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For the benefit of those of you who couldn't quite parse the title, "In Nomine" is a RPG published by the good folk at Steve Jackson Games, about the war between Heaven and Hell, and an In Nomine Music Video is a piece, usually written for the game's mailing list, that acts like the script for a video casting a particular song in terms of the game. As I was working on The Paper That Never Ends™ last night, I had Hope, Vol. 2 by the band Apocalyptica playing, and the words percolated in my brain until I had to write this to bed able to resume work on my assignment. So anyway, presented for your approval, I give you the thing:
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FADE IN to a shot of LILITH in Eden, luxuriantly naked, her long hair the only thing preserving her nonexistent modesty. Surrounding her, all in positions of prostrate wonder, are the animals who populate the Garden - ADAM chief among their number.
Hope is beauty, personified
At her feet the world, hypnotized
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH as she deigns to notice the camera, looking toward it and gracing the viewer with a heartbreaking smile of simple joy.
A million flashes, A million smiles
And on the catwalk she flies in style
DISSOLVE TO a series of quick cuts compressing the series of increasingly bitter arguments between LILITH and ADAM, anding with her storming out, away from the husband and paradise that have, until now, been all she has known.
* But in this heart of darkness
* All hope lies lost and torn
* All fame, like love is fleeting
* When there's no hope anymore
DISSOLVE TO LILITH making her way through the wilderness, hair matted to her body by the rain and mud, a trail of blood from the wounds in her feet marking each of the jagged rocks that has lain in ambush along her path.
Pain and glory, hand in hand
A Sacrifice, the highest price
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH's face as she glares up toward the heavens. Is the water on her face rain, or tears? There is no way to be sure.
Like the poison in her arm
Like a whisper she was gone
Like when angels fall...
ZOOM OUT as LILITH raises her arms, screaming her defiance to the sky. The air around her seems to ripple with the Disturbance as the first Tether to Hell is formed...
* In this heart of darkness
* All hope lies on the floor
* Love like fame, is fleeting
* When there's no hope anymore
CUT TO an OVER-THE-SHOULDER SHOT, showing LUCIFER manifest himself before LILITH.
PAN RIGHT to show the two of them in profile as they bargain over what boon LUCIFER will grant LILITH in return for her inadvertant service, finally agreeing upon him bestowing the Word of Freedom upon her. LUCIFER seals the deal by placing a kiss on the back of LILITH's hand.
Like the poison in her arm
Like a whisper she was gone
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH as she flinches from the contact, then raises
the throbbing hand to her throat in reaction to the feeling of her Word
tightening around it.
PULL BACK to show LUCIFER standing there unperturbed, offering LILITH his hand in order to escort her to her new domain. The resolve in her eyes that comes from not seeing any option other than playing the hand she's dealt herself beginning to mask the fear.
Like an angel
Angels fall...
LILITH and LUCIFER step through the Tether, and are gone. Only the blood remains as evidence that LILITH once stood here.
FADE TO BLACK.
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FADE IN to a shot of LILITH in Eden, luxuriantly naked, her long hair the only thing preserving her nonexistent modesty. Surrounding her, all in positions of prostrate wonder, are the animals who populate the Garden - ADAM chief among their number.
Hope is beauty, personified
At her feet the world, hypnotized
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH as she deigns to notice the camera, looking toward it and gracing the viewer with a heartbreaking smile of simple joy.
A million flashes, A million smiles
And on the catwalk she flies in style
DISSOLVE TO a series of quick cuts compressing the series of increasingly bitter arguments between LILITH and ADAM, anding with her storming out, away from the husband and paradise that have, until now, been all she has known.
* But in this heart of darkness
* All hope lies lost and torn
* All fame, like love is fleeting
* When there's no hope anymore
DISSOLVE TO LILITH making her way through the wilderness, hair matted to her body by the rain and mud, a trail of blood from the wounds in her feet marking each of the jagged rocks that has lain in ambush along her path.
Pain and glory, hand in hand
A Sacrifice, the highest price
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH's face as she glares up toward the heavens. Is the water on her face rain, or tears? There is no way to be sure.
Like the poison in her arm
Like a whisper she was gone
Like when angels fall...
ZOOM OUT as LILITH raises her arms, screaming her defiance to the sky. The air around her seems to ripple with the Disturbance as the first Tether to Hell is formed...
* In this heart of darkness
* All hope lies on the floor
* Love like fame, is fleeting
* When there's no hope anymore
CUT TO an OVER-THE-SHOULDER SHOT, showing LUCIFER manifest himself before LILITH.
PAN RIGHT to show the two of them in profile as they bargain over what boon LUCIFER will grant LILITH in return for her inadvertant service, finally agreeing upon him bestowing the Word of Freedom upon her. LUCIFER seals the deal by placing a kiss on the back of LILITH's hand.
Like the poison in her arm
Like a whisper she was gone
CUT TO a CLOSE-UP on LILITH as she flinches from the contact, then raises
the throbbing hand to her throat in reaction to the feeling of her Word
tightening around it.
PULL BACK to show LUCIFER standing there unperturbed, offering LILITH his hand in order to escort her to her new domain. The resolve in her eyes that comes from not seeing any option other than playing the hand she's dealt herself beginning to mask the fear.
Like an angel
Angels fall...
LILITH and LUCIFER step through the Tether, and are gone. Only the blood remains as evidence that LILITH once stood here.
FADE TO BLACK.
