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[Project Omega]

Anyone ever play Eternal Darkness?

[SinValentine]

when they started moaning and making weird noises i stopped lol. i was last with that roman guy or that girl i don't remember. whatever it was i was in the beginning, i really have to finish that game

[Project Omega]

Well then I wouldn't wanna spoil the story for you then.

Spoiler:

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Pious states that all that is necessary to bring his Master into the world is the planetary alignment.

Here's the whole story for those that are curious and don't feel like playing the game:

It all started with a foolish Centurion...

Pious Augustus was sent to the Middle East to find priceless artifacts. What he didn't know was that the artifact he was claiming would end up changing him forever. He entered the Forbidden City, and selected one of the artifacts. As he reached out to touch it, it both killed him and restored him, turning him into a Liche, and binding him to his Master's commands. He takes the Essence of his Master's greatest opposer with him when he leaves.

Pious immediately set about creating a way for his Master to enter this world and claim it as his own. His influence ended up spreading deep into the corruption of the world. Within decades he had many loyal followers.

Fast forward five hundred years. A man named Karim seeks a special artifact to win the heart of the woman he desires. He comes to the same Forbidden City that Pious came to. In the end, he is forced to guard the remaining artifact forever in undeath.

At some point afterwards, Pious takes action against the greatest threat to his Master's cause, the Keeper of the Ancients, Mantorok. He casts huge pillars into the beast's flesh, mortally wounding it and forcing it to die over the course of millenia.

Eventually, the Master's influence spreads through Europe, and Pious creates a place of worship and sacrifice in Amiens, France. He used this place to store the Essence of his Master's opposer, so that none would ever use its power, and he set the creature known as the Black Guardian to watch over it. It is from this base that he strikes out at all who would propose to slow the progress of the Ancients, through direct opposition, or through simple reform. He claimed many lives, including that of Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, who was killed right in Amiens, despite the efforts of his page, Anthony.

Pious knew that even though Mantorok was no longer a threat, his Essence still had great power. In the 1100s, he set out in an attempt to retrieve it, but could not find it amongst Mantorok's body. By chance, a dancer named Ellia discovered the temple that Mantorok was imprisoned in, and discovered the Corpse God. Those who worshipped it entrusted her with Mantorok's Essence. She couldn't protect it for long, though, at least alive, as Pious killed her, thinking she was nothing more than a nuisance. Her body remained entombed with Mantorok.

One of the preparations necessary to bring the Master into the world was sacrifice. People dying horrible deaths was good, but not enough. In the mid-1400s, Pious set out to create a monument for his Master. This monument would consist of a pillar of human bodies, cemented into place as they were buried alive. An architect named Roberto Bianchi was tasked to survey the site, and it was his explorations that led him to the Essence that the Persian warrior Karim had stayed in spirit to protect. After surviving the test, Roberto took the Essence into his keeping, but it was buried with him as he was made part of the sacrifice.

The Ancients had their hands in many atrocities throughout history, including the Inquistion of the 1400s. As time marched onward, the monastery that served as Pious' headquarters became Oublie Cathedral, and Pious posed as a holy man to hide his true intentions. Even though his cover was sound, he was forced to destroy many that intruded, even in curiosity, including Brothers Andrew and Paul Luther of the Franciscan order, the latter of which was slain by the Black Guardian that guarded the Essence that Pious kept imprisoned. Eventually, Pious and his order left the cathedral, as humanity was doing just fine bringing about death and destruction, not needing his help. The Essence remained there, and the Black Guardian maintained its vigil.

Through some cosmic design, or simple chance, one family was eventually thrust into the conflict against the Ancients full front. In ancient times, a city existed beneath what is now Rhode Island. This city, Ehn'Gha, housed a civilization with enough power that it could oppose the Ancients. Pious responded to this threat by sending his Guardian beasts into the city, turning its rivers red with the blood of its inhabitants, and setting the creatures to guard the city, lest others use its power. Eventually, the city was all but forgotten, and there seemed to be no problem when a family named Roivas settled in that area in colonial times, eventually erecting an estate. It was Dr. Maximillian Roivas who first encountered the city in 1760. He discovered it in the foundations of the very mansion he had recently inherited. He attempted to gain help to free the city, but the very humanity he intended to save imprisoned him in an asylum, there to eke out his days.

Through war, deceit, and murder, Pious continued to disrupt the course of humanity. In the early 1900s, Pious' Master was most pleased when the entire world erupted into war. Pious himself was away from his headquarters in Oublie Cathedral. Had he been there at the time, he might have prevented what followed. A unsuspecting journalist named Peter Jacob was in the cathedral when it was being used as a field hospital. Once the evil in the cathedral made its prescence known, he retreated to the tunnels beneath, found and slew the Black Guardian, and acquired the Essence trapped there.

The Roivas family was thrust into battle again in 1952, when the current owner of the mansion, Dr. Edward Roivas, was following in his forebearer's footsteps. He too discovered the city of Ehn'Gha, just as Maximillian had. Where his ancestor failed, he succeeded, and decimated the city's evil inhabitants. Although a victory against the Master, it was not enough to save humanity. He realized that he needed more power than was in the city to win.

