This Is Fine
Added 2021-11-17 01:08:33 +0000 UTCDear Insane Children,
Joey's working on an illustration from the Alice: Asylum script in which we see child Alice fleeing her family's burning home. The idea is that she's supposed to make it out alive - otherwise, there would be no first game, no second game... hell, we wouldn't be here talking about all of this today!
But the way Joey's rendered this scene... I don't think Alice is getting out of there alive. And if she is alive... she's going to be melted, cooked, burnt, etc. Not fine.
Omri jumped in and suggested some edits that might help improve Alice's chances of getting out alive (and not burnt to a crisp):
We'll see if things look better for poor Alice in the next revision from Joey.
Fingers crossed!
Gareth has started work on a critical scene - the moment where Alice escape the Snow Globe and first meets (real) Hatter. That scene reads like this (spoilers):
LEVEL 8 - ACT 1
UMBRA LAND
[Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight” in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 III. Presto agitato]
Silence. Darkness.
Then the haphazard rattles of a precariously balancing porcelain tea set.
THE MAD Hatter watches as a Snow Globe shakes itself from his table, and crashes to the floor. Alice emerges quickly from within the shattered glass clutching her white rabbit.
Her eyes are closed, like she is sleeping. Tears are salted dry on her cheeks.
THE MAD Hatter
Oh, there you are. Finally, I’ve been expecting you two. TEA?
His familiar, jittery voice awakens Alice. The Hatter shoves a filthy overflowing cup of Darjeeling into the Child’s face. He is no longer his calm, measured self. This Hatter is very clearly, quite mad.
Alice and her Rabbit find themselves on the floor in Hatter’s Workshop, but it is grimier and filthier. Where there was once pristine equipment, now sit jagged edges, rusted springs and derelict machinery. Chaos is seeping into this workshop everywhere. Shards of the shattered snowglobe are strewn about on the floor besides Alice.
Endless vortexes swirl in the air through the windows outside. Darkness reigns.
Speaking of scripts and spoilers...
We finished our back-and-forth editing on the Narrative Outline yesterday.
Alex is now typesetting the document so we can share another PDF Outline here on Patreon. Lots of improvements, changes, and additions (many at your request) are included. Excited to share that with everyone soon!
We'll also have news about an interesting year-end idea... a Calendar Poster! Woo.
From Shanghai with Love,
-American
Comments
A Calendar poster would be amazing!
Stephanie Groth
2021-11-18 05:23:55 +0000 UTCThe art is getting better and better
Saleh Abu-Rashid
2021-11-17 22:22:12 +0000 UTCI’ve always been a little confused as to whether Alice made it out of the fire physically unscathed or badly burned. The dream sequence at the start of AMA showed her falling into the snow without a mark on her, but Dr Heironymous’s diary stated she’d had burns which had taken a year to heal …. and Alice’s memories in AMR indicated she hadn’t been expected to survive, but to be buried with her family! Yet in these illustrations we see her running from the house. Maybe it’s due to Alice’s confused recollections, but at the moment I’m rather confused myself!
2021-11-17 12:18:14 +0000 UTCLol, this is fine made my day. Also Gareth sketch is amazing but I will keep saying: Ponytail Alichemist is Best Alchemist
2021-11-17 10:53:25 +0000 UTCI really like the image Joey did as is tbh lol maybe that's messed up to say but I like the idea of Alice musong about what if she hadn't made it out alive. Morbid but we as humans have these dark imaginings all the time of what it would be like to die and Alice is no exception. I really love how Alices face is rendered in Gareth's image it looks alot more like her than in the previous one! I'm excited to see more of his stuff its very comic book style which works for Alice :)
2021-11-17 03:35:22 +0000 UTCI love this!
2021-11-17 03:33:08 +0000 UTCHow's this for a horrible idea: Alice has a vision that's an altered memory. In it, instead of escaping the blaze, she is killed. She wakes up, of course, but it's still a frightening image, don't you think? Looking forward to the second draft of the narrative!
Greyson Kehm
2021-11-17 02:48:55 +0000 UTCAHHH I cannot wait to read the second draft script!!!! And A poster calendar??? Ahh again!!! I was stoked to see an Art calendar for 2021... the year may almost be over but I still ordered it. I can't wait for it's arrival!
Karma Chameleon
2021-11-17 01:40:58 +0000 UTC
