anne9 (final?)

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stendhal

i liked his not wearing the jacket thing..
i dunno why he has katana
it must be bcause his hair is like zorro

Things to Do

Things to do:

• Story (First Draft Done)
• Character Design (Currently working on)
  
  • Anne - Done
    
  • Luke
    
  • Russell
  • Nanette
  • Prof
  • Kingsley
  • Sasha - Done?
    
  • Stendhal
• Fundamental Gameplay
• Level Design
• World Design
• Monster Design
  
• Sprites
• Music
  

sasha and kingsley

anne 7

anne8

sasha01

hands are suck

stendhal2

guys with exaggerated anime hair look more rivallesque

stendhal

kingsley1

Kingsley uglyboots

oops mini forearms

anne7

anne6

anne05

i sorta suck less now

NB

I'LL GET BACK TO YOU AFTER I STOP SUCKING

Anne4

Now with stick legs

Anne3

???

Luke

He doesn't look quite right.

Anne2

Still a military commando.

Anne

Anne, military commando with a beret.

Name changes

Gregory -> Stendhal
Janet -> Sasha

Story first draft

World:

Dystopian meltdown! There are robot enemies or something everywhere. Or robot something. Which is why it's so dangerous to go everywhere, zz. Anyway, it's not safe outside of base, ok?? Which is why there are so many weapons everywhere!!

The Great Collapse happened about 10 years ago, where they found a miracle Compound Y that seems to improve the efficiency of steam engines. Unfortunately it also seems to make them break down and go nuts and attack people, particularly the robots and stuff. So lots of people were killed by the berserk things or starved to death in shelters, which is why they need an Agency since many places are now overrun by crazy robots.

Characters:

Anne (age~??), who is a dreamy, quiet girl who doesn't show too much emotion. Not too interested in people, but is a steam prodigy with no formal schooling.

Luke (age~25), who is a serious, inexperienced, hardworking young fellow who easily gets flustered. Graduated from a prestigious university with a degree in (steam) engineering.

Russell (age~60), who is the stern and strict captain of the agency. Has a soft spot for his granddaughter Nanette. Is Luke's granduncle.

Nanette (age~13), spoilt, shallow granddaughter of Russell. Materialistic but is actually quite affectionate in a haughty way.

Kingsley (age~27), Luke's upperclassman at university. Mild-mannered and gentle, and kind to everyone.

Askarov (age~82), Luke's professor and advisor for his doctorate project. Cheerful and jolly, he should really be retired at his age. Has a chronic cough, but it isn't strange since he's old.

Gregory (age~23), who considers himself Anne's rival. Anne doesn't really know he exists. Rather fiery-tempered but has a conscience. Rather sharp if he thinks about things, but tries to act cool too much.

Janet (age~21), Greg's cool-headed manager. Keeps in him check if he gets carried away. Tsundere.

Carmen (age~30), a self-proclaimed "explorer" with a zeal for life. Cheerful but recently fell ill...

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Luke is a new recruit in the agency. He is excited to be able to put his new skills to use and wants to prove himself. Everyone thinks that he only got in from his connections. He meets Russell and Eileen and she tells him that he is to be the manager of one of their most capable, yet hard-to-handle field agents, Anne.

He meets Kingsley who offers some words of encouragement. He's your help guy who teaches you what's what.

Luke meets Anne who is utterly bizarre, personalitywise. Luke feels that he is rather unfortunate to get paired up with such a thing. He feels her steam pack is an atrocity and that she will get herself killed using it. She is also very insensitive of his disability, which makes his first impression of her even worse. He tries to examine her machines, but she doesn't let him near it.

Kinglsey shows up and gives them their first mission, which is a simple recovery of a lost "treasure" in a remote location by a woman named Carmen. Shows up at the agency and makes the request, but she seems to be feeling a little poorly, so she can't get it herself. Kingsley notes to Luke that the agency gets all sorts of odd jobs like this due to the Great Collapse, so things are very dangerous these days. Luke nods and seems to know what he's on about.

