Nameless dream-inspiration

> *Subconscious fantasy on the theme "Silent Hill in the movie adaptation by Andrei Tarkovsky"*
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> Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky

**Nameless dream-inspiration** - this is a dream that *Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky* (the main creator of Sightless Highland Franchise) had sometime in 2019.

## From the author

What I would like to say... Firstly, this scenario came to me in a dream, and secondly, it was a long time ago, and therefore, taking into account all these factors, I will not be able to give everything in full. So you, dear readers, will have to come to terms with the fact that this scenario has only 5 scenes that are not connected by any side events.

## Plot

The story begins at an unspecified time and in an unknown country. Harris Morton is driving with a girl named Annabelle on the highway into town. During the short driving scene, the characters do not say anything, and do not even glance at each other - only Annabelle sometimes looks out the side window.

This lateness occurs in the early morning, in bad weather - outside the car windows everything is cloudy, gray, and sad, and the sky is covered with a veil of clouds - in general, the view of the environment is as depressing as possible. And at the very beginning it rains a little (because of which Harris Morton has to turn on the "wipers"), but then it stops and it is replaced by thick fog.

In general, it is the fog that becomes one of the reasons that the main character has to stop the car. The second reason is that he was very hot from need, and therefore the stop was simply necessary.

Harris Morton stops the car, and after exchanging a few words with Annabelle (something like instructions to wait for him and not leave the car), opens the door and goes out into the fog. By that time, it is already 09:04 (according to the protagonist's wristwatch), but the sun does not peek out, as the clouds continue to hang above the ground.

After a short amount of time, the protagonist approaches his car, but through the glass he sees that his companion is not there. This circumstance brings Harris Morton into a state of stupor - first, without getting into the car, he looks around the rear seats (well, who knows - what if Annabelle moved there and hid?), And then goes around the car around (noting that on the opposite side all the doors are closed ), and looks around with a dazed look, but sees nothing but thick fog and the silhouettes of a few trees, as well as the highway going into the distance.

Realizing that his pretty companion is not around, the brave old man walks along the road ahead, comforting himself with the hope that Annabelle just decided to take a walk. In addition, at the same time, he makes a decision to find the first phone booth that comes across in order to call her relatives.

> *What happened between this episode and the next one, I can’t remember because of the prescription of this dream, so let’s immediately move on to the second scene."*
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> Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky

Harris Morton finds himself in some supermarket, which, by its very appearance, evokes the feeling that over the past 5 years a human foot has not entered it. There are no goods on any of the shelves, the lighting does not work (fortunately, daylight shines through the wide windows, even if the sun is hidden by clouds) - in general, desolation in all fields, there is not enough, oddly enough, rust and corrosion of the metal, and there is no dirt - everything from the ceiling to a few utensils (urns, cash registers, etc.) looks clean, as if from a needle, only the shelves are covered with a thin layer of dust.

So, Harris Morton, with vague intentions, enters this almost empty room and slowly walks past the empty shelves, looking around. And then suddenly, from the end of the hall in which this supermarket was located, an eerie creak of metal reaches the old man's ears and his legs feel a slight shaking. Immediately throwing off his half-asleep look, Harris Morton is looking for somewhere to hide from the impending danger.

Unfortunately, he is already far enough away from the entrance to the store to make a hasty retreat, so nothing better comes to his mind than to lie down on the cold floor and crawl under one of the rows of shelves, and freeze there in an uncomfortable position, not forgetting to direct look so that what is happening outside this "shelter" can be seen.

And Harris Morton's fears turn out to be completely justified. The vibration gets stronger, the eerie creak gets louder, and the main character's field of vision (very limited due to low shelves) gets dirty and bare feet of some person who clearly has a powerful masculature. This creature, slowly moving its ulcerated legs (our hero was simply unable to see what was above), dragged a strange rusty device, resembling a giant hair comb, which was the cause of this nasty rattle. Harris Morton, deafened by the sound that the demon was making, loses consciousness, and everything around him gradually disappears into blackness.

> *Here again I forgot what happened between these scenes, so sorry, friends..."*
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> Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky

Harris Morton soon finds himself in some abandoned hotel, where he first walks along a corridor, the floor of which is covered with pieces of lime, and the walls are shabby and broken in some places. After a short walk around this "very cozy" Harris Morton place, stop in front of a door made from several boards (which have been rotted). He, keeping his calm and half-asleep expression, listens to something, and, after a little hesitation, enters the living room (there are no numbers, however, neither on the door itself, nor on the wall next to it).

The room is relatively bright - although the sun did not come out from behind the clouds, but the small room is well lit thanks to the large window opposite the door. The situation is rather unpretentious - a bed with only one mattress, a stool next to it and a bedside table with a vinyl record player.

Coincidence, but Harris Morton has a vinyl record - he pulls it out of his bosom (fortunately, it has a small diameter). The plain paper envelope bears nothing but the inscription "By Annabelle for my beloved uncle Harry" in pencil.

Harris Morton installs this gift on the player and, pressing the power button, exhaustedly falls on the bed and, shivering a little (because only a mattress with springs is by no means a soft bed), closes his eyes and falls asleep with a peaceful expression on his face.

At this time, only the creak of a needle on vinyl was heard from the speakers of the player, and nothing more. If Harris Morton hadn't been so tired, he would have been surprised, but since after meeting with the demon in the supermarket, all his strength had gone, he simply fell asleep, and therefore the fact that he was not disturbed by music was only to his advantage.

