The Price Of Flesh
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Submitted by: David K.
Mason Ending Guide:
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Written by VocaBlank
Includes steps on how to reach every ending for Mason, as well as some
general tips for his route.
-=General Tips=-
Mason’s route is pretty rough at first until you get a handle on how to avoid
the worst hazards. His route is focused a lot on temperature management as
well as controlling your location in relation to a hunter that constantly moves.
Things to keep in mind are:
* Mason will always catch you if you stick around at the beginning, which makes
sense since he just started chasing you. For some endings that’s a good thing.
* Nights are safe (at least from Mason). At night, Mason is in his cabin so you
can sleep and explore without being concerned with him.
* On the other hand, nights are cold. Try not to fall asleep without a fire
burning, because once you’re asleep there’s no taking a break to warm up.
* Hunger is kind of meaningless in Mason’s route. As far as I’m aware it’s
impossible to actually die from starvation in this route, and all it will do
is increase the amount of energy you use. Depending on the ending you’re going
for, ignoring food is fine (especially since you get a free full hunger replenish
from the start.)
* Sanity is less meaningless, but can’t get you a game over just for having 0 of it.
* The previous 2 points mean that your number 1 focus is temperature. Always have
a fire burning if you can, though be careful of burning it too long and attracting
attention…
* The second useful tip svltryclown has pointed out for me (thank you so much!)
that’s quite helpful is that you can use your pocket knife to make a tourniquet
that will staunch the bleeding and revert you from gravely wounded back to wounded
(as if you were only caught by Mason one time.)
* Last point (I know, there’s a lot, surviving Mason’s route is not easy) is that
Mason never stays in one place very long. That means it’s hard for him to corner
you, and you can typically wait him out unless you’re one turn away from death.
-=Unlocking The Cabin and Swamp=-
These show up in a lot of endings, and they’re not hard to unlock, so I’ll spell
it out directly here:
* The cabin is unlocked by climbing the large tree found in the deeper forest during
the day. It’s accessible from the clearing.
* The swamp is unlocked by mapping every location except the cabin, and can be
accessed from the woods.
* Additionally, you can’t light a fire in the swamp and it’s usually pretty cold
there. It’s not a good place to spend a long time at unless you’re trying to lose
sanity. It is entirely safe from Mason, though.
Mason will be in his cabin at night, so you can imagine what happens if you try to
go there at that time… (or stay too long while he’s away!)
-=Food=-
Whether you eat or not is irrelevant for a lot of the endings, but it does decrease
how much energy you use, and it’s important for a few endings. This is a list of
all the food and where to find it:
* Trail mix. You start with this, and it will fully restore your hunger.
Save it for when you really need it.
* Fish. You can catch fish at the stream by searching (near the rocks), and then
cook it with fire to make food that will also fully restore hunger. Also smells
delicious
* Red berries. These berries hurt your sanity, but they are important for an
ending (or any ending where you want lower sanity.) You can get them by searching
the forest.
* Blue berries. These restore your food a little bit, and you can grab them at the
same time as the red berries in the forest.
-=Endings=-
Some of Mason’s endings were pretty difficult to get, but those ones also felt very
rewarding. I encourage you to figure it out on your own, but it’s not fun being stuck
forever either of course:
You visited the cabin – Overstay your welcome at Mason’s cabin.
Your hunt is over – Get caught by Mason 3 times (A bit tricky to do without dying
first, but try to reload and go different locations if you go a while without seeing
him. This is much easier if you use your pocket knife to create a tourniquet after he
catches you for the second time. It will allow you to actually survive the night.)
Your flame is out – Get below 50 sanity and visit Mason’s cabin. Start a fire.
You lost your head – Reach 0 sanity. After that, go find Mason’s cabin and try to
sleep. As your character notes, you would have to be crazy to sleep there…
Your smoke gave you away – Leave your fire burning for too long.
The cold took you – Reach minimum temperature (a pretty easy ending to get if you
give up on warming yourself up.)
You were caught in his trap – Fail to search for and dismantle Mason’s bear trap
at the stream. I believe it’s time-gated, but I’m not sure by how long. Try going
there after a few days.
You were caught and cleaned – Fail to search for and dismantle Mason’s snare trap
in the deep forest (also time-gated I believe, so just come here after a day or
two.) Every choice from here results in your death, but one of them is…
special.
You smelled delicious – Try to sleep with too much food on you (I’m unsure which
food causes this, I had it happen with all possible food items in my inventory.)
