Name: Fury of Forsaken Queen [Possible Nyla Battle Leitmotif] by spiro9
Duration: 52 s
Description: Fun story on this one - I made it while trying to make a track for something mostly unrelated, and realized I'd hit on something perfect for Nyla, so I took the opportunity right away. Not much else to say about it, this isn't a final track by any means and is mostly just a reference for me to use later on.

Oh no I spilled chemicals all over this plant again
Whatever shall I do
Oh no.. it's getting F U N K Y in here now... help

[WIP Cover, v0.0i] Chemical Plant Zone

[Story Desc.]
After battling her way through the busy streets of Rhylia's capitol, City Rhyle, Nyla and her entourage finally enter the old Nylani palace... to find it utterly lifeless and desecrated; the black & gold marbled walls and ebony wood pristine as always, but covered instead in the banners of the oppressive D'naro regime, a cold, hostile, barbaric sight.

Unsettled and disquieted by the sheer display of ego and irreverence of her father's former advisor, Nyla stands quiet, in shock, rage building up within her at the injustices done to her family, her home, and her country... knowing full well if she fails today, it will be the last time she ever knows this place.

[My Notes]
Disquiet and the Lacrimosa Suite are very much work in progress proof-of-concept pieces, intended to help me set the mood for this project's soundtrack and to provide a hint at the dramatic ending I have planned for it; Disquiet is the intro, and takes heavily after the music box ending of Nier's "Shadowlord" boss fight; an alternative version with the original Latin lyrics is planned to happen after the fight against Deneferio D'naro, the final boss of this project, once he is defeated - that version will be called "Requiem."

There are two other named variants I have planned, and potentially at least one other variant, which will play during Nyla's fighting through the Nylani palace, and for parts of the fight against Deneferio. These are "Grey Guard" and "Dark Dynasty" respectively.

As I noted already, this is very work-in-progress, and nothing is final. It's very, very difficult (perhaps impossible) to *improve* upon Mozart, so I'm instead *adapting* what's there to fit the mood of this project. It's proving to be extremely difficult even without an attempt to improve upon the original.

[WIP: Glory to Rhylia OST] Lacrimosa Suite (Disquiet) [pv0.0e]

[Story Desc.]
Rage building within her at the desecration of her home, her inheritance by birthright, and the injustice committed against all she's ever known by the man who was charged with protecting that birthright with his life, Nyla comes to her senses and begins to run through the halls, sword in hand, fully armor-clad, and with a fire in her eyes that would strike fear into even the dragons of old.

Not even the Grey Guard, Deneferio D'naro's replacement for the old Rhylian Royal Guard, with their draconic armor, razor-sharp longswords, and modern American rifles, will slow this indignant queen-to-be down in the slightest. This is her home. Her history. Her future. She won't let it be taken away, and she most certainly will not leave her people, who she loves just as dearly as her father did before her, in the hands of an oppressive regime.

The Crown is hers, and she intends to take it back, whether in life... or in death.

[My Notes]
Another part of the Lacrimosa Suite - Grey Guard is two-fold, and you'll hear that quite plainly around the middle of the track. It's still using Lacrimosa as a base for the composition, but it's faster and is intended to drive home the high stakes involved, both in the "Quiet" variant for non-combat exploration, and the intense "Combat" variant for fighting the Grey Guard - and by this point, Nyla will be well-equipped and generally strong enough to tear through these elite soldiers like they're nothing, a fearsome sight indeed, and one I hope this intense take on Mozart's masterpiece properly captures.

[WIP: Glory to Rhylia OST] Lacrimosa Suite (Grey Guard, Combined) [pv0.0g]

Celesta, California. A city home to millions upon millions of residents - ever since the Changewaves near the start of 2020, this previously secondary major city has become America's largest megalopolis, boasting a 30 mile diameter and over 80 million residents.

As any highly populated city would, Celesta finds itself privy to a bustling nightlife, lit up by the lights of hundreds of skyscrapers and even the terrain itself (no thanks to the city's rich celestium deposits, which it is named after), turning it into a gorgeous gem of the California coast in the twilight hours.

Newcomers to the city are encouraged to spend at least one night out on the town to see just a glimpse of everything it has to offer; the people, the music, the shops, movies... if you can ask for it, it's probably there. Just make sure you still get some sleep!

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DISCLAIMER:
Image generated using PixAI. I do not claim full ownership of the image, I just needed a fitting, eye-catching thumbnail and I couldn't be bothered to spend the time drawing it for myself, because I'm a lazy bum and it's 4:30 in the morning :P

LED Lightshow [ROTC; Nightlife Theme for Celesta; WIP v0.0]

A WIP track for BEET, a gamedev project I'll be starting to work on heavily in the next few years.
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BEET will be an FPS in the style of both classic DOOM and the current indie hit ULTRAKILL. Players will play as an innocent-looking (but secretly psycho) bunny girl named Beet, whose home has been overrun by a series of bee and other bug-themed robots, with one simple goal: take back your home bot by bot, chip by chip, gear by gear, until you've destroyed the robot menace once and for all.

BEET's art direction will effectively parody most of the FPS genre, relying instead on a morbid subversion of the typical 'blood-and-gore' by making the craziest element of the game Beet herself. Mechanical enemies, cutesy art direction with an emphasis on cartoonish style, and the general feeling like the game is set in a kid's show... but then you have Beet, who proves herself totally psycho when given a huge arsenal of weapons, and the heavy metal music to remind you that this is in fact an FPS, and that you're about to unleash absolute carnage.

BEET is planned to be built on Portal 2: Community Edition's branch of Source, called Strata Source; this may change however.

