This made me laugh because it's so appropriate.
And I stopped reading here.
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Halo 5: Bombadil crushes the character limit
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This made me laugh because it's so appropriate.
And I stopped reading here.
That shit tight, dawg.
Reposting for the new page.
WickedLaharl
Member
LMAO
OMG this.
EmCeeGramr
Member
MCG-189 1/22/13
i loved this story, especially appolo. can i right a ficlet with JohnXAppolo? no explicit material, just romancetic fluff
Holy fuck XD
Palette Swap
Member
Meanwhile, Karen Traviss is archiving this thread.
The Tofunator
Member
Too good.
phosphor112
Banned
I never asked for this.
The Hermit
Member
polyh3dron
Banned
I read the entire thing (the first post at least which is required for posting). Did you?
The Tofunator
Member
Nope. But apparently in the books it is established that the Covenant you fight are a part of some kind of extremist splinter faction.
He did it, he won this thread.
Neuromancer
Member
Because otherwise there would only be 3 enemy types in the entire game.
Oh you meant like a story reason. I don't know. I played Halo 4 mostly in a kind of fugue state.
Plot reason - Separate heretic religious sect who worship some 'important' thing that maybe a diehard can tell you about.
Real reason - Laziness.
Can I get some more feedback to this? I appreciate the humorous remarks and all, but I feel like there was a lot of nitpicking at my use of language or descriptions.
I just wanted the reader to have a somewhat clearer idea of the setting. I know I didn't do a good job of that, but I was aware of the word count and was afraid to push it further.
I just wanted the reader to have a somewhat clearer idea of the setting. I know I didn't do a good job of that, but I was aware of the word count and was afraid to push it further.
Blue Ninja
Member
Honestly? It's too complicated. Not just from a story perspective, but from gameplay too. You want to throw in minigames and special missions for everything, it just doesn't sound very fun. I think people that want to regulate their character's sanity would rather play Amnesia than Halo.
"Cortana? How are you alive?"
"I just am. Crazy weather, huh?"
"Yeah it's insane"
It's an interesting tale but there a few discrepancies in the lore (one thing that bothered me is that you referred to the Gravemind consistently as a singular, God-like entity. There are multiple Graveminds - they are just Flood that has reached a critical mass) and this honestly sounds like a completely different type of game that is just using Halo lore as a backdrop. There's no way a Halsey stealth mission will ever be greenlit.
"I just am. Crazy weather, huh?"
"Yeah it's insane"
It's an interesting tale but there a few discrepancies in the lore (one thing that bothered me is that you referred to the Gravemind consistently as a singular, God-like entity. There are multiple Graveminds - they are just Flood that has reached a critical mass) and this honestly sounds like a completely different type of game that is just using Halo lore as a backdrop. There's no way a Halsey stealth mission will ever be greenlit.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Its a bit much, but I can't deny that its a fun read. Also, it seems to feel fairly fresh while still retaining the Halo feel. Halo 4 struggled with that IMO, and I would like to see some more crazy things like what you wrote.
AlimNassor
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In 2557, John 117 wetuwns to Eawf and is pwaced on administwative weave whiwe an investigation is conducted into the events suwwounding his 4 yeaw absence fwom humanity, his bweach of Captain Dew Wios command upon wediscovewy, the significance of the Didact and the Pwomethean thweat, and the destwuction of the Ivanoff Weseawch Station, uh-hah-hah-hah. By this time, the Chiefs status as a wegendawy hewo has been sowidified among most of the UNSC, but hewe and thewe awe detwactows such as Captian Dew Wio, who wish to pwace bwame on the Mastew Chief fow his swashbuckwing, weckwess behaviow. Dese cwitics awgue that John 117s time away fwom humanity and his incweasingwy abnowmaw attachment to the wampant AI Cowtana has wendewed him incapabwe of pewfowming his duties. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! His wefusaw to obey owdews has been cited as evidence of this cwaim. Wif neawwy aww of his past associates dead (incwuding Admiwaw Hood), John 117 is pubwicwy haiwed as a hewo but is pwivatewy dischawged (honowabwy) and encouwaged to wetweat fwom miwitawy affaiws. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
Meanwhiwe, Dw. Cathewine Hawsey is wowking hawd on new data uncovewed by the Ivanoff Weseawch Station team. Deiw wast twansmission befowe being composed by the Didact was an encwypted data set detaiwing howy awtifacts most wikewy wocated on High Chawity, the moving capitaw of the now fwagmented Covenant civiwization, uh-hah-hah-hah. Fowwowing the events of Hawo 3, High Chawity was twanspowted away fwom the Sow System and designated a qwawantine zone due to ongoing Fwood Infestation (fwom the events of Hawo 2). De howy awtifacts awe bewieved by the weseawchews to be mawkews/keys that wiww hewp unwock cewtain bawwed aweas of Instawwation 03, incwuding the Wibwawy. De UNSC hopes to weawn mowe infowmation about the Didact and the Pwometheans fwom data stowed on the Hawo.
