Alva Richards (Ashling Dwyer)

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General

Overview

The player can reduce boredom by -5 for each line of dialog when in the vicinity of a television playing the VHS.

The VHS can be used with an appropriate television to play the dialog between the skilled painter Ashling Dwyer and interviewer Alva Richards. The conversation lets the player explore Ashling's personal art phases she had went through, and that her ultimate goal is to depict her mother's face purely. To her, this will take courage to accomplish.

Transcript

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Alva:
Welcome back. With me now is Ashling Dwyer...

...modern artist and winner of the 1992 Siu-Chong Prize.

Ashling:
Great to meet you, Alva.

Alva:
Now, you started off with abstract paintings...

Ashling:
Yes. After my training, I turned towards simple and truly abstract shapes...

Alva:
Chromatic Accident is a personal favorite.

Ashling:
Thank you. But I found when something was so open to interpretation...

...it can nullify the intended effect, instead of amplifying it.

Alva:
And you turned to more political themes...

Ashling:
Yes. Perhaps too political early on. You want to rise above party politics.

My favorite from that period is 48 Saucepans Falling Down the Stairs.

My mother had just had a bad fall in the kitchen...

...and it was inspired by a nightmare I had soon after.

Alva:
Interesting. The mother figure, I think, plays a large role in your work...

Ashling:
It's hard to talk about the themes of your own work.

It's like thinking about your fingers as you play the piano...

...you can actually forget how to do it.

But my own mother has a large part in my life and work.

My ultimate goal is to do a simple, realist painting of my mother's face.

Alva:
That's very sweet, actually.

Ashling:
Yes, but it's true. That's something I feel I need great bravery to do.

All art is a reduction, in a way, and it can feel... wrong...

...to do that to someone you love.

Alva:
That's very interesting.

Location

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

VHS_Home distributionShow / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default 'apocalypse' loot settings, with no luck modifier, and average zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits. Duplicate entries do exist, but have been removed for clarity.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
livingroom	shelves	11.21%

This VHS will only spawn once and only in living room shelves, making it incredibly rare.

Trivia

1992 Siu-Chong Art Prize is a direct reference to the Project Zomboid's artist & illustrator Marina Siu-Chong.

Code

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\newitems.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item VHS_Home
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Type				= Normal,
        DisplayName			= VHS-Home,
        Icon				= Cassette3,
        Weight				= 0.1,
        MediaCategory       = Home-VHS,
        WorldStaticModel = VHSBox3,
    }