Lincoln
Lincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.
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- Lincoln
Good to know
- Bill's Town has four sections: The Woods, Safehouse, Graveyard and High School Escape.
- The chapter contains 15 collectibles.
- Main landmarks are St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Bill's armory, and Lincoln High School.
- Signs around town place it in Amherst County, Massachusetts.
- Bill is the only uninfected person living here, but the town has an unusually large clicker population.
- A small bar serves as Bill's second safehouse, with a chess set he plays alone.
What happened to the town
After the outbreak, schools closed on October 4 and FEDRA ordered the county evacuated, first by October 24 and then by October 17. Lincoln High School became the processing point, sending evacuees on to the Springfield, Woods Hole, Hartford and Boston zones. The school was overrun before everyone got out.
What you do here
You follow Bill through his fenced streets and trip-wire traps, resupply at the church, cross the graveyard into territory he does not control and fight through the high school looking for a military truck's battery. Bill hands Joel nail bombs and a shotgun along the way.
Frank's fateSpoilerShow
Bill's partner Frank had already taken the battery to fix a pickup so he could leave for the Boston QZ. He was bitten during the job and hanged himself before he turned. Joel, Ellie and Bill find his body and the truck he left behind.
- Main storyThe main story of The Last of Us Part I follows Joel, a smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, as he escorts Ellie, a teenage girl who is immune to the Cordyceps infection, across the United States to the Fireflies. It runs 12 chapters, from Austin on the night of the outbreak in 2013 to the spring of 2034.
- Bill's TownBill's Town brings Joel and Ellie to Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town that Joel's paranoid contact Bill has rigged with traps to keep the infected out. Bill owes Joel a favor, so you team up with him to find a working car, which means a trip through a clicker-filled graveyard and an infected high school.
- Baseball batThe baseball bat is a blunt weapon that swings faster than the pipe or 2x4 and lasts six hits. The first one sits on top of a washing machine in the laundromat in Bill's Town.
- BowThe bow is the quiet long gun. Joel finds it at an abandoned camp in Lincoln during Bill's Town, and its arrows can often be pulled back out of bodies, which makes it a stealth tool and an ammo saver.
- BillBill is a paranoid survivalist and mechanic who lives alone in Lincoln, a town he has rigged with traps against the infected. He owes Joel favors from their smuggling deals, so in Bill's Town Joel asks him for a car, and Bill joins you to find the parts.
- FrankFrank is Bill's former partner in Lincoln. You learn about him in Bill's Town through the Note from Frank, and he also turns up earlier in The Outskirts as the contact named in a smuggler's note.
- Bill's MapBill's Map is Bill's hand-annotated map of Lincoln, on a table with an engine near the door you come in through at his safehouse, right after you meet him.
- Bombs NoteThe Bombs Note is on a table to the left in the side room off the nave of Bill's church. Go into the room on the right, the one Bill makes clear is not the confessional.
- Boy's DiaryThe Boy's Diary is on the windowsill of a child's bedroom painted with stripes and cars, upstairs in the second house with the dry pool in the new territory beyond the church graveyard.
- Fences NoteThe Fences Note is another of Bill's reminders, on the table in the back room of his safehouse near the pipe he handcuffs Ellie to.
- Hunters NoteThe Hunters Note is a reminder Bill left on a table in the room at the end of the hall upstairs. Leave his safehouse, go up the stairs, turn right and walk to the last room.
- Mrozik's Firefly PendantMrozik's Firefly pendant sits on a tumble dryer in a house past the church graveyard, in the Graveyard section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Peter Mrozik.
- Note from FrankThe Note from Frank is on a table in a house you search with Bill during the High School Escape section. It is in the room closest to where Bill finds his partner, Frank.
- Note from Frank (Crumpled)The crumpled Note from Frank only appears if you give Frank's note to Bill in the garage during High School Escape. Bill reads it, crushes it and tosses it on the floor; pick it back up for a separate artifact.
- Note to BobThe Note to Bob is caught in the barbed wire on the ground at the end of Lincoln's main street, past the camper van and the Marquis Music Store, in The Woods section. It gives you the code to a safe.
- Note to RachelThe Note to Rachel lies on a table in the house with the banging door in Bill's Town. After you get the bow and cross the rooftops, enter the room with the infected; the note is under a wall where Rachel's name is painted with an arrow.
- Perimeter NoteThe Perimeter Note is one of Bill's reminders, resting on top of a drawer in a back room of the Marquis Music Store on Lincoln's main street during The Woods section.
- Pills NoteThe Pills Note is a reminder Bill wrote to himself, found on the floor at the far end of the room up the stairs and to the left after you drop through the broken fence in The Woods section of Bill's Town.
- Shiv: SharpeningShiv: Sharpening is the first training manual, on the bar inside Bill's safehouse in Bill's Town. It makes every shiv you craft last one extra hit.
- Vincent's Firefly PendantVincent's Firefly pendant hangs from a telephone pole near Bill's church in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Alex Raymond Vincent and has to be knocked down.
- Wang's Firefly PendantWang's Firefly pendant is on the roof of a camper van in The Woods section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Hui Wang, and you climb up a car to reach it.
BloaterBloaters are stage four infected covered in armor-like fungus. They are slow and blind but kill you instantly if they grab you, and they throw bursting sacks of mycotoxin from range. Fire is the way to beat them.- ClickerClickers are blind stage three infected that find you by the clicking sound they make. Their grab kills instantly unless you carry a shiv and have the Shiv Master upgrade, so most players deal with them quietly or with fire.
- FEDRAFEDRA, the Federal Disaster Response Agency, is the military government that runs the Boston quarantine zone. Its soldiers are the best-equipped enemies in the first chapters, and you fight them while smuggling Ellie out of Boston.
- InfectedThe Infected are people taken over by a mutant Cordyceps fungus, and they are the main threat between every human fight in The Last of Us Part I. In Part I and Left Behind you meet four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers and bloaters, each harder to kill than the last.
- RunnerRunners are stage one infected, people turned within the last couple of days. They still see, move fast and swarm in packs, so the danger is numbers rather than any single runner.
- Lincoln High SchoolLincoln High School is the infected-filled school at the end of Bill's Town, where Joel, Ellie and Bill go looking for a military truck's battery. The High School Escape section and a bloater fight in the gym happen here.
- St. Paul's Lutheran ChurchSt. Paul's Lutheran Church is Bill's fortified home and armory in Lincoln, and the base you visit in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. Bill gives Joel a shotgun and nail bombs here before the group heads out through the graveyard.
Related places
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Boston
Boston, 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.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a former quarantine zone now run by hunters who ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie spend two chapters here, Pittsburgh and The Suburbs, and meet the brothers Henry and Sam. Expect heavy human combat and the largest pile of collectibles in the game.
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Boulder
Boulder, Colorado is where Joel and Ellie search the University of Eastern Colorado for the Fireflies in The University chapter. Left Behind's present-day story picks up nearby at the Colorado Mountain Plaza mall, so this region covers both the campus and the mall.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah is the last stop on Joel and Ellie's search for the Fireflies. It is an abandoned quarantine zone where the Fireflies hold Saint Mary's Hospital, and you play the Bus Depot and The Firefly Lab chapters here in spring 2034.