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Script samples from various games.
Here are some lines from Call of Cthulhu. Set in the 20’s in Innsmouth, a NE coast fishing village.
Jack Walters is a smartass but cool detective and the main part.
Zadok the grizzled crazy town drunk.
Jack Walters / Did the Christian folk of Innsmouth not object to such blasphemy?Zadok Allen / with drunken slur / Not so mech escaped, as set free. Fer weeks nothin', then thet arful nite of 'forty-six'. Them's from outside reckon on it bein' a riot. But, I seed them… Swarms of 'em.
Jack Walters / The fishfrogs attacked Innsmouth? Because the sacrifices stopped?
Zadok Allen / Aye. My pa, he clumb aout the kitchen winder with his musket. Never heerd o' my pa no more.
Zadok Allen / with drunken slur / 'twas a massacre… the gaol thrown up… Maounds o' the dead an' the dyin'. Shootin', screamin' n' shoutin' all cross Taown Squar'.
Jack Walters / But he escaped?
Zadok Allen / with drunken slur / Come mornin', the mess wuss cleaned up. Ol' Obed n' his family teks charge. Folks were tol' to keep shy o' strangers ef we knowed what wuss good fer us.
Zadok Allen / with drunken slur, almost oblivious to Jack / 'cept the ol' Cap'n wuss now deeper in debt to 'is 'eathen gods. They were hankerin' fer more than jest sacrificin'…
Rebecca Lawrence
Rebecca is in her late 30’s and like her ancestors before her she is a long standing opponent of the Marshes. The only reason she is still alive is through a combination of luck and extreme caution when talking to outsiders. The hard life she has been forced to endure in Innsmouth comes across in her voice, although a strong woman she has become weary over time. Actors: Naomi Watts, Linda Hamilton, Cate Blanchett
Jack Walters / He told me to protect whatever's in the safe… to get it out of town.Rebecca Lawrence / Jack… you're in perilous danger, you've got to get out of town. The Order is onto you… it's not safe for you in Innsmouth anymore.
Jack Walters / I'm leaving on the next bus out of this nightmare. Tonight.
Jack Walters / And you can rest assured doll… I'll be enlightening the relevant authorities with all I've seen in this crazy shit hole.
Rebecca Lawrence / That's if they even let you leave. You've seen too much Jack… the Order won't allow you to go easily.
Jack Walters / The bus is not going till morning. Seems there's a problem with the engine.
Rebecca Lawrence / That's not good Jack.
Jack Walters / There must be another way out of this crazy shit hole?
Rebecca Lawrence / No friendly folk in Innsmouth have transport.
Rebecca Lawrence / You could walk it… Though the marshlands that bound this port are a full night's journey, and more perilous than the streets and alleys of the town.
Jack Walters / Oh swell.
Rebecca Lawrence / You've got to get out of Innsmouth Jack.
Jack Walters / Any ideas?
Rebecca Lawrence / The Gilman Hotel is your only option. But bolt your doors Jack, for not all outsiders that take board at the Gilman see through the night.
Brian Burnham (human)
Summary Description
Brian Burnham is the 18 year old manager of the First National Grocery store in Innsmouth. He was caught cracking a safe of his girl friend’s father and is now in jail. This is where Jack finds the terrified Brian, who is suspicious of anyone in his current state – even those seemingly offering a way out.
Brian Burnham / spoken with hushed urgency / What are you waiting for Jack?Brian Burnham / They've spotted us!
Brian Burnham / spoken with hushed urgency / Quickly, run.
Brian Burnham / Are you sure it's safe now?
Brian Burnham / Let's go, Jack.
Stage 3 Hybrid 5 / Portal Sentry) / 'Ave made sarten the temples well pr'tected. Thar's plenny of men patrolling the main hallway n' prison.
Stage 3 Hybrid 5 / Portal Sentry) / Good evenin' Sir... we wa'n't supposin' on yer returnin' so soon.
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Keeper) / Hev yer been keepin' watch on the lab?
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Tender) / No... they've ben locked up senct Esther war kicked out.
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Keeper) / Good. I'm reckonin' thar'll be no-one coming through here wi'out us knowing about.
