The Mystery of Steep Hill Manor

[Ackley14 1]

 

 

You awaken in your bed to the loud cracking of horseshoes on the hand laid stone path just outside. you see a bright flickering light emanating from your bedroom window. As you go to the window to see what the light is, the gallops stop. You quickly race downstairs to your living room, and walk out the front door to see a man in a horse-drawn carriage. The man turns to you, in his hand you notice a folded piece of paper. The man asks where (char name) steep is. You reply with a simple, "I'm him". The man steps out of the carriage and heads towards you. You are quite frightened but still at the same time. As the man approaches you with the paper he begins to speak. "Boy, I have some troubling news. Your grandfather has been missing for over three months now, and his immediate family has decided to pronounce him dead. This envelope contains your grandfather's will and the deed to his estate atop Steep Hill. The man offers to take you in the morning, and so you decide to consult your mother on the matter.

The next morning you show your mother the papers. She isn't surprised as she had already known about the inheritance. Your mother tells you to go to the mansion. even if for just a few day's as it is your inheritance. You agree. You pack up your things and head to the tavern where the man is waiting. He notices and approaches you. Still slightly spooked from the night previous you hesitate to speak, but then realize he isn't here to hurt you. You ask of his name, and he replies, (what ever you name him as he will become a side char later in the game). He takes you to his carriage and you both board it and set out on the journey to the mansion

as you approach the manor two men in suits appear in front of the carriage and halt it. You and the man get out to see what is going on. The men in suits are actually your grandfather's butlers and tell you that they are at your service for what ever you might need, and tell the man with the carriage that he may leave now and thank him for his services. As he leaves the butlers tell you that they don't believe your grandfather has passed but rather been kidnapped. They don't know by who or why but they do know that the majority of his prized snow globe collection has gone missing in the recent months. You ask to see the room containing the snow globes, and so they do.

In the room you notice only one globe sitting in the corner dusty and on a pedestal. You ask the butlers how many globes there were originally, they reply with "fifteen". Astonished, you ask where they could have gone, but alas they don't know. You decide to take a look at the other snow globe sitting in on its pedestal. Upon closer inspection you notice a name plate engraved at the bottom. reading it aloud it says, "Southland, #1". You decide to look deeper into the globe itself, and notice many tiny black dots moving. All of a sudden you feel a sensation come over you. Its like nothing you have ever felt before, And before you know it your in the middle of a desert surrounded by what seems like endless sand.

 

 

CLIFF HANGER!!!

 

 

lol ok so the premise to this story is essentially grand dads gone missing, you have to find out what happend by exploring the worlds locked within the 15 snow globes. at the end of each level you will fight a tough boss and be granted the ability to access the next level

 

 

i have only begun story line production on this. i don't even have a file for it in rmxp yet XD but i have the aid of a few good friends. im hoping to have a decent demo of ALTEAST the introduction of what you just read, out by the end of the month (taking so long because im insainly busy but still really want to do this project ) ]

tell me what you think of the story

 

also not sure if im going to be using any custom scripts yet. i do tho believe i will be using a custom battle engin. but i have yet to decide what i want.

 

Credits thus far

Jon bon- over all help, spriting, mapping, eventing ect

Polraudio- basicly the same as above but hopefully i will be getting a custom menu script

Me - all above except for the scripting XD. aswell as im composing the entire ost aswell as sound efects, me, bgm and bgs

Strefy - story, mapping, possibly spriting if he wants XD

 

 

 

hoping to have a lot more in the future

 

 

 

 

Title screen image made by ma good friend tomo. thanks man :D

 

 

 

The Mystery of Steep Hill Manor by Shane Moss (A.K.A. Ackley) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Edited May 31, 2012 by Ackley14