Combat Barks video game scripts

[SCAV, a raider in a scrapyard gang. Each line is a separate bark] [idle] Quiet out here. Too quiet. Who drank my water? I'll find out. I always find out. [enemy spotted] Fresh meat! Over by the bus! There! Behind the wall! Got a live one, boys! [attacking] Come on out, I don't bite! Much! Eat lead, scav! Keep 'em pinned! [taking damage] [pained grunt] Agh! Lucky shot! That's gonna leave a mark! [reload] Reloading! Cover me! Come on, come on, jammed again! [lost the player] Where'd they go? Spread out! You can't hide forever! [low health] I'm bleeding here! Somebody! [ally down] They got Tank! They got Tank! [death] [short choked effort] Not... like this...

[SERGEANT MAIKA ROSS leads a squad of orbital troopers on the moon colony of Varrus-4] [combat start] Contact front! Weapons free! Here they come. Hold the line, troopers! [orders] Flank left! Move, move! Suppressing fire on that ridge! Grenade out! Get clear! Fall back to the dropship! Hold position. Wait for my mark. Mark! [enemy spotted] Hostiles on the catwalk! Heavy unit, twelve o'clock! Sniper in the tower! [taking damage] [sharp grunt] I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm fine! Armour's holding. Barely. [ally down] Man down! Medic! Get him up! We leave no one! [reload] Changing mags! [objective] Charge is set. Thirty seconds! [victory] Area secure. Good work, troopers. That's how it's done. Regroup on me.

[SNIKKET, a small goblin with a large spear] [enemy spotted] Ooh! Shiny human! Get it! Intruder! Snikket saw first! Snikket gets the boots! [attacking] Stabby stab! Hee hee! Run, run! [taking damage] Ow! Owie! Not the face! [ally down] Grubb is squished! Who's next? Not Snikket! [taunt] Snikket is the scariest! Ask anyone! Ask Snikket's mum! She knows! [low health] Truce! Truce! Snikket has a cousin you can fight instead! [fleeing] Tactical running away! [death] [squeaky yelp] No fair...

[SER ALDRIC VANE commands the defence of the walls of Highmoor during a night siege] [battle start] To the walls! Every one of you, to the walls! They come at dawn. Let them find us waiting. [rally] Stand fast! Highmoor does not fall! Shields up! Hold them at the gate! For every home behind these walls! [enemy spotted] Ladders on the east wall! Siege tower! Burn it! Archers, loose! [attacking, efforts] [heavy sword swing effort] [shield bash effort] Back, you dogs! [taking damage] [grunt] A scratch! Keep fighting! [ally down] Get him off the wall! Someone take his post! [low health] I am not finished yet. [victory] They break! They run! Highmoor stands! Rest now. You've earned it. Every one of you. [death] [long pained exhale] Hold... the gate...

[A GUARD patrols the halls of Lord Marrowby's manor. Each tag is an alert state] [idle] [yawns] Why do the rich need guards at three in the morning? The silver isn't going anywhere. Left corridor, right corridor, back again. Riveting. [suspicious] Huh? What was that? That door was shut. I'm sure it was shut. Hello? Anyone there? [idle, chatting] The cook says the manor's haunted. The cook also says carrots help you see in the dark. [searching] Come out. I know you're here. If you come out now, I'll tell the captain I found you sleeping. Check behind the curtains. Always the curtains. I heard something. I'm not crazy. [alerted] Intruder! In the east hall! There! Stop right there! Sound the bell! [lost the player] Where did they go? Search every room! [giving up] Probably just a cat. It's always a cat. Fine. Back to the patrol. Nobody saw anything. [finds unconscious ally] Wake up! Who did this to you?

[CORPORAL JESS OYELARAN, field medic in the invented Northern Coalition army] [healing ally] Hold still, hold still. I've got you. Patching you up. Don't move. That's the last of the bandages. Make it count. [revive] Stay with me! Come on, open your eyes! You're not dying on my shift. [low supplies] I'm out of meds! Need a resupply! [enemy spotted] Contact! Rooftop! [taking damage] [short gasp] Okay, okay, I'm good! [player heals self] Hey, that's my job. [victory] Everyone breathing? Good. Sound off. [low health] I need a medic, and I'm the medic. That's a problem.

[OVERWATCH speaks over a radio from a hilltop, watching the player below] [in position] Overwatch in position. I've got eyes on you. [target spotted] Two tangos by the truck. Left one's mine. Patrol coming your way. Stay low. [player spotted] They've seen you. Get to cover, I'll thin them out. [confirm] Target down. Clean hit. Moving to the next. [warning] Hold. Hold. Wait for the guard to turn. Go. Now. [reload] Reloading. You're on your own for five. [relocating] They've spotted my glint. Moving.

