Silent Hill
All
The Wait
Until Death
Over
Devil's Lyric
Rising Sun
For All
Follow The Leader
Claw Finger
Hear Nothing
Children Kill
Killed By Death
Don't Cry
The Bitter Season
Moonchild
Never Again
Fear Of The Dark
Half Day
Heaven Give Me Say
Far
I'll Kill You
My Justice For You
Dead End
Ain't Gonna Rain
Nothing Else
Alive
Never Again
Die
Never End, Never End, Never End
Down Time
Kill Angels
Only You
Not Tomorrow 1
My Heaven
Tears Of...
Killing Time
She
Esperandote
Otherside

Player Information
Name: Sooz
Personal Journal: furikku
Contact Info: furikku at gmail; plurk itsasooz
Other Characters:
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Character Information
Name: Alessa Gillespie
Source Canon: Silent Hill (game)
Age: 14
Role In Canon: Catalyst for Crazy Shit and/or Plot Device
History: Here; I'm taking her from after the end of the first game.

Personality:
"Traumatized" sums Alessa up handily. Her short first lifetime consisted of repeated physical and emotional abuse, bullying, and finally torture at the hands of her own mother, all for the sake of a rather twisted religion. The young girl came out of this with phobias of adults, other children, dogs, insects, and, of course, fire. Fear is a huge part of her life, most likely permanently.

A mitigating factor, however, is the part of her that grew up with Harry Mason.
Cheryl had all the nurturing that Alessa never received, and their reunion gave Alessa an idea of what normal life might be like, as well as better-developed social skills. While she's still painfully shy and frightened, Alessa's other half has given her the capacity to grow out of her tormented shell.

Even before she received Cheryl's confidence, though, Alessa had a strong will deep down. Knowing it would lead to harsh punishment, she still refused to help her mother in the depraved rituals to summon God. Despite having almost no loved ones, she felt a sense of right and wrong, and didn't want to bring about a paradise that would lead to the harm of others, even others who'd hurt her before. She kept this determination through her own torture, and was even willing to destroy herself to prevent her mother's plans from coming to fruition. If she must, Alessa is willing to do whatever it takes to keep people safe and happy, even if she herself never can have safety or happiness.

Because of her reunion with her other half, Alessa's prone to confusion as she tries to integrate foreign memories, traits, and habits. She tends to think of Cheryl as a separate entity, though the two are no longer separate. This, combined with an already hesitant demeanor, makes conversing with her a confusing proposition at best; Alessa might switch perspectives mid-sentence as the Cheryl part of her grows stronger, or have to stop and figure out the order of things from two separate childhoods.

What Alessa wants most of all is for people in general to be happy. Secondarily, she longs for love and acceptance from others, something she never thought she could have until Cheryl's return. The existence of that part of her leads her to reach out, despite the terror that other people have posed to her over the years.

Abilities:
Reality Warping- Things around Alessa are a little less set in stone than usual. While the "exorcism" of the god inside her has reduced her powers, she can still affect things in her immediate personal space. This most often takes the form of cosmetic changes (burn marks or blood appearing on something), though she can also make things appear (objects, monsters, etc.) [In the Gardens, these effects will fade once Alessa leaves the area.]

Astral Projection- Alessa herself is a pile of horrible burns and atrophied muscle, not able to do very much on her own. However, she can gain a semblance of able-bodied life by projecting her soul from her body. This essentially creates a second body, and leaves her original one in a comatose state. While projected, Alessa can move around normally and interact with the physical world. She can't keep it up indefinitely, though, and will vanish if her real body awakens.

Shadow Shields- These take the form of a faintly visible "box" of shadows around Alessa. Normal physical attacks can't penetrate them, though they can be broken with the right magical powers.

Communication Hijack- Alessa's powers tend to futz up broadcasts in general-- radios and TVs go crazy with static when one of her projections is around, for example-- but she can also harness and alter broadcast signals, causing them to show whatever she wants, albeit with static interference.

