Story.md

This document should contain all the events of the story in order as they appear in the game:

1. Intro The player spawns, and unlocks defend, attack, and speak The basic plot of the driving urge to avoid isolation is begun.

2. Aorta Here the player begins to become aquainted with combat and the world. Trolls are shown as neutral morally, but they let their loyalty to their king supercede their own will and make evil decisions as a result. Oscar will sometimes appeal to the troll's better judgement. The trolls see amadeus as a perfect being, but he repeatedly shows himself to be a jerk. Oscar is supposed to represent childlike innocence.

   • The player meets Virgil. He provides a tutorial. If the tutorial is denied, this triggers an NG+ route, see below.
   • A troll finds the player and alerts the troll kingdom to his presence (some signal?)
   • The player comes across a scene in which virgil killed a troll. This starts Virgil's arc of regret.
   • The player unlocks stun.
   • The player meets Oscar. He can choose whether Oscar comes or not.
   • The player unlocks charge.
   • The player meets Amadeus.
   • The player fights some Troldiers.
   • The player talks to Amadeus again
   • The player Fights Amadeus

3. Underworld Here the player meets people in the negative afterlife. First he meets "bad" people, who seem nice but did evil things in their lives. Then he meets people who seem bad, but were considered "good" people in the real world. This is supposed to show how all are evil. Some references are made to people they can't find, implying them to be in heaven. These people are ascribed Christian traits and a belief in God who took on punishment for their sins.

   • The player meets Emery and unlocks a better inspect command
   • The player meets Franklin and Arnold, who say they are not like the other skeletons and sympathize with the player's goals. They are "Good" people but they still went to hell.
   • They talk to the skeletons again. The player helps them and they give the player some skullberries.
   • Franklin gets kidnapped by Thaddeus. Arnold accompanies you to the lair.
   • Thaddeus tells you the underworld is safe from the DARKNESS, since it is beyond the physical realm, and asks you to lay down your arms and stay there safe.
   • When you "kill" thaddeus, you inherit the birthright. He simply reappears and talks about how he can never leave this place.

4. Ocean. Here the player is introduced to sharks and the dolphins. The dolphins present themselves as an oppressed faction of sea animals and ask you to help them overthrow the sharks. Importantly, the sharks and dolphins are both shown to be groups of good and bad people. The shark king is evil, but mortimer the dolphin is also evil and intends to wipe out the sharks just like Alcore wanted to destroy the dolphins.

   • The player meets mortimer who is being chased by sharks. Mortimer asks the harbinger to help him over throw the sharks
   • You meet some of the other dolphins. Alphonzo is this super shady goth dolphin. Miriam is this nice girl dolphin.
   • You meet some fish who are scared of the dolphin
   • You meet some sharks who try to crush you using a rock, but another shark guy helps you
   • You fight the shark king. After he dies, the other sharks all freak out. Dolphins storm the throne room, and crown martimer their king. Marty decrees that he is going to kill all the sharks. You say he can't do that, and he says they deserve it for all the dolphins they've killed.
   • You fight martimer and crown the nice shark guy king again. He decrees that he is in love with miriam, and they become the new king and queen of the

Interlude: In the caves between the layers, you come across virgil who has slain a monster known as Regret. He is seen with a barbaric look standing over it's corpse triumphantly but scarily.

4. Crystal Forest Here the Gang is encountered by Chain, an assassin who uses flashy moves because he is such a good assassin that he does not have to be stealthy. He was tasked to beat the player, but accidentally inflicts a mortal wound. He freaks out beause the darkness needs him alive and carries him through the crystal forest. The player plays Chain for this segment.

   • The player encounters and loses to Chain.
   • Chain meets Virgil, who at first is ready to kill him. Chain explains what has happened. Virgil allows him to continue and says that a healer lives at the end of the forest.
   • Chain runs into people who are opressed by the darkness and realizes that the darkness is evil.
   • Chain saves a little girl and you find out that he is only working for the darkness because they have his sister held hostage.
   • Chain heals the player and lets them go, saying that his sister would want the world saved, even if it meant she died.

5. Garden Here the player is struck by the gravity of the situation. The main theme here focuses around virgil and his attempt at taking his own life to try and make up for all the killing he has done. Suicide won't fix anything. The gravity of war is supposed to be shown.

   • You meet abigail the caretaker of the garden about half way through. She explains that the garden has a flower for every person who has died on the surface.
   • You see virgil's sword stuck in the ground.
   • Virgil explains his regret and asks you to kill him. When you won't, he tries to kill himself. When you save him, he teaches you sorrow, which is a counter attack.

6. The Great City Here, the player comes across a sprawling city full of creatures from the whole world. Sometimes creatures will try to mug you and innocent bystanders will not care. There is a crime boss running the city, and you tell the people to rise up, but they will not. It's only once you start fighting that they start to join you. The police are also corrupt, and near the end, they both fight you together. A guy running a shop let's you purchase a single item of choice that permanently affects the game.

Here you can choose to skip to the roots using a state of the art subterrean.

7. The Ravine A dark pit. Here you can enter the ruins if you know the code. When fighting in here, you have to use light moves to see the monsters.

8. Inferno This is the outside of the hollow earth. It is full of lava and earth creatures. More primitive trolls live here, and fire beings.

9. The Lab (The Roots) Here, the player runs into Dr. Malpraxis, who wants to study you and subjects you to a bunch of tests, via battles. He keeps bragging about how his creation will change the world. Ultimately, it turns on him and kills him before turning to kill you as well. Red trolls come from here, and oscar finds out he doesn't have parents, but was instead created and left for dead after they discovered the physical deformity of his deuterochromity.

10. The Surface Here, the player has to fight possessed humans that deal darkness attacks. DARK attacks reduce max hp a little. They have to fight aragore, the tenth general who is a dragon. Aragore talks about how humanity did this to themselves, and reveals how they split morality in an attempt to hide from their dark nature, unintentionally creating the darkness. You were created as the balance act, due to the conservation of morality. Aragore says that the earth is better off with humanity dead.

The Darkness:

As you crest a final mountain top, you come across a shadowy version of yourself. They reveal themselves to be the darkness. He states that he really didn't expect you to make it this far, given that the world was an evil place before he even got there. A big fight ensues. After a while of fighting, he tells you that this is enough and fatally wounds you. He then reveals his final plan, which was to trap you in an alternate dimension. Since good and evil must both exist, and since good always wins in the end, he wants to make the true final fight never happen. Your fates are tied due to the conservation of morality. He traps you within the alternate dimension. A cinematic animation where he dramatically fights and wounds your friends starts playing, but just when he is about to win, he starts dying. It clips to a scene of you talking for the first time in the game and talking about how your friends are worth the sacrifice, and then you stab yourself and bleed out in the void. The Darkness realizes what is happening and desperately sends himself to the void in an attempt to heal the player. This triggers a final battle scene where the player must kill themseves so that the darkness dies. This is supposed to contrast with virgil, and show the difference between sacrifice and suicide.

11. The Temple

? Secret area, should explain where the light and dark come from? Maybe contain me as a secret boss, in which the character accepts special offerings of light as the fight happens.