#voodoo for dummies

[solondosfatao]

A Noiva de Chucky 👰‍♀️

[norithelord]

Syzoth and Ashrah halloween costumes uwu

(+ extras)

sowy Ash, he doesnt get it :'3

[lemonyfrog]

Also guys…

I got Chucky and Tiffany!!!

I know lots of people find them disappointing and/or ugly, but I honestly like them both 😭 I especially love Tiffany’s face, although I do wish she had her dark roots and iconic outfit. If I decide to take them oob, I’m gonna just make her a custom dress and leather jacket

Also I got River Styxx in the mail! She’s missing her back purple chain/bow piece and her staff, but I might be getting the former soon. I’m gonna make her a cloak instead of searching for one online since it seems simple enough ^^

[kevotheamazo]

inktober2023 day 19

Todays prompt is “plump”. Chucky is a bayou based living dummy he has a ghost companion but they both dont lnow who woke up first in the body. He stjpudies the powers of voodoo and uses them in a fighting style and “spirity” the spirit helps defend him if needed. Voodoo powers are also food for spirity but unfortunately too much can get you big.

[cinelestial]

Apple Music’s ‘100 Best Albums of All Time’ list:

#1. Lauryn Hill — The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

#2. Michael Jackson — Thriller

#3. The Beatles — Abbey Road

#4. Prince & The Revolution — Purple Rain

#5. Frank Ocean — Blonde

#6. Stevie Wonder — Songs in the Key of Life

#7. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city

#8. Amy Winehouse — Back to Black

#9. Nirvana — Nevermind

#10. Beyoncé — Lemonade

#11. Fleetwood Mac — Rumours

#12. Radiohead — OK Computer

#13. Jay-Z — The Blueprint

#14. Bob Dylan — Highway 61 Revisited

#15. Adele — 21

#16. Joni Mitchell — Blue

#17. Marvin Gaye — What’s Going On

#18. Taylor Swift — 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

#19. Dr. Dre — The Chronic

#20. The Beach Boys — Pet Sounds

#21. The Beatles — Revolver

#22. Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run

#23. Daft Punk — Discovery

#24. David Bowie — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

#25. Miles Davis — Kind of Blue

#26. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

#27. Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin II

#28. Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon

#29. A Tribe Called Quest — The Low End Theory

#30. Billie Eilish — WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

#31. Alanis Morissette — Jagged Little Pill

#32. The Notorious B.I.G. — Ready to Die

#33. Radiohead — Kid A

#34. Public Enemy — It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

#35. The Clash — London Calling

#36. Beyoncé — BEYONCÉ

#37. Wu-Tang Clan — Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

#38. Carole King — Tapestry

#39. Nas — Illmatic

#40. Aretha Franklin — I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

#41. OutKast — Aquemini

#42. Janet Jackson — Control

#43. Talking Heads — Remain in Light

#44. Stevie Wonder — Innervisions

#45. Björk — Homogenic

#46. Bob Marley & The Wailers — Exodus

#47. Drake — Take Care

#48. Beastie Boys — Paul’s Boutique

#49. U2 — The Joshua Tree

#50. Kate Bush — Hounds of Love

#51. Prince — Sign O’ the Times

#52. Guns N' Roses — Appetite for Destruction

#53. The Rolling Stones — Exile on Main St.

#54. John Coltrane — A Love Supreme

#55. Rihanna — ANTI

#56. The Cure — Disintegration

#57. D’Angelo — Voodoo

#58. Oasis — (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

#59. Arctic Monkeys — AM

#60. The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground and Nico

#61. Sade — Love Deluxe

#62. 2Pac — All Eyez on Me

#63. The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Are You Experienced?

