White Vault! AU - Tumblr Posts
"In the winter months, gale storms in Svalbard can reach wind speeds of 130 km/h. Accompanied by, or following, snowfall, such storms can reduce visibility dramatically, more so in the frigid months of the polar night. During these storms, travel is not advised."
Thank you so much for the opportunity to infodump @artblock-insomniac (clears throat)
White Vault AU is based off of the paranormal found footage horror podcast 'the White Vault' by Fool and Scholar Productions! It's about where 5 people are sent to an outpost (Outpost Fristed) in Svalbard to solve an issue with the outpost, and is trapped there when an unnatural storm rolls in. I recommend you listen to the podcast, I'm not very good at summaries lmao
The idea for the AU so far under the cut (Spoilers for White Vault! S1+S2+S3):
The 5 people put into the Fristed repair team are: -Impulse (Medic and maybe the most important member of the team) -Scar (Hunter+knows the environment and terrain well, but still a bit of a clutz in the beginning) -Mumbo (Repairman and resident tech expert) -Pearl (Geologist and studies terrain data sent by the rovers) -Grian (Cook and is there to observe and supervise the team, is a bit anxious to get back to the UK to take care of his cats) The five of them are sent out into the arctic wastelands of Svalbard to fix an issue on Outpost Fristed. Supposedly, the issue is large and will take several days to repair. However, once arrival, Mumbo almost immediately fixes the issue, and a storm rolls in and strands the team in the arctic.
At first, all of them are treating this like a large sleepover, and remains bored, until Scar discovers a secret hatch in the storage room that leads down into an icy tunnel.
They leave Mumbo in the Outpost to try and get in contact with the base, and Grian, Pearl, Impulse, and Scar venture into the ice tunnels.
The four realizes the tunnel leads to a giant underground ancient city, a massive archaeological find, and decides to go back up to get Mumbo to explore the city together. They don't know the second Mumbo leaves they DO receive a signal-just not with the base
They walk around and explore the underground civilization together, but Pearl suddenly takes a large fall from exploring an oddly-placed ledge, and goes unconscious. The group quickly retreat back into the Outpost, and Impulse nurses Pearl back into wakefulness.
Pearl suddenly is very terrified and wants to leave the outpost right away, and claims that she didn't fall; She had jumped to get away from the large dark humanoid creature that had lunged towards her.
Obviously no one believes her, but Grian has a bad feeling...
...It was supposed to be a gif, but y'know. Tumblr. :) Still frames under the cut:
...It was supposed to be a gif, but y'know. Tumblr. :) Still frames under the cut:
OK OK IDK IF IM LATE TO THE PARTY (also sorry for yelling) BUT UR HERMITCRAFT WHITE VAULT CROSSOVER IS KILLING ME
MY NICHE HORROR PODCAST AND MY MINECRAFT FELLAS WAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH
You’re a genius go away shut up it’s so HECKING COOL
whipped up a quick doodle for u!!! Thank u so much man for showing interest in my au it means so much to me :))) Anyways Grian angst
idk if you're still going with the white vault au/how much you brewed for it really but i was wondering if you had any thoughts regarding post-season 3 story/lore reveals from the podcast? 👀
I got so much planned just no one has asked lol :) As for the next group of explorers... :) They will be revealed in the next post! It's branched off to include the Life series as well....