"You can escape anything, even the punishing hand of the Inquisitor...but you can't escape yourself."
A 2005 game, the debut of the small Russian indie game developer Ice-pick Lodge. As for its genre... ummm...Pathologic is set in a town in the middle of nowhere, and infected by a strange disease. The game follows the story of three people, healers, who have all come to the town for their own reasons, and have drastically different methods. However, just as you arrive, an epidemic starts, and the town is quarantined. At that point, the game puts you in control and gives you 12 in-game days to do quests and protect yourself and others from the disease, by some very dubious methods.The first storyline is that of a Bachelor of Medicine, Daniel Dankovski, who has been asked to come to the town to scientifically establish that one of the residents is over two hundred years old. However, the man dies as soon as you arrive.The second storyline is that of a Haruspex, Artemii Burakh, (pronounced 'Artemiy Boorahk'). He is the son of a resident who has just died, and he wants to take his father's place. However, the people's opinion is that he killed his father, so you always have to be on the run from angry mobs.The third storyline is that of Klara, the Devotress, the young woman who many believe is either a messiah, or a demon. She is able to either heal a person or utterly destroy them with a gesture of her hands.There are three main families in the game, all in some way fighting against each other for the control of the town. Other than them, there are loads and loads of other characters, all somehow related to the story.The game received many good reviews praising its atmosphere. Sadly, the English translation was absolutely incomprehensible at times, which, coupled with the developer being practically unknown outside Russia, resulted in rather bad sales. (Though retranslation projects have been planned, none were ever finished.) Also note that this is not a game for everyone. As with many Survival Horror games, Pathologic has no parts that can really be considered conventionally "fun". From a technical standpoint, it didn't age well, and there's a lot to take in. It is, however, a very powerful, emotionally draining experience, and not to be missed.
This game provides examples of:
Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The game notably averts most of these. Many of the gameplay mechanics are surprisingly realistic - the In Universe Game Clock is a major constriction and is constantly ticking, enemies take few hits to kill but ammunition is scarce, using weapons or wearing clothes decreases their (very limited) durability, being Stupid Evil and reducing your Karma Meter will get you killed, etc. This may be one of the many reasons why the game is maddeningly difficult and no part of it is described as "fun", even by fans.
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Justified by the epidemic and supplies not coming into the isolated town anymore. Fortunately, the value of your items and the quest rewards scale as well.
Also inverted on occasion, where prices will sometimes decrease on the next day. Increases are far more common, though.
Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: All shopkeepers except Gryph and the barkeep for Stamatin's pub have the exact same prices for their wares, and your items will always sell for half the price it takes to buy them.
Alien Geometries: The bizarre Polyhedron at the edge of the city.
Anti-Hero: Most characters, including the playable ones. Particularly the Haruspex, though, who even starts out with critically low Reputation.
Anyone Can Die: In this case, Anyone Could Die based on your actions.
Though, more specifically, only the characters who would "give their life to you" will "die because of you".
Arch-Enemy: Professor Tehlmann, mentioned in the letter in the first day of Dankovski's scenario, who is a biiter enemy of Dankovski and his laboratory "Thanatica".
Back Stab: Doing this with any melee weapon (any actual weapon, that is, not your fists) will result in a One-Hit Kill. Just hitting the person's back isn't good enough, though; you need to hit a very tiny area located around the base of the neck.
Badass Longcoat: Dankovski. Also, damn near everybody who wears a longcoat.
Big Freaking Gun: The army's cannons used in the ending scenes are fucking giant. And they're mounted on railroad tracks!
"Blind Idiot" Translation: Zig Zagged — the English language translation is very spotty. At times, it's a train wreck, at other times it's decent, and every now and then the incomprehensibility will actually add to the atmosphere. However, it can make it hard to know what to do. (The worst errors are in Day 3 and Day 6 in the Bachelor's scenario, as well as a letter on Day 12.)
Boom, Headshot: It's usually a One-Hit Kill. Try to get the hang of it, since anything that conserves ammo (see below) is a very useful technique.
Boss Battle: Exactly one, and it isn't even necessary to progress the plot — Oyun in the Haruspicius' scenario, if you discover that he killed Artemiy's father.
Arguably, there's also the hunchback and his squad of arsonists in the Bachelor's scenario, though he isn't much tougher than a regular enemy. And again, it's optional.
