EVIL ICESTORYLINES

How the story fits together.

Evil Ice is a cutscene story built inside the original 1997 tactics engine. These three maps show the whole planned story, the people in it, and the Great War.

Most of the story is written and not filmed yet. Every map and every scene below says which is which. Characters based on real people are satirical versions written for the story.

Footage watch it nowPlanned written, not filmed

1. The main storyline

Four chapters, 54 scenes, four threads running side by side: the crew's jobs, the song that slowly gets them dancing, Gee666 and Elon lighting the Zodiac Stones, and Graft's rise from a nobody to the Emperor of Darkness.

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Every scene, in order

The order comes from the current screenplay draft. It can still change.

Chapter 1 - Puppets of Fate15 scenes, 4 with engine footage
  1. S01Pod Village: forty gilBuilt in the engine: Build Log 06
  2. S02The working commuteBuilt in the engine: Build Log 02
  3. S03The village raidEngine test only: Build Log 02
  4. S04The Poacher's DenPlanned
  5. S05The Don's taxBuilt in the engine: Build Log 07
  6. S06A lifetime membershipPlanned
  7. S07The house with the dogPlanned
  8. S08Another bail paymentPlanned
  9. S09Three ordinary pricesPlanned
  10. S10The empty chest and the trianglePlanned
  11. S11Twenty-three, and a serenadePlanned
  12. S12Someone notices the songPlanned
  13. S13Water rights and a nobodyPlanned
  14. S14Wudang: the trainingPlanned
  15. S15Wudang: the vowPlanned
Chapter 2 - Soldiers of Faith15 scenes, all planned
  1. S16A hum after workPlanned
  2. S17Longer legs, the wrong jawPlanned
  3. S18Potions and the old denPlanned
  4. S19A promotion and a foot tapPlanned
  5. S20Gee666 at the racesPlanned
  6. S21The song again and the ribsPlanned
  7. S22The guild was already therePlanned
  8. S23The tavern trapPlanned
  9. S24The price on VarekPlanned
  10. S25One brother behind the doorPlanned
  11. S26Bail, favors and a releasePlanned
  12. S27One person movesPlanned
  13. S28The person in the machinePlanned
  14. S29Two dancers and the handsPlanned
  15. S30Commitment to the processPlanned
Chapter 3 - title not set yet13 scenes, all planned
  1. S31Three, without a remarkPlanned
  2. S32Skull polish and the competing pricePlanned
  3. S33A monster in the ordinary jobPlanned
  4. S34Greer's consultationPlanned
  5. S35The masked teacherPlanned
  6. S36Both sides of the invoicePlanned
  7. S37Most of the roomPlanned
  8. S38The Big WarPlanned
  9. S39Wiz I: the distant voicePlanned
  10. S40Clav gets up tooPlanned
  11. S41The offered kingdomPlanned
  12. S42Emperor of DarknessPlanned
  13. S43A country erasedPlanned
Chapter 4 - title not set yet11 scenes, all planned
  1. S44Business after destructionPlanned
  2. S45The town that stopped workingPlanned
  3. S46The new Zodiac eraPlanned
  4. S47A route through itPlanned
  5. S48The second departurePlanned
  6. S49The Zodiac RacePlanned
  7. S50Across, alivePlanned
  8. S51Wiz II: six risePlanned
  9. S52The way homePlanned
  10. S53The next cutPlanned
  11. S54The final dancePlanned

Side stories at Chapel & Crypt

Released story scenes. They stand on their own and are not tied to a fixed place in the order above.

The crypt was empty

Sneako sells the crew a map to the crypt under the chapel floor. When they get down there, it is already empty.

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Leave him

Sneako goes down on the chapel floor. The crew checks his pockets, finds nothing, and walks out.

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2. Who serves whom

Varek leads the crew out of Pod Village and pays the Don his cut. Fresh is the one sent through the door. Two groups run on their own rules: the Set of Tates, and the Triangle of Hate.

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Set of Tates

TupGee supplies the voice and the theory. Triste stays silent, reads the danger and keeps the pair together. Neither casually abandons the other.

Triangle of Hate

Sneako finds the angle, Fuentes brings the crowd, Clav brings impossible confidence. They admire each other's hustle and cannot stand each other.

The question

Clav asks if they are the bad guys. Nobody answers.

Every character file is on the Party page.

3. The Great War: Madara against fifty

Madara's biggest set piece. Fifty opponents swarm up a mountain toward him, fight, heal each other and try to run. He answers with kunai, a midair interception and a wood clone army, and ends it with the original Meteor spell.

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Proven in the engine

  • The original Meteor effect plays
  • Four Madara bodies move at once
  • His portrait works

Not built yet

  • The mountain battlefield and the swarm
  • The set pieces and the finished film
  • Where Madara fits in the crew's story

Development footage

Work in progress, not the finished film.