[DANA, a survivor, inside an abandoned hospital overrun by the infected] [enemy spotted] Oh no. No, no, no. There's more. They're coming through the vents! [attacking] Get back! Get away from me! [shotgun effort] [low ammo] Two shells. Two shells left. I need ammo. I need ammo now. [out of ammo] [click, click] Empty! Come on! [taking damage] [sharp cry] It bit me! It bit me! [low health] I can't, I can't keep running. Find the med kit. Just find the med kit. [safe room] [shaky exhale] Okay. Okay. Door's locked. Breathe. [death] [strangled scream]

[RIO VALEK pilots the mech IRONHART in the canyons of the planet Teska] [deploy] Ironhart online. Let's dance. All systems green. Well, mostly green. [enemy spotted] Hostile walker, two o'clock! Missile lock! They've got me painted! [attacking] Firing main cannon! Eat plasma! Rockets away! [taking damage] [jolt effort] Left arm's hit! I can still swing it! Armour at forty percent. That's fine. That's totally fine. [overheating] Heat's spiking! Venting! Come on, cool down, cool down! [system failure] Targeting's down. Going manual. Shields gone! I'm running on hope here! [low health] Ironhart's falling apart under me! [victory] Target destroyed. Who's next? That's the last one. Ironhart, you beautiful machine. [eject] Punching out! Punching out!

[SENTRY UNIT 9, a security robot patrolling a research lab] [patrol] Patrol route active. All sectors nominal. Scanning. No anomalies detected. [suspicious] Movement detected. Investigating. Identify yourself. [alerted] Unauthorised personnel. Lethal force approved. Target acquired. Engaging. [taking damage] Armour compromised. Rerouting power. [low health] Critical damage. Critical. Crit- [destroyed] Shutting... down...

[CAPTAIN MOLL BRANNIGAN leads a boarding party onto an enemy ship] [boarding] Grapples away! Over the rail, ye dogs! Take the ship! Leave the cook, we need a cook! [enemy spotted] Bluecoats on the quarterdeck! [attacking] Have at ye! [cutlass slash effort] Is that all ye've got? [taking damage] Argh! Ye'll pay for that! [taunt] Ye fight like a seasick parrot! I've had worse from a barnacle! [ally down] Man overboard! Leave him, he can swim! [low health] Not today, Davy. Not today. [victory] She's ours! Raise the colours! Check the hold, lads. I smell gold. And possibly cheese. [death] [defeated groan]

[POGO, a springy hero, bounces through Candy Canyon] [jump] [happy hup!] Wahoo! [double jump] And again! [collect coin] Shiny! Ooh, that's a lot of coins! [power-up] Rocket boots! Let's go! I feel super! [find secret] Ooh, a secret door! I love secret doors! What's in here? [bump into enemy] Oof! Hey, that's rude! [lose a life] Aw, nuts! [level complete] We did it! High five! That was the best level ever! Until the next one! [idle, waiting] Hello? Are we going? I'm ready when you are!

[THE THUNDER BARON, a wrestler in a gold cape, plays to the crowd in a packed arena] [entrance] The Baron has arrived! Kneel, peasants! [taunt] Is that the best you've got? My grandmother hits harder! Look at me! Look at this cape! [strike efforts] [punch effort] [body slam effort] [taking damage] Oof! That's illegal! Referee! [finisher] Here comes the Thunder! [pin] One! Two! Three! Count it! [victory] Undefeated! Unbreakable! Unbelievably handsome! [loss] That was a fluke! Rematch!

[NIKO SANTANA, a rival driver, on open radio during the Crimson Coast Grand Prix] [race start] See you at the finish line. If you get there. Lights out! Let's go! [overtaking player] Catch you later! Actually, no. You won't. Too slow! Way too slow! [being overtaken] Hey! That was my line! Enjoy the lead. It won't last. [collision] Watch it! You want to trade paint? [crash] [impact grunt] No, no, no! My car! [final lap] Last lap. This one's mine. [win] Champion! Again! Somebody get me a bigger trophy! [lose] Lucky. You got lucky. Next time.

