SUBMACHINE: The Movie Series (superfanfic text story)

[The Kakama]

Looks like a good story.
One things to say is maybe Lisa and Liz sound too similar.

[ENIHCAMBUS]

Good find Rulo!

[RuloCore]

Looks like a good story.
One things to say is maybe Lisa and Liz sound too similar.

Yeah, one thing I wanted to do is evolve the character of Lisa into Liz (that it was finally her), but I rejected the idea. Still Lisa sounded good, and I left it. But the names are replaceable, it's just a story.

Thanks

[RuloCore]

SUBMACHINE 4
THE LAB


2039
As usual, Mike awakes again in the attic of a house, facing the roof (exterior). He then goes out and realizes he's in a house in the middle of an abandoned desert-like place. He decides to explore the house. As he goes down the floors, he realizes he's in a kind of laboratory, due to the machines and the sterility of the place. Suddenly he sees a really old powered PC (remember it's 2039 and if Win95 looks old to us, imagine to people that year). When he realizes he is chatting with M, he asks why does he have his father kidnapped. M doesn't reply, but gives him instructions to go to determined places and find some items, as Mike is now 'working for him'.

Through the movie, he finds help with the puzzles given by Murtaugh (referred as Mur) and people from exploration teams (which will be showcased later in Sub5 movie). He visits all Sub4 game places, such as the Ancient Tombs or the Ship. Mike gets uneasy when he reads some notes from people who claim Murtaugh was a liar and didn't treat them so well. He remembers his father as a very kind person and helpful.

Meanwhile, we see the Corridor for the first time, where we get introduced to Mollock, revealed to be the man behind the 'M' pseudonym. Mollock was Murtaugh's assistant, until he killed Mur's wife and kidnapped him, and his daugther, revealed to be Lisa. So Lisa is Murtaugh's daughter, who now also works for Mollock. She knows very much about technology and mathematics.
(We deduce Lisa is Mike's sister).
Hugh is also there, working for Mollock too, and through the movie it gets revealed he and Lisa are in a relationship.

After solving all the puzzles, Mike arrives to the Exit, when, instead of being sedated again, he takes the portal from the Exit room, and the movie ends.

Mollock says he's testing Mike through all those locations, with the promise of reuniting with his father to incentivate him. He claims he needs Mike to make him learn all the Subnet story and knowledge, because he wants him to replace Murtaugh. The thing is Mollock thinks Murtaugh has betrayed him too much, so that's why he has him locked in a room next to them. We don't see Murtaugh until the very end of the film, when he's shown to have both arms perfectly entire.*

In this movie, Mike gets relegated to a more secondary role (although he keeps being the main character, but won't always be him in next episodes). He's the explorer, but the main story is the one of Murtaugh and Mollock and their relationship.

~

Side story: Murtaugh & Mollock. Presented as flashbacks throughout the main plot.

In the fictional universe of Submachine, by the year 2000 teleportation and time travel is a very well-known thing but only supersecret institutions like let's say FBI and NASA know about it and experiment with them. That explains Sub3 flashbacks (see in the other post), society in the 1900s were discovering these new kind physics.
In early 2000s, a young man named Murtaugh starts working in one of these institutions, 'Kent's New Physics Research Centre'. He soon shows a special talent and knowledge, and though they give him even more important projects to work in, he always prefers to stick to his personal motivations.
One of his research works leads him to the Kent Lighthouse, in which he stays three years. In his residence, he does time travel research, saying he feels that place is special for something he still doesn't know. During some months, he finds an abandoned black cat and tries to send him to both the past and future and getting him back. He succeeds in some times. But one day, he loses the cat and he doesn't see it ever more.

Later, in 2010s, he meets his wife, Anna, and he has a son, named Mike.

2014~2018: Murtaugh starts the biggest project of his life: after his findings in the lighthouse and the Root, he finds there is a net of locations distributed underground, some built by humans in the 1900s, some more recent which he doesn't know how can have they been created, due to its complexity. He decides to explore as much as he can, and he hires his assistant, a young Mollock.
During this time he also creates his first teleportation device based in the Root cipher plates: the 3-axis portal, and he tests it in the Lab, another facility founded by him.

2021: all these years of exploring have been almost unfruitful, Mur and Mollock have only been finding locations created by people in the past, but no way of reaching the newest structures. Mollock has been learning all Sub knowledge from Mur, and he shows signs of interest to reach those remote parts, in which he sees a power and economic potential, but Mur always cuts his wings, saying he's too young. Murtaugh has been getting rusty and grumpy all these years, keeping distanced from his family, although he has had another child, Lisa.

During a small vacation near the surroundings in which he decides to be alone to rest, he has an accident and loses his arm. A bit later, after recovering, he notices his stump does strange things, recovers rapidly and has a special magnetic power in it. He decides not to take the ortopedic arm.

