There are these monastic toilets. Six or eight long drop toilets, with dividers between each closet. Here the monks catch up on what little gossip pertains to monastic life.
They have no idea that the alien, which has come from the spaceship and then gone down into this wooden vessel, is circulating through their sewage system.
Artist: Ellis, Concept: Ward
One guy is in the middle of a conversation, then whoosh! The alien gets him from below. A sudden blast of cold air surges up their robed habits. The conversation goes deathly quiet leaving one old monk muttering about being so rudely snubbed by his friend.
Artist: Ellis, Photoshop: Mosqueda, Concept: Ward
Then he is sucked down too.
One by one, the alien sucks them down into the sewerage.
Artist: Ellis, Concept: Ward
Two remaining monks cling to each other in fear.
Artist: Ellis/Traditional, Concept: Ward, Photoshop: Cooper
Now terrified, the Monks seek answers to their woes amongst their ancient books.
Artist: Traditional
Library Shaft
The library is in a wooden shaft, almost like a chimney. The books can be perused from a timber boson’s chair that goes up and down on a pulley system.
Artist: Ellis, Photoshop: Mosqueda, Concept: Ward
Far below, at the base of this library shaft, John searches for the book he remembers echoing something of what Ripley is warning them against …
Artist: Traditional
Meanwhile the alien scales the impossibly high bookshelves with terrifying stealth.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
Desperate monks try to unclasp themselves from their chairs…
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
…they grab at the books for something to hold fast to, yet the books break free like shingles and plummet down the shaft with the monks free falling.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
As a last act of purpose, one terrified monk grasps at a brass bound tome. Plunging to the ground, he holds it to his chest like a shield.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
Alarmed, John looks up to see the monks and books raining down on him.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
The ill-fated monk clasping the brass bound tome crashes to his death next to where John is cowering.
With his last breath the tome unfolds from his limp and broken body.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
John edges towards his dead brother. Solemnly he mutters a brief prayer and draws down the lids on the monks still anguished stare.
He gathers up the fallen tome, and is astonished to see it is the very one he has so fervently been searching for.
Artist: Ritchie, Concept: Ward
John now hastens to find Ripley in her cell…
Artist: Ellis, Photoshop: Mortimer, Concept: Ward
He shows her the ancient accounts he has come across from millenniums ago engravings which show the Alien descending upon the people of earth.
They are gruesome images depicting a beast tearing men apart and feeding on their flesh.
Artist: Ellis, Photoshop: Cooper Concept: Ward
Ripley is flooded with a hopelessness which resounds from the walls of her prison. She has brought this beast amongst them and now she can only watch as it unleashes its terror.
Artist: Ellis, Photoshop: Mortimer, Concept: Ward