History NightmareFuel / RedFlood

The aftermath of a longer and deadlier UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ending in a stalemate left the world in total chaos ''and it shows''.

* The darker colour-palette of Red Flood compared to the basegame or either other mod sets the mood that this is a more messed-up world than your usual Alternate History Mod. The world in Red Flood is actually much like ours, but gone completely mad.
** On a similar note, the art style used for the focuses are done in a level of realism that's unusual for [=HOI4=]. While most focuses are benign in nature (balancing budgets, clarifying military doctrines etc, electing parties.), they all look somewhat off. This goes double for the actually screwed-up focuses. Germany's "Bring Back the Death Penalty" focus for example depicts the blade of a guillotine about to be used with two skulls at the bottom.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne lasted longer and was far worse in this timeline than in ours, leading to not only more deaths, but both the Entente and Central Powers committing increasingly despicable actions to achieve their victory. This eventually led to the world of madness that is the world the mod takes place in.
* A small detail, but the [[ClusterFBomb more frequent use of profanity]] in the mod's focuses and events, especially during the "Friend of Old France" event chain emphasises a DarkerAndEdgier world than the norm.
* The entire "Friend of Old France" event line. A small group of Frenchmen who have not gone insane are leading a partisan movement seeking to overthrow Artaud and restore sanity to their country through either liberal democracy, Marxian socialism, or French ultranationalism. At the end, it is revealed that the entire conspiracy happened mostly in Artaud's head; he himself was the Friend of Old France and was just having an episode. The story's purpose is to show that Artaud is utterly insane.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzsVPct0yM The L'État Irréel super-event]] is nothing short of Nightmare Fuel due to the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds]] [[SurrealHorror that come with it]], taken directly from [[https://youtu.be/EXy7lsGNZ5A?t=1138 a radio play by the real Antonin Artaud]] called "Avoir en finir avec le jugement de Dieu".[[note]]"To Have Done with the Judgment of God"[[/note]] It begins with Artaud himself ranting in French, before it completely degenerates into a nightmarish cacophony of incoherent screaming and deafening percussion. Instead of some kind of picture related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting]] warped enough that [[InterfaceScrew it seems to mess with the event window itself]].
** The event described in the event is also nightmarish, consisting of France ''[[MindScrew declaring war on the very concept of reality,]]'' with everything in France and French society from hereon being considered to be nothing but extensions of Le Patron; a state of affairs which they apparently wish to spread to the rest of the world. Reality itself will be but a canvas, and the state once known as France will be Le Patron's brush. [[FridgeHorror God knows what that means in practice.]]

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX-fNFepUpE accompanying superevent]] is an (originally unintentionally) chilling version of "The Internationale" played entirely on factory sirens, turning a song once celebrating the worker and the breaking of their chains into something inhuman.

* In this world, disaster at Gallipoli and collapse of British Raj turned the already flawed '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''' into apathetic, drunken, insane Indian warlord, who uses ''chemical weapons'' to deal with all his problems.

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* The darker colour-palette of Red Flood compared to the basegame or either other mod sets the mood that this is a more messed-up world than your usual Alternate History Mod.

*** That's more than choking, that's his '''ribcage being ripped open.''' You get to hear first-hand EXACTLY what the Realm Of Avatar is like for its hundreds of millions of inhabitants. Oh yeah, more than '''half of the world population is trapped within her literally [[OmnicidalManiac all-consuming]] [[MisanthropeSupreme mania.]]'''

* The entire "Friend of Old France" event line. A small group of Frenchmen who have not gone insane are leading a partisan movement seeking to overthrow Artaud and restore sanity to their country through either liberal democracy, Marxist theory or ultrantionalist rhetoric. At the end, it is revealed that the entire conspiracy happened mostly in Artaud's head; he himself was the Friend of Old France and was just having an episode. The story's purpose is to show that Artaud is utterly insane.

*** That's more than choking, that's his '''ribcage being ripped open.''' You get to hear first-hand EXACTLY what the Realm Of Avatar is like for its hundreds of millions of inhabitants. Oh yeah, more than '''half of the world population is trapped within her [[KillEmAll literally]] [[OmnicidalManiac all-consuming]] [[MisanthropeSupreme mania.]]'''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzsVPct0yM The L'État Irréel super-event]] is nothing short of Nightmare Fuel due to the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds]] [[SurrealHorror that come with it]], taken directly from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZsyq1zGDU from a radio play by the real Antonin Artaud]] called "To Have Done With The Judgment of God". It begins with Artaud himself ranting in French, before it completely degenerates into a nightmarish cacophony of incoherent screaming and deafening percussion. Instead of some kind of picture related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting]] warped enough that [[InterfaceScrew it seems to mess with the event window itself]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzsVPct0yM The L'État Irréel super-event]] is nothing short of Nightmare Fuel due to the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds]] [[SurrealHorror that come with it]], taken directly from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZsyq1zGDU from a radio play by the real Antonin Artaud]] called "To Have Done With The Judgment of God". It begins with Artaud himself ranting in French, before it completely degenerates into a nightmarish cacophony of incoherent screaming and deafening percussion. Instead of some kind of picture related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting.]]

** The event described in the event is also nightmarish, consisting of France ''[[MindScrew declaring war on the very concept of reality,]]'' with everything in France and French society from hereon being considered to be nothing but extensions of Le Patron; a state of affairs which they apparently wish to spread to the rest of the world. Reality itself will be but a canvas, and the state once known as France will be Le Patron's canvas. [[FridgeHorror God knows what that means in practice.]]

** The event described in the event is also nightmarish, consisting of France ''[[MindScrew declaring war on the very concept of reality,]]'' with everything in France and French society from hereon being considered to be nothing but extensions of Le Patron; a state of affairs which they apparently wish to spread to the rest of the world. [[FridgeHorror God knows what that means in practice.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzsVPct0yM The L'État Irréel super-event]] is nothing short of Nightmare Fuel due to the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds]] [[SurrealHorror that come with it]], taken directly from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZsyq1zGDU from a radio play by the real Antonin Artaud]] called "To Have Done With The Judgment of God". It begins with Artaud himself ranting in French, before it completely degenerates into a nightmarish cacophony of utterly incoherent gibberish, random yells and screams, and deafening percussion. Instead of some kind of picture related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting.]]

** Should Churchill get overthrown, it can actually go FromBadToWorse if the Cult of Kali takes over. Lead by the Avatar (OTL Savitri Devi / Maximiani Julia Portas), it seeks to destroy the world. Kali Cult has RapePillageAndBurn as state military policy, engages in human sacrifice and caniballism, and forces people to serve for Avatar under the threat of anihilation. The super event for it unifying asia shows loads of fire and smoke covering the background with a skull in the center, all set to the sounds of fire and drums with a man choking at the end.

* In this world, disaster at Gallipoli and collapse of British Raj turned the already flawed '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''' into apathetic, drunken, insane Indian warlord, who uses ''chemical weapons'' to deal with all his problems. He is so cruel, that devs have compared him to '''Adolf Hitler'''.

* While Germany [[ChummyCommies is fine on most paths]], Goebbels' path leads to it becoming an authoritarian state. At best it's like OTL UsefulNotes/EastGermany, while at worst it's essentially a facimilie of Oceania from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''