If youād like to read a planning document filled with initial ideas for the NipTech standalone series, please go right ahead. Note that apart from Nipde, Crane and me, this was never run past any of the other Chaosville residents. The names in this donāt imply those folkās involvement or approval in any way. We were just spitballing, and anything could have changed.
Note that there are spoilers for things that never got around to happening in CV Season 3. Iāve gone ahead and redacted them, highlight to spoil yourself.
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Nearly two fricking years ago, I posted a script for the opening scene of NipTech, a Minecraft series I was planning with Nipde. Reading it now, you might be surprised that Glitcher appears in it, when Glitch was absent from all but the first 4 episodes of Season 3 before he was sucked out of existence. Thatās because Glitcher was originally going to respawn in Chaosville Town Centre and walk past NipTech on his way back home, cameoing as written. But since Liam stopped being available to record after the birth of Scout, things had to be reconsidered.
Obviously, Glitcher was written out of VGToolbox. The initial premise of Season 3 remained the same, but Liamās slipping into a Thaumcraft hungry node inadvertently introduced a great new component that wasnāt initially planned - the black hole/anomaly things that keep showing up. At least something had worked itself out.
What required more effort was a reworking of the NipTech opening. Glitcherās role was inherited by CraneSong in a planned three-way crossover between NipTech, Bunce-Brand Big Business and Lapis Labs. Hereās the script for that, which includes directions on how the three of us would move through TeamSpeak during the recording.
Although this 3-way never transpired, you might recognize a third of it. Thatās because the meeting between Buncible and CraneSong was eventually included in the episode Bunce-Brand Big Business.
By that time, the Chaosville server was pretty much deserted, so a standalone NipTech no longer made sense to us. Its role was reduced to a couple of appearances throughout the remaining episodes of VGToolbox, but then things happened and that too was cancelled.
Long ago, in mid-2014, Nipde and I started an idea for a collaborative project. We wanted to make a machinima series set in Chaosville (Season 3) all about NipTech. Below the cut is my partially-complete first draft of the script for the first episode.
It would have starred Nipde and his lab assistant (read the script to find out who!) as they build and operate the horrific research facility. Episodes would be about 10 minutes short and highly scripted, with short arcs for each of the Chaosville residents and the weird things we would do for them (read: to them).
Camera pans down and around Chaosville town centre, slowly drawing towards the near-completed NipTech building. Nipde is on the roof, adding the final few blocks. As the camera lowers towards the ground in front of the building, Nipde jumps down from the roof, steps towards the camera, then stops and turns to admire his work.
Nipde: My future! Finally, it is finished! Or should I sayā¦ Finnish.. ed!
*Ba dum tsh!*
Nipde: Itās taken all my time and resources, but my master plan at last has a home, a lead-lined nursery to foster the diabolical misdeeds that have haunted my beautiful nightmares!
Glitcher: What are you monologuing about, Nipde?
Camera shows that Glitcher is standing nearby, on the opposite side of the security barrier. Nipde marches over, gesturing towards the building.
Nipde: This is my future! The future! For all of Chaosville, and all of beyond! This is the future birthplace of designer mob mashups that will function better than a million of their component parts, genetically infallible superbeings that will render all other forms of life redundant! The smartest, brightest and cleverest minds from the world will compete in arenas to have the honour of crafting the monstrous terrors that billionaire tyrants will empty their offshore bank accounts to purchase by the thousands! Thisā¦ is NipTech!
*pauseā¦ a little too much pause*
Glitcher: Youāre a creepy man, Nipde. Good luck with your horrible ideas!
Glitcher leaves and Nipde turns back towards the camera/NipTech building.
Nipde: Well, I suppose Iād better get to work. Legions of evil clones arenāt just going to mutate themselves!
An explosion is heard. Nipde looks up from the distant point of space he was addressing.
Nipde: Huh?
A few broken blocks flake down frqm the sky, followed by one Moon Meteor, and then another. Nipde looks up and sees a growing irregular mass in the sky. It grows and grows until the camera is subsumed by blackness.
Nipde: [growing increasingly frantic] Oh no, please no. Oh, for the love of f-
The scene ends.
Fade from black to a panning shot near ground level: the NipTech building is a smouldering crater filled with rubble and a giant meteorite of snow and ice, rivers of molten water tendrilling out of its base. Cut to a close-up of Nipdeās feet, standing exactly where he was stood before, only now on scorched, grassless soil. Camera slowly pans up revealing his charred, tattered clothing and ash-stained body. His face is contorted into a permanent, silent scream.
Nipde: Mahā¦ brand! New! Lab! Mah beautiful, clinical chambers and corridors! Why would my arrogance ever be so cruelly punished? Who is responsible for this natural disaster!
Cut to a shot from the edge of the meteorite, with an icy overlay, as though looking out from inside. Nipde walks past, looking up at the meteorite and mumbling to himself.
Nipde: How am I even going to move this?
Nipde walks past again, a little too quickly to have really gone all the way round.
Niipde: I canāt afford a hairdrier big enough to melt all this!
And again, but this time stopping and looking at the top of the meteorite.
Nipde: I canāt even reuse this for building- waitā¦ is thatā¦? Am I concust or is that a pumpkin?
Pan from over Nipdeās shoulder to the top of the meteorite. Yep, itās a pumpkin.
Nipde: Well, every cloud has a silver lining. Maybe this is a good omen? Yes, a very destructive, life-shattering good omen. Maybe.
Behind Nipde the pumpkin can be seen slowly moving.
Nipde: But how can I get it down? That is too slippery to climb! Hmm.
Nipde walks towards the bottom of the meteorite and breaks a few blocks of snow with his hands, then walks away again with a snowball in his hands. The pumpkin never moves when heās looking. Closeup on the pumpkin as several snowballs fly past it. One hits.
Pumpkin: Owie!
Nipde: What the dick! That pumpkin spoke! A sentient pumpkin! At least one of my dreams has come true this day! But I canāt dissect its fruity brain to clone more of them, so Iāll just have to start making wedding arrangements. [calling out] Oh, Mrs Pumpkin! Wonāt you like to come down from there and let me take you out for a meal? The new lunch place isnāt open yet, but maybe thereāll be a concession stand if the park is anywhere near done! It has a wall that actually looks really nice!
Cut to the front of the park. A barren stretch of grass with a short bit of wall. The camera falls to show a sign, āParkā, then pans right slightly to show another sign āNo, not started yet.ā
Nipde: So what do you say? Is it a date?
Pumpkin: Uhm. I donāt know. I donāt think time still exists.
Nipde: ...What?
Pumpkin: Well it used to go between shiny and starry, but just lately itās been really very starry. All the time!
Nipde: Waitā¦ Gillespie, is that you?
Gillespie: Is what you?
Nipde: It is! You bloody idiot! Youāve destroyed all my work! My grand plans are destroyed, and I have no resources to start again. Iām going to need to take out a massive loan to afford another start.
Gillespie: I canāt actually wiggle my toes.
Nipde: You will pay for this, you stupid, babbling melon-head!
Gillespie: But itās not a melon, itās a-
Nipde: Shut up! Youāve ruined everything! I should leave you here to freeze.
Gillespie: You did? Wow, that was quick!
Nipde: No, you know what? You know what? You do have to stay here! And help me rebuild NipTech. You owe me big, and youāre going to have to work it all off!
Gillespie: I am still carrying a lot of Christmas weight.
