Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationNo screenshot of This Could Be It yet. This one shows Deacon St. John (Bend Studio / PlayStation).
This Could Be It
Sarah Whitaker sends you south on a job for her research. You drive out, find the test subject she needs, knock it out with a tranquilizer and bring it back to her.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Sarah Whitaker
- Region
- Crater Lake
Storylines
Part 12 of 19 in I'm Never Giving Up
Good to know
- The subject has to be taken alive, so use the tranquilizer, not lethal weapons.
- It runs from 4:30 PM until 2:00 AM the next day.
- In the Broken Road permadeath mode, this mission starts a new act.
What happensSpoilerShow
The test subject is a Newt, one of the infected kids. Sarah finally tells Deacon the truth: she is not building a bioweapon for the Colonel, she is chasing a cure for the Newts. Her latest attempt fails, but Deacon tells her she has to keep at it. The two of them agree it is time to slip away from the Militia.
Objectives
1. Drive to the marked area. 2. Find the test subject. 3. Tranquilize it. 4. Collect it.
Deacon St. JohnDeacon St. John is the player character: a former soldier and Mongrels MC enforcer who now works as a drifter and bounty hunter in post-outbreak Oregon. You play as him from the opening hunt for Leon. He still grieves his wife Sarah, whom he believes died early in the outbreak.
Sarah WhitakerSarah Whitaker is Deacon's wife, a botanist with two PhDs who studied rare plants at Cloverdale's Iron Butte lab. You get to know her through flashback missions in the I Remember storyline. Deacon believes she was lost in the first days of the outbreak.
- Researcher Field Note - 2069Researcher Field Note 2069 is a NERO Intel log at a research site inside a house in Crater Lake. NERO finds signs that someone in the Militia is experimenting on Newts.
- Teensy TabbyTeensy Tabby is Sarah's lab note 6 of 6, a short audio log she records on Wizard Island. You get it automatically during the story mission This Could Be It, so it can't be missed.
Related missions
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What It Takes To Survive
You need O'Brian's help to get Sarah off Wizard Island by air, so you ride out to meet him. He sends you into the Ice Wind Lava Cave to find Cooper, and the job gets much bigger from there.
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Where's My Damn Rings?
A post-story errand. You go back into the Ark on Wizard Island to search for your rings, the wedding band and the Mongrels ring that matter so much to Deacon.
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A War We Can Win
A War We Can Win is the story mission where Deacon arrives at Wizard Island, the Deschutes County Militia's fortress in Crater Lake. Colonel Garret walks you through the base and explains what his Militia is fighting for.
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Afraid Of A Little Competition?
Afraid Of A Little Competition? is a Wizard Island story mission for Sarah. She needs another supply for her work, this time a bag of silicate, and sends you out into the Crater Lake region to find it.