The Road to the Trilogy - Endless Script Writing

 Hello. C J here. Now everyone welcome to the long, slow and repetitive part of making a game, physically typing the entire text of it up and then, in this case, voice acting it when it’s done being typed. This will take years. I have a limit of how much I can type in a day without straining my fingers and I’ll still be under it by a bit after this journal. The rest of that limit will be put towards the script for Absolute itself.

Here’s some dialogue from Chapter One of Absolute, City Draped in Gold. Chapter One sees the four draconians return to Ascala where the plot started to wrap up some loose ends. Ascala has more in store for them than they thought. By the way this journal here does not have an important reason and does not make a point. I’m typing today so I thought I’d share some of it. Dear All, these characters are fun to write. Oh, and also, if anyone wants to adult parody them well, most of the four are gay anyway. I think they’d be fine with that.

Start Play at South Docks. All four characters are in the party together.

Zan: We’re back in Ascala. Remind me, what’s the job this time?

Kel: Someone doesn’t read the briefings.

Zan: Not while adjusting to new shapeshifting powers, no.

Kel: Then I suppose it can’t be helped. Something doesn’t add up about our previous job. The power source, the one that was stolen, it was never identified. It’s not Ascalan make at all. Also, we have no idea who the summoner was.

Mel: Good. What leads do we have?

Kel: Unfortunately not many. We need to scour the continent to find out where these people came from and where they got the power source. There’s a problem though. This job may take us to more than one world. We have an expense account here to pay for lodgings and supplies. We can’t convert the currency off world. So we may be camping a lot. Even if we go outside the city limits here we’ll be on our own. Remind me, Mel, you took wilderness survival training?

Mel: Yes. One, two and three. You never did?

Kel: No, I didn’t think it was important.

Mel: That’s the easiest course series we have. It’s the fastest way you could have gotten to your current rank. What did you take instead?

Kel: Hand to hand combat.

Mel: You fight with a sword.

Kel: Yes, so?

Mel: You know what, nevermind.

Explosion.

Kel: What was that?

Mel: That sounded like an explosion.

Bel: That is becoming a familiar sound in this city.

Zan: I say we go help.

Bel: Agreed.

Kel: Smoke, North of here. We move in.

After a fight on the streets.

Zan: Good. Everyone’s unharmed. What was that?

Bel: I don’t know.

Mel: Whatever it was it was bad. I recognize those outfits from my last time here. Those are Oiwan colours, from the nation North of here.

Bel: That doesn’t add up. Oiwan and Ascala are allies. We need to find someone and ask what’s going on.

Kel: Agreed. The military should be out in force if this is an invasion. I’m afraid we might have walked into a war, but where is everyone?

Zan: I say we find them. There’s gunfire everywhere. Find an officer and ask.

And then the next scene.

Kel: Sorry to ask but we just arrived on shore on a mercenary contract. Are you all at war or something? Last time we were here the continent had seen a hundred years of peace.

Azkail: Dear All, mercenaries. Thank the stars. I don’t know if you’ve run across any but we’re being invaded by dragons.

Kel: Dragons?

Azkail: Yes.

Kel: As in our ancestors? All four of us are draconain.

Azkail: Yes.

Kel: Like, actual dragons? Since when are there enough of them on a continent to wage a war?

Azkail: I have no idea, but they all showed up and started incinerating buildings. Like the one behind you is doing right now. Oh, dear All, a dragon. Move! If you four can help I’ll pay you for it.

Bel: Well, that’s our funding problem solved.

Print String: Fight!

And here we introduce one of my favourite characters, Azkail Anion, Ascalan Government, Chief of Security. He’s on the streets helping the police clean up the ongoing invasion. He’s not a mage but despite that he’s one of the most brilliant strategists the city has ever seen. He runs the entire police force of thousands of people and also consults on military matters with their head staff. He’s cool. He’s also some variety of gender fluid that he invented for himself and he’s trying to find the right spell to have cast on him to make it more obvious. He’s human by the way.

C J Mcpherson