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[[caption-width-right:350:''Nothing is separate.... we are all one life.'']]
''[[https://vimeo.com/183239997 Dust]]'' is a ScienceFantasy ShortFilm created and kickstarted by independent production company [[http://www.emberlab.com/ EmberLab]], and directed by Mark Grier. Set in the NearFuture, GaiasVengeance has turned Earth into a DeathWorld of miraculous, dangerous rapid-evolving wildlife and flora.
For centuries, [[NatureHero Trackers]] have helped mankind maintain a careful balance with nature. But as [[ScienceIsBad technological advances overtook nature for control]], humanity isolated itself behind great walled cities. Shunned by mankind, the few remaining Trackers have become a combination of [[MonsterCompendium wildlife researchers]], [[AlchemyIsMagic alchemists]], and [[TheMedic healers]]. Considered [[TheDrifter societal outcasts]], they keep meticulous records of the dangerous, ever-changing AmazingTechnicolorWildlife outside the safety of the walls.
To make matters worse, [[ThePlague a mysterious plague]] now surrounds Kabé, the oldest such city. On the day before it permanently locks its gates from the outside world, RetiredBadass Irezúmi is contacted by a BlackMarket medicine merchant for OneLastJob.
Reluctant and disgruntled, the former Tracker agrees to venture outside the walls to find the source of the strange blight that is attacking the countryside. All that is known of the elusive affliction is that it is based in mysterious, glowing [[TitleDrop dust]]...
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!! This short film provides examples of:
* AnimalNemesis: Part of the plague's source is [[spoiler: a large, bipedal hunter that Irezúmi must fight]].
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The rapid evolution of the wildlife and plants has resulted in this.
* BadassNormal: Given what they must survive, Trackers are this by default.
* BodyHorror: Part of the plague's source, thanks to [[spoiler: FesteringFungus]].
* DeadAllAlong: We see glimpses of [[spoiler:Irezúmi's daughter, Mitsuki]].
* FesteringFungus: The source turns out to be [[spoiler: toxic, dust-releasing growths on corpses]].
* FindTheCure: Irezúmi's abandoned mission, which the medicine merchant pushes him towards.
* GreenAesop: The dust is a [[GaiasRevenge warning against humanity]] for disrespecting nature.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: the AnimalNemesis's immune system makes its body a powerful cure.]]
* HealingPotion: Irezúmi [[spoiler: saves the medicine merchant with a paste made from the predator's corpse.]]
* HealItWithFire: [[spoiler: The medicine merchant]] gets this treatment, courtesy of a hot ember.
* InHarmonyWithNature: Trackers. Their goal is to restore this to mankind.
* NatureHero: Trackers fit this role to a T.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[spoiler: Realizing the medicine merchant is NotQuiteDead, Irezúmi defends himself against the AnimalNemesis and heals him with the body.]]
* OneLastJob: By the time
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The medicine merchant's motivations for finding the cure.
** Irezúmi, on the other hand, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules repeatedly turns down payment.]]
* PragmaticHero: Irezúmi attempts to send the medicine merchant back after [[spoiler: discovering the source]]. However, [[spoiler: this apparently sends him straight into an [[AnimalNemesis evolved predator]].]]
* SanitySlippage: Irezúmi gets a mild case of this, thanks to [[spoiler: a spore-based defense mechanism of the source]].
* TheReveal: The plague's source is actually [[spoiler: a [[AnimalNemesis hyper-evolved predator]] that has [[TheSymbiote bonded with the spore plants]], spreading them by killing prey weakened by the dust.]]
* TheSymbiote: The true nature of the [[spoiler: AnimalNemesis; the dust weakens prey, and the creature leaves spores as it eats their bodies]].
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Irezúmi's hallucinations give us the reason he abandoned his cause as a Tracker. [[spoiler: An [[HarmfulHealing herbal treatment]] accidentally killed his DelicateAndSickly daughter, and he possibly [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse lost his wife in the aftermath.]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Nothing is separate.... we are all one life.'']]