At the end, Murtaugh, still away from his family, calls home and he talks with an identical person to him. We find out Murtaugh has a twin brother, who is told to take care of Mur's family while he is away. Mollock doesn't know about this.

*Towards the end of the film, when in 2039 Mollock opens Murtaugh's room and he is shown, we see again the flashback of the hut in Sub1. Mollock entering the Hut and kidnapping a Murtaugh with two arms clearly visible and healthy.

The real Murtaugh is out there, alive.

~

CHARACTERS

Mike: main character (alive)
Murtaugh: Mike's father (presumably alive)
Fake Murtaugh: Murtaugh's brother (alive)
Mollock: Murtaugh's ex assistant (alive)
Lisa: Murtaugh's daughter / Mike's sister (alive)
Hugh: Mollock's assistant (alive)
Einstein: lighthouse cat (state unknown)
Anna: Murtaugh's wife (†)

Bob: guy from the loop (alive)
Sir Henry o'Toole: lighthouse architect (†)
Dr. Mansfield: lighthouse scientist (presumably dead)
Wolfgang: lighthouse keeper (†)
Liz: Wolfgang's friend (state unknown)
Mysterious lighthouse man: (state unknown) (not Murtaugh)


omg writing this took me an entire evening so please read slowly and trying to understand all the connections, I did the best I could with all the information dispersed in my mind trying to remember and make it the more coherent possible. Thanks!

[ENIHCAMBUS]

Is good to see this up too!

[RuloCore]

SUBMACHINE 5
THE ROOT

1947
The scene starts with what it seems to be the Observation Room of The Root, but looking new and functional. Two men, Dr. James Manfield and his son, Clark, are discussing about the new projects being done in that room. James, the father, is retiring from work, and the charge passes to Clark, which will now work in achieving time travel with the new set of structures they built.

2039
The scene flashes to Mike arriving through the 496 Exit portal to the Lab Facility #493. He decides to eat something from the small kitchen, and he sleeps in the small bed. Mike realizes his clock stopped working, and as there is no way to determine which time it is, he decides to sleep until he wakes up.
The loud beep of a computer near him wakes him up. It's 'M', telling him some coordinates to find three wisdom gems (he explains it all through chat). When Mike asks what for, M replies: "JUST GET THEM". That stranges Mike. He asks who he really is, but he gets no more answers.
Mike decides to go find the wisdom gems through the given coordinates. He finds a backpack with food inside, a but out of date, but he doesn't care.

On the other side, in the Corridor, Murtaugh's twin brother has taken the chance Mollock is not on his computer, to take it and chat with Mike. It is revealed it's him who is giving Mike the coordinates and info, but he has to interrupt the conversation because Mollock almost discovers him. We will talk now about Murtaugh's twin brother as just Murtaugh, and the real Murtaugh as 'Real Murtaugh'.
During the film, Mollock, Murtaugh, Lisa and Hugh discuss about what they're gonna do when Mike arrives to the Corridor. Mollock wants Murtaugh to teach Mike all his scientific knowledge, and making him be his assistant in the trip to finding Real Murtaugh. Of course, Murtaugh doesn't want that, so he doesn't reveal he is helping him escape. Lisa doesn't agree with Mollock, and always confronts him, telling him if he can't find Murtaugh alone is because he doesn't have balls to do it. Mollock says he only keeps Lisa alive because he needs her mathematical knowledge. Hugh doesn't care, he seems more interested in gaining Mollock's respect, and lacks personality. When Lisa and Hugh are alone, although they are romancing, Lisa always retreats that to him.

Bob also appears in the Corridor, meaning he is another assistant, so we can deduce all what he said to Mike in the Loop was a lie.

~

While Mike explores the Root, we see who James and Clark Manfield were, what he did, and how humans started building the first Submachines; also the invention of the Cipher plates. The Core is not yet mentioned. Through flashbacks, we see the story of Clark Manfield, who arrived to the Lighthouse to work on time travel, at the same time he had to hide from Wolfgang, the lighthousekeeper, because those experiments were confidential.
One day, he accidentally invented a device that made tiny objects travel in time and teleport at the same time. He improved it until he was able to made him work this way:
- The original time in which you travel from is where the device is located.
- You can access the new place and time through a simple door aperture. The device doesn't move.
- You can stay the new place and time the time you want, but the device can only be deactivated from the original location.
- If someone deactivates the portal when you're on the other side... well.
That's how Clark achieved to make a connection between 1973's lighthouse and 2039's root. And when Mike arrives to the Pipe Room (2,0), he is actually on the other side of that spacetime travel device. When he crosses the device, he is in 1973's lighthouse, but he doesn't know. Somehow, he gets frightened by the oddness of the device and decides to step back to 2039's Root.

