Project Abyss Script Progress: Opening

1.) Intro 1
Music: The Grand Fonic Hymn: String Quartet
The intro sums up everything that, according to the Score (the prophecy of the planet’s future), should have
happened in Tales of the Abyss.  The background has two flames (Luke and Lorelei) streaking up through space.

TEXT:
ND2000

In Kimlasca shall be born one who inherits the power of Lorelei.

He will be a boy of royal blood with hair of red.

He shall be called the Light of the Sacred Flame, and he will lead Kimlasca-Lanvaldear to new prosperity.

ND2018

The young scion of Lorelei’s power shall bring his people to the miner’s city.

There, the youth will turn power to calamity and be as a weapon of Kimlasca, destroying himself and the city.

Thereafter, the land of Rugnica will be enveloped in war, and Malkuth shall lose territory.

Kimlasca-Lanvaldear shall thrive, and this shall lead to unprecedented prosperity.

…which will ultimately lead to the downfall of Auldrant.

ND2019

The forces of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear shall march northward, through the Rugnica Plains.

After inflicting atrocities upon the villages in their wake, the army shall surround the fortress capital.

Within a fortnight, the city shall fall. The Kimlascan army will stain the Malkuth throne with the blood of its last emperor. Their howls of victory shall resound throughout the land.

ND2020

A mountain of corpses shall bury the fortress capital. Death and disease shall envelope the city.

The plague born thence shall become a new poison unto humanity, killing all within its reach. Its spread shall mark the true end of Malkuth.

Kimlasca shall enjoy decades of prosperity as the plague of Malkuth grows.

Ultimately, the plague shall be brought into the Kimlascan kingdom by a single man.

…Thus shall Auldrant be destroyed and turned to dust.

This is the end of Auldrant.

The scene fades out, followed by the sound of a loud explosion just as the music ends.

2.) Forest Clearing 2
Music: None yet; birds can be heard chirping.
Scene opens with LUKE FON FABRE laying on the ground.  He stirs, before standing up, looking around.

LUKE: Where…?

He looks around again, before looking up, a [!] appearing, before he dashes up to reveal ASCH laying in a pool
of his own blood nearby.  Luke slows down as he approaches.

LUKE: Asch… you’re really…

Luke faces the screen.

LUKE: No…

[Luke crying character set] as Asch twitches…

LUKE: No… it’s not fair…

Asch… please… do something. Call me an idiot again.  Anything!

Asch’s eyes open…

ASCH: …what are you blubbering about, idiot?

[Luke normal character set] jumps with a [!], before Luke turns around.

LUKE: Asch…?

Asch gets up, looking relatively unharmed despite the blood on the ground.

LUKE: Asch!

ASCH: Wh–

Luke pounces on Asch, spinning him around happily.

LUKE: Asch! You’re alive!  You’re really alive!

ASCH: Wh- ge- GAH!

The screen flashes as Asch punches Luke, knocking him to the ground.  Asch starts pounding on Luke with his
foot.

ASCH: Never. Ever. Do that again you STUPID replica!

Asch ends his abuse with a sharp kick, sending Luke into a tree with a painful sounding thud.

LUKE: S…sorry…

Asch starts to walk off, when Luke jumps up, starting after him.

LUKE: A-Asch, where are you going?

ASCH: Away from you.

LUKE: Asch!

He darts infront of him, stopping Asch.

LUKE: Why?  Don’t you even realize what the heck happened?!

ASCH: Hn?

The screen scrolls up to the bloodstain left on the ground.

LUKE: You… you died.

ASCH: I know that!

Screen scrolls back.

LUKE: W-well… you can’t just run off!  You don’t even know where we are!

ASCH: And you do?

LUKE: Well, no… but, can’t we just be lost together?

ASCH: [grumble emote]

LUKE: Besides, you’re unarmed!

ASCH: Unlike you, I actually bothered to study Fonic Artes.

LUKE: Urk…!

Asch brushes past him, pausing after a few steps, with a [grumble emote].

ASCH: I can’t stop you from following me, dreck.

LUKE: [!] Thank you, Asch!

ASCH: Just don’t get in my way!