Silent Hill: Promise, remastered

Silent Hill: Promise is a complete webcomic written from 2010-2019.

It was written in the style of an old text adventure game with participation from user commands as a comment on the latest pages. While the project took ten years to complete, the bulk of it was done in two single year stretches in 2010-2011 and 2018-2019.

Many of the early pages are practically illegible due to poor font choices and lack of plaintext transcription. This “remaster” retains all the original artwork, only changing the text font and size, and adding plaintext transcription.

Pages will be posted as they are completed, as was the original tradition of the comic.

The full, completed comic can be read (with difficulty) in its entirety at this link or at its original home on deviantart.

Content warnings: Canon-typical violence, canon-typical problematic things; themes of mental illness, loss, codependency, and sexuality.

Pages 1-7:

It is the middle of the night. Your cell phone is ringing.

additional pages under the cut.

The tweedle of your cell’s ringtone drags you from your fading dreams and you grope across the nightstand for the offending object. You squint in the dark at its blue light.

The caller is unfamiliar but you recognize the area code. Silent Hill. Your heart races as you realize this might be the call you’ve been waiting for.

>> Answer teh call. It be ph sayin he wants his money back. You answer the phone.

Your mind still confused with sleep, you are briefly convinced that the caller some hulking monster who had pursued you through the corridors of your dream. Shaking this off, you concentrate and stutter out a greeting.

“Hello?”

“I’m** xxilent hixx”

“James! Uncle james is that you?”

“Alone xxx xxxxx hotex you xxx come xx wating xxx.”

Static blares at you through the phone. Beneath it, you can just make out the sound of r voice that you recognize. It’s your uncle james. He’s been missing for three years, and this is the first you’ve heard from him since he left, saying he was going back to the town of silent hill. After a last burst of noise, your phone goes dead as you vainly call for him.

“Uncle James?”

You sit up and set your phone back on the nightstand, before leaning down and opening your bedside drawer. Inside are a pair of glasses, a pack of cigarettes and a photograph.

>> Inspect the photograph up close.

You’re pretty sure its a photograph from your uncle’s wedding, however, without your glasses, you can’t make out much detail.

>> Put on your glasses.

>> Put on glasses.

You take the glasses from the drawer and put them firmly on your face where they belong.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

With your glasses on, the moonlight filtering in through your window shades is just enough for you to make out the details of the familiar picture.

Its a photo from your uncle James’ wedding. His wife, Mary,  looks so healthy and beautiful in it. You can’t believe she made you wear that hideous orange bridesmaid dress.

You only put up with it for your uncle.

You don’t need to turn the photo over to know what it says.

“To the prettiest bridesmaid. With love, James.”

>> Smoke cigarettes like a badass.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

With your glasses on, the moonlight filtering in through your window shades is just enough for you to make out the details of the familiar picture.

Its a photo from your uncle James’ wedding. His wife, Mary,  looks so healthy and beautiful in it. You can’t believe she made you wear that hideous orange bridesmaid dress.

You only put up with it for your uncle.

You don’t need to turn the photo over to know what it says.

“To the prettiest bridesmaid. With love, James.”

>> Smoke cigarettes like a badass.

[next pages (to be added)]

Silent Hill: Promise, remastered

Silent Hill: Promise is a complete webcomic written from 2010-2019.

It was written in the style of an old text adventure game with participation from user commands as a comment on the latest pages. While the project took ten years to complete, the bulk of it was done in two single year stretches in 2010-2011 and 2018-2019.

Many of the early pages are practically illegible due to poor font choices and lack of plaintext transcription. This “remaster” retains all the original artwork, only changing the text font and size, and adding plaintext transcription.

Pages will be posted as they are completed, as was the original tradition of the comic.

The full, completed comic can be read (with difficulty) in its entirety at this link or at its original home on deviantart.

Content warnings: Canon-typical violence, canon-typical problematic things; themes of mental illness, loss, codependency, and sexuality.

Pages 1-7:

It is the middle of the night. Your cell phone is ringing.

additional pages under the cut.

The tweedle of your cell’s ringtone drags you from your fading dreams and you grope across the nightstand for the offending object. You squint in the dark at its blue light.

The caller is unfamiliar but you recognize the area code. Silent Hill. Your heart races as you realize this might be the call you’ve been waiting for.

>> Answer teh call. It be ph sayin he wants his money back. You answer the phone.

Your mind still confused with sleep, you are briefly convinced that the caller some hulking monster who had pursued you through the corridors of your dream. Shaking this off, you concentrate and stutter out a greeting.

“Hello?”

“I’m** xxilent hixx”

“James! Uncle james is that you?”

“Alone xxx xxxxx hotex you xxx come xx wating xxx.”

Static blares at you through the phone. Beneath it, you can just make out the sound of r voice that you recognize. It’s your uncle james. He’s been missing for three years, and this is the first you’ve heard from him since he left, saying he was going back to the town of silent hill. After a last burst of noise, your phone goes dead as you vainly call for him.

“Uncle James?”

You sit up and set your phone back on the nightstand, before leaning down and opening your bedside drawer. Inside are a pair of glasses, a pack of cigarettes and a photograph.

>> Inspect the photograph up close.

You’re pretty sure its a photograph from your uncle’s wedding, however, without your glasses, you can’t make out much detail.

>> Put on your glasses.

>> Put on glasses.

You take the glasses from the drawer and put them firmly on your face where they belong.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

With your glasses on, the moonlight filtering in through your window shades is just enough for you to make out the details of the familiar picture.

Its a photo from your uncle James’ wedding. His wife, Mary,  looks so healthy and beautiful in it. You can’t believe she made you wear that hideous orange bridesmaid dress.

You only put up with it for your uncle.

You don’t need to turn the photo over to know what it says.

“To the prettiest bridesmaid. With love, James.”

>> Smoke cigarettes like a badass.

>> Examine the photograph, including anything that may be written on the back.

With your glasses on, the moonlight filtering in through your window shades is just enough for you to make out the details of the familiar picture.

Its a photo from your uncle James’ wedding. His wife, Mary,  looks so healthy and beautiful in it. You can’t believe she made you wear that hideous orange bridesmaid dress.

You only put up with it for your uncle.

You don’t need to turn the photo over to know what it says.

“To the prettiest bridesmaid. With love, James.”

>> Smoke cigarettes like a badass.

[next pages (to be added)]