#64. Erykah Badu — Baduizm

#65. De La Soul — 3 Feet High and Rising

#66. The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead

#67. Portishead — Dummy

#68. The Strokes — Is This It

#69. Metallica — Master of Puppets

#70. N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton

#71. Kraftwerk — Trans-Europe Express

#72. SZA — SOS

#73. Steely Dan — Aja

#74. Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral

#75. Missy Elliott — Supa Dupa Fly

#76. Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti

#77. Madonna — Like a Prayer

#78. Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

#79. Lana Del Rey — Norman F*****g Rockwell!

#80. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP

#81. Neil Young — After the Gold Rush

#82. 50 Cent — Get Rich or Die Tryin'

#83. Patti Smith — Horses

#84. Snoop Dogg — Doggystyle

#85. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour

#86. Mary J. Blige — My Life

#87. Massive Attack — Blue Lines

#88. Nina Simone — I Put a Spell on You

#89. Lady Gaga — The Fame Monster

#90. AC/DC — Back in Black

#91. George Michael — Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1

#92. Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy

#93. Solange — A Seat at the Table

#94. Burial — Untrue

#95. Usher — Confessions

#96. Lorde — Pure Heroine

#97. Rage Against the Machine — Rage Against the Machine

#98. Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD

#99. Eagles — Hotel California

#100. Robyn — Body Talk

[food-cake]

i had a dream where deltarune chapter 3 came out and like

it started out just instantly, no menu, no title screen, no hometown, no castle town, just straight into chapter three dark world.

the whole thing was like in this massive parking garage, it was like the dark world was just this massive fucking parking garage. and for some reason ralsei was just this faint sillhouette barely resembling ralsei. for some reason whenever susie talked her sprite was like her slightly nervous face and the dialogue box was just completely blank

and after like five minutes of walkign around this massive parking garage rouxls just fucking shows up with his pirate getup from chap 2 and a fight started.

basically the fight would just be kris attacking these dummies of various farm animals on sticks, which in turn would do damage to rouxls like some weird voodoo dolls, and after taking down all the dummies rouxls would take off his shirt and put it on the same stick the dummies were on and that did the most damage when you hit it for some reason

then after beating him rouxls would join your party i guess????? and then the gameplay gets back to walking around a parking garage

after a while they reached like

the cars of a roller coaster on rails and they just got in and then the coaster started moving forward on the rails and the chapter just ended what the fuck does this mean im scared

[blackphanto]

Chucky predictions

SPOILER WARNING FOR CHUCKY S3E5!

I wanna make Chucky theories so bad, but I can't think of any! This show is so crazy that I can't even predict or speculate on what could happen next. There are some people teasing on twitter though and all they've been doing is making me even more hyped for how this season is going to end. So here are some of my predictions based on everything that's been teased so far.

Jake will enter the spirit realm:

I don't think he's necessarily going to die, but he's so fixated on ending Chucky for good to the point where he refused to run away from it all like Devon suggested. And we've heard the doctor, the only way you get to the spirit realm is by dying, but what if you didn't need to die? I believe that thanks to all the supernatural shit occurring there, the White House will become some sort of passage between the two realms. Jake will cross it to try and destroy Charles' soul, but if he will fail or succeed is still debatable...

Caroline helps Chucky get young again:

If Jake fails in permanently killing Chucky, Caroline will come to the rescue. We know she'll be back, but what role will she play in this mess? When she'll return, all hell already would've broken loose and she'll just make it worse. Her sudden entrance at the White House will cause quite the emotional reunion for Lexi and her. Yet, Caroline didn't come alone. Armed with the Voodoo for Dummies book, sure, but she brought another friend, who's none other than the Good Guy Doll creator played by John Waters. He came with a new doll, a new vessel for Charles and with Caroline's newfound knowledge of Voodooism, she'll get Damaballa's blessings and give Chucky a new body, a new chance to not disappoint the almighty Iowa and if he plays his cards right, he might even become forever young.

Grant will survive:

I don't have any evidence to back this up, I just like him and think it's unfair that Lexy always has to say goodbye to someone she loves each season and I just don't want it to happen again. From a psychology standpoint it just desensitized her and would lead to her not getting attached to anyone else besides Jake & Devon next season, in fear of someone else always having to die because of her. And from a writing perspective it just gets repetitive, predictable and boring. So please Don Mancini don't kill him, also I love Jackson Kelly.

