The Good of the Company storyline (2021)

This page summarizes the **storyline** of *The Good of the Company (2021).*

## Chapter 1: *Training Course*

Logistics Chief Karl Dyson takes a security training course before coming in to work. He practices agility exercises, proper handling of a crowbar, G18, and S4, and is reminded of which objects around the DefCorp Complex are breakable and which are not.

## Chapter 2: *Commute*

Just another day at the office. Karl starts walking to his headquarters, the Logistics Division, taking a route through Floor 47. Along the way he witnesses many laborers constructing equipment for DefCorp.

## Chapter 3: *Arrival*

Karl is prevented from going any further after learning that his ID badge is no longer functioning. He acquires a new one and enters the Logistics Division. Many laborers attached to the division have been replaced with security guards, even in roles normally reserved exclusively for the laborer workforce.

Security Chief Andre Golgi is here, holding a meeting to inform the Logistics staff about numerous changes to the DefCorp Complex's policies, including the militarization of the workforce. He also tells Karl that he will be responsible for supplying even greater quantities of supplies to DefCorp's forces worldwide. These new responsibilities will push the shorthanded Logistics Division to the extent of its capabilities. Before Golgi can finish outlining Karl's new tasks, however, loud noises originating from the Logistics Division's Office Wing fill the air. Karl goes to investigate them.

## Chapter 4: *Emergence*

The Office Wing is utterly silent. Its lights have shorted out. Karl creeps through the halls until arriving at his office. Upon leaving, a section of the wall explodes and out pours a wave of Corrupted. The lights and alarms turn on. He is forced to flee back to the Logistics Division headquarters, horrified and confused by the attack of these creatures, many of whom appear to be former colleagues of his.

## Chapter 5: *Incursion*

The Logistics Division is a picture of absolute desolation. Numerous security guards lie dead or dying, but most people including Golgi have fled the area. Karl makes his way through the Division's Strategy Room and begins retracing the steps he took in *Commute*. Along the way, he encounters larger groups of Corrupted including G18-wielding Corrupted guards.

## Chapter 6: *Arrowhead*

Karl meets up with a friendly security guard and fights his way through sections of the Complex adjoining the Logistics Division. Eventually he runs across a team of besieged ERF soldiers who struggle desperately to hold back the Corrupted attack. They ask him to save them by closing a security door that will stop the assault.

## Chapter 7: *Breakage*

The Logistics Chief returns to the besieged group of ERF soldiers, having stopped the tide of Corrupted by closing the security door on them. Captain Tanner, the commanding officer of the group, asks if Karl has seen someone with a white lab coat and glasses. Soon after, the floor collapses under the ERF team, killing them. Karl climbs some ladders up to the Secondary Research Labs.

## Chapter 8: *Research*

In the Secondary Research Labs, Karl discovers that he has only one path forward: through the emergency escape tunnels near Dr. Kensington's office. However, to open the door to the tunnels, he needs three keycards. He finds one in the lobby of the Labs and one in a nearby storeroom protected by a turret.

He observes that certain DefCorp personnel in the SRL were aware of the existence of Corrupted prior to the disaster, some even studying them in Kensington's Containment Zone. The final keycard is guarded by a Corrupted Beast named Lucy who demonstrates extreme aggression towards Karl. After defeating Lucy and grabbing the key, Karl unlocks the emergency escape tunnels and leaves.

## Chapter 9: *Engagement*

In the emergency escape tunnels, Karl fights his way through a group of Corrupted ERF soldiers before finding Nick, a laborer who managed to survive the initial invasion. He describes the carnage wrought in the emergency escape tunnels when the Corrupted burst in, as well as the valiant last stand of the ERF soldiers who bought time for some laborers to flee to the DefCorp Transport System.

Karl travels to a freight elevator at the end of the emergency escape tunnels just as a new wave of Corrupted begin their attack. If Nick has been taken as a companion, he reveals that he has been Corrupted and will soon die, but offers to hold off the invaders for as long as he can. Karl activates the two main components of the elevator and flees.