BEET - Buzz the Hive [WIP OST: Robot Factory | version 0.0c]

This track is a hybrid of the general mood of (and a from-scratch beat based upon) Portal 1's OST "You're Not A Good Person," coupled with Portal 2's OST "An Accent Beyond," which I felt had a similar feel to it. I've made this more rock and metal-esque due to the place "You're Not A Good Person" comes from in Portal 1. I'll leave that lower in the description, because it's a spoiler for those who haven't played!

====[ BELOW BE SPOILERS ]====
"You're Not A Good Person" plays in the piston-floor room in Portal 1, during the escape sequence, where the pistons open up and drop the player into a room with a few turrets. It's a trap room and perhaps one of the more memorable moments due to the intensity of the original music. I'm hoping to eventually remake that scene with a "unified" approach that brings it more in line with Portal 2's general aesthetics, and with more turrets to boot.
====[ SPOILERS END ]====

I'm hoping that the general mood and feel of this track helps capture what I'm going for and envisioning in my head ahead of time; it's still a work-in-progress though and there's no telling if I'll actually wind up doing anything with this long-term. That said, I hope you enjoy what I DO have here, even with any of its flaws.

Unauthorized Intrusion [Portal 1 & Portal 2 Hybrid Cover/Remix, WIP v4]

Fun story on this one - I made it while trying to make a track for something mostly unrelated, and realized I'd hit on something perfect for Nyla, so I took the opportunity right away. Not much else to say about it, this isn't a final track by any means and is mostly just a reference for me to use later on.

Fury of Forsaken Queen [Possible Nyla Battle Leitmotif]

2025 AD:
The Celesta School of Liberal Arts' Ultraverse Expeditionary Team Program makes contact with Aperture Science on a routine mission. After prolonged contact and some basic informational exchange, the two decide to collaborate, forming the Joint Venture Research Initiative.

Unfortunately, shortly after the initiative's forming, some... unwanted guests noticed strange activity in North America, near the ruins of Marquette, Michigan. One human scientist, an Aperture employee by the name of Aaron Clarke, and a UET leader named Kamari Latifelle (callsign: "Sprocket"), were caught by a Combine gunship while attempting to haul [ - REDACTED - ] back to Aperture. With nothing but gas in the fuel tank and Sprocket's sheer fearlessness (and affinity for firearms), a war that'd span the entire ultraverse had begun...

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Lore out of the way, I've started work on a crossover between one of my story contexts and the shared Half-Life and Portal universe, using a concept I dub the "ultraverse" - in short, a multiverse of multiverses - to bridge the gap.

The cartoonish, silly, and absurd nature of the story context I'm contributing (ROTC; "Rise of the Changed") and its "no-holds-barred" approach to creative design juxtaposed against the cold, calculating, dark and gritty nature of the Combine Empire is a combination that might sound to be doomed to failure, but I'm confident I can make it work. If I'm wrong, well.. let's just say I'll eat my words if it comes to that.

As it stands though, this is mostly a for-fun project, not necessarily fully canonical (though due to the "ultraverse," by technicality it always will be) to ROTC, much less the HL+P universe; it's an opportunity (and excuse) nonetheless for me to make ROTC-related projects on Source, and it's an opportunity I'll take readily!

Excision Protocol [JVRI vs. Combine, Battle Theme 001 v0.0a]

I'm beginning work on a battle theme for Sprocket, titled after a line of dialogue she will say once this intro skit (which is what I'm uploading) is voiced; I'm currently waiting on VO from a friend before I finalize this skit and begin work on the actual theme.

That being said, I'll tell you what's going on in the skit:
Two Combine Soldiers are guarding a chokepoint in some subterranean corridor, and Sprocket is about to... finesse them, to put it lightly. She walks up, hoping the soldiers will mistake her footsteps for one of their own (which works), then readies her P90 and also quietly opens the holster of her revolver - this however alerts the soldiers to her presence, so she quickly moves to a better vantage point and prepares to surprise them, which she does, saying with her classic snark, "...hey there."

A short firefight later, she comes out unscathed, and says, "dunno what y'all was expectin'... but I ain't your Southern Belle," while holstering her weapons, before walking off.

The actual battle theme would come after this skit fades out, but I haven't written any of it yet, as I've been dedicating a couple of hours' worth of work to this skit and making sure it flows properly. Hopefully it's not so cluttered y'all can't pick out what's going on, I may have to tweak the reverberation if it is.

[WIP, Intro Skit] "I Ain't Your Southern Belle" - Sprocket, Battle Theme

I'm remaking an old composition from 2016! Only the OG followers will remember this one, it used to be called "Wolf Encounter" and was much faster and simpler - I'm making it more of a grand-scale, drawn-out theme for "Glory to Rhylia" - the planned project with Nyla as MC - as combat against, yes, wolves, but also other wildlife which could easily qualify as minibosses in the very early game.

The Latin in the working title is the actual scientific name for direwolves - believe it or not, they did actually exist a long time ago, and went extinct. Look it up, I'm not messing with you.

Other than that, I hope you enjoy this early WIP of the remade composition!

Aenocyon Dirus (Nyla vs. Wildlife, WIP v0.0a) [COMPOSITION UPDATE]

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Oi oi! I'm Jeremy, a 23-year-old aspie PK (pastor's kid) and multimedia creative. I don't post here often (sadly I have lost my muse), but I will try to amend that at first opportunity.

I'm planning on (and procrastinating on) starting some indie game projects in the near future, and I'm also working on some story-related content and artwork.

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Fury of Forsaken Queen [Possible Nyla Battle Leitmotif]

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