The agency sends Anne to pick it up since it's a bit dangerous. [MISSION 1]

She does so, and doesn't really seemed to be too interested in events after completing her mission. She would much rather tinker with steam things. Luke realises that she is actually quite a prodigy, even if she didn't receive any formal schooling. But she's still a real oddball, huh... They return it to Carmen, who seems to be feeling even worse now.

At this point Gregory and Janet show up and randomly make fun of Anne for taking so long at her mission. Well, mostly Gregory -- Janet just seems to be along for the ride and nodding at appropriate moments. Anne doesn't really pay much attention, and hardly aware that they have a rivalry. She greets them as cordially as she usually does (not very). They notice that Luke is a new guy and step on him accordingly. Luke doesn't like him much. Kingsley notices and laughingly tells him to ignore Gregory, who's always like that.

At this point, even if he's not allowed near Anne's machines, he gains a respect for her inventions even if there's no way they should logically work.

Next mission is a search and rescue mission, starring Nanette! The usually reserved Russell bursts into the room in a panic because his precious grandaughter, Nanette, has been kidnapped by some guy named Shadow!! (the bad guy!) He wants this mysterious compound that Luke developed for his doctoral thesis. Well, Luke knows Nanette and Russell is totally freaking out, so he agrees to hand over the compound, even if he put sooo much work into it... so he does, but not without a twinge. The exchange location is in a kind of seedy and hard place to get to (for some stupid reason) so Russell begs Anne to get Nanette back safely as she is their most capable member. Gregory is rather outraged that he wasn't asked as he considers himself the best field member in the agency.

Anne heads off and defeats baddies and rescues Nanette. There is a boss which is a steam behemoth spewing purple steam. Creepy. [MISSION 2]

Nanette returns safe and sound. Russell spoils her to bits and gives her everything she wants, and she gives everyone at the agency a really hard time. Luke loves her but realises that yeah, she's damn annoying. Anne seems to tolerate her, but mostly by ignoring her. Russell spoils her, Gregory hates her and loses his temper frequently, Janet pretends she doesn't exist. Kingsley seems to have a soft side for children as he keeps giving her presents and spending time with her, and everyone is grateful to him for taking her off their hands. Nanette likes him quite a bit.

Nanette soon begins to kick up a fuss about how she wants a certain kind of cake. She eventually becomes so intolerable that even Kingsley begins to get irritated. Of course Russell wants the best for his baby girl, so he orders his agents to go get CAKE for her (!!). Gregory seems to treat this as a competition and challenges Anne to see who can find the best cake for Nanette. Anne doesn't really seem to notice him. Luke remembers this great cake he had and tells Anne about it. Too bad there are lots of baddies on the way since its in a far off place. Anne doesn't seem so interested until he tells her about the fantastic STEAM OVEN they have there.... then she seems stupidly interested. Luke thinks she is rather simple and easy to manipulate.

Off she goes to some remote place for cakes. She gets there and realises that their steam oven is spewing purple smoke or something?? OK, so no cakes, steam oven is broken, going berserk... as berserk as an oven can get anyway. Anne looks at it to try to fix it, but she can't figure out what's wrong... she is intrigued. Before she leaves, the baker remarks that they had much tastier cakes prior to the Great Collapse, and apologises for not having any cake for her. [MISSION 3]

She gets back to the agency, Gregory declares a complete victory because Anne has no cake. Nanette tastes Gregory's cake and yucks it though, so really they both lose. She starts to complain and whine again because the cake was a lie.

Later on Luke discovers Anne trying to make her own cake in her very own steam oven. It looks pretty awful, and obviously Nanette doesn't want it. Anne seems a little disheartened at that. Luke thinks that's pretty cute. Maybe there's more to her than a simple steam freak. In the end, Kingsley finds Nanette some decent cake. Luke consoles Anne.

