# The narrative structure of death simulation > [!INFO] Game without organs > **Teacher**: Mark Shannelly > **Instruction**: break down the story beats of the narrative > **Game**: Pathologic 2 (Russian "Мор", lit. Murrain - 2019) > **Developer**: IcePick Lodge, Russia > **Genre**: A rhizomatic death-sim with realistic time physics > **Point**: Режь мечты по золотым сечениям • Cut dreams by golden ratios > **Map**: [Interactive Map](https://pathologic2map.ru/pos/0147.63=0024.24=0001.32) > ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/map.png]] ## Actors **Protagonist:** deep cuts through reasonable grounds **Antagonist:** hazardous miracles of empyrean geometries (comp. Autodesk Maya) **Organs**: - *Bachelor* (Pathologic 2 DLC avatar & Pathologic 1 avatar). A snobbish ratio embodiment. - *Changeling* (Pathologic 1 avatar). A [[hazardous MIRACLES|hazardous miracle]] embodiment. - *Haruspex* (Pathologic 2 avatar & Pathologic 1 avatar) -- a surgeon graduate returns home steppes to cut the flesh of golden means. - Ravel -- Haruspex's childhood friend who momentarily loses herself when she tries to help others - Grief -- Haruspex's childhood friend who grew from a hooligan to a man who sells armaments to kids - The murrain -- takes Haruspex's city home soon after his odyssey - The ox and its organs > ![[GWO.png]] ### Protagonist: deep cuts through reasonable grounds **Archetype**: Orphan / Ruler Reasonable grounds is the protagonist in my personal walkthrough for I gave preference to real guarantees over miracles. The fate of a city in plague relied on me. Haruspex either slaughters the empyrean divine or the city's only hope is that the plague will kindly end itself of compassion. The city is cut of the world due the murrain. No medicine, no food, now water. An ORPHAN who takes RULE over itself. When shadows incinerated in blood, the city revealed ruling families cowering in the dark. Does the ORPHAN have enough reason to RULE the murrain off? ![[Bloody lock-pick -- cuts opens the flesh of reality.png]] ### Antagonist: hazardous miracles of empyrean geometries **Archetype**: Child / Joker One of ruling families is the Kains, the city's literal architects. Sealed in its walls, they dreamily witness the fall of their crown creation Polyhedron (fig.) An impossible empyrscrapper of paper Kains built for the children. The miracles and dreams do not neccesesiate reason while the gravity inevitably fails them. The city folks are homesick CHILDREN longing for the new. From their hopes they design empyrean geometries that collapse in transgression beyond mere (lurid_JOKER.shadows) playthings of thought... ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/POLYHEDRON_МНОГОГРАННИК.png]] ## Story ### AKT 1 #### (1 DAY) Beginning: death calls to be the end - PROLOGUE: At the very beginning death warns Haruspex that it will follow him in many faces to cease completely on the 12th day he is home. - PARODE: Haruspex witnesses the slaughter of his whole home city at the DAY 12. Looking into the death's eye, he finds its beginning and takes off the train home at the DAY 1. The first news is Haruspex's an orphan now ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/The DAY 12 slaughter.jpg]] ### AKT 2 #### (2 DAY) EPISODE: d(e)ad body without organs At father's funeral, Haruspex inherits his last will and drops it the next day out of surprise, when plague boutons jump over the city. ![[dead BWO.png]] #### (3 DAY) 2nd thoughts(?): am I home? The bell rings: steppe murrain blooms. Children in animal masks, the envoys of divine horror, infiltrate streets. Haruspex's childhood friends arm those kids with [[Bloody lock-pick -- cuts opens the flesh of reality.png|bloody lock-picks]] and needles. Future ravers of empyrean geometries' entrails. The ruling families cut the city [[Flights|flight]] trails, arrest Haruspex's home and announce him wanted for murder. Friends who hide Haruspex, and homes he hides within, secrete hazardous marvels. ![[Polyhedron from afar.png]] ### AKT 3 #### (4 DAY) CLIMAX.1: home in death The murrain takes the city's organs. The Haruspex must accept the rules remaining after all other has dissolved in blood, pus, bile and other BWO composites. Will the surgeon take hold over frenetic human ends? ![[PATHOLOGIC 2 surgeon mechanic UI.png]] #### (5 DAY) Rising tension: when death is, we are not All charges dropped: Haruspex father's murder suspect is encaged. Even better, an accredited medical professional employs Haruspex to a theatre. It's been rearranged into a clinic bricolage in the main spotlight of macabre frenzy flare ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/theatre_front.png]] #### (6 DAY) TWIST / THE TRICK OF MILIEU: when we are, death is not When the mischievous fate winks Haruspex, he finds out that bloodshed endures his capacities for self-salvation. ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/theatre bloody flyer.png]] ### AKT 4 #### (7 DAY) CLIMAX.2 : RAVE to win the best death Morals are left behind in ascendance beyond good and evil. Haruspex harvests yet conscious bodies for a byte of lemon. Kids exchange their medicine for Haruspex's [[Bloody lock-pick -- cuts opens the flesh of reality.png|bloody lock-picks]] and needles. Up noon and midnight he gathers pharmaceutical weeds to sell them as recreational psychedelics. No room for human struggles all day round. This day the inquisitor comes and claims pan or nothing: after the deadline she will link trails with the city-bonfire in plague-bouton tones (fig.) of flames. ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/plagueBoutons.png]] #### (8 DAY) CLIMAX.3: Pan is dead but I live Thirst, hunger, sleep, health and life meters render the game's content irrelevant. What is death (fig.) even, when life is at stakes? ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/deathPareidolia.png]] #### (9 DAY) CLIMAX.4: thickness unto death (Kierkegaard's peak of despair) Haruspex considers impossible to endure healthy. The devil won't buy his soul for one flight to a rave plateau. The only key to survival is to call Deus ex Machinas to [[LH_angels.bio|harvest their organs]]. Leap of faith is suicidal. Worms (fig.) enjoy the crisp of time... ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/worms.png]] #### (10 DAY) the art of failure is the gay science of living a life This day the murrain demands exploit or cheat from the player. Even the story loses last fats to disarrange into an impure surreal surf over meddling narrative structures and unfinished plot quests ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/ImpureSurrealism.png]] #### (11 DAY) STASIMON: "God's in his heaven -- All's right with the world!" Life flashes before his eyes in all rainbows of blood. The cowering inquisitor begs Haruspex of falling in love with her to have a rainbow way out. Neither he shares distant shadows of heaven with her, nor abandons a hope for resolution. Haruspex crushes thinnest sword-geometries of love in blood and makes a pharmakon of it ( #PHYSIS/Ecumene/Virtual/𐀞𐀔𐀒_φάρμακον_mobile) ![[ATTACHMENTS/REFS/Pathologic/shadowsPromoArt.png]] #### (12 EXODE) A FLIGHT TO THE RAVE OF FUTURE MARVELLOUS CURIOSITIES Blood of slaughtered miracles inflames human undergrounds. 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