The Essence of Mantorok, still unaccounted for, was a niggling pain in Pious. In 1983, he disguised himself, and contracted the use of modern technology, and the explorer Dr. Edwin Lindsey. The two found the temple that held Mantorok's corpse. Now, Pious could feel the Essence, and attempted to kill Lindsey. He escaped his death, however, and obtained Mantorok's heart before Pious could, when he took it from the corpse of the dancer girl Ellia, where it had remained for centuries.

During Operation Desert Storm, in 1991, firefighters were working to put out oil fires in Kuwait. Due to pure luck, a firefighter named Michael Edwards was knocked into the Forbidden City during an explosion. He received the last remaining Essence from Roberto's spirit, and proceeded to destroy the evil temple.

All three who had Essences, Peter Jacob, Edwin Lindsey, and Michael Edwards, eventually found their way to the Gathering of Light, which turned out to be an unsuspecting mansion in Rhode Island. Edward Roivas took all three Essences into his possession over the years. One he hid in his bookcase, another he sealed in his safe, and the third, just to be safe, he sent blindly through the postal service, where it would end back up at his house in the year 2000 AD. He knew this would be the correct year, as it was the time of the full planetary alignment, when Pious' Master would enter our world.

But, as a frail old man, Edward knew that it was not his destiny to face the Master. He was little surprised when, at the time just before the planetary alignment, he was killed by one of Pious' creatures.

He knew it was the task of his granddaughter, Alexandra Roivas, the last member of the line, to take up the burden and defeat the Ancients. He made sure that when she arrived, she'd learn the history of those who had come before her, so she'd be ready when facing the evil.

Just as Edward designed, she arrived soon after his murder, learned the history, collected the Essences that Edward had gathered, and used them to summon her own Ancient that ended up destroying the one Pious summoned. She then destroyed Pious in mortal combat, ending the efforts of the Ancients for the time being.

It then dawned on Alex that her efforts here were not alone. In different realities, different universes, others were fighting the same fight, and the realization came to her that all three Ancients were destroyed. It was all thanks to Mantorok, who'd spent his many dying days taking revenge on the Ancients who defeated him, by manipulating and guiding those "Chosen Ones". Through his connections to the realities, he was able to pit all three Ancients against each other, simultaneously, and destroy them all, leaving him alone in his waning days... plotting....

And the big question... What is the Tome of Eternal Darkness? I'll tell you one thing; it's not just a simple book. My theory is that it may not actually exist as we know it. It has been around before the time of humanity, and it seems to try to find those Chosen Ones. If the Chosen are far away, the Tome will call to them, drawing them into the Temple of Eternal Darkness, where it waits for them to claim it of their own free will. In that temple, the Chosen Ones will see those that had fallen before them in their fight against the Ancients. Given the revelations of the "final" ending, it is probably controlled by Mantorok himself, or at least guided. The Mantorok Rune on the cover is enough evidence of that...
--- quoted from http://faqs.ign.com/articles/379/379205p1.html

[nemesis_lover]

i got quite far on that game but just gave up. i was told in the shop its like resident evil but i cant agree on that :I

[Darkmoon]

Yeah, I've gotten the 'true' ending for Eternal Darkness. It's a good game, especially if you like the Cthulhu mythos.

[SinValentine]

i got quite far on that game but just gave up. i was told in the shop its like resident evil but i cant agree on that :I

they told me this too!

[Project Omega]

Only in the horror aspect as it is a scary game, but I think it has more in common with Silent Hill as it is a pyschological thriller...

[SinValentine]

that's what i thought, it's more like SH or indigo prophecy?

[Project Omega]

I haven't fully played Indigo Prophesy to be honest. I bought it on X-Box live a few months ago but haven't been in much of a mood to play it. I didn't get that far in since I accidentally drunk some liquor and took some pain medication and died... XD I was a little pissed so I just played something and really haven't turned back

I'd say it's more like Sillent Hill mixed with alittle Alone in the Dark/Obscure.

[SinValentine]

yes! i took the asprin and drank liquor and died too lol. i also died from taking too long to get dressed and clean up my bloody hands before opening the door.. but i'm a girl, taking long to dress is allowed as long as you look good when you open up that door, that police man won't have shit to say haha

[Project Omega]

Unless you look even better nekkid and open up the door like that

Nah, one of the first things I tried to do was take a shower and then cleaned up the room. Then again, I also wanted to do away with the evidence as quickly as possible. So I got super paranoid when he started to knock and got more suspicious as I didn't know what he was going to do (like look inside my hamper or underneath the bed cover.

[SinValentine]

yeah i didn't know either, that game towards the ending gets really weird. especially the sex scene

[Project Omega]

Looks like this game might just be completed sooner than I thought :-P

[SinValentine]

i knew that'd get you to play it ;) lol whore!

[Project Omega]

I think sex is important in games. Just look a Rumble Roses. A raunchy lesbian grappling game disguised as female wrestling. All it's missing is some baby oil and/or mud and you've got yourself a good time.