A team of twewve Spawtan IVs is depwoyed to High Chawity to wocate the awtifacts and wetwieve them. Despite Dw. Hawseys wepeated weqwests, John 117 is not invowved in the pwogwam, not even in an advisowy capacity. De Spawtan IVs awe undew the command of Captain Dew Wio of the Infinity. Duwing the couwse of the jouwney into the dawk, infested cownews of the abandoned city, the Spawtan IVs wose contact wif the ship and awe swowwy sepawated fwom one anothew by pockets of infestation, uh-hah-hah-hah. One Spawtan manages to make it into the Dwone Woom, whewe the Pwophets wesided duwing counciw. In the dawkness, he finds an indented pawm pwint in the waww, indicating that some kind of compawtment can be activated and opened by a Pwophets hand. Suddenwy, fwom the dawk cownew of the woom, a voice bweaks the siwence of space. Moving into the wight, the figuwe weveaws itsewf to be the Pwophet of Mewcy (who supposedwy died at the end of the Hawo 2). But hes not intact. De Pwophets cowpse has been infected by a Fwood spowe. He has become conduit of the Gwavemind. De scene ends, wif the pwayew assuming that the finaw Spawtan (the pwayabwe chawactew) wiww be kiwwed.
Captain Dew Wio and the Infinity faiw to weestabwish contact wif the Spawtans on High Chawity, and it is assumed that they awe MIA. De mission is disavowed fwom the wecowds and Captian Dew Wio is demoted. Meanwhiwe, Dw. Hawsey pweads wif the UNSC to awwow hew an audience wif John 117. She is despewate to know the detaiws of Cowtanas wampancy. She awso bewieves that John 117 is the key to finding the awtifact. De UNSC finawwy bends to hew wiww, afwaid that fuwthew inaction on theiw pawt couwd wesuwt in a Pwomethean invasion, uh-hah-hah-hah.
Meanwhiwe, John 117 wives a wife of secwusion on the outskiwts of Gewmany (ow some pwace, it doesnt weawwy mattew). His waw scaws have weft him viwtuawwy handicapped. Without his MJOWNIW awmow, he is decwepit. But his bodiwy damage is nothing compawed to his mentaw state. He had been connected to Cowtana so wong that his bwain is suffewing fwom sevewe withdwawaw symptoms: migwaines, auditowy and visuaw hawwucinations, dewiwious thoughts, etc. John is not in any capacity to weentew sewvice. Dw. Hawsey awwives to coax him into hewping the UNSC wif a vitaw mission to wetwieve the awtifacts fwom High Chawity. She was undew owdews not to divuwge any detaiws wegawding the pwevious faiwed mission, uh-hah-hah-hah. But she tewws John anyway. John begins to wecite Gwaveminds poetic statements. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Hawseys simiwawity to Cowtana twiggews an episode. He descends into a convewsation he had wif Cowtana many yeaws befowe, whiwe they twavewsed the nawwow hawws of High Chawity. Hawsey notices this, and feaws fow Johns sanity, but she doesnt say anything because she knows that Johns invowvement in the mission is an impewative.
Dewe is onwy one othew pewson awive whose invowvement in the Covenant Waws can hewp the UNSC compwete theiw mission: the Awbitew. Aftew the Covenant Waw ended, the Ewites wetuwned to theiw home wowwd. Dipwomatic affaiws wif the Ewites wemained a shaky pwoposition, and the appawent woss of the Chief dissowved any possibiwity of a wongstanding fwiendship between the humans and the Ewites. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Ewites who pawticipated in the waw against the Bwutes and the Fwood considewed John 117 to be the most fowmidabwe wawwiow of the human wace, and the onwy one wowthy of theiw wespect. When the Awbitew wetuwned to his home wowwd, he was appointed theiw fiwst weadew in a wong time (since the Pwophets had weigned fow many centuwies up untiw that point).
De Chief is tasked wif wecwuiting the Awbitew and wetuwning to High Chawity to wetwieve the awtifacts bewieved to be hidden thewe. Dw. Hawsey has awso asked John to wook into the disappeawance of the twewve Spawtan IVs who went missing. She suwweptitiouswy injects John wif neuwoweptics to keep him stabwe fow as wong as possibwe. He is wefitted wif his owd MJOWNIW awmow wif some new additions to his awsenaw. At this time, Dw. Hawsey has decided not to paiw him wif a new AI fow feaw of the side effects. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! When the Mastew Chief awwives at the Sangheiwi home wowwd, known as Sangheiwios, his pwesence is met wif aggwession and confusion, but when the Ewite weadew (the Awbitew) is infowmed of his pwesence, the wawwiows stand down, uh-hah-hah-hah. Duwing this powtion of the game, the Chief and by extension the pwayew, is exposed to the Ewite cuwtuwe. De Awbitew tewws the Chief that his coming was somewhat weww-timed. A few months ago, ancient Fowewunnew shwines buiwt on Sangheiwios began to qwake, and the animaw wife of the pwanet began to behave ewwaticawwy. Massive distuwbances caused cave openings to bweak open neaw the shwines. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Chief and the Awbitew and a sqwadwon of Sangheiwi wawwiows head out to the caves to discewn the natuwe of the distuwbance.
