The Unknown Loner fights some Gillmen underwater with a nailgun and a spear
2NOTE: the video is slightly desynced, but not critically. I employed a method which should reduce the popping sound and raise the sound quality as a result - next time I'll do it better, don't worry.
Hello again.
The Unknown Loner is a girl from 2070s, coming from an already ravaged post-invasion world.
Being one of the first female mutants of the infamous uber strain, she was experimented upon by Osiron in an underground laboratory, mostly to seek out any resistances of the uber strain.
Something happened. Maybe a realm rift, maybe an evil spirit breaking loose - the laboratory was massacred. With the Unknown Loner being in heavily shielded cryostasis tube and liquid radioactive material leaking out of reservoirs, she was trapped. Decay of the material produced enough heat to power up the thermal generators, leading to an eternal, if disastrously horrible, existence.
Five hundred years after, the girl was extracted by a pirate force out of uber mutants. With further mutation stabilizing her uber strain (and leading to some rather... massive improvements to her measurements), it was looking like to be a thrilling adventure for the Unknown Loner.
But she never was the talkative or adventurous type - in no small part due to indiscriminate infighting between the crumbling post-invasion governments. Raids soon proved to be exhausting, with other young pirate girls definitely being a product of post-apocalyptic world and being totally incompatible with the remnant of the old world - the Unknown Loner developed a lethal degree of nihilism.
Does it matter if she lives or not if she has to deal with the Trader's Guild over and over? To see yet another display of reckless idiocy from her peers or the pirate princess doing some truly lewd stuff around? To experiencing some crazy wild things happening around herself with the knowledge that she can't enjoy it for being way too overblown?
A cessation of existence in that cryostasis tube was more preferable for her anyway.
An engine failure - unknown if it was an inside sabotage or not. An air-worthy ship sunken deep under the water. A flooded town of the old world. Beyond familiar - something that she remembered. A perfect spot to accept her demise.
The mission was to extract some money for Zaxx. Obviously not possible to do it anymore.
An outside sound engraved in her mind. Animalistic groans of unworthy creatures. Gillmen around. A lot of them. Non-T'leth variety - those ones were nowhere to be seen.
Sudden rage captures the Unknown Loner. Gillmen - their untimely attack led to Osiron investigating her town. They were way too bad at fighting - but annoying enough to attract trouble. Them being the reason of her current life with attractive but dumb sky pirate girls of the hopeless future.
Her life's gonna end here, that's for sure - but with that target outside of the half-broken autodoor a spark ignited her brain. Grabbing a leftover from the base she was rescued from - a UAC nailgun captured by Osiron back then - along with some still operational pieces of equipment, the Unknown Loner peaked outside of the ship.
They shall die. There won't be any escape.
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In other words, this is an excuse for me to play X-Piratez missions with one girl and Silent Hill 2's music to produce that TFTD atmosphere that my TFTD LP lacked.
And to check if my statement about "survival horror" from my 2022 review of the mod is true - and it is.
Also me seeing if 10-plus minute videos can be uploaded with the current conditions I have to live in.
The next video will be Quake 2 REM's Episode 6, stay tuned.
PS: in order to not use the Censorship Bush, I used Censorship Pixellation instead in some spots. So you don't have to watch the video with your account on - to keep it SFW.
PSS: the lowly spear is the best melee weapon of the mod in my opinion, it's just as useful as Snuffy.