## Chapter 10: *Personnel*

The elevator door opens and Karl comes face-to-face with Andre Golgi, whose group of guards has taken over the Test Labs of the DefCorp Complex. Golgi orders them to execute Karl and flees. The two Chiefs wage a protracted battle through the Test Labs, but Karl eventually catches up to Golgi.

## Chapter 11: *Proposition*

Golgi offers a temporary alliance to Karl, but the Logistics Chief refuses. In frustration, Golgi detonates bombs in the floor, causing Karl to fall hundreds of feet. However, before he impacts with the water below, Karl is teleported away.

## Chapter 12: *Origin*

Karl is teleported deep into the bowels of the DefCorp Complex. Corrupted ERF soldiers and Corrupted Beasts have completely infested the place. Eventually he makes his way to the Primary Research Labs (the Drum) and discovers The Specimen along with much vital information on Andre Golgi's motivations. Golgi and his cabal, the Association, discovered The Specimen and secretly studied it in the Drum, but it somehow overcame their security measures and initiated the Corrupted invasion.

## Chapter 13: *Entombment*

He learns more about the Association's plans for The Specimen: they planned to initiate a controlled outbreak of Corrupted as a cover to assassinate company officials who opposed their position in the corporate hierarchy. Vernon, who helped Golgi organize the Association's plans for this event, has disappeared.

Karl manages to reactivate (and overload) the security measures of the Drum, killing The Specimen.

## Chapter 14: *Desperation*

Karl makes his way slowly upward, following the DefCorp Transport System. He is stopped by Chief Howard, an Association member who became Corrupted. In the ensuing battle, Karl is able to defeat Howard and takes a freight elevator all the way to Floor 1 of the DefCorp Complex.

## Chapter 15: *Contingency*

Karl encounters Government soldiers who have been deployed to contain the DefCorp Event. He fights his way through traps, entrenched military positions, and groups of Corrupted before finally making his way to the surface.

## Chapter 16: *Mobilization*

Karl emerges at the surface of the DefCorp Campus, fighting his way through Government forces and Corrupted. The situation aboveground is almost as chaotic as it is below - open warfare has broken out between various competing factions and DefCorp personnel are caught in the crossfire. Karl manages to battle his way to the Reserve Silos.

## Chapter 17: *Determination*

Meeting up with Attonall's Safe Zone (a community of friendly DefCorp survivors under the leadership of Walter Attonall) in the Reserve Silos, Karl is given valuable information and a new mission. Noble Hart, the entity behind this attack, has opened up a huge portal in the Reserve Silos which can transport a human directly to its home: the Old Domain. Karl is dispatched to kill Hart with "heavy weapons" allegedly located in the Old Domain.

## Chapter 18: *Conspiracy*

Karl makes his way deeper into the Reserve Silos, fighting off Corrupted at every turn and observing a large stockpile of nuclear weapons in the facility. He also learns that the Association under Andre Golgi plans to detonate a nuclear device at the DefCorp Complex, covering up all evidence of their misdeeds under the guise of eradicating the Corrupted threat.

## Chapter 19: *Security*

Karl arrives at the site of the portal, but finds it has been occupied by Association forces. Andre Golgi himself has just activated a nuclear bomb. An epic battle breaks out between the two chiefs, with Karl eventually emerging victorious. He disables the device and jumps into the portal, instantly being transported to the Old Domain.

## Chapter 20: *Transgression*

A moment later, Karl wakes up in another dimension. This realm is home to a derelict research site, built around Noble Hart, that has long since been destroyed. He makes his way through the research site, fending off aggressive Corrupted defenders as he makes his way ever closer to Hart.

## Chapter 21: *Noble Hart*

Karl confronts Noble Hart, an amorphous entity of huge size that is evidently responsible for the DefCorp Event. He defeats large numbers of Corrupted and slays Technical Sergeant Roscoe, a heavily Corrupted ERF officer. He finally makes his way to the command center of the derelict research site. Here, he faces Noble Hart's desperate last-ditch defense measure: the Avatars of Hart. Karl dispatches them and detonates a nuclear bomb on Noble Hart as the campaign ends.

## Chapter 22: *Secret Room*

This is a quasi-chapter that contains credits and news about the GOTC series. It is not posted to the Steam workshop so you have to access it through the campaign.