The Shadows Of Allen Dowd is an indie narrative driven FPS currently developped by yours truly, [THE BARRACKS].
This is a project and a universe we started developping in mid-2022, and are working on intermittently, in between our other obligations. It is part of a larger, quite dense universe we have been working on since, and this page will aim to help you discover and naviguate it :)
This website in general is a heavy work in progress, but we appreciate your visit. Enjoy what we have to offer here.
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TALK ABOUT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THERE. ALSO TALK ABOUT THE WIDER UNIVERSE. JUNO MENTION I BEG YOU.
No Juno here because he's not in this one. Unless...? Nah Roger won't mention him. OH WAIT NO YES JUNO BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE TO ORDER ALLENS TORTURE. BLORBO IN THERE I FUCKING WIN.
Okay so. The Characters. Despite Ataal Juno being one of my favourite OCs ever and what we wrote above might suggest, he's like. Ultra niche levels of babe when talking about that game. Not the wider universe, he's very important in the wider universe. But yeah, he's mentionned maybe once, or referred to briefly, but that's it. No, the real baddies of TSOAD are.....
*drumrolls...*
John Finley (Charlie)
Age: 60 years old
Birthday: March 17th
Status: Alive as of 1994
John is a quiet man with a boring life who, after a life of hard work as a solider, then a military consultant, decided to move away from his old life and retire following the death of his wife. He regularly goes to therapy with Lily Carper to deal with his grief.
..."Charlie" is the real man behind the fake name. Legally dead since he signed his life away to The Organisation in 1956, he spent his life as a hired gun, partnering with his best friend and confident, Allen. In 1964, after his partner was sent away for a short period of time -- which stretched into months -- Charlie was assigned to solo works, and continued them until the last 1970s, when he became commander of Unit S-009 for The Organisation. In 1993, Charlie asked for his retirement, and was granted a new name and a new life under the condition that he kills one last victim -- his ex partner.
Allen Dowd did not have in his values to die easily.
Allen Dowd (Young)
Age: 25 years old
Birthday: October 28th
Status: Died in 1993. Memories go up to 1958.
This is the youngest of Allen's Ghosts. He is from the very beggining of his and Charlie's partnership. He is one of the least agressive, mostly he is happy to be there and doesn't care much about his death, having accepted it was a possibility long since he signed his life away. He doesn't mind his other selves, even though communicating with him clearly isn't their priority. He is closest to Hurt.
He is also the first ghost to disappear.
Allen Dowd (Hurt)
Age: 31 years old
Birthday: October 28th
Status: Died in 1993. Memories go up to 1964.
The least agressive of Allen's ghosts, never attacking Charlie outright in any circumstance. This ghost is from a point in his life where, after being captured by enemy forces -- General Juno's Army -- he endured several months of captivity, losing his right arm and left eye in the process. His ability to walk was also temporarily impaired, causing this ghost to have to resort to grabbing Charlie's legs to be able to get by. He is pretty clingy to his friend, given he is in a situation where the only thing keeping his going is the hope Charlie will save him.
He is the last ghost to be fought.
Allen Dowd (Angry)
Age: 43 years old
Birthday: October 28th
Status: Died in 1993. Memories go up to 1976.
This is the third ghost. He is the one Charlie didn't save, the one who was left to rot and die in a cell. Well, he fucking didn't, and he's damn mad about it. After getting back, he was provided a prostetic arm and relearned how to walk. Extremely agressive, he is the only one to attack Charlie outside of his fight. He refuses to interact with his other selves, considering himself to exist solely to torment Charlie. He dislikes Young's naivety and Old's numbness. The worst is Hurt, refusing to even look at him out of fear of having to confront this part of his past. It's too raw, too painful. He has to look every day at his missing arm and feel it beneath the metal as if it was still there, and now there is this version of himself that's here to haunt him, still crawling around, still suffering, still holding the same stupid fucking hope that Charlie will come save him. And at the same time he can't shatter it, can't go up to the fucker and yell at him that he is stupidly, terminally naive for thinking that, because he knows Charlie's face is the only thing that kept him going as they were saing away his tendons and his bones. And at the same time, how he hates that Hurt survived. How he hates that Hurt didn't let himself die. How he hates that he is there now.
Angry is the second boss fight.
Allen Dowd (Old)
Age: 61 years old
Birthday: October 28th
Status: Died in 1993. Memories go up to his death.
Old is the fourth ghost. He's the partner Charlie actually killed. He isn't angry anymore. Just disappointed.
Lily Carper
Age: 36 years old
Birthday: December 23rd
Status: Alive as of 1994
BLORBOS IN THERE. BLORBOS EVERYWHERE. BOSS' SHAYLA IN THERE.
It's a dead man's party *pa-pa*/Who could ask for more *pa-pa* Sorry Oingo-Boingo are making bangers. Anyways. It's going slowly and badly but it's going.
[THE BARRACKS] are a bunch of frankly insane individuals who never should have found each other in the same head. Welcome. We are available through spirit box, whispers in the wind, that strange southern accent you swore you could hear right behind you, and also Discord when we remember to check it.
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