The past will haunt everyone:

Charles Lee Ray isn't the only ghost the Terror Trio will have to deal with in the newly supernatural possessed White House. We've seen the past of the Collins family haunt them time and time again, we've seen Henry talk about ghosts and fearing what they told him almost every single episode. Why would that stop at Joseph or Charles? Wouldn't it be horrible for our trio to be faced with the lives they lost thanks to a doll they couldn't stop? How would Jake react upon seeing his father again, disappointed at him for being gay. And Lexy, the poor girl, facing Junior, the boy she watched die, trying to save her... Not making at least one ghost of the past come back would be a wasted opportunity.

Tiffany will survive, but Jennifer's body might not:

Tiffany's possible death has been brought up in every interview Jennifer Tilly made following the comeback of Chucky season 3. At this point it even became a ‘will they, won't they’ situation. Does Mancini really have the guts to kill off a cult favorite character and actress he loves so much? Or will we just say goodbye to seeing Tilly on screen and welcome only her voice? I mean the trailer kinda made it clear for me that this isn't the end of Tiffany's story, but maybe that of Jennifer's body.

[devilsrecreation]

I’ve put this off for a while now but I finally finished it after so long. So now I bring to you:

Disney’s “Loser, Baby”

Faciler:

You’re all defeated and have no power at all

Your poor henchmen are oh so hopeless

(to Lady Tremaine) And watchin’ Cindy dance at Charming’s grand ol ball

must make you feel ugly and dopeless

You have nothing now that your plans are wrecked

Well let me just say you’re correct!

Hades:

Wait…WHAT?!

Faciler:

You’re all losers, babies

(To Prince John) Cowardly little babies

You’re real messed up

Used to be rich

You’re all losers just like me

Prince John: How dare you!

Facilier:

(To Gaston) You’re a pig with the ladies

(gesturing to all the villains that literally died) New spirits for dear old Hades

(to Captain Hook) You’re a sub-rate captain and we’re laughin’

But you are not alone!

Hook: Is this supposed to make us feel better?!

Facilier:

There was a time where I had to accept my fate

My friends all lacked mercy and were graceless

(to Hook and Randall) But getting beat by kids can sometimes set you straight

We’re all living in a game of favorites

Jafar:

I’ve been betrayed by the use of magic

Facilier:

And you think your story’s tragic? (spoken) Get outta here, J

(singing) We’re all losers, babies

We’re losers, it’s okay to be a-

Hans: Selfish, hated weirdo?

Facilier:

My man, that’s fine by me

Ursula:

I’m a loser, honey~

Scar:

A schmoozer

Edgar:

And a dummy

The rest of the villains:

But at least we know we’re not alone!

All including Facilier:

You’re a loser, just like me!

Lotso:

Tied to a garbage truck, I’m chilling

Cruella:

I’ve got an appetite for killing dogs so I could wear their fur as coats!

Facilier:

Go ahead darlin, sing that song!

Mother Gothel:

I got thrown off from my own tower

Facilier:

I made a pact to get more power

Frogs got me to the voodoo world

All:

We lost and now we’re suffering every hour

Hook:

You’re a loser, baby

Facilier:

A loser, but just maybe if we

All:

Just drink together, it’s better for you and me

Facilier:

The villains are all here to stay

(Rest of the villains: Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

We’ll get our revenge someday, for now

play your cards, be who you are

All:

A loser, just like me~

Based off of this post I made a while back and credit to @imtryingandtired for coming up with one of the lines

[barclaysangel]

Season 3 AU

(except Nica wasn't dismembered)

Nica successfully catches up to Chucky and Caroline and convinces Caroline to go with her. The only problem is, Nica didn't get to know the teens well enough to have any contact for them or know where they are staying.

