All Flesh is Grass

**All Flesh is Grass** is a main quest in INSOMNIA: The Ark. It is obtained after completing The Day of Ash.

## Quest Giver

A shadow on the top floor of the House by the Sea.

## Quest Targets

* Consult Dr. Redden
* Go to the border of zone H-27/55
* Get through the tunnel
* Find out about citizen JS0515
* Speak with Thel at the House by the Sea

## Typical Journal entry

The somnic silhouette that turned out to be [Thel's] father has asked me to visit the municipal hospital at the address JS0515/27/55. There I will need to find a medical card with the number JS0515. I think I need to consult Doctor Redden—he can tell me what all of this could mean.

Doctor Redden thinks that my somnic vision may be the key to solving this conundrum with the Sample. The hospital address reminds of zone coordinates; on the station map there is actually a zone H-27/55 but it's located in the unexplored sector H. It looks like I have to go to zone H-27/55 to try to solve this strange riddle.

The way to zone H-27/55 is through a flooded tunnel. I need to think of a way to get around this obstacle. I hope the drain systems still work.

I managed to drain the tunnel. Unexplored zone H-27/55 is ahead. Chances aren't great that I'll be able to find anything. I can't believe I have to go blindly and rely only on luck. The only thing that reassures me that this is the right path is that I can't shake off the feeling that something real bad is going to happen.
I need to find traces of citizen JS0515's presence and get out of here.

The laboratory in zone H-27/55 that was abandoned three hundred years ago continues to live its life; even the bodies of the dead scientists haven't been touched by time. I was lucky; upon inspecting one of the bodies, I found a level 8 access card. Surprisingly, the old terminal still works. I was able to gain access to the archive of Laboratory 6 and find information about number JS0515. Urb citizen Ange Sorin did equipment repair in the medical centre. The reason for her death was Anara's psychosis, commonly known as somnia. I need to speak with [Thel] and tell her the real story.

## Quest Hints

The only autosave during this rather long mission is made right at the start, so you'd be well-advised to make additional saves in case you get killed.

If you go straight ahead from the entrance to zone H-27/55, you will find the Drainage System Key. When you go into the lit area, there's a door on the right; go through this, and the terminal for the drainage system is straight ahead. If you don't have the key, you will need to use the Computers skill.

Once you've gone through the formerly flooded tunnel and down a ladder, use any melee weapon to break the container blocking the middle drain to dry the area. Go through the door with the green light. To turn on the lights and power in the control room, go through the door labelled "Exit", take down a few Orruns, and fix the generator there; then retrace your steps. Leave the control room, then climb the ladder to your right. You will see two stationary vehicles; go to each and hack the "brakes release" system. Watch out for locusts!

Now return to the control room. One of the staircases on the way has damaged steps, which you may get stuck on. Hack the terminal on the main console; you don't need components or the Computer skill to do this. Go back up the ladder and watch the vehicles now running through the tunnel. You have to move through the tunnel **in the same direction as the vehicles.** If you get hit by one of them, you will die instantly; but avoiding them isn't hard.

You will eventually reach a staircase with a security bot; go down the ladder here, through the door with a blue light and left into a control room, where you have to fix another generator; you don't need the Maintenance skill or components to do this. Leave and head through something like a plant room to another door with a light. Go through this, and then through doors like those in the medical section of the Vulture's Nest. This is an enjoyably bizarre location. Follow the only path until you find someone to talk to. Then continue until you are able to talk to Gway through a transparent wall.

Go through the door on Gway's left. Examine a corpse, then use the card you find on the "Main Terminal" in the room. Take the door to the right of this to leave. Follow the only path, eventually up some staircases, until you find a terminal you can hack to open a door. Follow the only path, and finally turn right, back to the entrance point.

The game doesn't explicitly spell out that you need to go to the House by the Sea and talk to Thel, who will be on the top floor, to complete the quest. The safe on this floor contains a piece of Sea Glass; you need the Scammer 1 skill to open it, but no components.