Transcript:Deluded Depths

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice wakes up to two fishermen in front of her.
Fisherman #1	Caught me very own river nymph!
Fisherman #2	Saints be praised, He works in mysterious ways, eh? Got plans for her?
Fisherman #1	Take her over to the Mangled Mermaid, rent a bed.
Fisherman #2	Hard to woo a girl amidst a brawl.
Alice	What do you think you're doing?
Fisherman #1	What comes natural like.
Alice	Not natural to me, get away!
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice goes to the side of the Mangled Mermaid and sees Nan and Jack in a heated argument.
Nan Sharpe	Where's my money you fucking spank bucket?
Jack Splatter	Get those fat-arsed whores out on the street or I'll come up and brain ya!
Nan Sharpe	Shut up you cocker-snipe, you'll never get past Long Tim.
Jack Splatter	I'll get what you and your floozies owe me, Miss Ladybird. See if I don't!
Nan Sharpe	Maybe you noticed I'm not pissin' me drawers at the prospect! Ah, Alice Liddell! You'll make a nice change! Bring your disheveled self up here!
	[END OF CUTSCENE]. Alice goes in the back of the Mermaid and sees Long Tim dead on the ground. She goes up the second floor and goes to Nan's room. [START OF CUTSCENE]. She sees Jack beating up Nan.
Nan Sharpe	[Sobbing].
Jack Splatter	You don't give me what I want, I'll burn this dump of yours down to the ground!
Alice	Go away! She's done no harm!
Jack Splatter	She hurt me feelings.
	Jack knocks the lamp off the table and goes to Alice and knocks her out. While unconscious, Alice hears voices around her.
Lizzie	Out like a snuffed candle, sleeps the sleep...
Mrs. Liddell	Help us, Alice!
Arthur	Fire, Alice!
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice sees the HMS Gryphon at the end of Tundraful with Mock Turtle in it. She goes in the bottle through the crack.
Mock Turtle	You better come aboard, Alice. We're doomed of course.
Alice	What, there's no hope then?
Mock Turtle	Oh, there's an infinite amount of hope, but none for us. Now, get up here!
	[END OF CUTSCENE]. [START OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Mock Turtle	Confounded beasts, they want my ship!
Alice	I think you're more to their tastes.
Mock Turtle	Never, we're almost relatives!
Alice	You're related to soup, Admiral.
Mock Turtle	I've an idea! We leave this mayhem and go to Carpenter's show! It's better than a gaff. Carpenter promises what we don't take seriously can't harm us!
Alice	Best dive now Admiral, or the sharks will have us for lunch. Ahhhhh!
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE]. [START OF CUTSCENE]. The scene focuses on the head of the Gryphon that was separated from the ship and the shifts to Alice laying on the ground while the Mock Turtle is crying.
Alice	Ow... my body aches all over! We submerged too quickly!
Mock Turtle	My ship's a wreck, and I am too.
Alice	Admirals go down with their ships. In any case, I never knew you for a sailor. If memory serves you were stationmaster of the Looking Glass Line.
	[START OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Mock Turtle	Hmmm. Sacked from the railroad without the option, redundant the nitwits said. Never a holiday, loyal as a bulldog. "Going in a different direction" my Aunt Fanny, if I had one. Going off the rails more like! Bloody disaster. Now, I'm shipless. The old railroad's dead, and this new thing's a monstrosity. Never runs on time. Engineers asleep at the switch! What I don't know about it can't hurt me. Say no more, nod's as good as a wink!
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Mock Turtle	Change the subject. We avoid speaking about the thing whose name should not be spoken.
Alice	Hearing something useful about this new train would make for a change?
Mock Turtle	You don't respect the suffering of others. Go ask your questions and smart remarks to Caterpillar!
Alice	I'm sorry, Admiral, really. Please tell me what you know about the train?
Mock Turtle	I'll just say we've escaped a contaminating corruption. Count yourself lucky to be down here.
Alice	But I don't want to escape. I want to stop it! I must stop it to save myself, and Wonderland too!
Mock Turtle	Nonsense. Speak more nonsense, diversions rule the day. The show must go on and so on. Speaking of shows-
Alice	We weren't.
Mock Turtle	Yes, well, nevermind. Here's a ticket for the show Carpenter's mounting. Use it.
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Alice	I was the last one in the library, the night of the fire. The log I added to the grate was dead when I went upstairs to bed with Dinah. If it wasn't, I may be responsible for my family's deaths!
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice comes in the main theatre of Dreary Lane.
Carpenter	Ah, Alice. Delighted to see you again, my dear. Your arrival is filled with fortunate-ality itself.
Alice	Really? I... didn't even know-
Carpenter	Never mind. My pregnant show is about to pop... It requires only a medicament of your helpful-osity.
Alice	I don't have much experience, but I do need to reconstruct my-
Carpenter	We can barter. I have screw-driver nearly new, or a nice hammer, if you're more interested in...
Alice	There's a train that's corrupting Wonderland and I'm looking for help to restrain or destroy it.
Carpenter	Most vexatatious, no doubt. We'll address that ah, monstrosity directly, that's to say, eventually. Now, let's intermediate more important matters. Due to a logisterical foul-up, some of the show's requisites need to be gathered.
	[START OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Carpenter	The munificent script needs fetching. The writer's overly imaginative and is exploring several endings. Then you'll need to assemble the show's tune-deaf music. And finally gather our stars: the show's tasty... nay tasteful performers. You should leave now. The essentiality of haste is essential.
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Alice	It hardly seems you're ready for the show. Why can't you assemble these things yourself?
Carpenter	An impresario has arrangements, ducks in a row, fish to fry, coals to Newcastle, etcetera etcetera. Fetch the script from the writer, then we can batter or clatter or natter as the case may be.
Alice	Is the writer cantankerous?
Carpenter	To a personage of your distinguished repudiation? I blush at the notionality. He's an octopus, by the by. Lives over that way. Tata!
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice arrives in Inky Veil to fetch the script from the Octopus.
Alice	Place smells like a ripe distillery, with a whiff of halitosis and urine.
Octopus	That's the scent of unrecognized genius! So piss off!
Alice	More empties than a Dublin brewery. The Carpenter sent me.
Octopus	For starters, the Carpenter is a pusillanimous, parsimonious, pettifogging moron.
Alice	That is maybe, but he sent me for the script. I need-
Octopus	Your needs are shite! I need a drink! Who cares. I need those responsible for my abortive career in chains, no joy. I need to know what love is! The world is mum. Just now, I need a dose of hide and seek. Find me thrice, fair maid, be quick about it. Then we can deal.
	[END OF CUTSCENE].
	After finding the Octopus the first time.
Octopus	This is too easy!
	After finding the Octopus the second time.
Octopus	Oh, you have me now, won't have me again.
	After finding the Octopus thrice.
Octopus	It's all in the game. A fair caught! You've won! You're a good sport, and no one died! Join me in the library. Unlike some, I don't welsh.
Octopus	The Carpenter commissioned a song and dance number on morality, art and good sense be damned. He demands mirth and silliness, and a straight debauchery all round. The Walrus will do a hero turn as Death. Imagine! I'll bring the script to the theatre, you can be on yer way. No doubt Carpenter's got you collecting piscine divas for the musical portion, the man rarely hires a proper talent. Some fish can sing! But not all.
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice talks to the Music Fish.
Alice	I'm not terribly musical, but you seem out of tune.
Music Fish	It's not my fault! I can't hear my notes! The pipes are obstructed!
Alice	I can see that, why not do something about it?
Music Fish	And endanger my vocal chords? You might do it for me?
Alice	Everyone here has an excuse for doing nothing! Reminds me of the asylum...
	[END OF CUTSCENE]. [START OF CUTSCENE]. After Alice clears all the instruments of Ruin and they start playing the tunes.
Music Fish	There's something wrong! I can't find the time for the notes!
Alice	It's surely not lost, perhaps mislayed. I suppose I'll have to help you carry the tune. Better be light.
	After finishing the musical challenge mini-game.
Music Fish	The audience will be grateful for your efforts!
Alice	I doubt it.
Music Fish	The performers' meager efforts will be enhanced by my musical score! Please wake them with this exciting news!
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. After finding the first Oyster Starlet.
Oyster #1	[Yawns] You've just interrupted my dreams! Oh well, off to the show I suppose.
	After finding the second Oyster Starlet.
Oyster #2	We still need the star! The star! The star!
	After finding the main star, Alice must play the sliding puzzle mini-game.
Star Oyster	Help me, Alice! This poster for the show, it's ruined! If I can't put it back together, Carpenter will grind my pearls!
	After completing the puzzle.
Star Oyster	Let us resume our place, before our adoring fans, at the theatre.
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Carpenter and Walrus comes to the Lost Souls Locker and destroys the path leading to the Dreary Lane Theatre, stranding Alice in the graveyard.
Alice	My gosh you're not an impresario, you're a killer! The mastermind of a criminal enterprise!
Carpenter	This world is not so either/or Alice.
Alice	And I've done your bidding.
Carpenter	You did a few errands, got your hands dirty. Big deal. The show distrac-ulates the crowd. A shame you'll miss it. You need to deal with these sailors. It's your time.
Walrus	Time? Time? The time has come to talk of ships and eh, eh, and vegetables and royalty and eh, and whether pigs have wings and so on.
Carpenter	Enough of that, Walrus. You start wailing about there being too much sand on the beach, I'll have your blubber for breakfast!
Alice	Shame on you Carpenter! You made a promise!
Carpenter	I had no choice. One can't always do as one would like. I would have thought you'd know that by now.
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice goes to a graveyard at the center and sees the Drowned Captain.
Drowned Captain	Friend or foe? Please Alice, help me fulfill my pledge! I need my men! They may be hostile at first, but their true souls are trapped! You must release them!
Alice	Do they want to be at peace?
Drowned Captain	They do not know their own minds. What's true of the living is often true of the dead.
	[END OF CUTSCENE]. After defeating the first Lost Soul.
Alice	Wait, come back here! I'm a savior, of a sort!
	After destroying the chest where the soul of the first Lost Soul got trapped in.
Drowned Sailor #1	Grateful thanks for releasing me, I never dreamed...
	After completing the first crypt.
Drowned Captain	That's it, that's it! Good girl!
	After defeating the second Lost Soul.
Alice	How can a soul be so ignorant? I'm an answered prayer!
	After destroying the chest where the soul of the second Lost Soul is trapped.
Drowned Sailor #2	Thanks for reuniting me with my ship!
	After completing the second crypt.
Drowned Captain	Hurry along, Alice.
	After defeating the last Lost Soul.
Alice	Do angels have this much trouble?
	After destroying the chest his soul is trapped in.
Drowned Sailor #3	That's the way, ah? It's back to the ship for me!
	Alice gets transported outside of the crypt where the Drowned Captain and his crew thanks her.
Drowned Captain	Many thanks, Alice! Be as good to yourself as you've been to us! Haul anchor and heave to, men! It's the wide and glorious main for us!
	[END OF CUTSCENE].

	[START OF CUTSCENE]. Alice makes it back just in time before the show starts.
Carpenter	Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the shoooooooow!
	Carpenter sits right next to Alice.
Alice	Rather bizarre show.
	Oyster Starlets enters the stage while dancing. When the main star reaches the center stage, Walrus squashes her by landing on top of her. The backup dancers are startled and started to tremble in fear.
Oysters	[Shrieking].
Walrus	That's quite enough of that I think! That's enough preliminaries! Here's the performance you've been waiting for proves I am without prejudice and have a fine sense of humor.
	[START OF 2D CUTSCENE OF WALRUS' POEM].
Walrus	Sword and crown are worthless here, I invite everyone to dance Laborers, lawyers, church and gown All make their little prance. This life is full of random death And heaps of grief and shame, So few are soothed by 'accident' You want someone to blame. Fire, plague or strange disease, Drowned, murdered or, if you please, A long fall down the basement stairs None are expected, no one cares. I often must work very hard Sweat running down my skin, After the dance I then must rest And the eating can begin.
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE OF WALRUS' POEM]. [START OF 2D CUTSCENE].
Walrus	Time to eat! Death is the ultimate equalizer! All have the right to be eaten.
Carpenter	Get in line creatures! All will be served, so to speak.
Alice	Wicked thing! Feasting while Wonderland is destroyed!
Carpenter	I am not the enemy you seek, Alice. I tried to hide this bit of Wonderland from that beast. Appeasement's never clean. We must all play our assigned roles. Are you a pawn or a queen? An idiot or a practiced fool? However this turns out, consider the prospect that you have been misled, Alice. Then ask, by whom?
Alice	Oh no! Who set that bloody train in motion?! Where's it come from?!
Carpenter	It arrived when you arrived! And it's more horrible even then you can currently imagine! The death of a dream! Caterpillar may know how!
	[END OF 2D CUTSCENE].

See also

• Deluded Depths