Development:Prey (2006)/Audition Docs
This is a sub-page of Development:Prey (2006).
This page features text from four separate voice audition documents for (in order) Talon Brave, Mary Thunder, Great-Grandfather and the Steleene Keeper (Tommy, Jen, Enisi and the Mother in the final game.)
Text from All of The Docs
PREY VOICE AUDITION DOC
COPYRIGHT 3D REALMS 1997. CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
Talon audition.doc
1. Character: Talon Brave
1.1 Character overview
Gender: male
Age: 26
Most important trait: heroic
Character overview:
Talon Brave is an Apache Indian--smokes, drinks a bit too much, see himself as a loser, intelligent, mechanic, 26 years old, wears grease-stained jeans and a denim jacket, has loved and lost hard, past (in childhood, at about age 13) mystical experience with great grandfather and growing up made him gain, and then painfully lose, all of his mystical “faith,” views actions of tribal elders with deep skepticism [sic], works in reservation motor-pool garage (he gets room and board)—no real ambition at the moment.
Personality traits:
Powers: intelligent, “hidden” mystical powers, athletic, mechanical/electrical skill, tenacious
Disadvantages: fights against his innate powers, low self confidence, “hard” attitude, cynical
1.2 Audition dialog
Full of attitude and “hero-ness”:
Spirit totems, my ass!
Screw that pathetic rock!
Frantic, excited:
What the hell was that?
Christ! They’ve got Mary down there!
I don’t care what kind of game you’re playing here… if I’m going to play, I’ll play to win!
Thoughtful, questioning:
You’ve been expecting me? I don’t understand…
Yes. I do feet it… something is different deep inside, like some larger energy has awakened.
(Continued on page 2)
I tried to believe in you. For years, I tried, but there was nothing there. It was like I was… pretending. The closer I looked, the more it all seemed like vapor, like generations of foolish vapor. There was nothing real there to believe… there never was!
Mary Thunder audition.doc
1. Character: Mary Thunder
1.1 Character overview
Gender: female
Age: 22-25
Most important trait: rational
Character overview:
Mary is an Apache who grew up on the small reservation in eastern Arizona. She attended ASU and majored in education and received her K-12 certification. Currently, she teaches 4-7th grade at the reservation school. She is dark, attractive and very intelligent. She is a very level-headed and rational person who tends to offer advice, even when it’s not needed. While she is truly very wise, her wisdom is very limited due to her limited life experience. She avoids new situations because she feels like she is losing her control.
She has just recently spent time with the brooding Talon Brave. She likes him very much and she secretly hopes that it blossoms into much more. Talon possesses those traits which she does not have, and it’s very appealing to her.
1.2 Audition dialog
Frantic:
Talon, you’ve got to finish this! Can’t you see that by now?
Oh my god, Talon! They’re trying to get through the door!
Calm, rational, yet very afraid:
I thought that I had all of the answers. It just came so easily, because I made sure that it was all black and white. Now… here… I feel like I’ve stumbled into a cave and lost my flashlight… I have nothing to use for reference, nothing to be certain about.
I’m not sure where they took the others… they just came in here and grabbed them. I don’t know why they left me. What are they going to do to us Talon?
Confident, excited:
Talon, over here! I kicked through this grate… we can squeeze through. Hurry! I hear them coming up the lift!
great grandfather audition.doc
1. Character: Great grandfather (Talon’s spirit guide)
1.1 Character overview
Gender: male
Age: aged (b. 1890, d. 1985)
Most important trait: wisdom
Character overview:
Talon’s great grandfather serves an almost “Obi-wan” role in Prey.
Talon’s great grandfather had been a mystic, deep into the art of peyoteism, and clashing weekly against the Christian missionaries sent to rid the reservations of this “pagan and ungodly ritual” (during the Depression years).
When Talon was 13 years old, his parents took him to a reservation in New Mexico to see his great grandfather, who was dying. Talon had never met his great grandfather before, but there was a strange familiarity in the old man’s gaze, almost as if he had met him many lifetimes ago. His great grandfather could not speak, but he placed his hand on Talon’s shoulder and it felt as if an energy was entering into him. At that moment, his great grandfather died.
Talon meets the old man in the guise of a spirit walker on the Trocaran space ship. He is old, wise, steeped in mystical knowledge, and he understands that his destiny is inescapably tired to Talon’s—he must guide him, encourage him and teach him how to open up to his own mystical energies. Only then can Talon succeed in his quest.
1.2 Audition dialog
Refined, wise and thoughtful:
Look back along your path, my Brave Sun. It is not as you expected, is it? Now turn your heart to the future… what do you see? Ah, like all who have come before, you too see nothing but the unknown. But for you, this path will be an even greater unknown…
The past is a tapestry of strands. Some we feel unravel as the years move us forward, but many remain woven, firm and true. Yet some strands, Talon, become unraveled only to be quickly woven into another’s tapestry… this is what has happened to you and I.
(Continued on page 2)
Dramatic (this is part of a trailer narration):
They have existed through the millennia before the Earth was anything more than a cloud of vapor, and now they return once again. Is it prophesy, or something even more ancient? You must strike deep to unravel their mystery, but first… you must survive!
Prey. A game of survival, mystery and adventure. A challenge that will test you as never before. An experience that will fill you with fear and wonder…
Pray that you aren’t too late. Prey: a Talon Brave game… coming from 3D Realms Entertainment.
Steleene Keeper audition.doc
1. Character: the Staleene Keeper
1.1 Character overview
Gender: female
Age: timeless
Most important trait: cold confidence
Character overview:
The Keepers are timeless, bodiless protoplasmic intellects who must interact with their physical world via prosthetic devices. While they are still seen as the “judges” by the other species in matters of seed world competitions, they are otherwise seen as vermin by the Trocara. The Trocara, though, has no idea of the real power of the Keepers as “puppet masters of the galaxy.” The Keepers are fueled by an intense jealousy of the Trocara species, due to their vibrant genetic activity—in this sense, the Keepers are neuter—left only to tend and never to create on their own.
The Staleene Keeper is the master of all things genetic in the galaxy. She has been alive for millennia. To the three Trocaran species, she is just another Keeper—her prosthesis is older and the tone of her sounds is higher, but she is no different. They do not know that she is the master puppeteer—that almost every action they take falls into her master plan. There is nothing that she does not control.
The Staleene Keeper’s jealousy is absolute—she despises any being that can reproduce, and she is simultaneously intrigued and appalled by mating rituals and activities. More than anything, she wishes she could procreate, but she will never admit that she feels that way, or that the feeling is a prime motivator for her actions.
1.2 Audition dialog
Cold, dispassionate and in control:
Your persistence at staying alive is most interesting. Your stock-fathers seem unable to control you or even to contain you.
Please excuse my appearance… I am sure that I am quite a departure from your familiar perceptions upon that… what did I hear your call it? Ah yes, upon that ‘earth.’
Well brave Talon, we meet once again, and once again, you have surprised me. Perhaps it is now time to talk of something further… to talk of some form of wager?
You must know that you have no future… your own body or those of the others who dwell upon your earth. The world belonged to you but for a moment of time, and now we have come to claim it once more and cleanse it of our little experiment.
