It's always a good time to go back and break
down the story of one of the most memorable horror game experiences in gaming with Outlast. If you are new to the channel, we do complete
story breakdowns on all types of games so be sure to go check some other out as well. Let's break down the story. We open up the story with a classic horror
scene, a man driving down a dark country road at night while the radio gently plays in the
background. In the distance, we can see a large building
as the radio begins to turn to static. We can also see a press pass-up on the rearview
mirror. Suggesting that this character might be a
journalist. He picks up a note from his passenger seat
and it's a transcript of an anonymous email to Miles Upshur. It mentions some Illegal Activity that has
been taking place at Murkoff Psychiatric Systems. The person says they need to send the email
quickly as they might be monitoring him. (An odd thing to take the time to write considering
you are in a rush and spent more time writing than you need to rush, eh regardless.) They did 2 weeks of Software Consulting at
Murkoff Psychiatric Sytems Facilities in Mount Massive. He says that terrible things have been happening
here, doctors talking about dream therapy going too deep and finding something waiting
for them in the mountain. People are being hurt and Murkoff is making
money. Before saying that they need to be exposed. We exit that vehicle and get a much better
look at the building. This is Mount Massive Asylum by the way. Even the residents are saying hello. A note found on the bench tells us that Mount
Massive shut down amid scandal and government secrecy in 1971. But reopened by Murkoff in 2009 under the
guise of a charitable organization. Cellphone reception was cut off abruptly a
mile out and Murkoff Corporation has a long track record of disguising profit as charity. But never on American Soil. So whatever is going on here at Mount Massive
must be big. We take a side entrance into the Asylum before
the lights very conveniently turn off and have to use the night vision from our camera
to see. Another file is found in one of the nearby
offices. It talks about a patient named "Billy". A 19-year-old male patient claims to have
progressed to self-directed lucid dream states. The activity was observed at an unprecedented
scale. Billy also asked about his mother's lawsuit
against Murkoff and the Asylum. Murkoff believes this to be a catastrophic
breach in security. But note that the only Trager on company records
was Richard Trager who is an executive from M.R.D. When entering the Library we can see bodies
hanging from the roof and people dead on the floors. This a clear sign that things at the Asylum
are not going so well for the occupants. We continue a little futher and get a very
unwelcome surprise from this gentleman as he throws us down to the lower floor. Miles is drifting in and out of unconsciousness
as this second man starts saying that God has sent him an apostle, telling Miles to
guard his life as he has a calling. We can find another note talking about a patient
named Walker. A 32-year-old male needs to be restrained
when interviewed due to his removing his own lips and nose. It even speaks about how they needed to altar
his restraints to accommodate his enormous size. There is a bunch of medical mumbo-jumbo but
what is really important is that he has a fascination with Tuatara Lizards and has anxiety
about his own flesh. He also served in Afghanistan and there is
a lot of evidence that points towards the large man from earlier that threw Miles from
the top balcony like it was WWE, which is more than likely Walker. We come across some patients sitting and watching
television, and while a big part of me was hoping that there was Dora the Explorer on
that bad boy, it's only static which makes it 1000x more creepy. Miles gets himself to the security room and
takes a little look at their computer systems. We can see the man from earlier turning off
the power on the security camera and we are forced to make a quick exit. Another file we can find speaks about the
MKUltra program, titled a CIA document. The subject is Hypnotic Experimentation and
Research. It started on the 10th of February 1954 and
it took place in Building 13 of Mount Massive Preserve in Colorado. The notes describe a test using hypnosis to
force people to do as they say. Forcing two people asleep simply by pointing
and saying "You will sleep". This Hypnotic therapy was so effective they
even made a person that had a fear of firearms shoot a gun at the other person while in this
state. When awakened both patients mentioned a state
of amnesia about the events and when trying to give the patient a gun again, they refused
to pick up or accept from the operator and expressed absolute denial that the previous
sequence had happened. After returning the power to the building,
we head back into the security room and are attacked from behind and injected by something. They tell us that we cannot leave and there
is much more for us to witness, that their lord The Walrider is showing his truth to
the unbelievers. We then see a Darth Vader wet dream as soldiers
begin to be thrown around a room while nothing is there. We awake in a padded room, but luckily still
with our camera. We get multiple self-reports from Miles as
you go throughout the game and the message he wrote to himself at this stage named the
priest Father Martin and mentions that a Dr Wernicke is at the centre of whatever is going
wrong here at Mount Massive. But luckily he died 10 years ago. A couple of twins look at us through some