She does, however, have contacts for Andy and Kyle and calls them to help her find out where the teens are.

Over that time, Nica and Caroline form a sassy mother daughter bond.

Absolutely!

Nica and Caroline would totally have a sassy mother and daughter bond. They’d also enjoy reading together and going through the Voodoo for Dummies book. They would end up staying with Andy and Kyle while trying to find a way contact the teens to let them know that Caroline is with them.

[weirdstuffinthewoods]

Bride of Chucky

A Review

Ronny Yu made the correct choice working with the one and only father of Chucky, Don Mancini. I feel like Don's seamless continuing control over the Chucky franchise paired with Ronny Yu's absolute lack of knowledge of the Chucky franchise (and his love of the monster) made for a one-of-a-kind franchise installment.

Writing- 5/5

This entire script takes the snark we know Chucky for and dials it up by giving him a dominating sparring partner in Tiffany Valentine. There are some jokes that kinda feel needless (repeating the "what a crock" joke only got an "eeh" out of me), but Voodoo for Dummies?

And lines like:

"For God's sake Chucky, drag yourself into the 90s"

"Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt!"

When Chucky tells Tiffany to "act natural" and this is her response

The entire weird sex scene conversation that 100% does happen in a film about two sentient dolls? It was only a matter of time before we got here, let's be honest.

The addition of Tiffany Valentine allows for a totally valid reason to shake things up- creative kills, high-speed freeway chases with two DOLLS holding two whole adult humans hostage, and the film's only gay character (spoiler but RIP David) getting absolutely blasted by an 18-wheeler for no reason other than Don probably just realized the cast needed to shrink real quick.

Special mention-

The honeymoon suite kill scene. Yeah, it looks a little cheesy, but you best believe before I was old enough to watch horror movies, my older cousin was telling me about this scene in vivid, terrifying detail (much scarier than reality, but what can you do?)

Soundtrack- 4.5/5

Living Dead Girl starts this movie off with a bang and a moment I haven't forgotten for one second of my spooky sapphic life. These are the moments in which horror icons are made.

The soundtrack is mostly upbeat drums and chugging guitar riffs which I loved (it especially added to the freeway chase) I just didn't go full 5 stars because I didn't notice it as much as I'd want to in a party movie like this (because yes, if I ever do host a halloween party I will be popping in this exact VHS to play on repeat).

Also shout out to my boy, Graeme Revell. Been a legend since The Crow in my eyes (but also for so much iconic 80s and 90s horror....and Sharkboy and Lavagirl) and I'll always get excited when I see that name in the credits!

Effects- 4.75/5

First let me say Chucky looks fantastic. Can he emote as well as Tiffany with those pencil-thin eyebrows? Maybe not but this is the opus version of Chucky, so.

The animatronics are still my favorite thing to watch in a Chucky film because you forget that these aren't sentient dolls almost constantly (except when Chucky's body double is crawling on all fours- that's some nightmare fuel). Their faces are so expressive (for rubber doll faces) and there's even a shot of Tiffany walking across the floor of a Winnebago (maybe?) without a wire in sight! Oh, how far we've come.

The effects in some scenes are a little cheesy (the honeymoon suite kill, the gross, fleshy title card, etc) but it's easily overlooked because Chucky and Tiffany are by far the main event of the sfx team.

Extra ratings?

Queerness-3/5

Written by an out gay man, HELLO!

Alexis Arquette!! Easily the second-hottest person in this movie, I loved seeing her camp it up (in a masc role, but goths love to play with androgyny so I'll take it) as the try-hard Damien.

This also unexpectedly features the gbff trope usually reserved for rom-coms in David, a guy whose queerness isn't painfully exaggerated like some portrayals were at the time, and who's probably the most level-headed of the bunch.

RIP, -2 because David got blasted by a big rig and not in the fun way.