You bled out – Reach 0 health (this is also ridiculously easy, especially if you
run into Mason and get hit with his crossbow early on.)
The water is still – Get your sanity really low and get red berries from the forest.
Head to the black swamp and eat the red berries there (my sanity was about 30 before
the berries when I got to the ending, but it’s a safe bet to get as close to 0 as
possible.)
You denied him the pleasure – Reach 0 sanity, then interact with your knife and
choose “end this.”
Now you are the hunter – Find and take Mason’s bear trap from the stream, then
make your way to his cabin and set the trap inside.
You changed – This ending takes forever to get, but as far as I can tell all you
have to do is survive for a very long time. Just run around building fires, resting
at them until you can’t anymore without dying, and switching locations to avoid
Mason. Ignore your hunger, you’re going to starve eventually anyway. I’m unsure if
you have to get the nightmare at least once in any run to get this ending, but you
don’t have to unlock the swamp or get the nightmare on this run for the ending.
You made a friend – This ending is… a hell of a ride, to say the least. It took a
lot of running around and dying for me. To start off, you’re going to want to keep
moving at first because Mason catching you early on is a death sentence.
Avoid building a fire when you can, you want low sanity. In the meantime (until your
sanity gets low), you should go unlock the swamp and the cabin. Hopefully after that
your sanity is at least below 50, and you’ve been to sleep a few times. That means
you should have had a nightmare. It’s kind of obtuse, but we want to recreate this
dream by finding bones and offering them at the lake. You can find these bones by
searching the meadow, but only after you’ve had the
nightmare. When you have the bones, bring them to the lake, select them, and choose
“offer.” After that, you’re free to head to Mason’s cabin, search the house, and
claim your ending. Wow. Even though this ending wasn’t the last on the list, I
decided to give it a detailed description and set it aside because it’s difficult
to get.
-=Lowering Sanity=-
There are quite a few Mason endings tied to low sanity, and so there are also quite
a few ways to lose a lot of sanity. The ones that come to mind are:
Letting Mason catch you. Also experiment with your dialogue choices when speaking
to him, as some lose more sanity than others. Has the unfortunate side effect of
nuking your health.
Getting too cold. When you go long enough without lighting a fire, you’ll start to
get cold. The first event here will lose you 10 sanity, while the second (which
happens right before you’ll die) loses 20. You can warm up and repeat this to lose
sanity extremely fast.
Eating red berries. You might only be able to do it once, but it’s fast and easy.
-=The Missing CG=-
If any of you are missing a Mason CG, it’s probably this one because it’s kind of
out of the way to get and has nothing to do with any endings.
To get it you need to:
* Find Mason’s snare deep in the forest and instead of taking it down, leave it up
* Go do other things/finish ending requirements for a few hours
* Come back to the location of the snare later and choose to look at what’s happening
Hopefully that helps everyone get the CG!
Derek Endings Tips:
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There are several important items/people you need to get the different endings.
-=Canteen=-
You can receive this from Derek if he catches you in the desert, just tell him
you’re scared and accept his offer. Drink this when your low hunger.
-=Thomas=-
You can get Thomas by going up the hill at night, searching around, and going
inside the cave. If you go in and you get attacked by Komodo and Dragon, then you
went in too early. Stay outside on the hill 2-3 times until when you enter, you
see them about to kill Thomas, then wait, grab Komodo, and (either choice is fine,
though if you want the Wander the Desert ending (which requires 0 sanity), pick
kill to lower your sanity. Then you’ll have Thomas.
-=Jaqueline=-
Jaqueline can only be saved on the second day, so time is of the essence. You must
have your canteen empty so that you can go the fissure, search around the area
twice, and then find the poisoned water. Once you fill your canteen with the poisoned
water, head back to the camp when it is safe and place it there. Then when you go
back to the fissure, wander a bit till you see Jacqueline being attacked, you should
be able to save her then (and also make sure the cave is available for her to join
your group).
-=Richard=-
He is the last one to join your group, you should have Thomas and Jacqueline first
if you want to get some of the endings with him, otherwise, he’s useless. But all
you have to do is wait inside the cave until one of your members say they hear
something, go look out, and see him scrawny butt outside. Save him, and now you
have all members.
If you want the other death endings, just do dumb stuff like drink the water
before Thomas does so you’re sacrificed instead. And if you go back to the camp
at night, Derek will kill you in a really… unsavory way. Jack also will kill you
automatically if he finds you in the camp at the day, or the fissure at the day.
And if you get your insanity to 0, you’ll get the Wandering in the Desert ending.
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