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Curious Details #4: Strangerville Story Tidbits
Strangerville's story is pretty simple: "Redacted is acting up and causing Redacted, so now Redacted needs to be stopped." If you've already played through the quest, the blanks are pretty easy to fill in.
SPOILERS AHEAD (though it's hard to really call them "spoilers" (in my opinion), as they don't really spell out the root of the mystery in bright, neon lettering).
Here's the thing- Aside from all of the story bits told to you through "Talk about Strangerville", "Share Conspiracy Theories", visual storytelling, and getting info from the Curio shop, scientists, and military personnel, there are two other places overlooked if playing it straight:
The household bios.
The Strangerville Archives.
The Bios
Within the bios for Cahill and Roswell, there are some minor interesting tidbits, and the bio for Sigworth may not have much to tell, but if just starting the quest (and the obvious lab in the distance doesn't smack you in the face), it and the Roswell bio pretty much point the compass there.
Cahill:
https://i.imgur.com/dUOCjhf.png
Roswell:
https://i.imgur.com/Th7DZZP.png
Sigworth:
https://i.imgur.com/TXNSvjo.png
The Archives
"But I already visited the Archives and got a piece of evidence". If that's what you're thinking, and not "I kept reading the Archives' info over and over and got 7 pieces of info", then have I got news for you! Turns out that other than the usual "evidence", there are excerpts one can glean - in the notifications - that give some more backstory to it all:
With all of this terrifying weirdness going on, I'm sure glad we now have satellite-uplink plumbing to clear out the "panicked poop".
https://i.imgur.com/pHxM1gX.png
Strangerville's story is pretty simple: "Redacted is acting up and causing Redacted, so now Redacted needs to be stopped." If you've already played through the quest, the blanks are pretty easy to fill in.
SPOILERS AHEAD (though it's hard to really call them "spoilers" (in my opinion), as they don't really spell out the root of the mystery in bright, neon lettering).
Here's the thing- Aside from all of the story bits told to you through "Talk about Strangerville", "Share Conspiracy Theories", visual storytelling, and getting info from the Curio shop, scientists, and military personnel, there are two other places overlooked if playing it straight:
The Bios
Within the bios for Cahill and Roswell, there are some minor interesting tidbits, and the bio for Sigworth may not have much to tell, but if just starting the quest (and the obvious lab in the distance doesn't smack you in the face), it and the Roswell bio pretty much point the compass there.
Cahill:
https://i.imgur.com/dUOCjhf.png
Roswell:
https://i.imgur.com/Th7DZZP.png
Sigworth:
https://i.imgur.com/TXNSvjo.png
The Archives
"But I already visited the Archives and got a piece of evidence". If that's what you're thinking, and not "I kept reading the Archives' info over and over and got 7 pieces of info", then have I got news for you! Turns out that other than the usual "evidence", there are excerpts one can glean - in the notifications - that give some more backstory to it all:
With all of this terrifying weirdness going on, I'm sure glad we now have satellite-uplink plumbing to clear out the "panicked poop".
https://i.imgur.com/pHxM1gX.png