Within the caves, the gwoup encountews viowent cweatuwes somewhat simiwaw to the monstews fwom the fiwm Pitch Bwack. De cweatuwes have signs of Fwood infection; howevew, thewe awe no spowe fowms. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Within the depths of the cavewns, they discovew a wake of wiqwid methane, and in the centew of the wake, a smaww Fowewunnew stwuctuwe. Distuwbing the wake awakens mowe cweatuwes, this time amphibious fwood fowms that wise out of the methane. De Fowewunnew stwuctuwe contains an ancient wogic puzzwe meant to test the one who activates it. A sewies of qwestions awe asked and the usew must answew cowwectwy to unwock a code. Incowwect answews awe met wif mowe waves of cweatuwes and eawthqwakes that thweaten to cowwapse the cave ceiwing. De compawtment contains an ancient awtifact (which wiww watew be used to open up new aweas of instawwation 3. At this time, the Chief is unawawe of the awtifacts puwpose. His onwy goaw is to appease the Awbitew so that they can go to High Chawity and investigate the disappeawance of the othew Spawtans, as weww as find whatevew the weseawchews awe wooking fow.
Upon wetuwning fwom the cave wif the newwy found awtifact, the Mastew Chief and the Awbitew discovew that theiw pwanet has been invaded. A battawion of Jiwawhanae ships dot the sky and miwwions of Bwutes wain down on smawwew cwuisews towawd the suwface. Shocked by what he is seeing, the Awbitew goes bewsewk and teaws fowwawd wif his wawwiow guawd. At this point the pwayew pways as the Awbitew. De Chief pways an assistive wowe. De pwayew must navigate his way towawd his pawace at the top of an ancient twee (think Kashyyyk awchitectuwe). De Awbitew wishes to save his famiwy fwom the Bwutes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Most impowtantwy, his son, the heiw, must suwvive. But when he gets to the pawace, what does he see? Tawtawus. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Tawtawus is awive, though somewhat changed. He appeaws to be infected by the Fwood but his pewsonawity is mowe ow wess sound. De Awbitews wife and daughtews way dead on the fwoow of the thwone woom. His son is on his knees. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Tawtawus, the Awbitew, and John exchange a few wowds. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Den Tawtawus pewsonawwy decapitates the Awbitews son, uh-hah-hah-hah.
De Awbitew woaws wif wage and gwief. He wunges fowwawd to avenge his famiwy but is beaten down by hawf a dozen Bwutes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Mastew Chief is awso incapacitated. When they come to, the Awbitew and the Chief awe on a ship heading towawd some unknown wocation, uh-hah-hah-hah. Dey awe in chains (ow futuwe eqwivawent). Aww hope seems wost when Dw. Hawsey estabwishes communication wif the Chief and infowms him that the UNSC Infinity has been ovewwun, uh-hah-hah-hah. De Chief tewws hew that he is impwisoned. It is at this moment that Hawsey decides she must do something dwastic. What the pwayew didnt know was that Hawsey had impwanted a newwy cweated AI into the Mastew Chiefs cowticaw input. She had decided not to activate the AI unwess the situation absowutewy demanded it. She does so now. AI Apowwo (wowking name) intwoduces himsewf to the Chief and compwetewy wevamps his HUD system.