Boss in Mook Clothing: The rebel soldiers. They're the only enemies in the game who use firearms — and, unlike in most video games, they're just as deadly as in Real Life. Fortunately, they only appear in a select few quests towards the end, but when they do, they appear in droves, requiring extremely careful or quick sniping to dispatch.
Breakable Weapons: All weapons have 'durability' scores that go down when you use them. Though weapons can still be used even at 0% durability, the game averts Critical Existence Failure; melee weapons will dull and deal less damage, and ranged weapons will become less accurate. Fortunately, you can repair weapons for a modest sum by talking to a certain type of NPC.
Equipment also has a durability score that goes down the longer it's worn, though it seems to play Critical Existence Failure straight.
The Caligula: Nina Kain, deceased mother of Maria, often acted this way, though she still was beloved and respected by the Town's people.
Central Theme: Sickness and decay — both in the physical and metaphysical sense — are the most obvious ones, though the theme of sacrifice — that everything comes at a price — is also important.
The former is present throughout much of the gameplay: Despite being healers, the three playable characters have to cause a lot of death, and their morals (and general well-being) decay along with those of the towns' inhabitants.
The latter is especially prevalent in the Multiple Endings — there is no truly "perfect" or "good" ending. All three of them are a tradeoff that require the sacrifice of one thing to save another.
Closer to Earth: Compared to what wehear ofthe other Inquisitors, Aglaja, the only female Inquisitor we know of, is extremely fair, kind, and reasonable. (Only relatively, though — she's still quite terrifying in her own right.)
The trio of "aristocratic women" (Lara, Julia, and Anna) are also portrayed as much more level-headed and trustworthy than the actual ruling families, who are primarily male.
Critical Existence Failure: Limping around and heavily bleeding from innumerable bruises and cuts? No problem — you'll still be able to walk, aim, and fight exactly as well as when you're at 100% health. This wouldn't normally be that notable if it wasn't for the game's otherwise strict adherenceto realism.
Somewhat averted with the exhaustion and hunger meters: though you won't feel any adverse effects from them until they reach 100%, once they do, your health will begin to drop instead.
Completely averted with the infection meter, though: the higher it gets, the faster it'll rise, the quicker you'll lose health, and the more disorienting the Interface Screw will be every subsequent time you're infected.
Averted with weapon durability. Melee weapons will get weaker with less durability, and ranged weapons will become less accurate.
Cutscene Incompetence: At one point, you enter a dungeon reasonably well-armed and with a killing score comprising of dozens of thugs. Then a handful of unarmed mooks approach you and beat the Player Character into a pulp while you watch helplessly.
Cutscene Power to the Max: Subverted. The opening cutscene of Artemiy's scenario shows him beating a group of armed muggers to death with his bare hands...however, once gameplay starts, it becomes apparent that the battle took its toll on him, as his Life Meter is at critical levels.
Daylight Horror: Absolutely. Could very well be the best example of this trope when it comes to video games.
Deus ex Machina: Some see the Devotress' ending as this, since Klara describes it as a perfect solution, preserving both the Polyhedron and the town, seemingly nullifying the importance of the other options, which have to sacrifice one. However, this is subverted once you actually play the Devotress' scenario, and discover that her solution isn't as perfect as it first appears.
Disc One Nuke: It's possible to get a gun and a decent amount of bullets on the first day in both the Bachelor's and Haruspicius' scenarios. This will go a long way towards helping you to survive encounters with relative ease, and you won't get any more guns until day 3 or 4.
In the Bachelor's scenario, one reward for a sidequest on day 4 is a repellent cape, one of the best pieces of equipment in the game. Normally, the cape doesn't appear in shops for three more days.
Downer Ending: If you refuse to make a decision on the final day, or fail to complete the game properly, you get treated to a horrific montage of the town overcome by the plague, right before the army comes and destroys everything.
Ensemble Darkhorse: It's said that Dankoski was a head of the crew of The Thanatica Laboratory, whose goal was actually cheating Death, and the Laboratory was closed by The Authorities and Professor Tehlmann. Despite having so little information, Thanatica is a frequent object of fanart and WMG.
Fighting For Survival: Pretty much everyone once the plague hits, to varying degrees. Each of the three playable characters can't actually save the whole town, but they can work on ensuring that at least a small part of the population - including a supposedly important group of the local children - will survive the epidemic. The game has been often described by the devs as a kind of "simulator of survival in a society collapsing from disaster".
