Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationNo screenshot of Flow Like Buried Rivers yet. This one shows Hordes (Bend Studio / PlayStation).
Flow Like Buried Rivers
You take Iron Mike up to the Metolius Lava Cave to pitch your idea for making Lost Lake safer. You picked it up from NERO: hordes hibernate in caves, so sealing this one could cut them down.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Iron Mike
- Region
- Lost Lake
- Rewards
- 2,000 XP, 100 Trust (Iron Mike's), 250 Credits (Iron Mike's)
Storylines
Part 3 of 16 in Earning Our Keep
Part 4 of 13 in We've All Done Things
Found in
- Iron Mike's CampIron Mike's Camp, also called the Lost Lake Settlement, is the encampment at the old Lost Lake resort. It becomes your home base mid-story, and its mechanic sells some of the best bike parts in the game.
- Lost LakeLost Lake is the central region of the map, built around a resort lake that holds Iron Mike's Camp. It becomes your main base for the middle of the story and packs 6 Hordes, 3 infestations and Sherman's Camp.
- Metolius Lava Cave HordeMetolius Lava Cave Horde is a 150-Swarmer Horde in Lost Lake, one of the Horde Killer targets. It opens after Flow Like Buried Rivers. Clear it for 3,000 XP and 600 Trust at Iron Mike's Camp.
Good to know
- After this mission the Metolius Lava Cave Horde appears in the Lost Lake region.
- The goal of sealing the cave drives the Earning Our Keep jobs that follow.
- You tail a horde but are not meant to fight it, so stay quiet.
What happensSpoilerShow
You and Iron Mike fight off Swarmers on the way up and reach the cave. Watching a horde move through convinces Mike the plan is worth trying. You walk him back to the Lost Lake encampment, and the hunt for explosives begins.
Objectives
1. Drive Iron Mike to the caves. 2. Kill the Swarmers. 3. Walk with Mike to the Metolius Cave. 4. Tail the horde. 5. Walk Mike back to the Lost Lake encampment.
Related missions
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStoryOutta The Darkness
The finale of Earning Our Keep. With the camp's power back on, Iron Mike thanks Deacon and Rikki in front of Lost Lake. Then Rikki takes Deacon to the infirmary to treat a wound.
- Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStory
We've All Done Things
You have brought a badly hurt Boozer to Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp. Rikki walks you in, and then you talk to Iron Mike about letting Boozer stay and get treatment.
- Story
Do You Have My Back?
Iron Mike rides out with you to the old federal courthouse in Sherman's Camp to recover maps of the area's mines. He hopes one of the mines still has explosives to seal the Metolius cave.
- Story
You See What They Did
Iron Mike asks you to ride with him to Sherman's Camp in Lost Lake. He has something to show you in the town's old courthouse, and you follow him inside.