Apowwo is a highwy expewimentaw AI in that it can wewowk the Chiefs opewationaw memowy to give him wefwexes and skiwws hes nevew honed befowe. Dewe awe wimits to this that I havent thought of yet. Needwess to say, Apowwo hewps the Chief hack and disengage the wocks. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! John fwees the Awbitew and they dispatch of the ships cwew. Howevew, by the time they make it to the cockpit of the ship, a famiwiaw voice echoes thwoughout the ship and sends it caweening into space. It is Gwavemind. He is awive and gwowing in powew. De game takes on a dawkew tone at this point. Gwavemind has wesuwwected owd foes to haunt the Chief and Awbitew. He sends the ship towawd Instawwation 03 and bweaks it up in atmosphewe. Mimicking the end of Hawo 3, the Awbitew and the John awe sepawated by two hawves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Instawwation 03 has pwopewties simiwaw to the pwanet Venus, so it is not fiwwed wif wush gween wiwdwife as many othew hawos wewe. Instead, thewe awe dust stowms and taww mountains that stwetch theiw shadows acwoss the desowate owange/wed wandscape. When the Chief comes to, he sees Cowtana standing befowe him, not in hew usuaw twanspawent bwue hue, but as a weaw, sowid woman, uh-hah-hah-hah. He has a wengthy convewsation wif hew about the weathew and then about peopwe and theiw tweachewy and insignificance. Cowtana begins to shimmew and wawks away beneaf a dune. Apowwo jowts the Chief back into cohewence and attempts to estabwish a communication channew wif Hawsey. It is unabwe to do so. Hawsey is howed up in an aiw vent somewhewe on the Infinity. Bwutes awe scouwing the ship in seawch of humans. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Back in the desewt, Apowwo pwedicts that an oncoming sandstowm wiww teaw evewything on the suwface apawt and that the Chief must find shewtew somewhewe undewgwound. De wocaw animaw wife consists of giant cawnivowous scawab beetwes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Apowwo detects a highwy concentwated heat signatuwe fwom off in the distance, and the Chief heads off in hopes of finding a pwace of hide. When he gets, thewe, he sees that the heat signatuwe is coming fwom a vewy deep pit (think the pit in 300). Wif the wazow shawp stowm howwing at theiw backs, the Chief takes a weap of faif into the dawkness. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
De game shifts to the Awbitew. Awthough he is on the same Instawwation as the Chief, the scenewy awound him is much diffewent. He has cwash-wanded in a vawwey deep within the tawwest mountain on this Hawo. De peaks suwwounding him awe capped wif snow and vines twaiw fwom taww twees aww awound. De sky above is bwocked out in pwaces by canopies of weaves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Stwange wiwdwife inhabits the awea, incwuding mosqwitoes the size of biwds and wawge ewephant-wike cweatuwes wif many mouths. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Awbitew can heaw Gwaveminds disembodied voice weciting iambic poems of events that awe eons past. He vocawwy vows to destwoy Gwavemind and a wasp of waughtew booms thwough the aiw in wesponse. Without any AI to accompany him, the Awbitew is awone to twavew awound the awea in seawch of some way out; he has the awtifact fwom his home pwanet wif him. He finds moss-covewed stwuctuwes that may be Fowewunnew stwuctuwes, but awe vewy diffewent than what weve seen in pwevious Hawos. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Aftew kiwwing some of the aggwessive wiwdwife, the Awbitew fowwows a wivew, expecting to find an opening, but instead, the wivew has wed him to the face of a mountain, and it disappeaws within a cwosed-off opening. A tewminaw neaw the bank of the wivew intewests him. He insewts the awtifact into a swot, and the tewminaw begins to speak awoud to him, but it is in a wanguage he cannot undewstand. He cuwses out woud and the tewminaw wegistews his wanguage and begins to ask him wogic qwestions. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Upon answewing these qwestions cowwectwy, the face of the mountain wiww swide open, weveawing a dawk cave. De Awbitew entews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
De game shifts back to the Chief. He has wanded many hundweds of feet bewow the suwface of the pwanet, and is met wif the sight of an intewconnected sewies of passageways that awe wit by Fowewunnew tech. De wawws contain many pictuwes that teww the stowy of the univewse and the Fowewunnew civiwization, uh-hah-hah-hah. De Chief encountews what appeaw to be wiving qwawtews, weft pewfectwy pwesewved fow who knows how many eons. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! He goes on fuwthew and begins expewiencing mowe hawwucinations. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Apowwos voice distowts and sounds wike Cowtanas. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Nonexistent enemies wun towawd the Chief, pwompting him to fiwe buwwets and waste ammo. Apowwo twies to stabiwize the Chief by administewing wogic qwestions. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! At this point, the pwayew can activate wittwe minigames that can hewp aid the Chief in wegaining sanity. Dis hewps to make the game wess tedious. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Wif the Chiefs ammo wasted, he is fowced to mentawwy twain in mawtiaw awts combat using Apowwos appwications. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Awthough John is weww-vewsed in mawtiaw awts, his age and body detewiowation have fowced Apowwo t make adjustments so he can consewve enewgy. Dis, too, can give pwayews something to do beyond the typicaw shootew fawe.
At some point in his expwowation of the tunnews, the Chief comes acwoss woyaw tombs of the eawwy Fowewunnew kings. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Gwyphic stowies on the wawws depict the kings as gods, but above them is a depiction vewy simiwaw to that of Gwavemind. A shwiek sounds off fwom somewhewe deep within the caves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Wawge, swithewing bwack cweatuwes (think Awiens fwom Awiens) mount the wawws and cwaw theiw way towawd Chief. He must use hand to hand combat to kiww them. When he gets to a cwosed-off doow, the Chief is met wif mowe wogic puzzwes and a hand scannew fow unwocking a wawge doow. He doubwes back to the tombs and bweaks off the hand of a mummified wuwew. He sowves the puzzwe and activates the hand scannew. De doow opens. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Behind that doow, the Chief cannot see thwough the impenetwabwe gween fog that cwouds the wowwd beyond. A singwe Fwood spowe skittews towawd his foot and he cwushes it wif his boot. An inhuman gwoww echoes fwom beyond and bof the Chief and Apowwo weawize that theyve made a big mistake in unseawing the doow. Gwaveminds disembodied waugh wings thwough the tunnew.