Oh... hmm. While Janet was wandering around she found an odd shiny piece in the corner of the agency somewhere. She shows it to Gregory, who laughs and figures out that it's a piece missing/dropped from the treasure from the first mission. He considers it proof of Anne's lack of organisation. He parades it in Anne and Luke's face. Anne doesn't really seem bothered, but Luke gets really frustrated at Gregory's asshattery. He gets visibly annoyed but holds it in and takes it out on poor Anne, who seems a little flustered. After Luke slams the door and leaves the room, Anne decides to deliver the piece to Carmen, the first client.

She asks Kingsley for the address, who seems to do most of the admin stuff. He gives it to her, and off she goes. [MISSION 4]

She gets there and oh Carmen is dead on the floor. Anne is quite shaken by how someone who was alive a short while ago is now dead.

When she gets back she shuts herself up with her steam machines. She doesn't respond to Luke's enquiries about where she went. Luke realises something is wrong and eventually gets it out of her that Carmen is dead. It's kind of strange, but people die all the time. He contacts the authorities. He consoles her as well as he can and apologises for the outburst earlier, and says he's happy that she went to deliver it herself. Anne seems to feel a bit better after this.

A few days later, Anne seems to be fiddling with the steam oven, trying to replicate the problem they had at the bakery. She seems to be having problems. Luke offers to help, but Anne doesn't want him to touch her stuff. Luke seems rather annoyed that she seems to keep to herself, and can't figure out what she's trying to do since she won't tell him. He leaves the room and spots Greg who is pacing around. Greg seems to be wondering where Janet went, and complains that she's frequently off doing errands for/with Kingsley. He seems a little jealous.

At this point Janet returns with Russell with a mission for Anne and Gregory. Apparently a steam train has stopped working and has stranded a bunch of passengers in the middle of nowhere. Since this mission involves the lives of so many passengers, he sends both Anne and Greg.

So off Anne goes to the train. There are a bunch of enemies on it since the train has stopped, so she has to kill them all to protect the passengers. When she finally reaches the engine room, the engine turns on and and suddenly goes nuts. It starts rushing towards this cliff and everyone freaks out. [MISSION 5]

Anne tries to fix things the only way she knows how, by trying to fix the runaway steam engine. However, things don't work out and she begins to panic. Gregory shows up and offers to help, but Anne says he can't help because he doesn't know anything about steam engines. However, he finds another solution by forcibly knocking the train off the tracks, and then yells at Anne for not being able to think outside the box to save human lives.

They are later approached by an old man who recognises Gregory's uniform (Anne doesn't wear one) and figures they're from the agency, and requests to be escorted back there. He calls himself Askarov.

When they get back to the agency, Luke and Kingsley recognise Askarov as their old engineering professor. Askarov was Luke's advisor for his thesis (compound X). They have a happy gathering, and Askarov seems to care a lot about his two students, in particular Luke, who was always the brighter one. In particular, he wonders whether Askarov has used compound X in anything yet. He seems oddly interested.

Soon, more reports come in about a failing factory and once again, Anne is dispatched. Anne seems oddly moodier than usual when Luke comes in to deliver the news. Russell feels that something strange is afoot. [MISSION 6]

When Anne finds the factory, as expected it is pumping out clouds of purple smoke.

When she gets back to base, she is still moody and deep in thought. She ignores Luke who tried to welcome her back from the mission and instantly shuts herself up again. She wonders what could be causing the machines to act that way and tries to find out, getting frustrated when she doesn't seem to be making any headway.

Meanwhile, Luke confides in Kingsley about how hard to understand his partner is. Kingsley encourages him and tells him not to give up, since he's so smart after all. Janet is busying herself nearby. Kingsley calls her over and tells her to deliver a package, but Janet seems as if she doesn't really want to. Kingsley asks if she will do it for him, (in a way that implies that they have some kind of tacit agreement) and she reluctantly agrees. Luke thinks that Greg would really not like that.