Bride of Frankenstein retelling 5/5

It's pretty obvious on rewatch, but this is a whole Bride of Frankenstein retelling. It even follows the title convention (I tell my younger self who completely missed the comparison). I haven't read the dissections of the original that explain why the bride is a metaphor, but in a more literal sense, this Bride has the power unlike her predecessor. Even though she falls in with a toxic ex, she has autonomy and pushes back, eventually sort of kind of helping the two teens (who are not interesting enough to put in this review) stop Chucky. And she gives birth to a weird demon baby while mostly charred through a non-stretch plastic vagina so. That's pretty metal.

Tiffany Valentine 11/5

TIFFANY VALENTINE THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE

THE COSTUMING

THE TRAILER SET DRESSING

But most of all the performance!!!

I may be looking through heart eyes, but I'm not wrong!

Overall, Bride of Chucky will never not be one of my favorites. The addition of Jennifer Tilly allowed the Child's Play series (and all future iterations), to have fun, but to also play with the tone of its installments. Seed of Chucky and the Chucky series tend to focus on Chucky (and friends)'s humanity and personalities, whereas Curse and Cult of Chucky take the franchise back to an exciting, sometimes scary, and eventually openly queer and complicatedly sapphic place. Ignoring the reboot (which he was thankfully not responsible for), Don Mancini's got quite a legacy going, and Ronny Yu had a key part in that.

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

If chucky and Tiffany were magical girls what would their power sets be? How would they dress?

Chucky

His transformation/magical girl item is The Heart of Damballa

His powers would mostly be conjuring knives and weapons (like hatchets and baseball bats) out of thin air when needed, soul transferring/soul splitting, and using the ghost of his human self (like his appearance in DBD) as a magical girl version of a Jojo Stand

His magical girl outfit would be just his normal outfit with much more primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and shiny and gem like textures as well

In his magical girl form, his hair also becomes much longer than it usually is, taking influence from his human form

He can also incorporate blood into his magic as a magical girl as well

Tiffany

Her transformation item is her trusty Voodoo for Dummies handbook

Her powers are the same as Chucky's, she's also able to hypnotize people via their lust, has and controls shadow magic, and is able to make plants grow and use as weapons (like she can create a whip out of rose thorns)

Her magical girl outfit is essentially her outfit from Bride, except her dress is colored green and black with tons of frills, bows and laces all over, tall black and pink gem studded demonia boots, a small crown on her head, wild black and pink makeup with black lipstick, and long black nails

When using her hypnotism, her eye color turns from her usual green into bright magenta and gold

She can also shapeshift as well, the only forms she has are her bat form, her snake form, her spider (tarantula) form, and her wolf form

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Here you are my good dear friend!! I really do hope that this will be a fun and satisfying read for you, it was a ton of fun!

I really hope that I'll see you here again and have a fantastic evening!!

[criminal-sen]

Btw new fun hc that in the Szayelaporro fight, Mayuri was lying when he said he replaced all his organs with dummies. He has, in reality, done so much surgery on himself that the ones he has are too altered from their original state (or completely synthetic) for the voodoo doll trick to work.

But he just wanted to fuck with Szayelaporro (and not give away the truth) so he lied:)

[king-of-wrath]

Helluva Season 2 Episode 9 Summary

Spoilers below

Having texted Stolas throughout the time between Full Moon and this episode, Blitzo visits Stolas in his garden in an attempt to talk things out

Stolas had been ignoring the texts, thinking Blitzo would take the hint that he didn't want to speak to him

Blitzo says that he feels the need to earn his passage to Earth, telling Stolas to go to the bedroom for sex; Stolas interprets this as Blitzo only caring for sex

It's revealed that Verosika Mayday hosts a Halloween party exclusively for Blitzo's exes and invited Stolas to attend

Blitzo claims that his exes were only upset with him because he refused to be tied-down, calling relationships "boring" and saying he "ended shit before it got serious"

