Who would’ve thought that a creepy goth girl named “Christian” would be possessed through graphics, sound and sadistic animation? I spent ten minutes rolling my cursor over the dreary landscape (complete with four large corporate complexes and … a church) and madly clicking at whatever turned looked like a link. Unfortunately for every 50 times I clicked on the page, only 10 clicks made the effort worthwhile. Nothing occurred the vast majority of those ten minutes. When something did occur, it confused me, amused me for about 15 seconds and then I spent another minute or two trying to make something else occur.
I’m not sure how the creator managed to make such a dynamic, albeit frustrating piece of digital art. If he/she used Flash, I’m jealous. I once tried to teach myself Flash over a weekend and ended up throwing my mouse and keyboard against the wall. Then again, I don’t envy the creator for taking an hour to code the motions of a girl bending inhumanely backward to prick herself on some purple-pronged cactus … nor do I ever wish to animate the motions of two eyes sliding back towards the brain. I can stand a lot of things, but I draw the line at the following:
- Dogs in distress.
- Air vents … and those foot-long fingery bastards that SQUEEZE out of them (X-Files).
- Eyes doing anything that eyes shouldn’t do.
A few key laws (in terms of eyes):
- Eyes should never possess black irises.
- Eyes should never be larger than a quarter and should never ever be misshapen.
- Eyes should never pop out, roll around or otherwise act out of accordance of their natural movements.
So when the goth girl’s eyes slid back into her skull, I minimized the window, started typing this entry and crept back a little more reluctant and on edge than before.
Here we go.
Uh oh. The sky changed colors and there’s ominous music. A building appears … some kind of congregation (AHH a sound behind me!), a taller boy behind bars … and …. crap. I clicked something and the window closed.
This time I try again, searching for items I may have missed on the first go. I somehow click on a book and a few pages in I find “Like everyone I hide things.” Wait a few minutes, then a hand appears from within the empty space in the pages. It grows red pustules. I look down at the sleeping girl (apparently this is a dream? Am I going nuts?) and notice that the same arm in the book is wrapped in white bandages.
Finally! Something makes sense. Then she starts spitting out some stinky hairballs, a big white blobby-thing does …. nothing, a stubbly-faced monkey dances … and I’m lost again.
This would be more satisfying if it gave me some sort of direction. Just a little hint. I’ve yet to see the end of the “story?” If you figure it out, please let me know.
EDIT: Finished it! Apparently I was to click on some random shrub and then the people who subsequently popped out of the tall grasses near the bottom of the page. They then proceed to burn in some building (I’m delighted to find out that I can see their screaming faces when I roll my cursor over them). Then the demon girl walks over to a black splotch in the ground and the scene fades out with this explanation:
“In the year 1696, the daughter of John Shaw, the Laird of Balgarran, fell victim to one of the most well remembered cases of ‘demonic possession’ in Scottish History. It resulted in a large number of locals being implicated as her tormentors, and concluded with 3 men and 3 women being put to death on Paisley’s Gallow Green on the 10th of June 1697.”
Hm. Did someone say “The Crucible?” Didn’t really get that in the Flash project