After being encouraged, Luke decides to try again and asks Anne if anything is the matter. Anne hesitates and is about to refuse but remembers Gregory's words that she should try to rely on other people once in a while. So, stumped as she is on the steam puzzle, she asks Luke for help. Luke is pleasantly surprised and reacts that way. Anne finds his reaction unexpected and worries that he may be angry that she asked him to help, but Luke is glad and ensures her that it is not the case.

For the first time, Luke examines her equipment in close detail and is amazed by her ingeniuity. He praises her non-stop, and Anne is flustered and embarassed but seems pleased. Then they decide to think about the problem, but doesn't make any headway either. He decides to consult Kingsley, who was his upperclassman.

Kingsley doesn't seem to know any more, so he suggests that they consult their old professor, Askarov. Luke seems delighted at another chance to see him. Luke decides to write a letter to his professor explaining the problem.

Russell then enters the room. He then gives Anne an investigative request by the government: a government-owned (very) offshore mining rig that's very very far away hasn't had communications with them for a while, and would like the agency to investigate. [MISSION 7]

Upon arrival, the mining rig is overrun with purplesmoke-spewing baddies and there is not a single person in sight. Anne finds the main engine of the mining rig and kills it, because it's also berserk of course. Then she looks around for people and finds them all dead in the medical facility, and more people close by slumped, also dead. Anne is horrified, but she gathers her wits and looks around for information. She finds a captain's log which documents the machines acting up, then people getting sick and dying. His last entry is suitably touching.

Anne heads back to the Agency, dazed. She manages to unload all her documents on Luke before tinkering with her steam toys once again, which seems to sooth her. Luke reads them and is horrified by the contents. He tries to talk to Anne about it for more details, but she is resistant and refuses to talk, beyond telling him that the machines were berserk. He then attempts to take another tactic and begins to talk about his past and his relation to the Great Collapse.

He tells her that he was raised in an average, but loving family. He had many brothers and sisters, and as they grew up their life got better and better with technological advances of steam. But then one day everything went all pear-shaped and while Luke went out shopping or playing or something, a robot rampaged through his house and killed everyone!!

As he's talking, Anne seems to pay attention and asks how he lost his legs. He says that a house fell on him or something and crushed them. Anne wonders how he can deal without being able to walk. Luke tells her it's hard, but he's learnt to deal with it. Then he begs her to tell her what she saw because he's beginning to suspect that there might be another Great Collapse and he wants to prevent that, and begs her to tell him what she saw.

Anne seems to think a bit, then decides to tell Luke what she saw at the mining rig.

Luke is beginning to suspect a connection between the crazy steam engines and people dying. He decides to report his findings to Russell. Russell seems grave and gathers everyone for a meeting. Everyone is suitably horrified. At that moment, Askarov enters for a visit. Luke is glad to see him but tells him he didn't have to come all the way to the agency for a visit, he could have sent a letter. However, Askarov seems to be in a panic and says that the university he lives seems to be in a very bad state and he's come here to take cover for a while. He says that all of the thinking engines at the universities seems to have simultaneously gone nuts. Anne is sent to take care of that. Luke is feeling more and more disturbed.

Off Anne goes to defeat thinking engines. Purple steam blah blah. [MISSION 8]

When she manages to calm the engines down, she is thanked by the head of the university. He mentions that they seem to be having very bad luck recently, what with the crazy machines and all of these people getting sick...

She gets back to the agency and tells Luke, who thinks now that there is definitely a link and beginning to suspect that there is a culprit behind it. He thinks that the incident is unnatural somehow.

