Wastelander Page #3

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You have to help.

The Scourgers are headed

this way.

How far?

I don't know, like maybe

half a day, I'm not sure.

Where?

Aah, just over the ridge,

right where the fork ends.

I know where that is.

Let's go.

No. I'll go, you stay

here and help Solek.

Trish and Raven

can help your friend.

I'm not taking the main road,

I'll go much faster on my own.

I won't slow you down,

and you'll need the extra gun

when you get there.

Fine.

Rhyous.

Try not to

lose it this time.

[AIRY SYNTH AMBIENCE]

[LASER BEAM SOUND EFFECTS]

[LIGHT OMINOUS SCI-FI AMBIENCE]

We found Solek

limping through the desert.

So he's alive?

Yeah.

Where is he now?

My friends are

taking care of him.

I need him up on his

feet as soon as possible.

He's shot in the leg,

he's gonna need some

time to rest.

We don't really have time to

rest, Miss. And if I were you,

I'd be makin' plans to get as

far away from here as possible.

We can hold

off whatever Scourge.

A large legion is due in this

area, and they're looking to

make examples of

anybody they run into.

Word is they lost contact

with some slavers at a water

outpost nearby.

They sent some

scouts to check on it

but it's only a matter of time

before Dando realizes the scouts

haven't returned.

Dando the Usurper?

Are you sure?

I would count on it. Take me to

Solek and we'll be on our way.

What do you need Solek for?

He's my spotter.

I'll be your spotter.

You sure you know

what you're getting into?

I have a

pretty good guess.

There's still the matter of

finding the bastion before their

scouts are due back.

SUSPENSEFUL CINEMATIC MUSIC

Don't get soft.

[LASER BEAMS SOUND EFFECTS]

MERCHANT:

[MOANING SOUND EFFEC F*** you!

SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC

ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES

DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES

SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC

MUSIC CONTINUES:

[COLD WIND SOUNDS]

SYNTH POP DANCE MUSIC

SYNTH POP:

DANCE MUSIC CONTINUES

[MUSIC CONTINUES,

LIGHT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND]

SYNTH POP:

DANCE MUSIC CONTINUES

[ROARING ENGINES SOUND EFFECT]

[DRAMATIC CINEMATIC

AMBIENCE CONTINUES]

[DRAMATIC SYNTH

AMBIENCE CONTINUES]

[OMINOUS AMBIENCE CONTINUES]

(no whispering can be heard)

[DRAMATIC AMBIENCE]

DRAMATIC:

CINEMATIC MUSIC BEGINS

Duran.

What is it?

Those guys back there...

We don't have time

to think about that.

[CINEMATIC DRUM BEAT SOUNDS]

[CINEMATIC BEATS CONTINUE]

DANDO:
We have a new enemy.

A Wastelander.

SCOURGER DON:

Don't worry my liege.

We'll find this a**hole

and turn him into paste.

[HARD THUMP SOUND EFFECT]

This man is far more

dangerous than the Inquisitor,

you failed to kill! He already

took out Krognar, he already

took out Hildenstern, and I know

many of you are only good up

against unarmed women.

He took out Hildenstern the

Cyber with a f***ing knife!

And he's coming this way.

Word has it that this impudent

heretic is in search for

the Forbidden Paradigm.

Many of you will die. So prepare

yourselves for a f***ing war.

What do we do?

Wait and see.

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[OMINOUS SCI-FI AMBIENCE]

[ROARING SOUND EFFECT]

[SYNTHESIZER SOUNDS ENSUE]

[ROARING SOUND EFFECT]

[MECHANICAL

WHIRRING AND BUZZING]

[BASS HEAVY SYNTHESIZERS PLAY]

[ROBOT BEEPING SOUND EFFECT]

[A MIX OF ROBOT SOUNDS

ROARS AND FIGHT SOUNDS]

We should do something.

Thin them out.

The guard up on the

tower, you see him?

I see him. You ready for this?

Do it.

[GUNSHOT SOUND EFFECT]

3 meters to the left,

see him coming up?

There's four mo-, no, six

more, coming through the gate.

Riflemen to the left.

F*** it.

Huh? Eh!

[LASER BEAM SOUND

EFFECTS CONTINUE]

[CHOKING SOUND EFFECT]

[FIGHT SOUNDS CONTINUE]

Your meddling has caused me

great grief Wastelander.

All of which could have been

avoided had your men just given

me the information I needed.

You seek an evil that

must not be brought back.

Ancient dogma led to war,

destruction. And eventually,

extinction.

That's a bit heavy.

I know you search for

Eden, but do you even know what

it is?

Suppose I don't?

It's merely a concept.

It's to keep human-kind in

line. It's no promised land.

And yet,

somehow it's a threat to you?

The Forbidden Paradigm is a

threat to all of the Wasteland.

Which you've already

conquered. And pillaged.

I united the land.

The weak do nothing to

rebuild the world.

They only squander what is left.

It is only logical we

usurp what we must.

You're talking madness.

Ancient apocrypha

have no place in our world.

Unless we wish to make

the same mistakes, humanity must

begin anew.

Under your rule...

I see how it is.

[FIGHT SOUNDS]

COMPUTER VOICE:

Initializing cryogenic sequence.

I will have my fun

with you later.

Override denied.

Denied.

Denied. Denied.

[CINEMATIC AMBIENCE ENSUES]

[HIS BREATHING]

[CINEMATIC AMBIENCE CONTINUES]

Miranda.

Duran.

Why have you done this?

It's not so simple.

You remember what they did?

Those that have wronged us

have paid, the rest are mere

beasts to be tamed.

You sound like one of them.

I am one of them!

You were once somebody else.

Those days are gone.

And you, you come

here to kill me?

Precisely.

[RICOCHET SOUNDS]

[STABBING SOUND]

[OMINOUS AMBIENCE]

[LASER BEAM SOUND EFFECTS WITH

DRAMATIC AMBIENCE BEGIN]

[FIGHT SOUNDS]

[ENGINE STARTING SOUND EFFECT]

[CRUNCHING SOUND]

[SCREAMING SOUND EFFECT]

(she screams)

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES IN

[CHASE SOUNDS - MOTORCYCLES,

BUGGYS, TRUCKS, ETC]

[LASER BEAM SOUND EFFECTS AND

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]

[CHAOTIC FIGH AND CHASE SOUNDS]

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

WITH SYNTHESIZER PLAYS

[GRUNTS, FIGHTING]

[ROBOT-LIKE

SCREAMING SOUND EFFECT]

[ATMOSPHERIC SCI-FI AMBIENCE]

Out of gas! Let's move!

Neve.

What is it?

How far back can you remember?

What do you mean?

You don't remember

the Old World?

Before the wars?

That was before my lifetime.

How old do you think you are?

How are you supposed to

measure something like that?

In years...

Years? How long is a years?

Twelve months.

How many minutes is that?

365 days.

Why 365?

That's how long it takes the

earth to go around the sun.

There's leap year with an

extra day every four year...

How do you not know this?

No timing on machines....

But, I guess to answer

your question, I would say,

probably about the same number

of years, whatever you call it,

as you.

I don't think so.

Well, what, how

old do I look to you?

I have no idea.

That's why I'm asking.

Bullshit, that's not why.

I want to know how

old I look to you?

How the hell am I supposed

to answer that when you don't

even know what a year is?

You just told me its 365 days.

With a leap year every four.

Yeah, sure. So what is it?

Am I too old or too young?

For what?

I don't know, nevermind.

Nevermind?

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