A Twisted Trail

## Story

### P1: Archive of the Historical Institute

After having his hallucinations, Daniel travels to the university where Husher worked, the State University of Arts and Humanities, as a professor. He gets a phone call from René Artigas who requests to help him search the university for clues about Husher's disappearance. Along the way towards Husher's office, Daniel runs into Grace Richards, a student at the college who Husher taught, and Omar Nassiri, another professor at the university and a close friend of both Husher and Grace. They decide to help him find Husher because they have been worried, and they know the ins-and-outs of the university.

Everyone regroups in Husher's office where they begin to search for clues. Soon after finding a clue, one heads to the archives to look for what Husher was detailing while the others stay and continue searching.

In the archives they find detailing of a real door that shows in the projector, and when going behind it they find Maxwell's body, the one who recorded the tape about the door, and cut off one of his arms, and potentially wedding ring. After using the arm to hold down the lever, they head into the archives and find a book about the LeGrant family, namely "European Families Great and Small. Volume XVII: The House of LeGrant." After that, they head back to the office to discuss their findings to the rest of the group.

While searching through the biography, Daniel finds a clue to what Husher was doing, it is "see Newspaper events archive." After once again, one heads to the newspaper archive while the rest stay and search.

### P2: Newspaper archive of the Historical Institute

While exploring the area, in a bathroom they meet Maxwell, the janitor, who after getting batteries from them gives them his keys to unlock most of the doors. And if they retrieved his wedding ring earlier in the episode, they receive Maxwell's lucky coin. As they go to walk out the stall door suddenly opens, and when you go back to check, Maxwell isn't there.

While searching they discover that as per usual, everyone has disappeared randomly. The area is desolate. In order to get into the microfiche drawers to find out what Husher was looking for, they paint over the sensor so they can access the receptionist's office, where they find the microfiche drawers' key. And after searching in one of the offices, they locate the date they need to be looking for in the microfiche, and go to retrieve it.

After retrieving the correct microfiche, they access one of the offices to find the correct newspaper article and print it. After finding the correct article and printing it, they find what Husher was looking for, an article detailing how the LeGrant family suffered a "violent robbery" which left only the youngest, baby Ariadne LeGrant, alive.

After exiting whichever office they used, they are attacked by the presence and are forced towards the blocked emergency exit door. Depending on whether or not you got the bolt cutters or you have René's service weapon, they can die here.

As they regroup in Husher's office and share their findings, they learn that Husher was scolded for using a table in the Great Library for his typewriter and leaving other things and documents there and decide to head to the Great Library as it's their last lead.

### P3(Final Part): The Great Library

As soon as they arrive, they find out that the presence is inhabiting the library and they must use their wit and the camera system to navigate safely through the library and make it out alive. Since the presence is blocking the way through the bottom floor from the entrance, they head up a ladder to find their way through the library.

After successfully finding their way through the Great Library, they find the table Husher had used and the source of his fixation. A book, "Natura Tenebrosa" (Sinister Nature), written by Edgar O'dell and William Lasge, that tells all of the investigations carried out by Argos LeGrant and his companions. This is where they find out Husher whereabouts.

St. Cecilia's Abbey, St. Cecilia being the patron saint of music, the cursed concert that no one escaped from alive, where Husher has now blindly followed to. Alone. Daniel makes the decision to follow Husher to the abbey, and try to end the curse once and for all.

### Interlude: St. Cecilia's Abbey

Husher tries to explore the Abbey, but ends up trapped after getting chased into a room by the presence, but not before he finds a method to tell how much longer a cursed one has got before their death from the abbey's monks.

Husher travels down the hallway before entering a room where he can test out the method. Husher turns the light on and off a few times trying to get the theoretical method of discovery to work, before the episode ends with Husher alone in the dark.

## New Gameplay Additions

* Switching characters mid-episode
* Differing locations throughout the episode
* The Abyss
* State University of Arts and Humanities

## Playable Characters

### Introduced:

* Grace Richards
* Omar Nassiri
* Sebastian P. Husher (**Only playable in the interlude)**

### Returning:

* Daniel Noyer
* René Artigas (if René found Isaac)

## Trivia

* Each episode is based on an old-school horror game or horror game series. This episode was based on *Obscure.*
* The mid-episode character swap feature was both introduced in episode three and only utilized in episode three.