Mar 29, 2020
The Unspoken Child — Story Log-line
MAIN CHARACTERS
Roona — Protagonist
The Babayev — Antagonist — Leader of the Pale Men (his companions are the Henchmen of the Apocalypse)
Lilith — Leader of the Survivors
Calypso — Roona’s companion dog
Wolph/Woofy — Crazy and funny figure, craftsman of Survivors
Roona’s father — We get to see him only a little before he sacrifices himself
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STORY SYNOPSIS
In this game and story we will follow a young man given with unique features along his journey where he learns the fate of his world and his long-forgotten family who have abandoned him when he was a child.
The dystopian world where everything is destroyed and scattered by past atomic explosions, only a few operating organisations continue to exist and work on a plan to find out why their world was destroyed.
Entities moves under the debris that is covering the surface of destroyed cities and empty fields. There is barely any straight or solid surface above the wasteland. Survivors are trying to spend as less time possible on top of The Rugged Ruins, (as they call their environment) for their level of exposure and vulnerability increases with each minute spent overground.
Roona, our protagonist is a young man who was born mute and capable to shout only one word the name of his companion: Calypso,the secondary main character.
Calypso is a small bodied dog breed who hides under Roona’s coat when she is in danger, otherwise she helps him to locate food and safe shelters from predators.
Roona grew up with a caravan traveling through ruins and debris, trying to find food and supplies left behind.
During his early childhood he was taught that he cannot speak due to the extreme amount of nuclear radiation he has absorbed while his mother was giving birth to him on the surface in the midst of a loot-hunt.
His mother could not manage in time to hide underground and she was way too exposed to poisonous radiation coming from the sky and the surroundings.
The rest of the caravan made it to shelter but she was left behind to die after giving birth to the child.
Later the newborn was collected by a member of the clan and was taken care of until the age of 10 when Roona became capable of hunting alone.
He never tried to speak a word, only attempted to shout the name of his companion, but the word “Calypso” was never clear. It echoes more like a “Caah”.
He knows basic sign language and communicates with it, as it is a commonly spoken tongue among caravans who aim for survival under the wreckage in order to reduce the chance of recognition. The henchmen of the Apocalypse are roaming the Ruins constantly.
As Roona dwells under the litter of atomic explosions he finds a secret underground society which will be his primary base of refuge. He can return there to refresh his supplies, to turn in suspicious artifacts, and the leader of the Survivors will give him tasks to complete in order to plan the perfect assault on The High Capitulum which is the station of the Pale Men, who have conspired and created the atomic warfare that have pushed the world into its doom.
When Roona is given the task to sneak in to the highly guarded Capitulum he collides with monstrous men and animals distorted by radiation and is completely reliant on his own skills and the senses of Calypso.
In the midst of his utterly disturbing journey into the levels of the Pale Men’s tower he holds Calypso close to himself and finds her the only source of light that he has in the darkness.
Finally when Roona manages to fight himself all the way to the top level of the tower after being captured and tortured by a high commander (Calypso helps him to escape) he enters the final confrontation with the leader of the Pale Men who provides him with the fact that Roona’s father is a commander among them and he has abandoned him and his mother when they were affected by radiation. The father then joined the pale legion leaving his wife behind to die.
Our antagonist, the Pale leader named The Babayev (means grandfather in Azerbaijani) fights to protect the secret of the world’s doom. A chaotic battle begins between the survivors and the Pale Men and in the middle of the massacre Roona’s father drags him to a corner and tells him the truth that in reality Roona is not mute, he was just not taught how to speak. His father could not comprehend the fact when Roona’s mother was infected by radiation, and have left them both to die, even though the father knew that the baby is healthy and he lied about it to his wife. She still gave birth to his son, believing that he won’t last the next day. In his deepest of pain Roona finally releases a word and cries up in vain shouting “No! How could you?” with a strange tone and pronunciation.
He completely loses his mind in the next moment seeing the lifeless body of Calypso laying in the middle of the battlefield.
After the tight fight Roona’s father sacrifices himself as he holds up the Babayev in order to clear the path for his son.
Our hero arrives to the final location which will be a high tech laboratory where the Pale Men have developed a technique to increase their life-span. Here the Babayev follows Roona and tells him that he could not bare to see the population of the world being devoured by poverty, grime and diseases so he sealed away all the people who were wealthy enough to undergo modifications within their body.
In his final despair he ruthlessly destroyed the rest releasing deadly nuclear bombs worldwide.
In the final confrontation Roona destroys the machine that have provided the Pale Men with long duration of life time and overruns The Capitulum to provide shelter for the survivors and slowly start to build up a life from the Rugged Ruins. In his final act of the gameplay he tries to connect Calypso’s body to a machine that he have spared and among curtains of tears he attempts to resurrect her.
In the very last cutscene of the game we see a close up on Calypso’s body as it twitches and her tiny eyes slowly open up. The last sound we hear while the screen goes black is a weak little bark from Calypso.
