

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: find trail of fresh blood to lead him to Mary’s cell

Cinema:

Plot progress: learns that this place is a prison

Scene 5

Environ: Prison—Mary Thunder’s cell

Actors: Talon, Mary

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: Talk to Mary, hear scream

Cinema: Mary explains that they took the others away

Plot progress: Learns the there were others (and they were taken away), that he’s been “out” for quite a few days

Scene 6

Environ: Prison—dissection room

Actors: Talon, 2 lesser Keepers, Indian on table

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: figure out how to get into room

Cinema:

Plot progress: Talon feels helpless—he couldn’t stop the dissection and death of his friend, his friend had the same sort of experience he had, but Talon didn’t die—he wonders why

Scene 7

Environ: Prison—meeting with great grandfather

Actors: Talon, great grandfather

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema: Talon’s first meeting with the old man

Plot progress: Set’s the stage for the mystical portion of the game

Scene 8

Environ: Prison--Staleene Keeper in hall

Actors: Talon, Staleene Keeper, guards

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: kill guards, listen to Keeper, find entrance to library

Cinema: Introductory meeting with Staleene Keeper (does this need to be a cinema?)

Plot progress: introduces the concept of Earth as part of the game

Level CH3L2 – Humanoid library

Scene 1

Environ: Entry to library

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema:

Plot progress: Talon begins to realize the scale and antiquity of this place

Scene 2

Environ: Library main room

Actors: Talon, humanoid nobles

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: kill the nobles, access a kiosk, learn a bit about the Trocara

Cinema:

Plot progress: Talon sees other members of the humanoid species, and also learns a bit about the Trocara from the information kiosks (this will teach him how to access other data later in the game)

Scene 3

Environ: Upper ledge area

Actors: Talon, great grandfather, parasite creature

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: see old man, kill parasite, figure out how to move crates, get up to ledge, follow old man into mystical portal

Cinema:

Plot progress: learns about the old man’s way of getting him into a dream quest

Scene 4

Environ: Main library room

Actors: Talon, Cvamp, humanoid guard, humanoid noble

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: see the cvamp do her thing, follow the running vamp

Cinema:

Plot progress: sees a new and bloodthirsty creature in the vamp

Scene 5

Environ: Cvamp stairs\conduits

Actors: Talon, cvamp

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: follow cvamp

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 6

Environ: Cvamp entry room

Actors: Talon, many cvamps

Objects:

New weapons: cvamp spear

Puzzle:

Challenge: kill the attacking cvmaps, follow the survivors into the throne room

Cinema:

Plot progress: begins the genocide of the cvamps without knowing what he’s doing

Scene 7

Environ: Cvamp throne room

Actors: Talon, cvamps, Hataa-skeen

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: kill the last cvamps, learn about what he just did

Cinema: Hataa-skeen lambastes Talon for his horrific rampage, falls to her knees and weeps

Plot progress: realizes that he’s wiped out the cvamps who really didn’t threaten him, begins to feel great guilt and obligation

Level CH3DQ –Dream quest 1

Scene 1

Environ: Entry room

Actors: Talon. Great grandfather

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: figure out how to access secret door

Cinema: old man introduces talon to his learning path

Plot progress: learns of the old man’s previous abduction, and that powers have been reawakened in him via the vivisection

Scene 2

Environ: Hallway 1

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 3

Environ: Room test 1

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: use his budding powers to move stone and open secret door

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 4

Environ: Hallway 2

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge:

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 5

Environ: Room test 2

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: use his powers to stack 2 stones to open secret door

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 6

Environ: Hallway 3

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: Avoid the rolling rocks

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 5

Environ: Room test 3, water platform room

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: jump on the platforms to avoid the water, move rocks to their niches to open underwater door, jump into water to get to underwater passage

Cinema:

Plot progress: starts to see the use of mystical powers

Scene 6

Environ: Underwater hallway

Actors: Talon

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: swim to end of passage

Cinema:

Plot progress:

Scene 7

Environ: Final cave room with old man

Actors: Talon, great grandfather

Objects:

New weapons:

Puzzle:

Challenge: listen to old man, return to Trocaran ship via portal

Cinema: wisdom cinematic

Plot progress: begin to see the wisdom of the old man and view him as an ally