[SERAPHINE ASH, a battle mage, in combat] [casting efforts] [short focused exhale] [big release effort] [spells] Ignis Vora! Frost, bind them! Shield of Aether! Chain lightning! [low mana] My mana's spent! I need a moment to draw power! [spell interrupted] Agh! Lost the spell! [taking damage] [pained gasp] You'll regret that! [victory] The weave holds. They don't. [death] [fading cry]

[QUEEN VALDRA, the Iron Matriarch, on her throne in the Citadel of Ash] [intro] So. The little hero climbs my tower. How brave. How foolish. [phase one] You mistake my patience for weakness. Kneel, and I will make it quick. Is that all? I have broken kings with less effort. [taking damage, phase one] A scratch. Nothing more. [player heals] Patch your wounds, little one. It only makes this last longer. [phase two] Enough games! You have cracked my floor. I liked that floor. You dare? In my hall? My armour was forged in the heart of a volcano. And you think you can break it? [taking damage, phase two] [furious roar] You will pay for every drop! [phase three] I will tear this citadel down around us both! If I fall, I take you with me! Burn! Everything burns! [player low health] There it is. The fear. I can smell it. [defeat] [pained exhale] Impossible. I was... eternal. [player defeated] Another hero. Another statue for my garden.

[BROTHER CALLUM, a cultist of the Hollow Moon, in a forest at night] [idle chant] The moon is hollow. We will fill it. She sees. She hungers. She waits. [searching] Come out, lamb. The moon wants to meet you. We smell your fear on the wind. [lost the player] Run, lamb. The moon is patient. So are we. [enemy spotted] There! An unbeliever! [attacking] For the Hollow Moon! Join us! Join us! [taking damage] Pain is a gift! [death] The moon... remembers...

[PRIVATE THEO MARSH, nineteen, on his first mission with an invented Southern Federation unit] [early mission, enemy spotted] Is that them? Is that them? Sarge, I think that's them! Contact! I think! Contact! [early mission, taking damage] [startled yelp] That was close! That was really close! [early mission, reloading] Reloading! I think it's in backwards. No, it's fine! [mid mission, attacking] Got one! Sarge, I got one! Covering fire, I've got you! Moving up! Right behind you! [mid mission, ally down] Doc's down! I'll get him! [late mission, enemy spotted] Two hostiles, left side. I've got them. Flanking. Stay on my six. [late mission, reloading] Changing mags. Ten seconds. [late mission, low health] I'm hit. It's okay. Keep moving. [victory] We did it. We actually did it. Sarge? Thanks for not leaving me back there. [death] [soft gasp] Tell Mum...

[BRUNA STORMHIDE, a berserker of the northern clans] [rage start] [building growl into a roar] Blood and thunder! Now you've made me angry! [attacking] [axe swing effort] Come on! All of you! Is that a sword or a toothpick? [taking damage] [guttural grunt] Ha! Again! [killing blow] Down you go! [rage ending] [heavy breath] Is it over? Shame. [victory] The clans will sing of this! Loudly! Badly! [death] [defiant final roar]

[ZEE, a hacker in a cluttered apartment, talks into a headset to the player] [mission start] Okay, I'm in their system. Don't touch anything I wouldn't touch. [unlocking] Door's open. You're welcome. Give me five seconds. Three. Done. I'm amazing. [warning] Heads up, guard incoming, left corridor. Camera's turning. Freeze! They just tripped an alarm. Not my fault. Probably. [enemy spotted] Two heat signatures behind that door! [taking damage] Whoa, you okay? Your vitals just did a thing! [connection lost] You're breaking up. Hello? Hello? Ugh, cheap firewall. [objective complete] Data's downloading. Ninety percent. Ninety-nine. Got it! [extraction] Get out of there. I'm ordering noodles to celebrate.

[A HIVE DRONE, an insect-like alien, stalks the corridors of a mining ship] [idle] [clicking breaths] The hive. Is. Hungry. Soft things. Nearby. [searching] Where. Where. Smell it. Warm. Come. To. Hive. [enemy spotted] Found! Found! Warm one! [attacking] [shrill hiss] Take! Take! For the Queen! [taking damage] [sharp chitter] Hurt! Hive feels! [ally down] One falls. Many remain. [death] [wet rattle] The Queen... will... know...

[ZIGGY SPARK, a pint-sized electric brawler, in a mobile arena game] [character select] Ziggy's charged up! [ability] Zap attack! Feel the spark! [ultimate] Overload! Light 'em up! [taking damage] Yowch! [respawn] Back and buzzing! Miss me? [victory] Too fast for you! Ziggy wins! Again! [defeat] Short circuit...

[COMMANDER BRANDT leads the crew of a tank called Old Kettle in an invented war] [advance] Driver, forward. Steady. Push to the treeline. [target spotted] Enemy armour, two hundred metres, ten o'clock! Anti-tank team in the ruins! [firing] Gunner, on my mark. Fire! Hit! Hit! Load again! [reload] Loading! Up! [taking damage] [jolt grunt] We're hit! Damage report! Track's holding. Keep moving. [low health] Engine's smoking. Old Kettle's got one fight left. [ally destroyed] We lost Two. Take their sector. [victory] Area clear. Good shooting, all of you. [bail out] Bail out! Bail out!

