Actually, I remembered my alternate ending to Outlast 2 and it is urgent that you all hear it. It’s pretty long so I’ll put it under the cut.
BASICALLY. There are the towers. They’re up yonder on that hill. In the game there are ACTUAL fucking clues about what is going on, so Blake realizes if he can get to them maybe he can stop whatever is happening in Temple Gate. So up he goes towards the towers. At this point he has Lynn, and they’ve escaped Knoth and Martha: Martha is dead (Lynn actually kills her) and Knoth killed himself, but with much more grandeur.
Val realizes that he’s going to the towers, and despite everything they have this inkling of an idea about the towers. Unlike Knoth, who is completely lost in this religious cult, Val has suspected an outside source of everything that’s been happening. So they follow Blake up, still intent on killing him of course.
Blake and Lynn finally make it to one of the towers after having to hide from Val, who is searching the woods frantically for them. They sound so angry. For a moment he tries to figure out the best way in, but then he sees a door at the base, cracked ajar, blood smeared across it. He figures it’s their best shot so they book it for the door. Val crashes after them but they make it inside and shove a shelving unit behind the door. Blake and Lynn do their best to ignore the uniformed gory body right inside and race up the stairs as quietly as possible, in the hopes of losing Val and going unnoticed by whoever is inside.
As they climb the stairs Blake realizes that there are huge amounts of tech there, and that this absolutely has to do with Temple Gate. As they push upwards, they realize there hasn’t been a living soul in sight. Just locked doors and infrequent blood splatters. The hallucinations also get worse, until he almost mistakes Lynn for Val. Val has been following them silently this whole time, taking in everything. This is God. God is a temple controlling the people of Temple Gate.
It’s when they get to what looks like a command room that everything stops. Sitting there are some business looking people, holding guns at each other. One of them is a sharp looking woman, only she doesn’t have a gun. She’s brandishing a sharp piece of metal. They ask Blake and Lynn who the fuck they are. Blake doesn’t answer. A man in a tattered suit aims the gun at them, despite Lynn being pregnant and Blake clearly in no shape to fight. He says that he just watched his partner disembowel himself in the other room.
The woman, Pauline Glick, says she knows who he is. He’s the piece of shit that’s been compromising the operation. She hasn’t done all of this and sold her soul to hide the secrets just to let it all burn again.
There’s another flash, as the tower sends out another wave of hallucinations, which of course are the accelerated and improved version of the morphogenic engine. There’s screaming all around him but all he sees is the room bathed in red and brown, and then a glimpse of somewhere he’s never seen before, it looks like a disintegrating hallway.
He can hear someone breathing heavily, but he doesn’t seen anyone. Then there’s horrible screaming as the hallucination ends. But he realizes the screams are from the business people. Glick has stabbed the other two and collapsed against the wall, muttering something about how that was for Paul. He hears a muffled scream and turns to see that Val has joined them, and is holding their hand over Lynn’s mouth, a knife in hand. Blake freezes, but Val seems disoriented.
Pauline says that they all brought this upon themselves. That Murkoff does not learn from its mistakes. There’s a rattling of the door handle next to her. Then a horrible static noise as something comes through the wall. Standing before them is Miles Upshur, possessed by the Walrider, and his rage combined with nanotech is physically heating the room.
Pauline laughs, it turns wet as she coughs up blood. They must have shot her. She remarks how she thought Upshur was dead.
Miles tells her you can’t kill a god, and looks at Lynn. He walks over to her. Blake tries to swing at him but he doesn’t even flinch, and where he brushes the Walrider it bruises instantly. Val lets go, and shuffles back, almost reverent.
Slowly, Walrider lifts Lynn so she’s standing. They’ve got their Mother now, he says and his voice sounds wrong. Metallic.
The screen fades to black, and three people scream in agony, before being abruptly cut off.
The second I found out there was going to be a female side character in Outlast 2, I prayed they weren’t gonna have her be ra/p/ed for shock value but of course they pulled that shit AND she died of childbirth. 0/10 Redbarrels.