Find the Cure: Either that or you could at least try to hinder the spreading of the disease (and despair) among the surviving people.
Fragile Speedster: The marauder enemies. They're extremely agile and skilled in melee combat (traits bolstered by the fact that you fight them in small, cramped rooms), but can be killed with a single rifle shot anywhere on their body.
A weapon example is the revolver. It's relatively weak and pretty inaccurate, but its large magazine size allows you to fire multiple bullets in quick succession — useful for dealing with large mobs before you get the shotgun.
From Bad to Worse: The infection. And the Executioners are harbringers of this. If you see one, be prepared for some very bad news.
Gaia's Vengeance: The infection is spreading because the earth is sick.
Glass Cannon: The arsonist enemies. Their firebombs can deal high amounts of continuous damage, and have long range, but they have just as much health as regular townspeople, meaning they can be killed with a single rifle shot.
Golden Ending: Sort of. If you manage to save everybody's adherents during a playthrough, at the end sequence you get to choose between the three endings listed below. Doing this is very hard. Also, you get some extra Fourth Wall Breaking scenes from the theater too.
Grey and Gray Morality: The line between good and evil can get chillingly thin in this game.
Guide Dang It: A lot of sections, especially the effects of items — only a few actually have helpful descriptions, and there's little way to tell which foods are most efficient (bread and smoked meat, by the way). Fortunately, there is an official guide that is very helpful.
There is a specific example that the walkthrough doesn't help with due to a wonky translation — in day 7 of the Bachelor's scenario, there's a sidequest that involves collecting the mask and overall of an Executioner. However, there's a very narrow window of time for it to actually trigger — you need to talk to Mark Immortal after performing the penultimate step of the day quest, but before actually completing it. Semi-justified, since the sidequest relates to the day quest, but it's still bothersome that the game doesn't tell you this anywhere.
Even more specifically (also due to translation weirdness), there's one that's a Guide Dang It within the official guide itself! In the section describing the aforementioned quest, the guide mentions that the overall is in a "pit" that's "opposite of the cemetery". These are pretty confusing directions — what it's actually referring to is a small, rectangular morgue that's on the other side of the train tracks, across from the cemetery.
Harmful Healing: The childrens' powder is one of the very few ways to reduce your infection level, but it takes a lot of health (around 90%). Considering what it's made of, it's a miracle it can even heal.
There's "harmful buffing" as well, of sorts - many medicines that boost your immunity have an adverse effect on your health and exhaustion as well, though not nearly to the extent of the powder.
Though the powder is perhaps the most prominent example, due to the game's multiple survival meters, this happens for most healing items. Usually, something that restores one bar will reduce the other — for example, eating lemons will decrease exhaustion and increase immunity, but it'll also increase your hunger. Painkillers will allow you to gradually regenerate health, but greatly increase exhaustion. And so on...
Have a Nice Death: When you die, you get a short cutscene with the Executioner and Tragedian symbolically playing out your death scene on the stage of the theater.
Heal Thyself: You'll be doing that a lot. The only means of restoring your health, though (the actual health, not the infection level), are rest and bandages. That's right, you can even remove the symptoms with a couple of bandages.
Not really. The game wants you to use painkillers and then do rest or cover up the open wounds while the painkillers are in effect so you can heal right. That sleeping and using bandages on their own have a less effective (albeit, instant and cheaper) heal are trivial when you consider how realistic the game is regarding this.
Heroic Sacrifice: All of Klara's Adherents, if you choose her ending.
Hero with Bad Publicity: Unlike Daniel and Klara, Artemiy starts the game wounded, weaponless and with a very low reputation (due to the accussation of being his father's killer). The first challenge in playing his character is basically restoring his reputation to a bearable amount while not getting killed by the City Guards, who will hunt him down at first sight.
Hobbes Was Right: The overall decay of both the city and human society within is downright disturbing. But, the more you explore and learn of the city's mysteries, it's hinted at that:
Improbable Aiming Skills: Despite (presumably) never having held a gun before the game begins, the three healers become remarkably adept with their weapons as soon as they pick them up.
Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Used with both fences and edges of the playing area. Lampshaded when in a dialogue, one of the playable characters randomly notes that he can't climb fences and pipes. All the more ironic since he does just that in a cutscene earlier in the game.
Interchangeable Antimatter Keys: Subverted. You can only use lockpicks to get into locked buildings. They still inexplicably break when you use them, though.