Stage 3 Hybrid 4 / Doorman) / Mek sarten yew check the garden - them's 'll mebbe come through the drainage system.
Stage 3 Hybrid 6 / Gardener) / Aye... I'll keep watch... but I dun't reckon anyone ud fit inside.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Slightly Raised Voice / Noticed anything unusual?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Slightly Raised Voice / No. All seems fine.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Slightly Raised Voice / Everything ok with you?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Slightly Raised Voice / Yeah. All's clear.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Raised Voice / What was that?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Raised Voice / I heard something.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Shouted / It's him!
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Shouted / Kill him!
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Shouted / Come here!
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Shouted / Stop!!!
Jack Walters / speaking to himself quietly / I had better keep my head down.
Jack Walters / speaking to himself quietly / I've a much better chance of survival if they don't know I'm here.
Jack Walters / speaking to himself quietly / Oh shit! This place is swarming with those fish-men. I better watch my step.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Slightly Raised Voice / Seen anything?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Slightly Raised Voice / Not yet.
Lucas Mackey / I overheard some of the guards discussing a potent mural that Robert Marsh had etched onto the main doors.
Lucas Mackey / They said it was powered by a sacred ceremony to the Old Ones. Whatever the hell that means?
Lucas Mackey / Hurry up Jack... you've got to get me out of here.
Stage 3 Hybrid 3 / Messenger) / We hev cleaned out the laboratory Sir. The temple doors are shet 'n sealed.
Stage 3 Hybrid 3 / Messenger) / The outsiders' hev not ben able to rupture the barrier... Mother's song is holding. Thar are menny joining the prayer.
Robert Marsh / Excellent... dismissed.
Sebastian Marsh / angrily, stress 'our' / What the hell do you think you're doing, Robert? We're in the middle of an invasion and you've got our Order singing hymns!
Robert Marsh / calmly, dismissive / I've shut the lab down, Sebastian.
Sebastian Marsh / shocked and angered / What? This is madness! Can't you see how far Esther's come?
Sebastian Marsh / Soon we'll have no need to breed with these primitive organisms.
Robert Marsh / angrily, patronising / Your trivial experiments are of no concern to me. All energies must be directed at completing the translation of the tablets.
Robert Marsh / patronising / I don't care for your opinions... you couldn't even protect the refinery!
Sebastian Marsh / this shoudln't come out as being pathetic / But... Jacob…
Robert Marsh / angrily / Leave him out of this... your incompetence has cost us dearly.
Robert Marsh / dismissive / I suggest you take your worthless body back to shore... you are of no further use to the Order.
Sebastian Marsh / pause, as Sebastian reaches inside his coat pocket for his gun / That's not going to happen, Robert.
Jack Walters / 6 years of my life have been stolen from me.
Jack Walters / I know not by whom or for what purpose.
Jack Walters / I have learned little since I awoke just 5 months previously, my mind in a wretched state.
Jack Walters / The only details I have managed to unearth of my activities during these missing years have been gleaned from medical journals and the few friends still willing to endure my company.
Jack Walters / My earliest recollection had been of the library in that blasphemous house in Boston, and the screams resonating from somewhere deep below.
Jack Walters / It is in my nightmares that fragments of some hideous memory that I can only describe as being somehow elaborately blotted out has begun to reveal itself.
Jack Walters / According to the police report they searched the house for hours after the siege, only for me to be discovered inexplicably some time later collapsed on the floor of the library.
Jack Walters / When my eyes eventually opened and I spoke, it brought about a terrible fear and repulsion in my colleagues, something in my turn of expression and blank gaze was wholly foreign to them.
Jack Walters / I was committed to Arkham Asylum, a short time later being diagnosed with severe amnesia and schizophrenia.
Jack Walters / As it became clear that I was of no danger to either myself or others, I was given charge of my funds and released from the asylums care.
Jack Walters / Much of my life during the following years was spent in either travel or study, with evidence suggesting I maintained a fanatical infatuation with the occult;...
Jack Walters / ...delving deep into volumes concerning witch-cults and dark legends, often in languages unfamiliar to my own.
