5/10. A slow-paced episode this time around, with a mystery unfolding on a planet that hosts eerie natives and the remnants of the lost starship Archon. After Sulu returns from a recon mission on Beta III, he is unnaturally placid and unresponsive to his crewmates. Kirk and co. beam down to see what happened, and are confronted with a society that engages in what can only be described as the Purge, at least from my 21st century perspective. The planet’s inhabitants are being controlled by an entity called Landru, who has organised them with uncanny precision into a community that commit to absolute tranquility outside the ‘festival’ - A.K.A the Purge. Kirk and Spock work to unravel the scheming of this Landru, enlisting the help of some seditious natives, and manage to uncover the fact that this godlike being is in fact an ancient computer programme, coercing the people around it into a society that is as toxic as it is artificial. They trick it into a self-destruct by making it self-aware of its own violence in a world of ostensible peace, and return Beta III to the human population. 

This episode was a bit meandering, to say the least, especially since the most prominent identifier of the planet’s issues was ‘the festival’, an event that is never actually explained. We can infer why there is a scheduled time of unlawfulness, as stated previously, but Landru never actually tells the characters why it happens. It makes the rest of the story seem like it jumped the shark in the first act, honestly. Like, let’s go back and learn about this Purge thing and why a computer thought it would make people less violent. It’s sociologically interesting. 

Favourite quote: “Creativity is necessary for the health of the body.” - Spock. // He’s right on all counts, technically. This episode felt sort of like a snap back at communism, with emphasis placed on the value of the individual, and the danger of ‘absorption’ into ‘the body’, which admittedly sounds terrifying when put like that. Maybe I’m just hyper-aware of the time at which this was written, although with sets and acting like it has, it’s difficult not to be. I wonder if any American media adequately criticises capitalism. 

Sidenote: This screenshot is all of us looking back at 2020

Fandomless OC Ask Blog. Sideblog to AskPandaPearl, will follow through that! Promos are appreciated, too. Other characters that are in the same universe as Hacom’s wip story will appear as the blog goes on and as I design others.

Let’s a go!

First thing’s first - I edited it so that you can choose your own password/user at the start to use. Currently, it has no real purpose, but it may be used later on for something :3

The save button has been removed from the menu - however, if you press shift ingame, you can save just like that!

I added some CG’s and will hopefully improve them later.

First boss fight is in progress! One of those - to get past here you need a key from the boss, kinda thing.

there’s some errors in this including the fact that you’re supposed to be whacking them with the fire extinguisher from the wall but obviously its still there

but also

currently they spot u when u walk into them and just

expl ode

good morning i havent been posting here bc ive been working on the hacom rpg BUT

hacom but with improved fighting techniques rated five stars by peoples magazine like that fucking mat ters