Oni2:Slaves of War/Impressions: Difference between revisions

Mai is struggling with an opponent in the dark. He suddenly realizes that he can see Mai's organs glowing in the dark as she powers up and overpowers him.

Mai is sleeping fitfully. Her fears about the Daodan are churning inside. She sees herself walking along the ground on her arms and legs in a forest.  She looks up and sees a small marsupial of unknown species eating something. It looks at her with round eyes, at her level, while chewing quickly on some unidentified food. Mai starts awake, breathing quickly as she realizes it was just a dream. (Meaning: She is afraid she is becoming an animal.) With the right music, this could be disturbing.

Depending on how much Mai gets to use the Cricket, she may name it. “In Caraguatatuba, Brazil, a black cricket in a room is said to portend illness; a gray one, money; and a green one, hope” -- perhaps she names it Hope, as in “I hope this thing works”. It may be an experimental gadget made by a member of her resistance group.

When something happens that justifies Mai losing her temper and perhaps unleashing her powers, she might start speaking in a lowered voice in a creepy way; as well as [https://youtu.be/C7izqEHoEyY?t=50s this excerpt from a VA's reel] which has a completely different tone and context, but actually creates the same ominous feeling that I’m looking for. Alternately, see the scene in the Battle Angel Alita OVA (English dub) where Alita is screaming at Grewcica as she kills him (albeit her dialogue is in her own head, and the screaming was added to the English dub).

Finally the fight is over. One remaining soldier has thrown down his gun and surrendered. Mai casually walks by him, and he recognizes her:

“You’re Kono--''urk''!”

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.

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.

The giant plant suddenly retracts underground, and so do the vines. Much of the noise seems to have stopped. The scientist and the commander each look around, wondering if this is over. They notice a sound like a swelling balloon, filling the air. They look around and notice just how many mushrooms are growing out of the floor.

Each one is slowly expanding, but also looking more and more “full”. They quiver as they get larger. They are now each about six feet in diameter. [[Oni2:Slaves_of_War/Neo-Biology#Fungi|Little skirts]] pop out from the stems, making the mushrooms look a little like mushroom clouds. The scientist’s eyes widen.

Cut to outside of building a moment before it is blown outward by a tremendous force. The bricks are separated from one another and the pieces of the incinerator are thrown upward into the sky as the entire building is fragmented. There is no fire in the explosion, only a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN05jCosAe8 white shockwave of high-pressure air].

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 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]].

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.

Speaking with a scolding tone (“Bad Muro, bad!”), she uses phase shield-enhanced blows to beat him down with quick vicious strikes that break the ground under his body. As he lays still, the girl seems concerned that she went too far. She seems to be talking with someone, and says, “Oh no! I think I killed him! ...Well, he wouldn’t listen to me! You saw! ...All right, here.” Suddenly a phase portal opens, and she has some plants lift Muro’s broken body and convey it into the portal. Mai calls out “Muro!”, and the girl looks at her and seems amused at her concern. As Muro’s body vanishes into another world, she says condescendingly, “Daddy doesn’t listen, he gets a spanking.”