However, he was unable to sleep. Still not really falling asleep, he feels a light touch of a woman's hand on his cheek. Harris Morton mouths "Annabelle, it was you who came to me?" and opens his eyes. But, what a horror! - the owner of this hand is not at all his twelve-year-old niece, but an adult twenty-two-year-old girl. Her eyes glowed faintly with a green light, and her mouth was twisted in some strange grimace (well, something like a cat that has cornered a mouse and flirts with its victim).

It is difficult to be calm when such a creature is sitting next to you that attracts one curious feeling towards you, however, Harris Morton has enough self-control to, waving his hand away from the girl who is already ready to lie down with him, reach out with his hand to the player and remove the record (which is already almost came to an end), and when this procedure was successfully carried out, the strange creature disappeared, as if it had not been. After that, the hero loses consciousness.

But suddenly he wakes up screaming, as if from some kind of nightmare, and looks around with a crazy look. After looking around the situation a bit (in addition to the bed, the desk with a chair and the locker, there is nothing else in the room), he realizes that he is in a completely different place, but for some reason calms down (apparently because he is no longer in danger) and gets up out of bed, after which he, limping a little, tries to leave this strange place, but he is unpleasantly surprised that the door is locked from the outside.

Trying in vain to get out of the room, the hero, having nothing to do, takes some piece of paper from the desk (which was not there at the very beginning), and reads mysterious words on it: "*Although I am* **\*crossed out\*** *for everyone, inside I rule the whole world!*" Understanding nothing, Harris Morton crumples up the paper and throws it into the wastebasket (which was also not there at the beginning), and again pushes the door, and she - lo and behold! - gives in, and soon the hero leaves his room.

However, he finds himself in some even stranger place. This is a corridor, the walls and floor of which are lined with steel plates (just like in a bunker), and leading to some kind of hall. Harris Morton has no choice but to walk through this strange place until everything fades into darkness.

> *And once again, I can't connect one moment to the next, but the next episode is already the last one."*
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> Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky

So, Harris Morton, who survived the loss of his beloved niece, and trying to find her in this city full of nightmares, again finds himself at his car, which, due to his great mind, he left standing here with the doors open. The old man hesitates to leave this place, for he is responsible for the fact that somewhere in the wilds of this town his twelve-year-old niece was lost (and possibly died), but on the other hand, he was already on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to the adventures he had experienced (even if his face retained its former half-asleep expression), and he was no longer able to continue risky (and it is possible that fruitless) searches.

And, being at the so-called crossroads of thoughts, the first drop of rain falls on the head of Harris Morton, and after a minute and a half a real downpour falls on the old man. Rain water obscures the view, Harris Morton is forced to cover his face with his hands so that the rain does not fall into his eyes, but at the moment only one thought reigned in his brain - "Stay in the town in order to still find the girl, or get into the car and to go back to stand trial and before Annabelle's parents for not saving their daughter (or even killing her with his own hands - or whatever else he will be blamed for), going on a car ride in the morning in bad weather?"

The rain continued to fall, and a struggle of thoughts took place in the old man's brain. And then he finally made a decision - "I will not waste time looking for Annabelle, because I already survived the horrors of this city in full and almost went to where they do not return. I'd rather go towards human hatred with my head up than die from the invisible hands of this city." And, having taken this generally nasty policy of action, contrary to his family duty, Harris Morton looks around his car, then the highway leading to this City of Death, and, driven by jets of relentless rain, walks towards justice - to where it came from in the morning that day he was traveling with his niece, whom he already considered dead.

> *What happened after that, I don't remember. Maybe on the way he unexpectedly found his beloved niece, whom he had vilely abandoned before, or maybe he did get to civilization and after the execution was sent to prison for manic actions, or it even happened that his heart did not withstood the stresses experienced and its owner fell face down on wet asphalt - I never saw all this in that dream, because I woke up and was going to cook breakfast for myself, not really thinking about "the affairs of the past night." And, as you understand, only now, four years later, I raised my hand to retell this strange, but important dream in the history of my game project, which, in fact, gave it life."*
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> Vitaly "RaudoKyubu" Ivolginsky

## Characters

In this dream, there weren't too many characters worth listing, but it's interesting anyway:

* **Harris Morton**, a forty-eight-year-old man with short black hair, wearing a black leather jacket, white shirt and black trousers. Bears an uncanny resemblance to the late actor Donatas Banionis. Was inspired by Harry Mason from the first "Silent Hill" game and also by Chris Kelvin from the "Solaris" movie.
* **Annabelle**, a twelve-year-old girl, has long black hair and wears a white dress. Her appearance was strongly influenced by Alice from the cartoon "Alice in Wonderland" by Ephraim Pruzhansky, and she received the name from the episodic character from the book "The Chain of Chance" by Stanislav Lem.
* **Daemon**, a creepy creature that which could harm for Harris, if that hadn't hidden himself. Little is known about him, other than that he has human legs that are covered with ulcers, and he also carries a weapon that looks like a giant comb. Inspired by Red Pyramid Thing from "Silent Hill 2" game.
* **Succubus**, a twenty-two-year-old girl with piercing green eyes. Inspired by Khari, the wife of the protagonist from "Solaris".

## Trivia

* The concept of a adult man who is looking for underage girl is clearly inspired by the game "Silent Hill" for the first PlayStation
* Some details were included in Jameson's Door (SH-Demo). For example, a succubus girl who tries to rape the protagonist appears in the very finale. Or, for example, the concept of a "little girl relative" took on the appearance of Virdie Erdoytes-Grassfield.
* At the very beginning, there was an idea to make a cartoon based on this dream, without any deviations from the plot.