When Blitzo accuses Stolas of looking down upon him for being an imp, Stolas denies it and mentions Striker's grudge against royals; Blitzo then informs Stolas that he had stopped a previous attempt on his life by Striker (during the events of Harvest Moon, which he had not told Stolas about before)

Stolas tells Blitzo that he wouldn't have shown his feelings for Blitzo to other people (by being with him publicly) and wouldn't have wanted to spend non-sexual time together if he genuinely thought lesser of Blitzo; Blitzo responds by yelling "that's the gayest thing I've heard all day"

When Stolas asks if Blitzo has ever apologized for anything, Blitzo takes it as a challenge; going across Hell and Earth, Blitzo leaves gift baskets with (poorly written) apology cards to Martha, Agents One and Two, the Cherubs and the celebrities he killed in Los Angeles; he then decides to crash Verosika's party to finish his "apology tour" (hence the episode's name)

Stolas states that Halloween is the one day of the year that spirits can rise to Earth; during a past Halloween, he was summoned to Earth and bore witness to a sacrifice made in his name

At her party, Verosika has various effigies of Blitzo for the guests to vent their frustrations upon; this includes a cake, a target dummy, pinatas, voodoo dolls, posters of him with knives and darts thrown at it and one of his plush toys upon a burning pyre

Verosika appears to be supportive towards her guests, claiming that Stolas is "among friends" and encouraging him to vent his frustrations about Blitzo as a form of therapy

Blitzo finds Stolas at the party and attempts (and fails very hard) to talk things over with him; Blitzo states that he meant none of the other apologies, but insists that Stolas is getting a real one

Stolas says that he wants to be with someone who cares about him and wants to be with him; given that his marriage to Stella was arranged and loveless and how absent his father (Paimon) was, Stolas doesn't seem to know what that looks like (using scenes from romance novels/films and TV dramas for reference)

Blitzo eventually talks with Verosika, who is aware of his apology tour; Verosika reveals that she confessed her romantic feelings for Blitzo, which caused him to run away

During the party, one of the guests cries after throwing a knife at a poster of Blitzo; Verosika then explains that while she still has problems getting over him, she tries to help people cope with situations similar to her own (hence the party); the guests seem to even support each other, with one speaking to the crying imp and two female demons hugging after they tear a Blitzo pinata apart

Blitzo claims to be truly sorry and that he doesn't want to be the person he is, leaving the party and allowing it to continue---even letting Stolas dance with and kiss another demon, even though he was jealous to see it

[brokehorrorfan]

Bride of Chucky’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time for $40 via Enjoy the Ride Records. The score is composed by Graeme Revell (The Crow, The Craft).

The 2xLP album is pressed on 140-gram vinyl with three color variants: Bloody Massacre & Heart of Damballa (limited to 300), Chucky & Tiffany swirl (limited to 600), and Lightning Strike & Orange Inferno (limited to 600).

All versions feature a screen-printed D side. Its housed in a gatefold jacket featuring artwork by Garreth Gibson and a Voodoo for Dummies insert.

[iamnotclumsy]

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐨𝐧

William Afton x fem reader

(Based on Bride of chucky)

(Part 1)

……….

You finally did it. You finally found him.

It’s been a few years but you did it. He’s at some horror attraction called “fazbears fright”. And luckily, you had a friend that lived next door and his dad worked there.

You dated him for quite some time, of course this was before you found out what a monster he was. He murderd children! You were disgusted….especially when you thought about all the things you did with him. But a part of you still loved him. You hated him. But loved him.

But after the whole spring lock incident happened, it was almost impossible to find him. But now he’s used as some sort of “scare gag” at fazbears fright. Honestly, you were unsure if you REALLY wanted to go get him. But, you missed him and it would be dangerous to let him be free there. You were sure he would try to escape. So it would be better if you got him first. There would be less deaths that way.

The plan was simple. You asked your friend if you could borrow his extra key to the place, to retrieve something you left there on a previous visit. And go there and load him into your car.