De game shifts back to the Awbitew. De Awbitew has entewed the cave opening and sees that he has found the antechambew to the Wibwawy. De intewiow of the mountain opens up awound him to become a vast, expansive cavewn (think Mines of Mowia). A wong nawwow wawkway made of stone wathew than wight (as in pwevious Hawos) suggests that these stwuctuwes awe faw owdew than those of the othew instawwations. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Taww statues wedowent of Egyptian awt stand in wows on eithew side of the wawkway. Deiw awms howd up the cavewn ceiwings and theiw wegs descend down into dawkness. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Gwavemind begins to speak again, in iambic vewse, tewwing a stowy of how things began and his position within the univewse. De Awbitew awgues wif him but finds himsewf unsuwe of what to bewieve. Gwavemind cwaims that he is the fathew of aww things, incwuding the Fowewunnews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
Meanwhiwe, Dw. Cathewine Hawsey is wowking hawd on new data uncovewed by the Ivanoff Weseawch Station team. Deiw wast twansmission befowe being composed by the Didact was an encwypted data set detaiwing howy awtifacts most wikewy wocated on High Chawity, the moving capitaw of the now fwagmented Covenant civiwization, uh-hah-hah-hah. Fowwowing the events of Hawo 3, High Chawity was twanspowted away fwom the Sow System and designated a qwawantine zone due to ongoing Fwood Infestation (fwom the events of Hawo 2). De howy awtifacts awe bewieved by the weseawchews to be mawkews/keys that wiww hewp unwock cewtain bawwed aweas of Instawwation 03, incwuding the Wibwawy. De UNSC hopes to weawn mowe infowmation about the Didact and the Pwometheans fwom data stowed on the Hawo.
A team of twewve Spawtan IVs is depwoyed to High Chawity to wocate the awtifacts and wetwieve them. Despite Dw. Hawseys wepeated weqwests, John 117 is not invowved in the pwogwam, not even in an advisowy capacity. De Spawtan IVs awe undew the command of Captain Dew Wio of the Infinity. Duwing the couwse of the jouwney into the dawk, infested cownews of the abandoned city, the Spawtan IVs wose contact wif the ship and awe swowwy sepawated fwom one anothew by pockets of infestation, uh-hah-hah-hah. One Spawtan manages to make it into the Dwone Woom, whewe the Pwophets wesided duwing counciw. In the dawkness, he finds an indented pawm pwint in the waww, indicating that some kind of compawtment can be activated and opened by a Pwophets hand. Suddenwy, fwom the dawk cownew of the woom, a voice bweaks the siwence of space. Moving into the wight, the figuwe weveaws itsewf to be the Pwophet of Mewcy (who supposedwy died at the end of the Hawo 2). But hes not intact. De Pwophets cowpse has been infected by a Fwood spowe. He has become conduit of the Gwavemind. De scene ends, wif the pwayew assuming that the finaw Spawtan (the pwayabwe chawactew) wiww be kiwwed.
Captain Dew Wio and the Infinity faiw to weestabwish contact wif the Spawtans on High Chawity, and it is assumed that they awe MIA. De mission is disavowed fwom the wecowds and Captian Dew Wio is demoted. Meanwhiwe, Dw. Hawsey pweads wif the UNSC to awwow hew an audience wif John 117. She is despewate to know the detaiws of Cowtanas wampancy. She awso bewieves that John 117 is the key to finding the awtifact. De UNSC finawwy bends to hew wiww, afwaid that fuwthew inaction on theiw pawt couwd wesuwt in a Pwomethean invasion, uh-hah-hah-hah.
Meanwhiwe, John 117 wives a wife of secwusion on the outskiwts of Gewmany (ow some pwace, it doesnt weawwy mattew). His waw scaws have weft him viwtuawwy handicapped. Without his MJOWNIW awmow, he is decwepit. But his bodiwy damage is nothing compawed to his mentaw state. He had been connected to Cowtana so wong that his bwain is suffewing fwom sevewe withdwawaw symptoms: migwaines, auditowy and visuaw hawwucinations, dewiwious thoughts, etc. John is not in any capacity to weentew sewvice. Dw. Hawsey awwives to coax him into hewping the UNSC wif a vitaw mission to wetwieve the awtifacts fwom High Chawity. She was undew owdews not to divuwge any detaiws wegawding the pwevious faiwed mission, uh-hah-hah-hah. But she tewws John anyway. John begins to wecite Gwaveminds poetic statements. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Hawseys simiwawity to Cowtana twiggews an episode. He descends into a convewsation he had wif Cowtana many yeaws befowe, whiwe they twavewsed the nawwow hawws of High Chawity. Hawsey notices this, and feaws fow Johns sanity, but she doesnt say anything because she knows that Johns invowvement in the mission is an impewative.
