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A piece of artwork created by BEAST and released January 2014.

"This image was inspired from looking at the Blood Alpha. I thought of a mod idea that would re-imagine Blood with help from the Blood Alpha, but add more atmosphere to it by borrowing influences from Rise of the Triad, Quake, aspects of Duke Nukem 3D's level design, Hexen, Blood Omen, and more. I wanted to have a boss fight that was just a Voxel-based dangling flesh loogy attached to the ceiling over a big pool of blood in a Cthon-like arena, and a narrative-driven boss encounter with Tchernobog. This was to be called Blood: The Alternate Version, because I wanted to do my own series of Alternate Version mods, like Unreal: The Alternate Version which expanded upon the Unreal Alpha demo and the beta, and Half-Life: The Alternate Version based upon Half-Life's early alpha demo. (I decided to change the titles of those ideas to Unreal: Escape from Na Pali '95 and Half-Life: Alpha Decay). Afterward, I then recalled from The Postmortem that Caleb was originally going to be called Michael, so I thought that the better name for this ideal project would be Blood: Michael's Bloodlust, which has Caleb start off as Michael in blue acolyte robes, but then have him gradually wear the trenchcoat and gunslinger's hat in later episodes, and thenceforth become Caleb. I remember working a lot on the little circle details on the landscape, to make it look like it was rocky. If you look closely, at the grave next to the Cultist-robed dressed Caleb, you can see the mask of Tchernobog as his gravestone instead of a cross. I nearly threw it away once, but I'm glad I kept it." - http://forums.transfusion-game.com/viewtopic.php?p=28472#p28472

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