Unfinished Business

**Unfinished Business** is the first and tutorial level of Oddworld 3 Stories.

## Opening Cinematic

The game begins in Nolybab where a Chronicler was sitting at desk when he received a call from an unknown caller detailing that Molluck has gone in hiding in which the Chronicler told him that he wants Molluck's head on his wall before the year ends as he had a lot of stocks invested in RuptureFarms and Soulstorm, and now they were utterly worthless and he'd be ruined if hadn't invested in Vykker's Labs. He held tightly onto his briefcase that had a paw print on it. He was determined not to lose the Hand of Odd which has brought him good fortune in the past. The caller told him that he can be assured that he won't lose anymore stocks in which the Chronicler told him that he had better not and asked for him to be put in touch with the Deep South.

The camera zooms out of pot filled with rippling water as a chant circle was under it with four Mudokons chanting into the pot while a Shaman spoke to Abe and thanked him for coming to Grizgrin Forest as he told him that the Hand of Odd was stolen from the old Mudoncho Sanctum some time ago and has many tales about it such as granting good fortune to those that possess it and the possibility of bringing back long extinct creatures as the Shaman told Abe the gluttonous hunting of the Glukkon were causing extinctions on a massive scale and if they don't find away to stop them than soon Mudos's ecosystem will be out of balance. Abe asked why the Chronicler was getting misfortune in which the Shaman told him that he believed that the Hand of Odd possibly starts having the opposite effect upon overuse. The Shaman asks for Abe to recover the Hand in which he hesitantly agrees in which the Shaman tells him that he first has some unfinished business and tells him to shut down Bonewerkz and free the 90 enslaved Mudokons as he opened a portal directly to Bonewerkz. Abe nodded before grabbing a backpack that the Shaman told him that he blessed his backpack to increase its carry capacity. Abe asks what about Nolybab in which the Shaman told him that going to Nolybab was a fool's gambit as it would ridiculous with the number has at the moment before he jumped through the bird portal.

## Gameplay

### Pre-Annex 1

* Mudokon Total: 5

Abe emerged on a platform above a closed kennel with Sloggies in it as have a short tutorial along on how to move and search bins and lockers as well as other searchables. Due to the Chant Suppressor, Abe can't use his chant powers but the player was tutored in that he can now possess Slogs, Scrabs, Glukkons, and Paramites. After getting some water bottles, empty bottles, and wire from the nearby locker and trash. Abe can grab a bone from the nearby bonesack to distract them to use the lever to after interacting with the story stone and heading down to the next level where well was while Slig snipers were patrolling in the backgrounds requiring the player to hide in smoke to avoid getting shot.

The well leads to the first secret which was the section the sniper slugs were patrolling on acquire the first royal jelly and first checkpoint as well as dispatch the snipers before returning as he returned and went through the door way to an area with Slogs patrolling in the background and foreground with landmines between each section for Abe to jump over while avoiding being shot by hiding between the crates.

Upon reaching the lift; two doors will be present with one closed and leading to the second secret and other door leading to the power for the lift and closed door. Upon reaching the power room; there'll be five Mudokons working the switches as a story stone will give tutorial for angry, depressed, wired, hungry, sick, and blind Mudokons in which he was required to approach them and press the action button to give sympathies to the angry Mudokon to calm them down. Also a single slig and a chant suppressor will be in the area required the use of the smoke generators to get the Mudokons to safety and use the nearby bird portal to free them before gaining a Surge Ring. After using the surge ring he was able to blind the slig, and disable the chant suppressor as well as opening the latch to the switch that will divert power to the lift and door to the second secret area. Abe can alternatively possess the slig and destroy him to go through the area without the slig present before the slig regains his vision and the chant suppressor orb regains power.

After activating the power and returning to the previous floor, Abe can go through the other door which lead to Secret Area #2 which consists of three Mudokons and a royal jelly along with surge ring bird portal allowing him to get another Surge Ring that they can use lately. After returning, the player can take the lift down to the next floor. The lift stops half way from the ground forcing Abe to jump down to the above level in which awakens the Slogs and Sloggies in which he'll have to possess them in order to lead them to corner where can lock them behind a door and get two two blind Mudokons to a bird portal before climbing upwards to pull a lever to activate a well that will lead them directly to Annex 1.

### Annex 1

* Mudokon Total: 8
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

Abe reaches an area with falling crates for the player to dodge as they move to the right side of the screen before climbing down to the lower levels where Abe will have to leap over some landmines before reaching an area with chant suppressor and sleeping sligs before pulling a lever to call the lift and take it down avoiding getting shot as he reached a section where a mudokon was waving the floors before using electric barrier to kill the sligs before rolling over to the secret area #3 where there was five mudokons. After freeing them using the bird portal; he returns to the previous slide where he gets to secret area #4 using a set of teleporters in area that have sligs and chant suppressors with two depress mudokons in which after passing the sligs he was able to possess on of the sligs and used him to take out the other sligs after using his surge ring before Abe managed to use sympathy to cheer the depressed Mudokons and sending them through the bird portal before returning to the previous area after climbing upwards to get the next royal jelly.

He can choose to send the first Mudokon through portal before or after the clearing the secret areas before heading over to reach the next lift to head upwards to a door that leads to an area with sleeping slogs conduct a brief slog run before heading to area with motion detectors and landmines before getting to a mine car and rolling through several sligs destroying land mines and a chant suppressor along the way before finally reaching Annex 2.

