Pagan_3115 on 18/9/2008 at 09:00

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Thats nice. Really like way Garrett is falling. The moon is pretty amazing too!

Bookahiloc on 22/9/2008 at 10:48

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*waves arms around* ANIMUS!
*thread resurrected*
All these works are absolutely fantastic! I feel like doing something now.
But before I do, could someone give me a nutshell-esque run-down on King No-One? Only I've been too terrified in the Cradle level to actually pay any attention to the details. *Is running through it so fast she has no real idea of what's going on in there*
And if someone could give me a mini-arc flashback on Karras, or any other interesting character/situations in TMA? Sadly, I don't have it.
If anyone could oblige me, I'll thank them by making the first drawing in their name, and to their request. Just bear in mind I'm no DaVinci. :cheeky:
Thanks in advance.


*is mentally assaulted by a vision of Benny et al. as the playing card-guards from Alice in Wonderland, chasing Garrett, who has stolen the tarts.* :weird:

jtr7 on 22/9/2008 at 11:21

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Haha, Beleg! Agreed! :D

King No-One:

[SPOILER]From HHpatientlist:
"White Hall Patient Register
Patient No. 1 - Cell 1 (Seclusion Chamber)
Wears a wax mask to cover his missing features.
Confined to the Seclusion Chamber.
Answers to name 'King No One'. Dangerous and intelligent."

HHkingnoonefile:
"Case No. 1: E. Poshtoll
Patient History
Entry One: Subject arrived via City Watch escort. Perpetrator of the infamous Tallow Man murders. Deemed unfit to stand trial. Wears wax mask to cover extreme facial deformities. Admitted for observation and treatment. - Doctor Sandbridge
Entry Two: Sedatives and electrical treatments ineffective. Possesses a cunning intelligence. Extremely dangerous. Refuses to answer to own name. Other patients taken to calling him King No-One. Natural leader. Recommend be kept in Seclusion Chamber. - DS
Entry Three: Tricked nursing staff into taking his medications. Nurse Sorrel dead. Nurse Lovewell remains in sick ward - we were unable to reach her before he disfigured her face. Where did he get the wax? - DS"

HHdoctorjournal:
"The orphan girl's murder seems to have caused a sort of mass unrest with the patients. The White Hall patients are especially agitated. It's making it very difficult for the staff to search for the missing body. He's the instigator, I know it. Somehow he manages to direct the others.
King No-One. That name just feeds his deranged narcissism. Someone must have tampered with the medicines. Or he's told them all not to swallow their pills. This has to stop. If I have to go down there myself and manage the situation, then so be it.
Another sleepless night! Two days without their medications! The noise is near intolerable. I'll need to hire more orderlies if we're to get the situation back under control."[/SPOILER]

Here's what Jordan Thomas, null, said about the King No One and the nine Cradle Patients:

[SPOILER]Regarding King No.1 - He was an extremely prolific serial killer in the style of Jack the Ripper... able to essentially become anyone he wanted to be -- at least, at a glance -- through the use of wax-sculpted faces, the forgiving shadows of gaslights, and his infinite personality matrix. He was only brought to justice because he was caught in a freak Inn fire, and the wax on his face and head began to melt off -- taking most of the skin with it.

As for the nurse, he may have merely found her to be narcissistic, and decided to... well 'deface' her.[/SPOILER]


The Cradle fire:
[SPOILER]The burnt material in her cell was just the beginning. She went on to set fire to the Staff tower (urged by the charismatic maniac King No-One -- No.1 -- get it?), and sat down to watch. Hence the chair, and the reason why there's nothing left of the Staff to animate except memories. The entire Cradle didn't burn down. Just the authority, and the nursery tower. Anything elevated (and thus made of lighter material) was doomed.[/SPOILER]

[SPOILER]Rogue Wolf: What happened to the inmates after the fire? Were they killed by smoke inhalation or the like... or worse, were they sealed in by the City authorities? The doors are all barricaded from the INSIDE, except for the basement hatch.
Ugh, there's the most disturbing thought of all... the still-living patients wandering the halls pathetically, succumbing to starvation... then brought back to 'life' by the Cradle itself. Deliciously sick.[/SPOILER]

[SPOILER]Null: Correct.

The inmates remained inside and likely slaughtered the remaining Staff that didn't occupy the tower (bones here and there indicate as such), and for a time, they probably had the run the asylum under the spider-like rule of their mad king. The few Staff and orphans left in the halls were probably stalked and unspeakably disposed of by the White Hall 9.

Ultimately, though, these worst among the patients became emaciated, and probably lost their lives to the overwhelming, alien will of the institution. With lockdown portcullises preventing any real escape, they could do nothing but sit there and erode under its omnipresent attention. I've always thought of the Cradle's malignance as that of a surrogate parent. A home to the lost, in which they'll never be found.

The building, whatever it is, had the strongest, most interesting memories of those in the White Hall, and so it kept them animated for 50+ years, waiting to play with you.

"A Stitch In Time Saves Nine."[/SPOILER]

Lauryl says: [SPOILER]m09v09a
It worked. You're in the past now. This is what everything looks like, the way the Cradle remembers it. It's like...a stitch in time. You can't die here because you're inside a patient. But if the staff catch you, they'll take away your toy, and you'll have to find another one.[/SPOILER]

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Karras:

Karras was a Hammer. The charismatic genius, Brother Karras, had been mocked terribly by the nobility and had ideas his fellow Hammers didn't approve of, most notably, his heretical ideas about the boilers and gears INSTEAD of hammers as holy symbols and the way of the Builder. He split off from the Hammers, along with a growing body of followers, to form the progressive, and extra aggressive, Mechanist Order. At some point he rediscovered the Lost City of Karath-Din and the Precursors' technology. Not long after he began experimenting with necromancy--specifically, controlling the undead. He became Father Karras. In his scheme of revenge against the nobility who mocked him mercilessly, his extreme bigotry against the pagans, and general disgust with living flesh overall, he wooed the rich with powerful and interesting gadgets and machines and security devices. With the gifts and money the nobility now gave him to seek his favor, and the huge membership within the industrious Mechanist Order, he changed the face of The City, rebuilding it for the future he envisioned. He paid Sheriff Truart to help him round up people to be turned into his doomsday weapons, the Masked Servants/Slaves, and encouraged him to kill or arrest pagans, too. Garrett and Viktoria surprised Karras before the day he had intended to wipe out all life in The City, so he put his final plan into motion. Garrett helped Karras destroy himself with his own weapons.

sNeaksieGarrett on 22/9/2008 at 21:40

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lol, dang jtr7.:o

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Here's the full size version of the pic I posted:

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Bookahiloc on 23/9/2008 at 08:52

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*is buried* :p
Thanks jtr7! *hug* Any requests?


*shivers* I'll never get to sleep now. *curls up in foetal position* Just when the teacher suggested candle-making in home-ec too.


Poteeeentiaaaaal....... :ebil:

@ Platinumoxicity, First-Keeper, redface, Captain Spandex et al. This is some of the best work I've ever seen. :thumb:
I should do stuff like that. Inspiring! Amazing! Mystic!


......Though I still say I should go with Alice in Wonderland Benny-card...... :joke: