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Willing to help! I have my email on here so just shoot me a email and I’ll be glad to help!! I’m waiting with anticipation trying to be patient! Oh! I made your alice as a character in terraria on my Nintendo 3ds happy days are here again for me!!

First of all, I'm french and english isn't my native language. I apologize in advance for the few mistakes you will read in this message.

I've read the "An audience with the queen (of anger) post on patreon, and wrote a scenario who could be used to create something.

As she arrive in the Queen of Hearts (QoH) domain, Alice see a battle between Chess Soldiers (CS) and Queen's Soldiers (QS). The situation is desesperate, but Alice gathers together some isolated CS, use them successfully for defeat the rest of the QS, and saves the day.

The Knave of Hearts (KoH) has been captured and is helds in hostage by the CP since several battle. He claims that he now realize how destructive were the QoH's actions, that he didn't knew everything about the destruction caused by the QoH, and wants to help CS. They don't trust him, but Alice, now realizing her denial was a bad thing, persuade them to take action even more. She vouch for the KoH, and the CS places here as a general, for her victory before. Alice is already quite angry toward the QoH, and against herself for having been in denial.

The troup, constitued by the CS, Alice and the Knave, are moving towards the QoH domain. The KoH act as a counsellor for Alice, and helps her to win some short battles by exploiting breaches and the maze, so they can surrounder and cut off retrait to QS, and maybe destroy some parts of the machine or some of her alimentation source.

Exhilirated by the victory, and with the satisfaction of an anger who can flow toward ennemies, Alice trusts the KoH more and more. Then, the KoH will give bad advices, in order to lead to victories who will necessite huge sacrifices. The player must tell himself "There is no sense, it's useless, we could act different and better, I see that". It's always victory, but Alice is losing something, some pieces, some chess pieces, some CS.

After one of these battle, the CS starts to discuss Alice actions, and KoH strategy. Alice will make a military speach : "remember why you are fighting, we must act, be brave, it's for the Wonderland, think about the sacrifice we already made and who'll be useless if we give up now" etc. It works only until the end of the next battle who's also catastrophic.

Alice will then redirect her anger toward the CS. She will act with cruelly by physically hurting a CS already hitten, insulting him of "incompetent" and "idiot" for having been hurted despite of a briliant military plan who leads them to victory. When she'll see the CS are less and less, she will enrage and stabs an already dead corpse. She will make another speach, far more violent, insulting the army for being "coward", "a bunch of traitor", "ungrateful toward me, who leaded you to victories you coundn't had dreamed alone".

Starting that, it will be possible to hurt QS and CS indistinctively in battle.

An assassination attempt will be commited, from some CS toward the KoH. Alice will enrage, her vision will be blured, and the CS will take the apparence of QS, because nothing differ CS of QS for her anymore. The logic is "The KoH is an ally who help me to reach my goal, they tried to murder him, so they are ennemies".

Once the CS defeated of running away, the KoH will reveal his plan, guarded by fresh QS who just arrived. He thinks Alice will be in distress after realizing how easily she was fooled. But of course, the anger is the main emotion, so Alice turned into a raging beast even more and so a new battle starts, easily won.

We must distill some clues of the KoH's betrayal all along. One of them could be the following sentence : "Tell the Queen this masquerade will soon be over !", to QS running away from an early battle. Everyone shall tell "The masquerade is the violence of the QoH, and what she hidden to him". But it will his own masquerade toward Alice and the CS.

I hope my ideas will be usefull, we can stay in touch for more information or precisions if they're needed.

Sincerely yours,

Koukin

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PZ2kPl14HrqQUlqGMzejlPQxZAcATBzM

• 0. Guilt - it was made when the name of Inferno dress wasn't decided yet and it was called Guilt. I see it as emotion that triggers Alice's survivor syndrom.
• 1. Shock - being cold, stuck and surrounded by dangerous environment.
• 2. Denial - Alice can't see but I guess she can smell the smoke.
• 3. Anger - homage to Hysteria mode, black and white perceiving of the world.
• 4. Bargaining - clinging to memories.
• 5. Depression - all the colors are sucked out of the world, everything tastes like dust and ash.
• 6. Testing - becoming a force of nature, hence the storm.
• 7. Acceptance - getting into the eye of the storm, finding peace and balance through befriending your inner monsters.
• 8. Slumber - the dreams are sweet but the darkness is reaching out to her.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1POf89kpWtyHXE4B27T8UMCjDyyhIWI9Q

The whole folder with concept art: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vJm5U7BfuFbAmpn7nAP5neVLvg5-vucp

And the boss for this area is Star-nosed Mole: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mmabykt-MDzOeE-OJxAntN4Mb7Dd1PT_

The whole folder with concept art: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vJm5U7BfuFbAmpn7nAP5neVLvg5-vucp

https://victorianachronists.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/victorian-mourning-rituals-tear-catchers/

• Throw the Vorpal knife to kill the ruin and young Alice resulting in older Alice forgetting her childhood so she can move on with life.
• Stabbing older Alice would cause the ruin to jump from younger Alice into the Vorpal knife that older Alice carries shattering it and older Alice's mind along with it leaving her nothing except the memories of her younger self.

EndNote: The entire Asylum game takes place inside the mind of young Alice during the events of American McGee's Alice.

In AMA and AMR, the dresses are a symbol of accomplishment. "You made it to the next stage! Here take this!" type of ideals. Every dress has an ability or perk that is sometimes essential in new stages. It's always been like this. To me it feels like her way of tracking her mental progress and assigning the proper tools to deal with the current situation.

When you're insane and in extreme darkness, you hold onto moments. You can't ever let go of those moments. For the Blue Dress to have outlasted the sway of time and events as "Thee Alice Dress", It either had to be the first step of an important cycle, the only good thing she had to hold on to for a very long period, or a totem that reminds the person of their core beliefs.

Saying that it could just be another unlockable dress or she wore it cuz the color reminded her of her sister is very wrong to me. It needs to be introduced as a grand gesture, a symbol of something greater than anything thus far. The very thing that started her on her journey to get out of the madness.

It can't be about someone she lost in the fire cuz when a crazy person experiences violent loss, Anything that reminds them of the loss tends to Trigger episodes even when they're in the denial phase. No one can make progress if they're always stuck in an episode. That concept can't apply to Alice cuz even though you could say wonderland is an episode, she's always actively working to get through it.

I have ideas of how to make the dress such an object, but I need some info on the direction of the story.

Being that she'll be 13 in this game, That's roughly 6 years after the fire, and 5 years into being at the asylum. In AMA, we see Alice wearing the dress as she lay in the bed at the beginning, throughout the game, and at the end when she's leaving the asylum.

>At this point if we wanted it to be a first step or her very first dress in the cycle, it should have already been one for awhile. Basically meaning she would already need to have it given that she gets new dresses in this game. However, if she already had the dress prior to being 13, I would venture to say that it wouldn't fit her at 18 years old when we see her wearing it in AMA. So I'm at an impasse there. The only way to make it work would be her getting the dress at the literal beginning of this game.

>If we were going for it being the only good thing she had to hold on to, that would be a little easier. A dress she got from someone who helped her after the fire or a hand me down that didn't fit when she got it but does now that she's older. Or Maybe it's the dress inmates get when they leave, which isn't exactly a grand entrance for the legendary blue dress, but does lay the foundation that it's a symbol for being sane. It's not like she can just leave the Asylum and go shopping. The dress is going to have to be there already and given to her in some way.

>For a totem, I honestly don't think it would work too well as a totem. It could really only be displayed on someone in the Asylum for her to see and have access to. That person would then have to give it to her at some point however, No one at the asylum has ever been described as a good person. So why would they give it to her?

We have to remember that the Blue Dress is real, where as all the other dresses are manifestations of her mind. Therefore we have to find a Real way to get it to her in the first place.

I know what some are thinking, if it's real can't we just give it to her? Why does it have to have a documented entrance? The answer: Cuz if it didn't it could have been traded out for other clothing at any time. It wouldn't be the One and Only Blue Dress, it would just be her clothes. It had to mean something in the beginning to give it the future reputation that it has now.

I hope this makes sense. My mind wasn't really cooperating with me today. If you have questions I'm in Discord @never2dark2play #7038