You arrive there and go inside. Luckily, you didn’t have to worry about security because the security guard recently quit and they haven’t found a new one yet. You found him in one of the rooms. There he was. William Afton. Trapped in a decayed yellow Rabbit suit that now looked a bit more green, but still William Afton. Honestly he didn’t seem to be alive. But you dragged him to your car anyway.

You drive home and get out of your car, but before you can open the backseat door you hear a voice. “Hey y/n!” You turn around to see your neighbor Jason. “Oh hey Jason, what’s up?” You ask. “Did you find your thing?” Oh um yeah I did” he puts his hand out “good. Can I have my key back?” “Oh sure”. You hand him the key back “do you ever even go to your dad work place?” You ask, genuinely curious. “No not really, I think he just gave me keys because I’m his closest family. Y’know, for “emergencies”. But I don’t really care too much for the place” he answered. He goes on. “Anyway, I’m heading over to my girlfriend’s”. You nod. “Okay, buy!”

You watch as Jason gets in his van and drives off. You then turn back to your car. You bring him inside to your living room and set him up against the wall.

You tap him. Trying to wake him up. “Hello?…wake up. Wake up! William!….god damn it” you stand up and go to your room to get a book you bought called “Voodoo for Dummies”. You bought it ever since you knew about the kids haunting the animatronics. Tho there was a lot of cool things in the book, but it seemed that William wasn’t really…awake or alive. So maybe there was something that could awake him. You hoped so. It was the only thing that you thought might work. Your last resort.

You found a spell, a chant that awakens spirits. So you go over the the bunny man and start the chant

“Ade Due Damballa! Give me the power, I beg of you! Leveau mercier du bois chaloitte! Awake!”

Nothing happens. “Awake!…awake awake awake!” You give him a slight shove. “Son of a bitch..” you felt defeated. All your effort of finding him was pointless. At least you had his body, I guess?

You hear a knock at the door. “Who could that be?”

……….

[m39]

Doom WADs’ Roulette (2009): Whispers of Satan

G8: Whispers of Satan

Main author(s): Paul Corfiatis and Kristian Aro

Release date: September 15th, 2009

Version(s) played: Final version (I guess)

Required port compatibility: Boom

Levels: 36 (standard 30 + 2, plus (on ZDoom) two super secret maps, a credits map, and a warp map)

Paul Corfiatis and Kristian Aro, the dynamic duo behind 2002 A Doom Odyssey (well, mostly done by the former) come back to deliver another WAD – Whispers of Satan.

Its story begins in around August 2005, when Kris meets with his buddy in crime, to talk about making a Doom II megaWAD with a couple of super secret, ZDoom-exclusive maps after finishing one of his WADs (Death Tormention 3). The work on this WAD started in October 2006, and it took almost three years to finish.

The WAD’s plot is not really worth talking about since it’s another one of Doom II’s unofficial sequels but not really WADs. On the bright side, at least I can say that it is not as cringy (when it comes to intermission screens at least) as the Doom Odyssey.

Now, when I played the Doom Odyssey, I felt like I played the more polarizing Ultimate Doom with a plot that wasn’t self-aware at all. However, I feel rather optimistic that Whispers of Satan will be better than that over two decades old WAD. So let’s not waste any time, and take a look at it.

I’m surprised how this WAD looks great. Usually, the levels have at least one, great-looking landmark. Not to mention the changing sky and 5 themes across the WAD (not counting the secret levels) that make it not boring for the eye. These themes are:

Techbase,

Techbase with some brick walls,

Plutonia-like,

Plutonia-like with some Hexen elements,

and, of course, hell itself.

Liked the music as well. I’m struggling to find which tracks were the best ones; Base Stalker is definitely at the top, but I am not sure about the rest; maybe Nebula's Keep and Orgolia as well?

Anyway, changing the subject, I don’t really think Satanic Whispering is complicated. Like most of the other WADs with complexity like this one, it has a couple of getting-stuck moments, but besides these, you can go through these levels rather fast without enemies.

