Chapter 4

Begin of this chapter, the mysterious settlement, the Escales.

**Chapter 4** begins in Escales and the players take on the role of Adrian. The players follow now Adrian's journey through his Core Memories to uncover the truth of what happened in Outbound and his connection with the Protagonist.

This all can turn out a bit confusing, because of Adrian's severe memory breaks, which suddenly can make him jump from one location to the other.

## Places

Players revisit all locations during Adrian's wild flight from the Protagonist. He then is often accompanied by another ghost called Levi.

### Escales

Levi takes Adrian to the old settlement of the Varangians. They built a cult around Ascension and used figments in psychological warfare. Levi can convince Adrian to face his demons and to confront the Protagonist. This gets closer to Adrian, when a vision takes him into a realm of his mind, where he encounters his figments.
Levi knows more about the settlement and the cult and can help Adrian to return to Central Outbound with his knowledge about a secret tunnel.

### Outbound Station

Adrian appears here alone after he left the Escales. Here, he also runs into the stranger and Linda. Another memory break happens, Adrian loses a Core Memory and awakes in The Toterwald.

### The Toterwald

Adrian is with Levi. Levi asks him about the last core memory that he can remember. Adrian knows Shirley and the Stranger survived the fall into the swamp and he met them north of Central Outbound.
They walk on and reach the Toterwald Graveyard, where one can meet Sendalp again. Players can read the names of all the backers of the game there, before moving on.

### Deep Toterwald

Adrian and Levi visit the eerie forest to use it's paths to reach Escales. They eventually come to the Flower Field and Adrian has another memory break after they entered Escales.

### Drylands

On the path to the Drylands, Adrian remembers how he met Shirley and the Stranger at the Station, but he doesn't remember meeting them near Ravenside. Levi meanwhile has prepared a boat from Roald ready to take them to Central Outbound. They are suprised by the Stranger, but can escape. Adrian has another memory break when they reach the docks.

### Ravenside

Levi promises to talk to Roald to help Adrian. After Levi mentiones the figments to Roald, and he agrees to help and shows them a secret tunnel. He also agrees to give them his boat docked in the Drylands. Shortly after, Adrian has another memory break.

### Rocky Pass

They are now with Bryan, who helped Levi and Adrian. Adrian developed a new core memory, and remembers how they were about to go to Central Outbound so he can create a new core memory. Bryan leaves again for Rundoyer. On their way to Central Outbound, they meet the Stranger, Shirley and Lori, who want to talk to Adrian, but Levi stops them, while he sends Adrian away.

### Snowy Pass

> I can't be near ???, it triggers some kind of brain paralysis in me.
>
> Adrian, Snow Peak, Chapter 4.

Adrian reaches Snowy Pass. Levi meets him shortly afterwards and both go to Snowy Peak. Levi wants to find out about Adrian's Burden, but he can't remember that, and even doesn't know about what happend before his death. However, he knows the Serial Killer was active on a Friday, but Adrian hasn't any memories of the Saturday before that. He hopes to collect more core memories. Levi doesn't want to talk about his burden. Levi finds out about the figments, that can also be used by the Stranger, and suggests to keep Adrian away from him, because of the pain he causes.
They also meet Bill, who will follow them now. Bill also gives the Shield to Adrian, so he can reach the areas blocked by Obelisks. One then must move on through the cave tunnel and in direction of Ravenside.

### Ravenside Path

Levi, Adrian an Bill are surpised by the Stranger, Lori and Shirley. Adrian and Levi use the chaos to flee again. They move on to Ravenside, but Adrian has another memory break.

### Rundoyer Outskirts

Adrian awakens again in the Western Outskirts of Rundoyer. Geralt, a friend of the family, has helped him with his boat. Adrian sends Geralt back to Central Outbound.

### Rundoyer

Adrian runs into Levi, who is talking to figment Jealousy. Levi introduces himself as a figment researcher. He suggest to go to Central Outbound with Bryan, who can be met at the docks. He takes them to Outbound Trail, where Adrian has another memory break.

### Outbound Trail

Suddenly he is at the entrance of the Trail alone and remembers how he kicked the Stranger and Shirley from the cliff. He now wants to reach Rundoyer, a place that seems far enough from the pursuers. To go there, he must go to Central Outbound and then find Geralt in Toterwald. Adrian can finally meet Gobble on his way and take her gift, which are 3x Aspect Gems. Adrian reaches Geralt, who takes him to Rundoyer with his boat. While they talk, Adrian has another memory break, and suddenly is back on Outbound Trail and relives the events of pushing down Shiley and the Stranger. He flees from Frank, Michael and Mary. On the trail, he has another memory break.

### Southern Outskirts

The events pick up shortly after Adrian ran away from his house, after his initial meeting with the Stranger. He then runs to the Outbound Trail, but the gate is closed. Michael will help him to get across the gate and Adrian must relive the moment once more, where he pushed Shirley and the Stranger down to the Soggy Swamp. His memory breaks again.

### Strand Beach

Adrian returns to his house to finally face the stranger and to clean up his memory. There is an interactive book in Adrian's house that starts the final battle.

## Figments

* Players can unlock the figments:

* Detachment
* Mockery
* Anger
* Loyalty