Jack Walters / Most perplexing of all was my return to the house in Boston early in 1921, renting the property up until my rightful faculties returned, leaving no trace of what had been a secondary personality.
Jack Walters / Except that my spirit was still occupying the timescale that was September 1915 and the disturbance at a local residence.
Jack Walters / Return to normal life has been a painful process.
Jack Walters / My dreams are now plagued by cosmic landscapes and visions so abhorrent that if unveiled would sound like the delirious ravings of one possessed by madness.
Jack Walters / Stranger still, I now have a queer fear of seeing my own form as if my eyes would find something utterly alien and inconceivable in the reflection.
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Raised Voice / Who goes there?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Raised Voice / Who is it?
Stage 3 Hybrid 1 / Shouted / Where is he?
Stage 3 Hybrid 2 / Shouted / He's disappeared.
Jack Walters / Since being discharged once more from the asylum, I have set myself up in a cheaply rented office close to the Miskatonic University.
Jack Walters / I now remember things from that day, more than six years past, that I have told no other.
Jack Walters / I will not chance to describe them here lest this journal falls into the wrong hands and I am once again placed into restricted care.
Jack Walters
Arthur Anderson / Unknown Speaker
Jack Walters / That is until just recently.
Jack Walters / I was myself again, or at least what I believe myself to be.
Jack Walters / oh... What the hell... I'll be here all day anyway.
Jack Walters / I agreed to take the case.
Jack Walters / To Leave The Temple, Bow To The Deity Of The Order
jack Walters / Its in Ryleth Script
Stage 1 Hybrid 6 / Shouted / Where did he go?
Stage 1 Hybrid 3 / Spread aout. He must be somewhar close by.
Stage 1 Hybrid 1 / Widen the search. He'll not git far.
Constable Nathan Birch / Hev yer gave the sacrifice his feed yet?
Constable Elliot Ropes / Yew war s'posed t'do it.
Constable Nathan Birch / Well I hain't doin' it now. Git on wi' it. Marsh says he wants them alive, fer the sacrificin'.
Constable Elliot Ropes / He's far gone thet Garrison, not right betwixt ears.
Constable Nathan Birch / Aye... he balked at heving to tek t'Oaths. Marsh wa'n't hevin' thet, he come 'ere to hev talk wi' him 'specially.
Constable Nathan Birch / Martin'll hev already ben down fer a little spell a reckin.
Constable Elliot Ropes / He'll be tirin' o' the dry land. I'a! Dagon. I'a! Y'ha-nthlei.
Constable Nathan Birch / Yer hed better leave him alone fer the presn't. The Order gen'lly prefers 'n unsoiled sacrifice.
Constable Elliot Ropes / D'yer s'pose the Burnham boy'll be ready fer a'nuther beatin'? Heh heh...
Constable Nathan Birch / Mebbe we shud tell him... tell him he's to be kilt for Dagon's pleasure.
Constable Elliot Ropes / The boy's ben asting why he hain't ben charged yet.
Constable Nathan Birch / I reckon thet they'll hev caught t'ousider by now.
Constable Elliot Ropes / What ef they hain't? If he gits aout 'o Innsm'th he'll bear tales t'others of what he hez seen.
Constable Nathan Birch / Shet yer trap Elliot. The Order'll mek sarten the outsider dun't leave town.
Brian Burnham / What the hell you doing? Watch your aim.
Brian Burnham / Have you gone screwy?
Brian Burnham / Blast! They must have realised my escape.
Jack Walters / Brian Burnham is dead! NOOOOOO!
Jack Walters / Lucas Mackey is dead! NOOOOOO!
Lucas Mackey / Jack! What the hell you doing? I know you're upset, but there's no need for that.
Lucas Mackey / Don't make me hurt you, Jack.
Lucas Mackey / Sorry Jack. I really thought you had potential.
Brian Burnham / We'll stand a better chance of staying alive if we try to sneak past them... somehow.
Brian Burnham / That was too close. We need to be more careful.
Brian Burnham / The pathetic wretch killed himself... much longer in that hole, and it could have been me.
Jack Walters / Brian must've been caught recently as the posters haven't been taken down yet.