[LYRANE, an archer from the forest realm of Sylvaren, travels with the player] [enemy spotted] Movement, in the trees. Wolves. Six of them. Possibly seven. One is hiding badly. [attacking] [arrow release exhale] Another one for me. Try to keep up. [low arrows] I'm running out of arrows. And patience. [taking damage] [sharp breath] That will cost them. [player takes damage] You're bleeding. That's usually bad. [victory] That was almost graceful. On my part. I counted. I won. [exploration] Do you smell that? Someone burned a stew nearby. [death] [soft exhale] The trees... will remember.

[MAGGIE CROW, a bandit leader, waits on a ridge above a dusty trail] [ambush start] Afternoon, stranger. Drop the gun real slow. Boys. Now. [orders] Cut 'em off at the creek! Jed, get round the back! [taking damage] [grunt] Well, that was rude. [low health] Pull back! Pull back to the horses! [taunt] You picked the wrong gulch, friend. [death] [long exhale] Shoulda... stayed home.

[CAPTAIN JODIE PARK on the pitch in an invented five-a-side league] [calling for the ball] Here! Man on! Man on! Square it! I'm free! [defending] Press them! Don't let them turn! Mark your man! [goal] Yes! Get in! What a goal! [teammate scores] What a finish! Told you that was your corner! [conceded] Heads up. We go again. [foul] Ref! That's a foul! Come on! [final whistle, win] That's it! Brilliant, all of you! [final whistle, loss] We'll learn from it. Next week.

[KAEL DRAVEN hunts a giant armoured beast in the volcanic plains of Mordoth] [hunt start] There you are, big one. Tracks are fresh. It's close. [attacking] [light swing effort] [medium swing effort] [heavy charged swing effort] Take that! [setting trap] Trap's set. Come on, step in it. [beast trapped] Got it! Now, now, now! [taking damage] [impact grunt] It's stronger than it looks! [dodge] Too slow! [low health] Need to fall back. Patch up. [beast enraged] It's angry! Watch the tail! [beast flees] Don't you run! I've come too far! [victory] It's down. Rest easy, beast. [carving] That'll make a fine helmet.

[KING MORTHAL, the Skeleton King, rises from his throne in a crypt beneath the mountain] [intro] A living soul. In my crypt. How delightful. It has been so long since I had a guest. [phase one] I ruled these lands before your grandfathers' grandfathers were born. You cannot kill what is already dead. Rise, my soldiers! Greet our guest! [taking damage, phase one] I have felt worse. I have felt nothing for centuries. [phase two] You dare? You dare strike a king? My crown! Do not touch my crown! [summon] Guards! Rise again! Your king commands it! [player dodges] You dance well for a mortal. Dance faster. [taking damage, phase two] [angry rattling hiss] Insolent worm! [phase three] No! I will not return to the dark! I was eternal! I was promised forever! My kingdom will not end with me! [player low health] Yes. Yes! Join me. Join my army forever. [defeat] [long fading breath] At last. Rest. Quiet. It is... so quiet. [player defeated] Another soldier for the king.

[TURBO TILLY, a tiny racer in a giant helmet, drives a kart called the Teacup] [race start] Teacup's ready! Go, go, go! [boost] Zoooom! Bye-bye! Turbo time! [pick up item] Ooh, a banana! Sneaky! [hit by item] Hey! Who threw that? Whoa, I'm spinning! [overtaking] Scoot over! Coming through! [last lap] Last lap! Teacup, don't fail me now! [win] First place! Teacup is the best kart ever! [lose] That's okay. Teacup tried his best.

[COLONEL ELENA RASK, the last defender of a remote outpost on the frozen planet Hallis] [wave one] Here they come. Right on time. Let's see what you've brought me today. [attacking] Not through my door. That's one. Who's next? [enemy spotted] Flyers, coming over the ridge. Lovely. Heavy walker by the fuel tanks. That's new. [reload] Reloading. Don't get impatient. [wave two] More of them. Of course there are more of them. [taking damage] [pained grunt] Still standing. Still annoyed. That one's going to hurt in the morning. [low ammo] Three mags left. Make them count, Elena. [wave three] I see you. All of you. Bigger ones this time. Somebody's been eating their greens. Come on, then. I've got all night. [low health] [heavy breath] Not yet. Not quite yet. [radio, no answer] Outpost Nine to command. Anyone. Anyone at all. [final wave] This is it, then. Good. I was getting bored. [death] [quiet exhale] Worth it. [victory, rescue arrives] Took your time. Hope you brought coffee.