Lady In Red

You're on the beach, watching the boulder that's blocking the geyser. Shona has left V-Types guarding it, while she, the skincoats and more V-Types advance on the town. If they reach it, there's no way anyone will survive. The whole cliffside and most of Mor Island is now bursting with red fungus. Jody, Paula, Morag and you are going to make a run for Callum's old drilling equipment on the beach, as it might help to shift the rock.

While you run, Frances and Sam tell you that Shona's giving a speech, ignoring the townspeople. Everyone in the crowd drinks a huge amount of accelerant, and fungus rips through them. Frances says that there is fungus everywhere now, and there are fruiting bodies that will release its spores. Since you're all already infected, the spores would turn you into zombies fast. Paula and Morag are left to hotwire the drilling equipment, while you and Jody go to distract the V-Types away from the boulder.

You and Jody manage to draw the V-Types away, and Paula and Morag ram the boulder with the tractor. But nothing happens, and the storm is now too far past the geyser to suck any silver into it. With spores in the air, your only chance now is to make it to the blowhole inside the museum before the storm passes. Amelia is on comms, and she says she has explosives you can use if you meet her in the ruins of Gaisgeach.

You meet Janine and Amelia in the ruins, and the marines hand over the explosives. But the town is now a forest of fungus, with Shona half-submerged in a mountain of it. Amelia tells you she has some of the chemicals you used on the ice bridge. Amelia's body is now sprouting with fungus, and she says she can't move much further. Despite her sickness, Janine is going with Jody to rendezvous with Paula and Morag, and help evacuate townspeople. Sam is closest to the chemical storehouse, so you run to meet him there.

Sam gives you the chemicals in the storehouse, but Rory enters. He says he's hurt, and Sam checks him for wounds only to find he is actually covered in fungus. Rory says Shona is telling him what to do, and he pours accelerant down Sam's throat. Sam gives you the freezing chemical to take to Janine, and says to run before he turns!

You meet Janine and Jody, but Shona is now outside the museum. Morag is charging into town with the now-fixed tractor, with Paula on the back pouring petrol over everything. The fungus pulls Shona aside before they can crash into her, but Paula lights the petrol on fire before any V-Types can reach the two of them. That's the distraction you need: Janine is going to run ahead into the museum and lay down a path of ice, while you and Jody follow with explosives.

Shona tells you that she is the Red God's favourite, and the silver she's consumed means she can delay turning so she can control everyone. Her puppets are no good with weapons, but have teeth a-plenty. You'll be overtaken soon, so Jody stays behind to slow them down with arrows. You're alone now to run the ice path and get the explosives to the museum.

Just as you make it into the museum's forecourt, the Chief tackles you, with Shona's voice in his mouth. Luckily, Janine gets there in the nick of time to cave his head in with a mace. But there's not much time left, as the storm is passing. You make an heroic throw in the nick of time, landing the explosives perfectly on top of the sealed blowhole. But now you must run quickly before it explodes, and before the V-Types get you.

The explosion is enough, and the geyser is unleashed. But not before Janine collapses. Luckily, the silver rain begins, and the fungus starts to wither. Janine, covered in silver rain, starts breathing again: the silver is helping her nanites reproduce. Frances tells you she sees Shona fleeing, so you and Jody make a run for the cliffs.

You reach Shona on the cliff's edge, and Jody trains an arrow on her back. Shona is distraught, as she was going to be powerful, and the Red God promised she would see her mum again. But when Jody refuses to kill her, Shona instead throws herself off the cliff, dying on the rocks below. Sam is back on comms, having recovered, and says he thinks he knows where the Edda is. Amelia seems to think so too, and you need to run to catch up to her and her marines.

Everyone is gathered in the cave near the ruins of Gaisgeach, and you have the Edda now. After some reminiscing, and ensuring Janine is okay, Amelia breaks into the sentimentality to say she's glad they have the Edda to cure the mainland of V-Types. But then, as she reads, she says that she has some familiarity with Old Norse now, and realises there may be a problem...