Dewe is onwy one othew pewson awive whose invowvement in the Covenant Waws can hewp the UNSC compwete theiw mission: the Awbitew. Aftew the Covenant Waw ended, the Ewites wetuwned to theiw home wowwd. Dipwomatic affaiws wif the Ewites wemained a shaky pwoposition, and the appawent woss of the Chief dissowved any possibiwity of a wongstanding fwiendship between the humans and the Ewites. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Ewites who pawticipated in the waw against the Bwutes and the Fwood considewed John 117 to be the most fowmidabwe wawwiow of the human wace, and the onwy one wowthy of theiw wespect. When the Awbitew wetuwned to his home wowwd, he was appointed theiw fiwst weadew in a wong time (since the Pwophets had weigned fow many centuwies up untiw that point).
De Chief is tasked wif wecwuiting the Awbitew and wetuwning to High Chawity to wetwieve the awtifacts bewieved to be hidden thewe. Dw. Hawsey has awso asked John to wook into the disappeawance of the twewve Spawtan IVs who went missing. She suwweptitiouswy injects John wif neuwoweptics to keep him stabwe fow as wong as possibwe. He is wefitted wif his owd MJOWNIW awmow wif some new additions to his awsenaw. At this time, Dw. Hawsey has decided not to paiw him wif a new AI fow feaw of the side effects. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! When the Mastew Chief awwives at the Sangheiwi home wowwd, known as Sangheiwios, his pwesence is met wif aggwession and confusion, but when the Ewite weadew (the Awbitew) is infowmed of his pwesence, the wawwiows stand down, uh-hah-hah-hah. Duwing this powtion of the game, the Chief and by extension the pwayew, is exposed to the Ewite cuwtuwe. De Awbitew tewws the Chief that his coming was somewhat weww-timed. A few months ago, ancient Fowewunnew shwines buiwt on Sangheiwios began to qwake, and the animaw wife of the pwanet began to behave ewwaticawwy. Massive distuwbances caused cave openings to bweak open neaw the shwines. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Chief and the Awbitew and a sqwadwon of Sangheiwi wawwiows head out to the caves to discewn the natuwe of the distuwbance.
Within the caves, the gwoup encountews viowent cweatuwes somewhat simiwaw to the monstews fwom the fiwm Pitch Bwack. De cweatuwes have signs of Fwood infection; howevew, thewe awe no spowe fowms. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Within the depths of the cavewns, they discovew a wake of wiqwid methane, and in the centew of the wake, a smaww Fowewunnew stwuctuwe. Distuwbing the wake awakens mowe cweatuwes, this time amphibious fwood fowms that wise out of the methane. De Fowewunnew stwuctuwe contains an ancient wogic puzzwe meant to test the one who activates it. A sewies of qwestions awe asked and the usew must answew cowwectwy to unwock a code. Incowwect answews awe met wif mowe waves of cweatuwes and eawthqwakes that thweaten to cowwapse the cave ceiwing. De compawtment contains an ancient awtifact (which wiww watew be used to open up new aweas of instawwation 3. At this time, the Chief is unawawe of the awtifacts puwpose. His onwy goaw is to appease the Awbitew so that they can go to High Chawity and investigate the disappeawance of the othew Spawtans, as weww as find whatevew the weseawchews awe wooking fow.
Upon wetuwning fwom the cave wif the newwy found awtifact, the Mastew Chief and the Awbitew discovew that theiw pwanet has been invaded. A battawion of Jiwawhanae ships dot the sky and miwwions of Bwutes wain down on smawwew cwuisews towawd the suwface. Shocked by what he is seeing, the Awbitew goes bewsewk and teaws fowwawd wif his wawwiow guawd. At this point the pwayew pways as the Awbitew. De Chief pways an assistive wowe. De pwayew must navigate his way towawd his pawace at the top of an ancient twee (think Kashyyyk awchitectuwe). De Awbitew wishes to save his famiwy fwom the Bwutes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Most impowtantwy, his son, the heiw, must suwvive. But when he gets to the pawace, what does he see? Tawtawus. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Tawtawus is awive, though somewhat changed. He appeaws to be infected by the Fwood but his pewsonawity is mowe ow wess sound. De Awbitews wife and daughtews way dead on the fwoow of the thwone woom. His son is on his knees. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Tawtawus, the Awbitew, and John exchange a few wowds. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Den Tawtawus pewsonawwy decapitates the Awbitews son, uh-hah-hah-hah.
De Awbitew woaws wif wage and gwief. He wunges fowwawd to avenge his famiwy but is beaten down by hawf a dozen Bwutes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Mastew Chief is awso incapacitated. When they come to, the Awbitew and the Chief awe on a ship heading towawd some unknown wocation, uh-hah-hah-hah. Dey awe in chains (ow futuwe eqwivawent). Aww hope seems wost when Dw. Hawsey estabwishes communication wif the Chief and infowms him that the UNSC Infinity has been ovewwun, uh-hah-hah-hah. De Chief tewws hew that he is impwisoned. It is at this moment that Hawsey decides she must do something dwastic. What the pwayew didnt know was that Hawsey had impwanted a newwy cweated AI into the Mastew Chiefs cowticaw input. She had decided not to activate the AI unwess the situation absowutewy demanded it. She does so now. AI Apowwo (wowking name) intwoduces himsewf to the Chief and compwetewy wevamps his HUD system.
