>>6072640>Hint at destroying the Sign - essentially it was linking back to this, the pyrocumulonimbus
>>6038946Thought I tried to highlight this with Lou's burning cigar, and my repeated unsubtle descriptions of the arid, parched dry hillside hehe
I genuinely had not prepared any of this Hollywood Sign scenario / Californian wildfire stuff lol, I went on a mad dash for all the photojournalism with those fire pictures and the satellite image burn scar are actually taken from various past wildfires in California, I think especially the Camp Fire 2018 one which destroyed a lot of Hollywood celebrity homes, but in the end I think it fitted together quite well, especially given how the very first song I used for this game from Boy Harsher with the hot peroxide pixie cut dancing beach girl hehe is called Face The Fire yay
>>6037300 My inspiration with those pictures came from watching Alex Garland's Civil War film, there is a scene where they drive through a forest fire and also a scene in the film with rooftop snipers similar to this concept art I used here
>>6038943 It turns out after 2024 July 13 rooftop snipers and fisting gestures
>>6056589 became very relevant to the real world afterwards hehe, who could have predicted this?!?
I think if you had written in with the pyrocumulonimbus / wildfire link, Annabel would not have been separated from you at the beach (as you would be prepared for the wildfire etc, instead of it igniting as a byproduct of the grenade detonations) and so the ending might be slightly happier
>role of the relicSo I had some plot with the vaguely Arabic Abraham van Helsing / Ibrahim ibn Al-Hassim, he is on a quest to recover that looted relic from his land. The picture I believe is of statuary taken from a necropolis in Cyrene, Libya, following the fall of Gaddafi, this article
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/the-race-to-recover-qaddafis-ill-gotten-billionsThough I have a feeling this article may misrepresent what some of those interviewed were actually doing in Libya, tee hee hee
There was some scenario I had whereby visiting the docks and smuggling yourself into a shipping container would see you taken to the OFFSHORE OIL RIG (secret vampire lair), I mentioned this a lot in past qtgs, but I had an oil rig map prepared
