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2. Initial teaser, before any trailer comes out: The music playing is just the bass line from Konoko Chase (the 1999 trailer music), at a slower tempo. [[:File:GUIDO_Mai_teaser.jpg|A woman in armor with hair in a ponytail]] kneels to look at a lonely flower in a wasteland. It’s a small plant with fragile-looking white petals — a meager spark of life in a land struggling to survive. She slowly reaches out to grasp a petal. The flower suddenly snaps at her hand, stinging her, and the plant folds up into an alien animal which uproots itself and skitters away, its cover blown. Mai holds her hand and stares after it, wondering what this world is becoming. | 2. Initial teaser, before any trailer comes out: The music playing is just the bass line from Konoko Chase (the 1999 trailer music), at a slower tempo. [[:File:GUIDO_Mai_teaser.jpg|A woman in armor with hair in a ponytail]] kneels to look at a lonely flower in a wasteland. It’s a small plant with fragile-looking white petals — a meager spark of life in a land struggling to survive. She slowly reaches out to grasp a petal. The flower suddenly snaps at her hand, stinging her, and the plant folds up into an alien animal which uproots itself and skitters away, its cover blown. Mai holds her hand and stares after it, wondering what this world is becoming. | ||
== | ==Navarre's lab== | ||
Mai is looking around at various experiments, some of them ghastly, when she hears a friendly, strongly-accented voice: “Mai, it’s been a long time. You've grown!” A middle-aged man walks forward casually with a cane, dressed like a combination of a scientist and a Renaissance noble. | Mai is looking around at various experiments, some of them ghastly, when she hears a friendly, strongly-accented voice: “Mai, it’s been a long time. You've grown!” A middle-aged man walks forward casually with a cane, dressed like a combination of a scientist and a Renaissance noble. | ||
== | ==Muro's transformation== | ||
Oni 2 could open with the transformation of Muro from the killed-Griffin ending of Oni, either redone with an actual transforming model if the engine can be made to do it, or else an animé version of the scene. Muro says similar dialogue to the original scene. Mai wakes up and we see that it was a dream. We then find a way to show that this didn’t actually happen, and Griffin is still alive. | Oni 2 could open with the transformation of Muro from the killed-Griffin ending of Oni, either redone with an actual transforming model if the engine can be made to do it, or else an animé version of the scene. Muro says similar dialogue to the original scene. Mai wakes up and we see that it was a dream. We then find a way to show that this didn’t actually happen, and Griffin is still alive. | ||
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*Justifying the unrealistic aspects of the Mutant Muro scenario, i.e. his monstrous form, and the lack of any transformation in the spared-Griffin scenario. | *Justifying the unrealistic aspects of the Mutant Muro scenario, i.e. his monstrous form, and the lack of any transformation in the spared-Griffin scenario. | ||
== | ==Muro's escape== | ||
(The concept of freezing Muro is a nod to [[Quotes/Consoles#Sytropin|this console]].) | (The concept of freezing Muro is a nod to [[Quotes/Consoles#Sytropin|this console]].) | ||
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Later we see a photo of the aftermath showing giant mushrooms occupying the space where the building stood, like freeze-frame nuclear clouds. The mushrooms, following their normal [[Oni2:Slaves_of_War/Neo-Biology#Exploding_plants|reproductive method of dispersing spores]], expanded almost instantly to fill the area, obliterating everything in the enclosed space with a pressure wave. | Later we see a photo of the aftermath showing giant mushrooms occupying the space where the building stood, like freeze-frame nuclear clouds. The mushrooms, following their normal [[Oni2:Slaves_of_War/Neo-Biology#Exploding_plants|reproductive method of dispersing spores]], expanded almost instantly to fill the area, obliterating everything in the enclosed space with a pressure wave. | ||
== | ==Muro's bombardment== | ||
Muro has learned to summon Wilderness plants, and builds a sort of Akira-like monstrosity. Mai and company are trying to figure out how to fight it, but the air force attacks it with Mai in close proximity, and a fighter’s missile whizzes over her head, fragmenting the plant bodies, but they each begin to regenerate or are replaced. | Muro has learned to summon Wilderness plants, and builds a sort of Akira-like monstrosity. Mai and company are trying to figure out how to fight it, but the air force attacks it with Mai in close proximity, and a fighter’s missile whizzes over her head, fragmenting the plant bodies, but they each begin to regenerate or are replaced. | ||
Muro makes a counter-attack on the jets, maybe using a sort of harpoon plant that works like [[Oni2:Slaves_of_War/Neo-Biology#Exploding_plants|pilobolus]]. It seems that Mai and her group are out of their league. The army decides to use its ultimate non-nuclear assault weapon, the [[Heavy_weapons#Project_Thor|rods from God]]. | Muro makes a counter-attack on the jets, maybe using a sort of harpoon plant that works like [[Oni2:Slaves_of_War/Neo-Biology#Exploding_plants|pilobolus]]. It seems that Mai and her group are out of their league. The army decides to use its ultimate non-nuclear assault weapon, the [[Heavy_weapons#Project_Thor|rods from God]]. | ||
== | ==Muro's downfall== | ||
Suddenly a dark-haired little girl shows up as the rods fall. Muro has erected a plant shield above him, but when the rods fall and the smoke clears, we see that they pierced his shield, but not the phase shield below that, which the girl is apparently maintaining with a wave of her hand. She dismisses his plants casually, and they shrivel away. Muro (who is in an Imago state) is angry with her. She tells him petulantly to come with her, and he says he doesn’t need her anymore. He attempts to grab her, but she paralyzes him with another wave and dismisses his Imago transformation with a snap of her fingers, leaving Muro looking withered and frightened. | Suddenly a dark-haired little girl shows up as the rods fall. Muro has erected a plant shield above him, but when the rods fall and the smoke clears, we see that they pierced his shield, but not the phase shield below that, which the girl is apparently maintaining with a wave of her hand. She dismisses his plants casually, and they shrivel away. Muro (who is in an Imago state) is angry with her. She tells him petulantly to come with her, and he says he doesn’t need her anymore. He attempts to grab her, but she paralyzes him with another wave and dismisses his Imago transformation with a snap of her fingers, leaving Muro looking withered and frightened. | ||