History NightmareFuel / RedFlood

* [[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 screams and gibberish, all set to utterly discordant percussion. Instead of some kind of picture related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting.]]

* [[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 screams and gibberish, all set to utterly discordant percussion. Instead of some kind of photo related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting.]]

* [[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 incoherent screams and gibberish, all set to discordant percussion that turns the entire audio clip into a nightmarish cacophony. Instead of a photo or painting 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 as nothing but an extension 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.]]

** 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 as nothing but an extension 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 random screams and gibberish, all set to discordant percussion that turns the entire audio clip into a nightmarish cacophony. Instead of a photo or painting 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 concept of reality itself,]]'' with everything in France and French society from hereon being considered to be nothing but an extension of Le Patron himself; 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 random screams and gibberish, all set to discordant percussion and turning the entire audio clip into a nightmarish cacophony. Instead of a photo or painting related to what is going on, the superevent image is [[NothingIsScarier nothing but an abstract painting.]]

* [[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 random screams and gibberish, all set to discordant percussion. Instead of a photo or painting 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 [[MindScrew France... declaring war on the concept of reality itself,]] with everything in Franca and French society being considered to be nothing but an extension of Le Patron himself; 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 tha 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".
** The event described in the event is also nightmarish, consisting of [[MindScrew France... abolishing reality.]] [[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 tha come with it]], taken directly from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZsyq1zGDU a radio broadcast of one of Artaud's plays]] in RealLife.

* [[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 tha come with it]]

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* 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''.
* On the topic of the Nazis, it's truly a sad state of affairs when ''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'' is one of the handful of sane people left in this world. Think about it: The deterioration of the world has pushed Hitler of all people to become a centrist (albeit one with an authoritarian streak).

** 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.

** The event for Churchill unifying India is a painting of British soldiers massacring Indians in Jalianwala Bagh, with the music being "Rule Britannia" with sounds of gunfire and screaming in the background - suggesting that this isn't just the memory of the 1919 massacre in that park, ''it's now standard policy in Churchill's India.''

* In this world, disaster at Gallipoli and collapse of British Raj turned '''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'''.

** The event for Churchill unifying India is a painting of British soldiers massacring Indians in Jalianwala Bagh, with the music being "Rule Britannia" with sounds of gunfire and screaming in the background - suggesting that isn't the memory of the 1919 massacre in that park, ''it's standard policy in Churchill's India.''

** The event for Churchill unifying India shows Britsh soilders massacring a crowd of natives, with the music being "rule britannia" with sounds of gunfire and screaming in the background.

* Avant-Garde France is nothing short an utter nightmare to live in. The country is led by "Le Patron" Antonin Artaud, who lost his sanity in the war after a German gas attack, and is introduced to the player drunkenly ejaculating onto the famous Renaissance painting ''Annunciation'' by Rogier van der Weyden while in Marseilles before shooting it with a rifle loaded with incendiary rounds.
** Other members of Artaud's government are barely any better. Four paths France can go down lead to it becoming a plutocratic society with state-enforced hedonism where rape, pedophillia, beastiality, murder and ''cannibalism'' are legal and everything is bought exclusively on the Black Market (Acéphale), a borderline-cult that views every person, machine and even reality itself as an extension of Le Patron (Escadron), a Celtic-themed Eco-Fascist state or an Anarcho-Primitivist tribal nightmare that eventually imposes a mandatory mating season and attempts to reduce the French people to acting purely on animalistic instinct (Celtic France).
** 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, and that France is damned no matter what the hell happens to its people.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzsVPct0yM The L'État Irréel super-event]] is nothing short of Nightmare Fuel due to the [[HellIsThatNoise music]] [[SurrealHorror that comes with it]]
*** The event described in the event is also nightmarish, consisting of [[MindScrew France... abolishing reality.]] [[FridgeHorror God knows what that means in practice.]]
* While Germany [[ChummyCommies is fine on most paths]], either of Goebbels's paths lead to it becoming an authoritarian state. At best it's like OTL UsefulNotes/EastGermany, while at worst it's essentially a neopagan version of Nazi Germany or a facimilie of Oceania from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

* In this world, disaster at Gallipoli and collapse of British Raj turned '''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'''.

!''General''

** 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.

* While Germany [[ChummyCommies is fine on most paths]], either of Goebbels's paths lead to it becoming an authoritarian state. At best it's like OTL UsefulNotes/EastGermany, while at worst it's essentially a neopagan version of Nazi Germany.

** 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, electin 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.

* While Germany [[ChummyCommies is fine on most paths]], either of Goebbels's paths lead to it becoming an authoritarian state. At best it's like OTL UsefulNotes/EastGermany, while at worst it's essentially a Pagan version of Nazi Germany.

* In this world, disaster at Hallipoli and collapse of British Raj turned '''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'''.

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

* On the topic of the Nazis, it's truly a sad state of affairs when ''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'' is one of the handful of sane people left in this world. Think about it: The deterioration of the world has pushed Hitler of all people to become a centrist (albeit one with an authoritarian streak).

* Avant-Garde France is nothing short an utter nightmare to live in. The country is led by "Le Patron" Antonin Artaud, who lost his sanity in the war after a German gas attack, and is introduced to the player drunkenly ejaculating onto the famous Renaissance painting ''Annunciation'' by Rogier van der Weyden while in Marsailles before shooting it with a rifle loaded with incidiary rounds.

* While Germany [[ChummyCommies is fine on most paths]], either of Goering's paths lead to it becoming an authoritarian state. At best it's like OTL UsefulNotes/EastGermany, while at worst it's essentially a Pagan version of Nazi Germany.

** Other members of Artaud's government are barely any better. Four paths France can go down lead to it becoming a plutocratic society with state-enforced hedonism where rape, pedophillia and beastiality are legal and everything is bought exclusively on the Black Market (Acéphale), a borderline-cult that views every person, machine and even reality itself as an extension of Le Patron (Escadron), a Celtic-themed Eco-Fascist state or an Anarcho-Primitivist tribal nightmare that eventually imposes a mandatory mating season and attempts to reduce the French people to acting purely on animalistic instinct (Celtic France).

* Avant-Garde France is nothing short an utter nightmare to live in. The country is led by "Le Patron" Antonin Artaud, who lost his sanity in the war after a German gas attack, and is introduced to the player drunkenly ejaculating onto the famous Renaissance painting ''Annunciation'' by Rogier van der Weyden while in Marsailles before shooting it with a rifle loaded with incidiarey rounds.