bars like we are a freshly cooked tomahawk steak, speaking about wanting to murder us. One questions it due to the preacher asking
them to leave us alone but their intrusive thoughts get the best of them and decide to
allow us a head start before taking dibs on our internal organs. Not that this has much relevance to the overall
story at hand but the guy on the left has claimed our tongue and liver while the one
on the right is more focused on making it as slow and painful as possible. Yay. Upstairs we can find a copy of the death Certificate
for Rudolf G. Wernick. The doctor is responsible for much of the
mess going on here at Mount Massive. There is a few things of note to decern from
the certificate, for example, he was born in Germany and was 90 years old at the time
of his death, spending a total of 55 years of his life in the United States. It says that he was single, which is only
notable since it specifies that being widowed or divorced is an option. Meaning that Wernicke was never married over
the course of his 90 years of life. The cause of death given was Heart Failure
due to advanced age. An Obituary Form for Wernicke can be found
in a patient-padded room, explaining that he achieved his fame from mathematic and scientific
communities for a paper written with pioneer Alan Turing. He moved to the United States shortly after
World War 2 with a visa from the State Department. Spending several decades on government research
in Los Almos led to New Mexico where Wernike apparently retired to pursue landscape photography
and care for his cats. He came to Colorado to do charitable work
for the Murkoff Corporation and has no next of kin. Miles continues his journey through Mount
Massive trying to find any way to escape this hellhole that he has found himself inside
and eventually we meet this patient that mentions Wernicke's death. And simply asks what dead doctor experiments
on living patients. Insinuating that even though Wernicke is dead,
somehow he is still experimenting on the patients of Mount Massive. We get chased through some hallways by the
patients screaming about the Walrider before being told on the radio to get in the dumbwaiter
in order to live. When we reach the top we realise that the
person on the radio is not exactly our friend as he beats Miles to a pulp. He mentions that we are the priest's guy and
tells us to take a rest and places us in a wheelchair and straps us in for the ride. You can probably imagine that whatever ride
this dude is taking us on, is not going to be a fun one. We reach his uh... I guess you would call it... clinic? And get to set our eyes on some of his patients,
he tells one of them to stop yammering because he didn't need his tongue anyway. You can see where this is going. He removes a couple of Miles's fingers before
leaving. We take that opportunity to grab our camera
and get the hell out of there. Turns out the doctor's name is Rick Trager
and from what we can gather from his other patients and some files he was the head of
business development for Mount Massive Asylum. He was a really bad dude that was responsible
for drugging female employees before everything went crazy here at Mount Massive and afterwards
decided to put on this surgeon act. We find another note from an orderly at Mount
Massive that wrote to HR about things he has witnessed since working here. Saying that he believes that Patients are
being abused and has never seen such a consistent level of secrecy and disrespect. He resigns and mentions that he might consider
contacting the press. We take an elevator out of the clinic as Trager
attempts to stop us. He gets jammed in the elevator and we manage
to escape. Father Martin can be found nearby as he says
that he is happy we survived, he feared that Trager would carve Miles up like the others
and meet him outside. Another note is found that was sent by Rick
Trager, saying to accept the immediate resignation of Orderly David Annapurna. To process him as a patient of Mount Massive
to treat his Persecutrial delusions, treatment will continue until the time of his death. Showing that the Orderly that was threatening
to go to the press how now been captured by Mount Massive staff. We continue into the kitchen and can find
the whole place on fire while a patient is sitting alone. He mentions that he had to burn everything
as Murkoff has taken so much from them, using them. Saying that they were turned into these things
because nobody cares about a few forgotten lunatics. So he wants to burn the whole thing down before
telling us a safe way out. Honestly, it's pretty damn sad. More files can be found about the MKUltra
program, essentially using Sleep Induction and Hypnotic techniques to make a person do
something. Can they create a post-hypnotic control action
contrary to individuals' basic moral principles? Then... to guarantee total amnesia so the
person doesn't remember any of it happening. And eventually, the idea that you could completely
alter a person's personality. These are the core principles of MKUltra research. We get our first glimpse of what people call
The Walrider using our night vision, it essentially looked like a floating skeleton. We find Father Martin outside as he mentions
that we have now seen the Walrider. He says that we have now begun to understand. And just sort of runs off for some reason,
so we continue to take a look around this murderous asylum. We find another note that gives us some more
insight into Dr Wernike. But this time it was in regard to a project
called Paperclip. Essentially the United States can obtain the
services of foreign specialists for specific assignments within the technical services
