Note to Brother
Note to Brother is a handwritten letter on a table upstairs in the spore-filled building of Beyond the Wall. After the first infected fight, climb the stairs, turn left before the hole in the wall and open the closed door; the note sits in the next room.
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- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Quarantine zoneQuarantine zones are the walled, military-run safe areas FEDRA set up across the United States after martial law was declared. Most have since fallen to infection, revolt or abandonment. Boston's North End zone is the one you live in and play through at the start of Part I, and you pass the dead zones of Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City later.
Good to know
- The Quarantine Zone (chapter 2), Beyond the Wall section, number 4 in the chapter's collectible list.
- Missable: grab it before you drop outside through the hole in the wall, as you cannot come back.
- Written by a man named Mark to his unnamed brother.
- A health item lies on the same table.
What the note says
Mark explains that his group was waiting outside the wall for a smuggler to sneak them into the zone. A patrol came by, they hid in this building, and nobody noticed the spores until too late. He hopes the smuggler will pass the note on.
Mark's fateSpoilerShow
Mark and his friends are already infected when he writes it. The runners you meet in this building are almost certainly his group, and the injured smuggler with the broken gas mask you pass just before is the contact they were waiting for. The note is still lying where he left it, so his brother never got it.
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- Artifacts
Boston Q.Z. Map
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- Artifacts
Docks Note
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- Artifacts
Drafting Notice
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Shipping Manifest
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