He works late into the night, investigating the purple steam incidents, Anne tinkering with something in the background. Kingsley shows up, and seems impressed that he's working so hard. He gives Luke a cup of coffee and tells him he's going to sleep. Luke is grateful. He also has a cup for Anne, but she is too absorbed in her tinkering to notice. She leaves it untouched. Kingsley heads off. Eventually Luke discovers that his compound X is a key factor, in the water!! He is disgusted at himself for creating something that has taken so many human lives. Anne notices that he is very down and shows him a FLYING WHEELCHAIR with crazy weapons so that he might fly even without legs. Luke smiles weakly but tells him that it will probably kill him if he uses it.

The next day he reports his findings to Russell and Kingsley. He tells them that someone is behind the purple smoke, but he doesn't know what their aim is. Janet comes in with a investigative report from the university, and says that everyone there is seriously ill. Kingsley thinks that it's suspicious that Askarov happened to clear off before he got ill too. Luke then thinks about the second mission, the kidnapping, and thinks that it's obvious that the guy calling himself "shadow" who wanted compound X must be the culprit. Kingsley agrees and wonders if anyone else knows about the compound especially outsiders. Of course, it's Askarov that comes to mind. Russell tells them both not to say anything for the moment and orders Janet (and Greg) to keep an eye on his actions.

An explosion rocks the agency. GIANT ENEMY CRAB (w/ PURPLE SMOKE) OR SOMETHING OUTSIDE! KILL IT! PROTECT THE CIVILIANS!! [MISSION 9]

A few days later, Luke seems to be thinking hard about the compound X in the water. Further research indicates that drinking it will totally pwn your body, and kill you. He becomes more determined than ever to find the culprit.

Russell is working hard on whatever it is captains do, in his room. Janet bursts in and tells him that Askarov has gone missing. Russell asks her for more details, and he tells him that he was doing something suspicious near the site of the giant enemy crab, and that she lost him soon after that in the confusion. Russell is grave and orders his arrest. Janet says that she last spotted him an hour ago in some remote and retarded location before she lost him. Of course, it's up to Anne to go there and find him. [MISSION 10]

Oh dear there was nothing there.

Gregory is at the agency, wasting time. As he's wandering around he trips over something and discovers Askarov's dead body by chance. He seems to have been dead many days, and has symptoms of the purple smoke illness. Naturally that means he isn't the perp, since he wouldn't go and make himself sick. He freaks out and tells Russell, who comes over to examine the body. He was murdered the body was hidden. Clearly, that means that Janet was lying!! Russell summons her and demands that she explain herself. She is different from her usual composed self, and denies all accusations, but in the end she is arrested. Gregory is dumbstruck and hurt that she could betray him like that. He initially tries to defend her, but Russell is adamant.

Luke is still investigating when Anne enters. She tells him the news in her usual dreamy way. Luke is shocked but thinks there is something strange about it all. Janet can't be the mastermind since she knows nothing about steam engineering, so she must be working for somebody. But who else would know about compound X, and know a lot about steam engineering? It hits him: it must be Kingsley. He's the only one it could be.

He rushes out to tell Russell about it, who immediately order that they grab Kingsley. But he's gone missing..??

They all rush down to visit Janet in her cell, who tells them to check inside a drawer at Kingsley's desk after some interrogation. After they all rush off again, Gregory lingers behind, demanding why she would choose Kingsley over him. She seems embarassed and tells him he's got it all wrong. Kingsley is in fact her adopted brother. She was adopted into her family and owes them all a great debt. Gregory pauses, but then charges off, saying that there are pressing matters at hand now but he will be back later to free her from her debt.

Luke discovers a letter on Kingsley's desk addressed to him. In it, he admits to being Shadow, and then jeers at them all for being so blind and unable to see who the real bad guy was. He then tells them that yes, he made a new chemical based off compound X, and will put it in the main water plant where he will be able to control all the steam engines in the city in TWO HOURS from now. Luke immediately realises that it will also lead to the death of everyone in the city.