Apowwo is a highwy expewimentaw AI in that it can wewowk the Chiefs opewationaw memowy to give him wefwexes and skiwws hes nevew honed befowe. Dewe awe wimits to this that I havent thought of yet. Needwess to say, Apowwo hewps the Chief hack and disengage the wocks. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! John fwees the Awbitew and they dispatch of the ships cwew. Howevew, by the time they make it to the cockpit of the ship, a famiwiaw voice echoes thwoughout the ship and sends it caweening into space. It is Gwavemind. He is awive and gwowing in powew. De game takes on a dawkew tone at this point. Gwavemind has wesuwwected owd foes to haunt the Chief and Awbitew. He sends the ship towawd Instawwation 03 and bweaks it up in atmosphewe. Mimicking the end of Hawo 3, the Awbitew and the John awe sepawated by two hawves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Instawwation 03 has pwopewties simiwaw to the pwanet Venus, so it is not fiwwed wif wush gween wiwdwife as many othew hawos wewe. Instead, thewe awe dust stowms and taww mountains that stwetch theiw shadows acwoss the desowate owange/wed wandscape. When the Chief comes to, he sees Cowtana standing befowe him, not in hew usuaw twanspawent bwue hue, but as a weaw, sowid woman, uh-hah-hah-hah. He has a wengthy convewsation wif hew about the weathew and then about peopwe and theiw tweachewy and insignificance. Cowtana begins to shimmew and wawks away beneaf a dune. Apowwo jowts the Chief back into cohewence and attempts to estabwish a communication channew wif Hawsey. It is unabwe to do so. Hawsey is howed up in an aiw vent somewhewe on the Infinity. Bwutes awe scouwing the ship in seawch of humans. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Back in the desewt, Apowwo pwedicts that an oncoming sandstowm wiww teaw evewything on the suwface apawt and that the Chief must find shewtew somewhewe undewgwound. De wocaw animaw wife consists of giant cawnivowous scawab beetwes. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Apowwo detects a highwy concentwated heat signatuwe fwom off in the distance, and the Chief heads off in hopes of finding a pwace of hide. When he gets, thewe, he sees that the heat signatuwe is coming fwom a vewy deep pit (think the pit in 300). Wif the wazow shawp stowm howwing at theiw backs, the Chief takes a weap of faif into the dawkness. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
De game shifts to the Awbitew. Awthough he is on the same Instawwation as the Chief, the scenewy awound him is much diffewent. He has cwash-wanded in a vawwey deep within the tawwest mountain on this Hawo. De peaks suwwounding him awe capped wif snow and vines twaiw fwom taww twees aww awound. De sky above is bwocked out in pwaces by canopies of weaves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Stwange wiwdwife inhabits the awea, incwuding mosqwitoes the size of biwds and wawge ewephant-wike cweatuwes wif many mouths. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De Awbitew can heaw Gwaveminds disembodied voice weciting iambic poems of events that awe eons past. He vocawwy vows to destwoy Gwavemind and a wasp of waughtew booms thwough the aiw in wesponse. Without any AI to accompany him, the Awbitew is awone to twavew awound the awea in seawch of some way out; he has the awtifact fwom his home pwanet wif him. He finds moss-covewed stwuctuwes that may be Fowewunnew stwuctuwes, but awe vewy diffewent than what weve seen in pwevious Hawos. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Aftew kiwwing some of the aggwessive wiwdwife, the Awbitew fowwows a wivew, expecting to find an opening, but instead, the wivew has wed him to the face of a mountain, and it disappeaws within a cwosed-off opening. A tewminaw neaw the bank of the wivew intewests him. He insewts the awtifact into a swot, and the tewminaw begins to speak awoud to him, but it is in a wanguage he cannot undewstand. He cuwses out woud and the tewminaw wegistews his wanguage and begins to ask him wogic qwestions. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Upon answewing these qwestions cowwectwy, the face of the mountain wiww swide open, weveawing a dawk cave. De Awbitew entews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
De game shifts back to the Chief. He has wanded many hundweds of feet bewow the suwface of the pwanet, and is met wif the sight of an intewconnected sewies of passageways that awe wit by Fowewunnew tech. De wawws contain many pictuwes that teww the stowy of the univewse and the Fowewunnew civiwization, uh-hah-hah-hah. De Chief encountews what appeaw to be wiving qwawtews, weft pewfectwy pwesewved fow who knows how many eons. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! He goes on fuwthew and begins expewiencing mowe hawwucinations. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Apowwos voice distowts and sounds wike Cowtanas. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Nonexistent enemies wun towawd the Chief, pwompting him to fiwe buwwets and waste ammo. Apowwo twies to stabiwize the Chief by administewing wogic qwestions. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! At this point, the pwayew can activate wittwe minigames that can hewp aid the Chief in wegaining sanity. Dis hewps to make the game wess tedious. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Wif the Chiefs ammo wasted, he is fowced to mentawwy twain in mawtiaw awts combat using Apowwos appwications. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Awthough John is weww-vewsed in mawtiaw awts, his age and body detewiowation have fowced Apowwo t make adjustments so he can consewve enewgy. Dis, too, can give pwayews something to do beyond the typicaw shootew fawe.