Sample:
Testrun thrad
Meem thrad

[Monsters: Nurses, doctors, clawfingers, roaches, and shadow versions of faceless children that are tougher and harder to see. Also, end boss at the end.]

[The location is a long hallway, pretty much exactly like the hallways from the nightmare version of Alchemilla Hospital, lined with doors that lead to various rooms, many of which are not hospital-related at all. At the far end is a locked door with a set of five locks with strange inscriptions on them. (Once this door is unlocked, please wait for me to describe the next room.)]

[Tasks:
-Wander the hell around and get stuff. There are two locked doors- one at the very end of the hall, one beyond- that need unlocking, with two sets of keys. The keys to the second door are obtainable before the first door is unlocked.

-If anyone bothered to keep the videotape from Alchemilla Hospital, there's a TV and VCR in one room that can play it.

-The first door's keys are in these places:
--key marked "OPHIEL": An empty hospital bathroom with a faucet in the center. The key is wedged into the faucet's opening.
--key marked "HAGITH": The front room of Green Lion Antiques. The key is one of the hands on the face of the grandfather clock.
--key marked "PHALEG": An empty classroom with a birdcage on a desk in the center. The key is in the birdcage.
--key marked "BETHOR": The hospital basement storage room. The key is in a bag of jellybeans on one shelf.
--key marked "ARATRON": A hospital patient room. There's a hole in the wall; the key is connected to live wires.

-The second door's "keys" are in these places:
--Amulet of Solomon: An amulet hanging on the wall of the hospital morgue. [Leaving the morgue will trigger an event for anyone who's talked to Lisa. If you have, please wait for me.]
--Crest of Mercury: A caduceus in a display case in the Green Lion Antique Shop.
--Dagger of Melchior: A dagger embedded in a fridge in the hospital kitchen. Removing it causes a tentacled beast to reach out and try to drag people in with it.
--Disc of Ouroboros: [This is a sortof NPC event, so I'll need to be involved for the description.]
--Ankh: [This is a sortof NPC event, so I'll need to be involved for the description.]

-The second door will lead to a house's hallway. [And another sortof NPC event that I'll have to describe.]

-After that is the big climactic scene where everything all comes together and it's all terribly exciting and oh God it will be insane to try to do all this. Anyway, after MORE FREAKING NPC EVENTS, there will be a grand fight and then the good guys win woo and yay.

-Hopefully someone will be grabbing Alessa and getting her out because I want to play her. Taken care of, woo!

-THAT'S IT YOU'RE DONE AND WE NEVER HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN.]

There's a catwalk over endless darkness, ending at an elevator.

Down is the only way to go.

[Monsters: More roaches, clawfingers, and mantises.]

[Tasks:
-Pretty much just wandering through the sewers to get to the other end. As characters progress, the area seems to be falling apart, with gaping holes in the walls and floor and loud bangs. At one point, the only way across is walking over a bridge made of a corpse tied up with straps and barbed wire. The end is a ladder leading up from the water, surrounded by half-submerged parts of carousel horses.]

The waterworks here seem more colorful than usual, in that "bright colors mean I'm poison" sort of way. Long stone tunnels, punctuated by gibbets displaying life-sized statues in strange cloaks, lead to grated catwalks over murky water. The strange occult symbol is everywhere- burnt on the walls, twisted into the grating- and everything is in disrepair.

[Monsters: Nurses, Doctors]