Suddenly he coughs and collapses, showing symptoms of the purple steam sickness. He recalls the cup of coffee Kingsley gave him one night. He is taken to the medical room, where Anne totally freaks out about him. He tells her to protect everyone.

Anne and Greg are dispatched to stop Kingsley Anne has been following these proceedings very coolly now that she has calmed down. Greg notices and wonders what the matter is, since she'd normally be kind of freaking out. She tells him that she is going to stop the second Great Collapse from coming, so she must be calm and not panic, and think outside the box. Gregory seems satisfied. [MISSION 11]

There are many bad bad baddies on the way, of course. Greg is right behind Anne. Halfway through the stage, there is a tunnel collapse and Anne gets a series of mini flashbacks and everything goes black around her.

She remembers being born in a wealthy family, but shunned due to her late development. Everyone thinks she is mentally retarded and strange for liking steam things so much. She remembers the collapse and remembering being told that her parents will not see her again. At the shelter she lived in, she was shunned and alone. However, her thoughts fly to her more recent memories, with Russell, Nanette, Gregory, and Luke. When she wakes up, she discovers Greg doing something cheesy like holding a slab of granite off her with his body. She wonders why he would sacrifice himself for her in this way. Even though he clearly does not want to admit it, Greg tells her that she is better than him and more suited to be the one going forward. She struggles out beneath the slab and escapes, and Gregory relaxes and is crushed underneath the rubble. Anne cries out, but remembers that she's on a very tight schedule and continues moving forwards.

At the end she finally faces off with Kingsley, who is holding a large vial of evil looking fluid, about to dump it into a pipe. She demands to know why he would do such a thing, but he proclaims that someone like her would never understand him. She faces off with his badass purple steam Gundam and defeats it. Then it transformers into a badasser purple steam Gundam and she defeats it too. For its final stage, it's a seriously badass Gundam but it gets whupped anyway.

Kingsley, defeated and injured, uses the last of his strength to dump the contents of the vial into the pipe. Anne is filled with horror when she realises that she was unable to protect the city. Suddenly, the main pump turns off. A giant blast of steam then knocks him over and Luke enters, obviously feeling weak from the disease. He's using the modified wheelchair that Anne made. Apparently he was able to get past the guard system around the switch with that.

Luke demands to know Kingsley's motives. Kingsley laughingly says that even in the end, he was never able to surpass Luke. All these years he's been jealous of Luke's ability and grades in university, who was better than him despite being two years younger. Anne's genius didn't help his self-esteem any. With his new Compound XY, he was finally able to surpass him. Besides, he's helping science move forward, isn't he? The Great Collapse was horrible, but had great potential. By doing nothing, the people would stagnate. What's a few sacrifices in the name of science? People are all cowards!!

Obviously Luke gets very angry but then suddenly, Kingsley whips out a gun and offs himself, saying that there is nothing left for him. Luke is very hurt and can't believe that his close friend would be such a bastard. With uncharacteristic insight, Anne notes that he can't have been all bad, since he did tell them exactly when and where he was going to do it, so he wanted to be stopped, didn't he? /cliche

Luke then collapses from the purple steam sickness. Anne spazzes. (Seems like Kingsley is a bastard after all for trying to kill his biffle)

--ENDING--

The city is being rebuilt from all the destruction that Kingsley caused.

Nanette and Russell are seen being happy together.

Gregory is seen with a pair of crutches, but he doesn't really seem too seriously injured. He hobbles over and visits Janet, who is imprisoned. They sit awhile and chat, seeming to be pleased with each other's company. Janet is eventually taken away by some officials, but Gregory says that he will wait for her.

Luke is lying in a bed, seriously ill, with Anne by his side. Anne is presenting him with a little steam toy bird to raise his spirits, although she seems very upset. Luke seems glad to receive the present, then closes his eyes peacefully.

Wheel Chair Boy 1

draco malfoy can go away later...

Anne 1

doesn't like people who show teeth when they smile.