This is the first piece that plays in the project and I wanted to create a feeling of adventure. I used the driving line of the Cello to always have a sense of movement throughout the piece and used the rest of the strings for melodic and harmonic purposes. The dynamics match the visual media that I was writing for, becoming more intense during moments that the screen was filled with zombies and becoming quieter when less was going on. While the piece is mostly written in 4/4, I use a few measures of 2/4 to match the small interruptions of the zombies on-screen. When the adventurers open the door, I knew I wanted to make the music more intense, so I added blaring brass and percussion, and as they left behind "One-eye," I made the music more dissonant and intense to heighten that feeling, using a quick violin line to show the urgency. The piece ends with a large suspended cymbal crescendo as the Priest watches the door close, leaving "One-eye" alone with the zombies to die.
This piece begins as the priest looks around the large cavern behind the door, the room he and the other adventurers had risked their lives for. I wanted the beginning of this piece to have a feeling of wonder, so I used a choir and woodwinds to achieve this. I also used relatively open voicings to keep the pads wistful under the woodwind melody. As the leader of the adventuring party starts to interrogate the priest, the music turns foreboding, giving the contrabass and trombone the melody. The dynamic and intensity slowly grow until an unidentified voice leaves only two droning violins. As the horror starts to set in that the group got more than they bargained for, plucked strings slowly begin to play at random pitches and intervals, with small interruptions of woodwinds, until it crescendos into the "Brawn" attacking what used to be "One-eye."
This piece begins as a summoning ritual transpires. I wanted to give this piece religious undertones, so I started this piece with an SATB chorale (with the contrabass adding support on the low end). As this piece develops, the rhythm from "Run For Your Life" plays in the background as trills and tremolos create an unsettling feeling throughout the piece, which plays a few other reminders from "Run For Your Life" before ending with a large crescendo as the mysterious figure calls to the priest.
This piece is an expansion of a section in "Run For Your Life" that I originally wrote for strings. I intended it to play during the credits and decided to play it on piano since I had some free time. As I practiced it, I realized that the piece was much more impactful as a solo piano piece and that's how I created the final version of this piece.