Emesis Blue

Emesis Blue is an Horror film directed by Chad Payne and produced by Anton Pelizzari. It was released on the 21st of February 2023 as a youtube video on the channel Fortress Films, and is animated with Source Filmmaker. It based on the game called Team Fortress 2, released by Valve in 2007. The movie was likely inspired by the 1981 Stephen King story "The Jaunt". The Jaunt centers around a teleporter that can be used to travel between planets. The hitch to teleportation is that those who teleport must be put to sleep beforehand. In the event that someone teleports while awake, they experience what feels and eternity in unknown conditions and die soon after arrival.(The first person to do so immediately stated that "It's eternity in there" before dying, and the second clawed his eyes out while screaming "IT'S LONGER THAN YOU THINK!" repeatedly.) In Emesis Blue the story centers around a group of mercenaries and the Respawn Machine used by their employers to return them to life. Most of those who respawn forget most or all of what happens to them in the time they spend in the afterlife, but a couple of them(Respawn Trials Guy and the Sniper, most notably) maintain full memory of their time spent on the other side. The two describe the respawn gap as "Longer than you think" and state that "It's eternity in there!", referencing The Jaunt and establishing the core premise of the movie. Repeated use of respawn machines and repeated exposure to eternity spent in the afterlife-regardless of whether that eternity is remembered once the person is alive again-leads to gradual but potent degradation of the mental and physical health of the mercs.

## Plot

### Prologue

An old-looking recording which appears to be shot on 70mm film begins playing. Titlecards appear which read "Helix Technologies presents: The Respawn Machine". The text fades to reveal a door with glass panels on either side. A counter in the corner reads #001. The door opens to reveal the silhouette of a man of unknown age. The words "It's eternity in there!" appear at the bottom of the screen, assumed to be subtitles as this section of the movie is silent. The man then begins to collapse before the footage cuts. The door is closed again, and the counter now reads #002, implying that this is the second trial of the machine. This time, the man is wearing his helmet, and states that "My eyes hurt." A photograph of the man's face which is missing eyes and is bleeding from all orifices then fades into view for a moment. The footage cuts again to a third trial. This time, the man says nothing but shakes and twitches rapidly as the camera zooms in on his face, which is still too backlit to see. The fourth trial does not have a man in it, but an unknown darkness and tendrils creep across the walls and camera before parts of the shot appear to be blacked out.

### Chapter One: Graveyard Shift

Medic is sitting in his office at around 8:00 PM on Halloween night, 1968, in Mortem, New Mexico. He dreams of a truck dumping bodies into a river, the respawn machine full of blood opening its doors spilling the blood everywhere, and of a figure who wears a trench coat, fedora, and plague doctor's mask standing at the end of the tunnel, bathed in red light.

He then hallucinates that this figure enters his office, surrounded by dark tendrils and red light, and that it reaches for him as his eyes begin to glow white and the objects on his desk float into the air, before he snaps back to reality and sees Scout standing in the doorway.

Scout asks medic if he ever has bad dreams, describing one in which all his teeth fell out, as well as a feeling of being watched. Medic offers Scout a bottle of Valium and asks what his mother thinks about his fears. Scout remarks that his mother isn't thrilled that he's been laid off, stating that he'll "sue the hell out of BLU for what they did to me". Scout is in obvious physical discomfort and is sporting a scar on one side of his head.

While Medic was helping Scout walk to the exit. Medic states "Well, you wouldn't be the first." Referring to Scout, Scout tells Medic "Doc? If they ever hit you with something, you hit back twice as hard you hear me?" Then Medic tells Scout he'll give him a ride back home, suddenly a box full of old tapes fall to the ground, containing multiple old movies such as "The Invisible Man" "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" and "M" Scout shows interest in M and takes it with him.