There are, however, some questionable decisions. Like, for some reason many of the maps use the rule of two switches AKA there are at least two switches near each other in the copy-pasted areas with (almost always) copy-pasted groups of enemies. These moments feel like a filler, and I think these are mostly related to Paul’s maps. Kristian’s maps do have moments like these as well, but at least he tried to make each of the switches’ routes different from what I can remember.

There are other annoying moments as well; some of them feeling like a fossil of an abomination that refuses to die. Shitty backtracking (like with the case of the red key in Basement Jazz), too dark moments on a map and not being able to return in some cases is one thing, but also bringing back secrets that you have only one chance to reach? Didn’t this shit die years ago?

Also, another icon of shit on MAP30, because why the hell not? Let’s inflate Romero's head’s health as well! What could go wrong?!

sigh

Let’s talk about secret maps for exchange. The first regular one is a homage to Star Wars (the good times when the only thing in this franchise that was mocked and screamed to the heavens by rapid fanboys were prequels), while the second one is a more classic Wolfenstein reference (I don’t have pictures of that map because I don’t want to be marked as a bloody nahtzee dick rider).

There are also three, ZDoom-exclusive maps (technically four but you can only get to the last one by console commands). The first one is Ein Lustiger Ort (a funny place), of which one half is pushing voodoo dummies into teleporters with weapons and running like hell to exit from siege cows, and the other… the other half is… Okay, fellas, remember that... seedy secret in Ultimative Geheimnis? Yeah? Well, the second half (if you want to get to the second, ZDoom secret map) is basically that… sprinkled with impse-

projectile vomiting

Technical problems

Okay, I’m done.

Now, the second ZDoom map is 1994 Revisited, and it’s basically what the title says; it feels like it makes fun of the maps that are stuck in 1994 while also celebrating them. It even ends on another icon of shit… which makes me hate the Verge of Revelation’s icon of shit even more since MAP34 (kind of) makes fun of how the megaWADs end with this crap and yet they still shove one in MAP30! What is this?! Chuck and Doyle: Rabies Ravagers: The Movie?! Did the 2020s use time travel and brainwash the authors that one time?!

Okay, let’s calm down and change the subject because the third ZDoom map is interesting. You have to reach the end of Sintlabs but instead of pressing the exit switch, go back to the starting area and you will find the secret exit that will lead you to Hidden Warp Zone. It all boils down to choosing to end up either in Playgrounds of Caesar or Halls of Cocytus, and that’s it.

Whispers of Satan isn’t really hard. It tends to get tougher in the final third, and it has cheap, if not outdated, moments (pop-up monsters, traps with hitscanners, moments with demons teleporting behind you after being in front of you), but if you are experienced with WADs, you won’t have a bigger problem with this one; there is no slaughter map around there.

There is, however, an interesting part of Undervilla, with Mancubi behind walls, and while it is yet another bullshit difficulty bump that I’m surprised is still used, I can’t get myself to hate it because it references to Hexen, where the trap walls with the same texture started firing projectiles. It’s kind of funny, not gonna lie.

There is also… uhm… a new enemy if you can call it that… It’s called Cybie… has a higher pain chance than cyberdemon… and has different sound effects… And I refuse to talk about it more because I feel dirty even thinking about it.

I don’t know if this is a bug or something, but in the icon of shit area in 1994 Revisited, half of a time, the crushers that were supposed to destroy Romero's head didn’t work. Maybe it’s related to the red area near the teleporter that takes you to the icon of shit area, but I’m not entirely sure.

Overall, Whispers of Satan is a pretty good WAD. It does feel archaic in places, copy-pasted switch areas feel like a joke, and there are still fragments of problems that plagued Doom Odyssey, but still, it is a better WAD than the authors’ 2002 project.

The next WAD on the list is Demons of Problematique 2. Let’s hope we won’t end up with another Cheogsh 2 fiasco.