### Annex 2

* Mudokon Total: 13
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

Upon reaching Annex 2 - he will be a sizable corridor where he has to get pass a number of Slig patrols and have a few slog runs before finally reaching the Mudokons in which a total of 13 where working the saws in which Abe can use interact with them to calm them down and than liberate them. He manages to reach Annex 3 after passing through motion detectors and leaping over minds before reaching a lift to go upwards.

### Annex 3

* Mudokon Total: 4
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

Sligs were patrolling the background in which Abe can take control of one the sligs and use him to take some of the sligs patrolling in the background without being zapped by a chant suppressor before heading over to the levers to deactivate the electric barriers before reaching the four Mudokons working in which he was able to free them. before heading to Annex 4.

### Annex 4

* Mudokon Total: 20
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

In Annex 4 - Sligs were patrolling in the foreground and background forcing Abe to use smoke and stay low to avoid them before finally reaching the end of the section to activate the barriers to allow him to move out getting shot as he returned to the first slide where he managed to get the first five Mudokons off the levers before heading left once again getting the next five before eventualy getting all twenty and taking them to the bird portal all the while the sligs were wasting their bullets on the bulletproof barriers before finally reaching Annex 5.

### Annex 5

* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

Abe starts out heads for the first door before arriving in the foreground in which the camera shifts over with the original platform now in the background as he hops over some landmines with a few chant suppressors and single flying slig before heading to door which lead to Annex 6.

### Annex 6

* Mudokon Total: 10
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

He proceed to climb upwards and head right in which he arrived to an area with sleeping slogs and sloggies behind a pressure-plate door in which he stands on the plate before racing away to leading them into falling down where Abe entered in which went to the left side this time or before where ten Mudokons were slaving away in which Abe freed them before heading through the door that the slogs were guarding and exiting Annex 6 via a well.

### Annex 7

* Mudokon Total: 11
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Water Bottles, & Wires

He enters an area with falling blocks and levers to turn off the electrical barriers in which eh was able to deactivate the barriers with precision timing he comes across the first Mudokon waxing the floors before getting him to follow him as he turns a wheel switch to lower door before going left the next two mudokons and getting them to follow him while avoiding falling crates before heading down to the lift he called after pressing lever switch where he continued to go downwards to eventually a well that leads him to secret area #5 which has a single Mudokon working a lift that had slow moving saws a single Slig to kill with a fast moving saw via a lever before moving the mudokon out of the way and climbing up to grab the royal jelly and access to the bird portal to free mudokon before returning to pull the lever to access another lever to a lift to reach four more mudokons before heading back up to get the other Mudokons and finally send the seven throw the Surge Ring Bird Portal to use the ring to temporarily deactivate the UBXs blocking the way forward in which he continues right a free three more Mudokon before leaving Annex 7.

### Bonewerkz Boilers

* Mudokon Total: 19
* Loot: Empty Bottles, Moolah, & Spare Parts

Having possessed the Annexes and finally reach the path to the boilers he proceed through a few doors collecting the recyclables, moolah, and spare parts arrived in open area where over radio Director Phleg was demanding why work production was decreasing if the play was able to liberate 71 mudokons at this point while Abe climbed up and used use Moolah-lock to open a door to first set boilers where Abe interacts with the Mudokons working the work wheels and liberated the five of them causing the boilers to shut down before heading to next set out of boilers where he passed a few land mines and lead several Slogs into their death via saw before getting to the next four mudokons where he had to direct them to leap over the landmines like he does to get them to bird portal and free them where he sent them free via bird portal.

He made his way to the next boiler in which he possessed a pair of slogs and sent them to their deaths where he was able to manages to liberate five more mudokon that were operating boilers three and four respectively. He reaches the fifth final boiler in which four and liberated them before fleeing from some slogs chased him to a well where he sent flying towards the upper floor awaking another pack of slogs as the alarm was blaring as ran for his life towards the executive office.

### Executive Officer

He arrived in the Executive's Office where he ran from some slogs while avoiding sligs in the background and foreground as well as using shadows and steam vents to his advantage before reaching another well leading to an area where he was reqired to possess a Glukkon to reach where he forces Glukkon to command to Slig to kill some Slogs before reaching the gas chamber and ordering the slig to free four blind Mudokons before having the the gas chamber resealed and than use the security fone to disengage main gates.

Suddenly, the Glukkon was shot by the slig he was commanding as the gas was about be released as Abe made his way down to the blind sligs in which he used was able to toss the blind Mudokons into the well before jumping in it himself.

## Closing Cinematic

Abe was leading the blind mudokon towards a bird portal in which the boilers were about to explode just as the bird portal opened with Abe and the blind Mudokons jumped through the portal in which Bonewerkz exploded destroying the factory and finally putting a permanent end to Soulstorm for good.

Abe arrived back in the Grizgrin Village with the blind Mudokons and freed Mudokons from the Bonewerks. If the play rescued all 90 - they will be overly joyous to see him while saving less than 90 will result in them asking where the others are and saving non of them while having Shaman disappointed in Abe in which he apologized for in which the Shaman refused to work with a send him to start of the level again.

If they player was sent back to start of the level; Abe and the Shaman discussed getting Abe to the location of the Hand of Odd which the Shaman told him that the closest he can get Abe was to send him to Mudorow which was an old Mudokon village which was now in ruins due to Filson transforming the nearby lands and sanctuary into a fracking site to drill for gas to rise from Pud to Glockstar in which Abe nodded as he went through a portal into the South.