FiS

**Fortnayters in «Sovyonok»: Chapter 1** or **Fortnayters in «Sovyonok»: Dissonant Feelings,** abbreviated **FiS 1** — a linear modification, the first part in the "FiS" mod franchise for the game "Everlasting Summer". Combines genres of science fiction and psychological horror, as well as some elements of thrash mods. It is the beginning of the "FiS" line. Avers Team is in charge of development. In fact, it is a separate visual novel with its own storyline, but using the "ES" materials.

The official release of the demo took place on July 3, 2021.

## Annotation

*Are you sure you would pay attention to some kid walking home from college on a cold winter evening? Of course not, and your unequivocal answer will always be "No," unless it is a good acquaintance or friend of yours. Shon is that student, walking home and no-nonsense person. But when his friends call him to celebrate the New Year, something happens to him and his company that no one believes in — a New Year's miracle. They are transported to a 20th century summer pioneer camp from a popular game... and become possessed of a mysterious power... The mod "Fortnayters in Sovyonok" presents the story of unremarkable people who somehow get into the camp from the novel "Everlasting Summer". Together with the protagonist of the mod — Shon, and his friends, you will observe the incredible developments in the camp, plot twists and more, and finally be able to decide their further fate...*

— Steam Description.

## Storyline

The central story revolves around five main and three minor positive characters: Shon Sheldon, Alexander Bishop, Cold Watanabe, Constantine Lamberts, Cyril Weiss, Ernest Little, Daniel Safrise and Nicholas Drehands, and antagonists: Dirk Feiths and Gareth Falirue.

In addition to the new author's characters, several key roles in the story are played by mascots from the original "Everlasting Summer": Elena Tikhonova, Alice Dvachevskaya, Slavyana Yaseneva and Ulyana Sovetova. Sam Persunov and Samantha Smith, who were already a couple at the time, also appear in "FiS", and thus deny the canons of Samantha-mod.

The whole camp was supposed to be a simulation of a company of antagonists — The Virus — which was created by Constantine Sheldon, and which the main characters were later supposed to destroy by gathering information about this world.

Once in the camp through the "Virus" laboratory, the heroes begin their adventures: they explore the "Sovyonok", find anomalies, make new friends, defeat the "Virus" and, eventually, break this quasi-reality.

The player, in the end, is thrown to one ending (since this is a linear mod), where the entire team defeats Derk, and everyone else goes on with their normal lives.

All the action takes place in a fictional universe.

## History of Creation

"FiS" is one of the most problematic mods in the initial stages of development. Its release was postponed 5 times, starting from 2019, interrupted by 2021, when the demo version was released, and ending in 2022, when the full version was released.

This problem was caused by another series of problems, but the most important is the lack of discipline as such: for example, the artist could not draw the artwork for the mod for a huge amount of time, the main writer and coder could not write and think through the script, the designer for a long time did not make the design — all this is the usual laziness.

There were problems with some people encroaching on the originality of "FiS", which called the product "plagiarism of major mods and famous books in the sci-fi genre, which has nothing individual in itself. Because of this, the work had to be removed from the Steam workshop for a while, but later a version came out with minor changes.

## Characters

### Shon Sheldon

The protagonist of the whole part. His prototype was FoxStevenson. Shon is one of some of the people the ''Virus'' took away for their experiments. He is also one of the people who was able to survive the time transference. Apathetic and lazy.

### Dirk Feiths

The main antagonist. Emerged from the composite images of *A. Hitler, J.V. Stalin and the common man*. Head of "Virus" and the main adversary in "Sovyonok". He commands his army of prisoners.

### Constantine Lamberts

The prototype of this character was q-Kun, so he is a kind of OC.

The central positive character, and one of Shon's main helpers and guides at camp. Jolly and cheerful, always helping his friends and serving as a motivator for the team. However, two more sides of him were also shown in the mod: cruelty and the ability to be sad for a long time. He has the highest intelligence and the greatest physical strength.

### Alexander Bishop

Shon's best friend. Helps him always and in everything, but sometimes acts recklessly. As a child left without parents at an early age, he is characterized by promiscuous behavior.

### Cold Watanabe

Smart, but small in age. *Cold88* was the prototype. The strangest and most obscure of the whole group, Cold is of the greatest interest to ''Virus''.

### Cyril Weiss

An avid card player, likes to drink and is Constantine's best friend. The prototype is *weyn*. He is the best at technology among his friends, which gives the story a different coloring.

### Nicholas Drehands

A man whose goal is a peaceful life. A fatalist, doesn't worry too much about the things of life, but gives a lot of important advice to his friends during action mods.

### Daniel Safrise

Roughly speaking, a nerd, the most unsociable of the group. By the end of the story, he changes, changing his life priorities.

## Features

* The mod is a mixture of different universes, as well as an early stage was to combine the RPG genre: skills, items, pumping strength of the characters.
* For convenience, the story is divided into arcs: Prologue, Introduction, Development, Culmination, and Epilogue. Each of these divides the story into separate intervals, which makes it easier to get through.
* Development began with quillren's initiative to create a universe with a mix of ''Everlasting Summer'' and JJBA. 90% of the former team got involved, after which the cybersports organization became a company. After a certain amount of time, the project managers took a poll: should we keep the booths or remove them? In the poll, the latter option won, which caused the original idea to be abandoned.
* On the official Discord server it was possible to track the chronology of events.

## Interesting Facts

* The English version is one of the few (others are Chinese and Japanese) in which the names of the characters are different from the original.
* The name was coined because the prototypes of the main characters were people playing Fortnite.
* Initially, it was planned much more days than the current version (14 days + bonus), but due to time constraints and team fatigue, it was decided to reduce the number to 9.
* The last name of the mod was "Shon's Adventures in Pioneer Camp".
* There are achievements in the first chapter. Due to the fact that only the first chapter is available, it is impossible to judge how many of them will be in the mod.
* In this part, there are a huge number of references to other mods: "Samantha", "BKRR", "7 Days of Summer", "1+1. Diana", "Pacanskoye Leto", "Pioneer Girl Without an Original", "The Doll Who Got a Mind," etc.