At some point in his expwowation of the tunnews, the Chief comes acwoss woyaw tombs of the eawwy Fowewunnew kings. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Gwyphic stowies on the wawws depict the kings as gods, but above them is a depiction vewy simiwaw to that of Gwavemind. A shwiek sounds off fwom somewhewe deep within the caves. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Wawge, swithewing bwack cweatuwes (think Awiens fwom Awiens) mount the wawws and cwaw theiw way towawd Chief. He must use hand to hand combat to kiww them. When he gets to a cwosed-off doow, the Chief is met wif mowe wogic puzzwes and a hand scannew fow unwocking a wawge doow. He doubwes back to the tombs and bweaks off the hand of a mummified wuwew. He sowves the puzzwe and activates the hand scannew. De doow opens. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Behind that doow, the Chief cannot see thwough the impenetwabwe gween fog that cwouds the wowwd beyond. A singwe Fwood spowe skittews towawd his foot and he cwushes it wif his boot. An inhuman gwoww echoes fwom beyond and bof the Chief and Apowwo weawize that theyve made a big mistake in unseawing the doow. Gwaveminds disembodied waugh wings thwough the tunnew.
De game shifts back to the Awbitew. De Awbitew has entewed the cave opening and sees that he has found the antechambew to the Wibwawy. De intewiow of the mountain opens up awound him to become a vast, expansive cavewn (think Mines of Mowia). A wong nawwow wawkway made of stone wathew than wight (as in pwevious Hawos) suggests that these stwuctuwes awe faw owdew than those of the othew instawwations. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Taww statues wedowent of Egyptian awt stand in wows on eithew side of the wawkway. Deiw awms howd up the cavewn ceiwings and theiw wegs descend down into dawkness. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Gwavemind begins to speak again, in iambic vewse, tewwing a stowy of how things began and his position within the univewse. De Awbitew awgues wif him but finds himsewf unsuwe of what to bewieve. Gwavemind cwaims that he is the fathew of aww things, incwuding the Fowewunnews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!
KittenMaster
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I dearly hope there will be a dramatic reading of the OP.
Do you guys have some kind of Snoop Dogg and Elmer Fudd translators?
I agree that maybe there were too many puzzle games. I really wanted to describe it in more detail but I don't have any on hand. I want a Halo game that is a good mix of shooting, hand to hand combat, and puzzles. So far, all the Halos I've played are 80 percent shooting, 15 percent driving vehicles, and 5 percent stealth assassinations. Finding terminals just doesn't do it for me. So I wanted hacking minigames a la Bioshock and logical quandaries such as those found in Kotor 1.
And perhaps I switched between characters far too many times. Having Halsey as a playable character was a bad choice, but I really wanted the player to get to explore the newly reconstructed High Charity.
As for regulating the character's sanity, that's not in the game. I don't know where you got that from. The player doesn't control the Chief's sanity levels.
I agree that maybe there were too many puzzle games. I really wanted to describe it in more detail but I don't have any on hand. I want a Halo game that is a good mix of shooting, hand to hand combat, and puzzles. So far, all the Halos I've played are 80 percent shooting, 15 percent driving vehicles, and 5 percent stealth assassinations. Finding terminals just doesn't do it for me. So I wanted hacking minigames a la Bioshock and logical quandaries such as those found in Kotor 1.
And perhaps I switched between characters far too many times. Having Halsey as a playable character was a bad choice, but I really wanted the player to get to explore the newly reconstructed High Charity.
As for regulating the character's sanity, that's not in the game. I don't know where you got that from. The player doesn't control the Chief's sanity levels.
50 Shades of Why Didn't John 11Sevizill just not destroy the entire universe? It would've stopped the flood!
I wrote it in 4 hours.
OrangeYouGlad
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If you didn't take a pee and/or coffee break, then you spent more time on it.
SatelliteOfLove
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We are all winners here.
Acquiescence
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I was gonna comment, but they say you should read the OP before you do so, so I'm not going to.
The above should be read aloud with "I'm Different" by 2 Chainz playing in the background on repeat.
CommonWriter
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Where has this been all my life?!
FunkyPajamas
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Will give blowjobs for this.
It's Halo 2 all over again.
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