of the army divisions. But, Project 63 aimed to secure the employment
in the United States of certain German and Austrian specialists after World War 2 that
would deny their services to potential enemy nations. And given the close proximity of dates for
Dr Wernike's stay in the United States, this was likely used for him. Around this time Miles begins complaining
in his notes about a static sound, a buzzing that won't stop. Stressing that he needs to find the source
of the sound. A file from Berlin Germany in 1938 has been
translated. It tales about growing intrigue in the ongoing
work of Dr Wernicke on the Morphogenic Engine. Saying that if they had not seen it themselves
they would never believe it, that Wernicke has breached the spiritual realm. Witnessing an apparition briefly. They believe that this could represent an
enormous opportunity for the cause of the German people. Miles reaches a movie theatre as a film begins
to play. It is an exit interview recorded on December
27th, 1985 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The subject is Rudolf Wernicke. Wernicke says that all the films are real
and there was no trickery in the footage. The interviewer asks about some instances
of spontaneous bleeding. Half a dozen test subjects began to develop
brain tumours. Wernicke responds that the autopsies made
showed that the tumours were made completely from lead. The interviewer asks why these instances could
not be duplicated here in the United States and Wernike mentions that his theory is that
in Germany during the years of WW2 the mind of the German people were in a unique place
that cannot be replicated, the human mind is an environment capable of extraordinary
things. To replicate the results would require proximity
to death, to overwhelming madness, only a subject who has witnessed enough horror was
capable of activating the Morphogenic Engine. To which the interview asked if this was something
supernatural, which Wernicke disagrees with. We hear about Project Walrider being a gateway
to something, but what exactly. Wernicke is asked to elaborate. But the film cuts off. Miles writes that the engine described is
in his head like a song you can't stop humming. That Walrider is the buzzing that he feels
in his bones. The dude has been through some crap essentially. More files show that many of the patients
in the asylum consider the Walrider to be a god. The lord that they pray to and write gospels
for. We finally reach the church that Father Martin
wanted us to get to and we find quite the scene, he is essentially on the cross and
tells us that he will soon be with Walrider. Telling us the reason he wanted Miles alive
this whole time was so he could witness this moment and escape to tell the tale. He gets burned worse than a marshmallow and
we decide that's a great time to head to the local bar to drink away all of our problems. Unfortunately, instead of finding the bar,
we can find an underground facility below the Asylum. So I guess it's time to explore some more... Miles is becoming more and more unhinged at
this stage and things are looking very sketchy for our Journalist buddy. Mount Massive has taken its toll on him. As if things couldn't get any worse, we run
into Walker from before. As he goes to kill Miles, we can see that
Walrider is making very short work of him. Essentially turning him into uhh... tomato
soup. We hear a voice from a nearby room, asking
us to come to speak with them as they have something they wish to explain. It turns out that the person in front of Miles
is actually Dr Wernicke. He says how is supposed to be dead but has
no such luck. That he is older than Sin but he is here because
of Billy. He takes care of him, Wernicke speculates
that Billy might think he is his father since he certainly loves him before calling him
a poor idiot. He begins talking about a technology involving
Nanohazards. Little microscopic machines that they could
never master. But using his research, Murkoff was able to
find a workaround. You can turn the cells of the human body into
nano-factories. Since the natural function of cells is to
produce molecules you could use the psychosomatic direction to engineer the precise molecules
necessary. He mentions that it was foolish to think they
could control it. He asks Miles to stop Billy. Murder him if need be. Turn off his life-support and anaesthesia
to undo what he has done. Nobody can leave Mount Massive while he lives. We do manage to find the device being used
and note that Billy is at the centre of it. I must say after finding Billy, that looks
uncomfortable as all hell. I mean... think of the back problems. We turn off the support systems before hearing
a terrifying sound as the nanobots come for Miles's ass. We hit the burners to run from the thing but
turns out that the Walrider is a lot quicker than us. It's a really bad time for Miles but thankfully
the systems shut down and it kills Billy. Meaning the Walrider is no more. However, the injuries sustained in the fight
for miles are really bad. As he opens the doors to the exit, he is greeted
by Dr Wernicke and a bunch of soldiers. They open fire on Miles, and right as you
think that he is dead. We hear Wernicke gasp as he now realises that
Miles has become the host of the Walrider after Billy's death. Sounds of gunshots and screams can be heard
as the screen cuts to black. And that is the story of Outlast 1, I must
say that it really is a very sad story that puts the victims at the forefront. The most vulnerable are being taken advantage
of, including Billy. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoyed the video,
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