Jack Walters / Wanted posters? There must be more to this than a simple burglary.
Jack Walters / Miracle cures. Some quack trying to make a fast buck more like.
Jack Walters / VO / Miracle cures? Some con trying to make a fast buck more like.
Jack Walters / The heat from the flames is tremendous.
Jack Walters / I won't be able to get inside without badly hurting myself.
Jack Walters / The blood of something has been splattered everywhere.
Jack Walters / From the mess, it looks like something or someone was killed here recently.
Jack Walters / The grate is too heavy to lift with my bare hands.
Stage 1 Hybrid 1 / Hev yer seen the sacrifice?
Stage 1 Hybrid 2 / I hain't seen any trace o' nothin'.
Stage 1 Hybrid 1 / Jest keep lookin'.
Misc Police Hybrid 3 / Still nothing.
Stage 1 Hybrid 4 / Stay alert. He can't hev gone thet far.
Stage 1 Hybrid 2 / Someone'll be fer lynchin' when Marsh learns the prisoner hez escaped.
Stage 1 Hybrid 3 / Aye... thet's fer sarten. Keep lookin'.
Stage 1 Hybrid 4 / Yer got anythin' t'report?
Stage 1 Hybrid 1 / Not mech. I hain't seen hide o' hair ef him.
Stage 1 Hybrid 4 / Mebbe he's got away.
Stage 1 Hybrid 2 / Thars no chance ef that. Marsh hez got men watchin' all ruds aout o' Innsm'th."
Stage 1 Hybrid 2 / Dun't be talkin' foolish. He's mebbe hidin' somewhar.
Jack Walters / Lets Go Mr Mackey, We've gotta get out of here
Jack Walters / This cell looks like it suffered some kind of fire damage many years ago.
Jack Walters / According to this sheet, Garrison has been holed up in the jail for nearly six months.
Jack Walters / I should leave the alarm alone.
Jack Walters / Messing with the alarm would be too risky.
Jack Walters / Most of the details on the rap sheet are blank.
Jack Walters / All kinds of miscellaneous notices.
Jack Walters / According to this, there have been many arrests lately but no charges listed.
Jack Walters / All the desk drawers are locked.
Jack Walters / Nothing else in the safe seems of value.
Jack Walters / This doll... it must be Ramona's.
Jack Walters / Taking the doll would be just too ghoulish.
Jack Walters / It's Thomas Waite's. Ramona's death must have driven him into cutting his own throat.
Jack Walters / These accursed animals haven't even cleared the body away.
Jack Walters / There's nothing of interest in the wardrobe.
Jack Walters / This wardrobe is too heavy to move around.
Jack Walters / The fire is barely enough to keep out the freezing cold winds.
Jack Walters / It's encrusted with something, and it smells awful.
Jack Walters / The sink has been blocked up, leaving it full of scummy water.
Jack Walters / I'm not going to touch it.
Jack Walters / I'm not touching it.
Jack Walters / It's a slaughter house... the stench of rotting flesh is overwhelming.
Jack Walters / I don't know how to get it started, I'll need some help.
Jack Walters / I'll need to get it started before getting inside.
Jack Walters / I have to break Brian out of the can first.
Jack Walters / The sink is grimy, and holds traces of what appears to be some sort of discoloured membrane.
Jack Walters / Where am I, what is this place ?
Mysterious Voice 1 / The great city of Pnakotus.
Jack Walters / My head! There was screaming.. a hidden stairway.
Mysterious Voice - FATHER / Rest now Jack. You are safe.
Jack Walters / There looks like theres something behind this cabinet.
Jack Walters / This cabinet looks light enough to push.
Jack Walters / Locked tight. I can't get inside.
Jack Walters / Not the best choice for a getaway vehicle, it's too conspicuous.
Sergeant Sam Carter / shouted / Move out marines, secure the area.
Sergeant Sam Carter / Wait for my men to secure the area.
Sergeant Sam Carter / Okay Jack. Move out!
Sergeant Sam Carter / shouted / Move out the way, Jack. I'm coming down!
Experiment / in great pain, shouting at first / Cursed!!! I'm cursed with this vile plague.