[Tasks:
-There are a series of tiles to collect to open a door.
-In room 302, there's a TV set and VCR that both seem to function (though the TV doesn't pick up anything but static), as well as a chair, which holds a square yellow tile with a picture of the Cheshire Cat on it.
-On the second floor, in the nurse's center, there's a green tile with the Mad Hatter on it.
-In the kitchen, there's a blue tile with the mock turtle on it, sitting in a tureen.
-On the ground floor, the characters will find a locked door with a 3x3 arrangement of squares. The corner ones are missing; the remaining outside squares are white, orange, purple, and black. There's a passage written beside the door [to be pasted in at that point] giving a hint. The missing spots are large enough to fit the tiles. A key hangs from the center square, with "Basement Storeroom" on the tag.
-There's a movable cabinet against the wall with obvious scrape marks on the floor. It reveals a door to a smaller storeroom. Inside that room is a vine-covered grate over some stairs leading to a second basement. Once the vines are removed, characters can descend.
-Inside the second basement are a series of unused patient rooms and scattered gurneys. On top of one gurney, there's an unmarked video casette. There's one patient room that looks recently used- there's a bed with the impression of a figure still on it, a life-support machine next to it, and a chair. On top of the machine is a photograph of a little girl with the name "Alessa" on it. The chair bears the final tile, a red tile with the Queen of Hearts.
-If the characters try the videotape on the VCR, it'll show something static-ridden. [I'll paste in the scene.]
-Unlocking the tile door leads to an encounter with an important NPC.]

The hospital is a lot less antiseptic than it was earlier. The walls are coated in red-brown smears, and some of the tiles have been ripped away, leaving expanses of grating. The windows that aren't boarded over peer out into thick darkness.

The stairs up to the fourth floor seem to have left while nobody was looking, leaving only a blank wall.

[Tasks- Fight shit! The Town Center (a minimall) is open and full of giant larvae that'll eat people! (There's also a set of TVs in the entryway that will be hijacked and display creepy shit. Let me know if you want anything specific there.) And those not interested in mallcrawling won't feel left out- there's a giant poisonous moth flying around the city, and boy is she itching to devour your flesh! This, along with the wormheaded dogs and pterodactyls, and the apelike dudes!]

It's dark now. The snow is gone; now, thick, warm drops of rain splatter onto the rusted metal that's replaced the asphalt of the streets. Gaping holes, edged by twisted metal, stick out here and there, blocking off some areas. Below, only endless darkness stretches. Barbed wire, rusted and bloody, stretches in front of most of the shops- nobody gets in, nobody gets out. In courtyards, huge machines or windmills stretch through the floor, purpose unknowable.

[Tasks:
-Monster fighting! There are skinless dogs and pterodactyl things in abundance, and all sorts of little shops and houses to explore/loot.
-NPCs! If you want to talk to one, let me know. There's the Main Character guy, and also a policewoman. Neither know what the fuck, but they could be fun? :D
-Optional Plot A! The Balkan Church has a crazy woman in it who is somehow involved in this mess. Let her talk crazy things to you!
-Optional Plot B! There's an alleyway with a few sheets of paper in a child's handwriting: "Levin Street," "Dog House," and "to School." There is, indeed, a doghouse on Levin Street that'll let characters through to the otherwise-inaccessible street that has the school building. (Or you can just go post in that thread anyway.)]

It's a quaint little town, the sort you'd find in New England. Unsurprisingly, there seems to be nothing in the way of population, human or otherwise. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like it's really been hit hard, overall- most of the buildings, trees, and cars lining the road are intact, except for the occasional uncrossable chasm. It's as though every human and animal in town just decided to leave suddenly.

Fog billows through the streets, allowing weak light to illuminate the town. And, despite the mild temperature, a constant snowfall drifts down from the sky, landing only to melt on the grass and pavement.

[Monsters: Faceless children]

[Tasks:
-Look around the normal school a bit. One classroom has a desk with the words "THIEF," "DROP DEAD," and "GO HOME" carved into the top. There's a letter in the teacher's desk of that classroom that can be read. [I'll paste it in for y'all if it comes up.] While characters are exploring, the outside will suddenly grow dark.
-Go to the courtyard and check the clocktower there. The face reads 5:00, and there's a small door at the foot. Enter it. I'll post further descriptions when that happens.]

An aged brick building- two stories, flat-roofed, with a hedged walkway and a pleasant-looking lawn. The sign in front reads "Midwich Elementary School."

The double wooden doors in front lead to a pleasant lobby, with wooden parquet floors, benches, and a table bearing brochures. Beyond that lies the hallway proper, lined with pastel lockers and the usual public service posters.