''[[https://vimeo.com/183239997 Dust]]'' is a ScienceFantasy ShortFilm created and kickstarted by independent production company [[http://www.emberlab.com/ EmberLab]], and directed by Mark Grier. Set in the NearFuture, GaiasVengeance has turned Earth into a DeathWorld of miraculous, dangerous rapid-evolving wildlife and flora.
For centuries, [[NatureHero Trackers]] have helped mankind maintain a careful balance with nature. But as [[ScienceIsBad technological advances overtook nature for control]], humanity isolated itself behind great walled cities. Shunned by mankind, the few remaining Trackers have become a combination of [[MonsterCompendium wildlife researchers]], [[AlchemyIsMagic alchemists]], and [[TheMedic healers]]. Considered [[TheDrifter societal outcasts]], they keep meticulous records of the dangerous, ever-changing AmazingTechnicolorWildlife outside the safety of the walls.
To make matters worse, [[ThePlague a mysterious plague]] now surrounds Kabé, the oldest such city. On the day before it permanently locks its gates from the outside world, RetiredBadass Irezúmi is contacted by a BlackMarket medicine merchant for OneLastJob.
Reluctant and disgruntled, the former Tracker agrees to venture outside the walls to find the source of the strange blight that is attacking the countryside. All that is known of the elusive affliction is that it is based in mysterious, glowing [[TitleDrop dust]]...
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!! This short film provides examples of:
* AnimalNemesis: Part of the plague's source is [[spoiler: a large, bipedal hunter that Irezúmi must fight]].
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The rapid evolution of the wildlife and plants has resulted in this.
* BadassNormal: Given what they must survive, Trackers are this by default.
* BodyHorror: Part of the plague's source, thanks to [[spoiler: FesteringFungus]].
* DeadAllAlong: We see glimpses of [[spoiler:Irezúmi's daughter, Mitsuki]].
* FesteringFungus: The source turns out to be [[spoiler: toxic, dust-releasing growths on corpses]].
* FindTheCure: Irezúmi's abandoned mission, which the medicine merchant pushes him towards.
* GreenAesop: The dust is a [[GaiasRevenge warning against humanity]] for disrespecting nature.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: the AnimalNemesis's immune system makes its body a powerful cure.]]
* HealingPotion: Irezúmi [[spoiler: saves the medicine merchant with a paste made from the predator's corpse.]]
* HealItWithFire: [[spoiler: The medicine merchant]] gets this treatment, courtesy of a hot ember.
* InHarmonyWithNature: Trackers. Their goal is to restore this to mankind.
* NatureHero: Trackers fit this role to a T.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[spoiler: Realizing the medicine merchant is NotQuiteDead, Irezúmi defends himself against the AnimalNemesis and heals him with the body.]]
* OneLastJob: By the time
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The medicine merchant's motivations for finding the cure.
** Irezúmi, on the other hand, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules repeatedly turns down payment.]]
* PragmaticHero: Irezúmi attempts to send the medicine merchant back after [[spoiler: discovering the source]]. However, [[spoiler: this apparently sends him straight into an [[AnimalNemesis evolved predator]].]]
* SanitySlippage: Irezúmi gets a mild case of this, thanks to [[spoiler: a spore-based defense mechanism of the source]].
* TheReveal: The plague's source is actually [[spoiler: a [[AnimalNemesis hyper-evolved predator]] that has [[TheSymbiote bonded with the spore plants]], spreading them by killing prey weakened by the dust.]]
* TheSymbiote: The true nature of the [[spoiler: AnimalNemesis; the dust weakens prey, and the creature leaves spores as it eats their bodies]].
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Irezúmi's hallucinations give us the reason he abandoned his cause as a Tracker. [[spoiler: An [[HarmfulHealing herbal treatment]] accidentally killed his DelicateAndSickly daughter, and he possibly [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse lost his wife in the aftermath.]]]]
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