Clark kept doing experiments with spacetime travel, but instead of with objects, with himself, and eventually Wolfgang, who doesn't know who he is, notices him. (That's the same Submachine 3 flashback). He decides not to show his discovering until he can fully control it. But one day, the device breaks and he disappears in time.

In the Submachine Universe timeline, space travel was discovered and implemented through the Cipher Plates. Then, time travel was discovered, the kind of which Murtaugh works with in early 2000's. Space+time travel was accidentally achieved, the experiment in which Clark Manfield disappeared. Due to this, space+time travel discovery was occulted. Much later, Murtaugh improved space travel with the 3-axis portal. So, until now, only space+time travel isn't officially known.

~

Another story shown in the film is the one of Murtaugh (the fake one) and Mollock after the kidnapping. Since 2021 to the present, they hired exploration teams for the Subnet.
- The Ship team, which failed their mission and died (when Mike arrives to the Ship he learns the story through the notes left there).
- The Basement exploration team, which disappeared in the Subnet (when Mike teleports back to the Basement he learns this through the notes left there. He thinks about finding the Sub1 room with the elevator to go again to the Hut, but he doesn't find it.)
- The Tomb Trap team, which died of dehydration (when Mike arrives to the Tomb Traps he learns the story through the notes left there).
- The Ancient Section team, which also disappeared in the Subnet (when Mike arrives to the Ancient Section he learns this bla bla)

All teams complained about all the hard work they had to do and how bad Mollock and Murtaugh treated them, not to mention the salaries. Specially the Ancient Section team got very angry and confronted them most of the time.
The Ancient Section team also found the missing 4 of 6 Cipher plate models, but couldn't give them back to Mur because they broke their teleporter and disappeared.

Tension and differences between Murtaugh and Mollock augmented, as for example Murtaugh at first didn't tell Mollock about the existence of some locations. When Murtaugh was forced to reveal he wasn't the real Murtaugh he kidnapped, Mollock became mad and decided to get Mike to work for him. When planning the kidapping, Murtaugh asked why he wouldn't directly force-lead him to the Corridor when he found where he lived, instead making him go through all the locations: Mollock answered "We all love playing games, you know". Mollock had already lost his mind at that point.

~

2039
When Mike solves all the puzzles and gets the three wisdom gems, he wonders what to do with them. He hasn't received the Corridor's coordinates, as Murtaugh didn't give them, because he didn't want Mike being caught by Mollock.
He returns to the Lab Facility (which, in fact, is an Area next to the Corridor, both forming part of the Lab, but Mollock doesn't know they are connected. Mike has actually been so near Mollock and Murtaugh most of the time), and he finds a message sent by Murtaugh earlier. That message says he is actually Murtaugh and he is helping him. In order to escape Mollock, Mike has to make the sacrifice of not being able to see Murtaugh (who Mike still believes is his father) so he can take advantage. He has to place the gems inside the Mover, a hidden device that Mollock thinks it's just another room. Then he will arrive to the Defense Systems of the Subnet, which he has to deactivate to keep moving. He has to get to the Mover fast so Mollock doesn't catch him.
Mike accepts, and he receives the Corridor's coordinates. When he teleports, no one is around, so he opens the Mover, places the gems and starts his travel, leaving the void visible.

When Mollock comes back to the Corridor, he sees the void and gets so wtf, and the movie ends.

~

CHARACTERS

Mike: main character (alive)
Fake Murtaugh: Murtaugh's brother (alive)
Mollock: Murtaugh's ex assistant (alive)
Lisa: Real Murtaugh's daughter / Mike's sister (alive)
Hugh: Mollock's assistant (alive)
Bob: Mollock's assistant (alive)
Clark Manfield: (state unknown)
James Manfield: (†)
Wolfgang: lighthouse keeper (†)
Ship Team: (†)
Basement Team: (state unknown)
Tomb Trap Team: one person (†)
Ancient Section Team: (state unknown)

Real Murtaugh: Mike's father (presumably alive)
Einstein: lighthouse cat (state unknown)
Sir Henry o'Toole: lighthouse architect (†)
Liz: Wolfgang's friend (state unknown)
Anna: Murtaugh's wife (†)

[RuloCore]

As I said in the other topic, I'm having a big difficulty in trying to fit my story the more accurately to Mateusz's plot possible, so this might take a bit longer to write than expected. I suggest you don't wait to Sub10 plot being released, and read the episodes so far, to get more intrigue to know what happens next (because yes, there are so many alt plots which I'll develop). Thanks!

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excuse me bitch?

[Jatsko]

I suppose he's right, if he's talking about the Submachine itself and not the Player's journey or any of the lore

(which I suppose SubE will show us a bit more on this)

[Sublevel 113]

If you try, you could make good movie for any story.
;P

[ENIHCAMBUS]

If you try, you could make good movie for any story.
;P

But movies aren't something artistic, that anybody can make if they got the talent, they are corporate business.

Oh Wait...