If you get infected, the screen becomes blurry and zooms in and out periodically. If your infection meter is already high, the screen will also black out for a few seconds.
Invulnerable Knuckles: Attacking unarmed suffers you no penalty, unlike when using a melee weapon, which decreases its durability. Possibly justified in the case of Daniel and Artemiy, since they wear gloves. (Klara doesn't, but she attacks using her Psychic Powers instead, so the issue is avoided.)
Justified Tutorial: Once you arrive in the city, the Executioner and Tragedian will be waiting patiently at your doorstep. If you talk to them, they will explain the various game mechanics and survival strategies via colourful metaphors (as is typical for them).
Karma Meter: The Reputation meter is an interesting and realistic variation on this. It's actually, for all intents and purposes, another health meter, and one of the most important ones at that. If you squander your Reputation, an already Nintendo Hard game will become even more difficult, as important NPCs will refuse to help you or provide shelter, most likely resulting in your unavoidable death.
Knife Nut: You can use a scalpel or a bigger ordinary knife as melee weapons to defend yourself (or others). Firearms are the more powerful and safer to use weapons though, since melee fights in the game are fast and brutal.
Another example of this trope are the looters, who seem to be expert knife throwers. Like, ridiculously adept at it... Thankfully, you can dodge the blades if you think and move fast enough.
A Non-Player Character example: Aglaja has some shades of this. She wants to find a way to cure the infection with minimal losses — she doesn't want to go all-out Utopia Justifies the Means. Her morals and methods are still rather dubious, however.
Meta Guy: The Executioner and Tragedian are "stage hands". Although, despite this claim, they are surprisingly participant in the main story, usually a herald of things going From Bad to Worse. It's likely that this is another layer of Mind Screw.
The Inquisitor Aglaja and General Blok also act like allegorical figures - of a different sort...
Menu Time Lockout: Accessing your map, diary, letters, or status screen pauses the game, and you will be thankful for it, since it's one of the few Acceptable Breaks from Reality the game uses. This is not the case for the inventory menu, though — see Scrappy Mechanic.
Talking Is a Free Action: Time is also stopped during dialogues, which you will be even more grateful for, given how plot-heavy the game is and the Walls of Text in most dialogues.
Mighty Glacier: Not a character, but a weapon; the rifle. It's quite powerful and extremely accurate, but can only hold one bullet at a time, meaning you'll have to sit through the (long) reload animation every time you fire it.
Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: If you've come under attack, it's generally better to cripple your enemy with a firearm first, then hit or stab him. As long as you have ammo, that is...
Nintendo Hard: It's pretty easy to waste time and resources at the start of the game in a way that will totally screw you over by the endgame.
No Antagonist: Despite their conflicting methods, all the Adherents wish to put an end to the disease and restore order to the town. Even the thugs and bandits only rob out of necessity.
Nominal Importance: When you talk to any of the characters, an icon with a black-and-white photo appears in the corner of the screen. With storyline characters, it's a person resembling the model. With random people, it's a creepy ragdoll.
Nothing Is Scarier: The plague-ridden quarters and areas of the city. Some would argue that the whole city and its surroundings qualifies.
Obvious Beta / Needs More Love: Definitely. The game's innovative and well-written story and atmosphere are often marred by the rather clunky and buggy engine. There are quite a few annoying bugs that can mess up the gameplay or disrupt its otherwise highly immersive atmosphere. And the wobbly and seemingly rushed English translation and dub needlessly add to the already existing issues...
Fortunately, the developers say that they're planning to create a Video Game Remake sometime in the future that fixes these issues. Judging by how badly the Fan Translation is going, though, it probably won't happen any time soon.
Offstage Villainy: Anna Angel is rumored to be a former member of "Diamond Ace Caravan", an infamous gang of murderers and child kidnappers which was executed a few years before game. It's also heavily implied that she murdered the girl who gave her a shelter.
One Bullet Clips: Sidestepped. The revolver is reloaded offscreen (the character pulls it down to their side first), avoiding the need for custom animations depending on how many bullets it currently has. The rifle is reloaded on-screen, but it has a literal one-bullet clip, so the trope doesn't apply. Played straight with the shotgun, however, which is also guilty of the "reload more visible shots than you actually have" subtrope.
One Stat to Rule Them All: Keep your Reputation high at all costs. It's the hardest type of health to restore, and has far-reaching consequences if it gets low.*
Among other things: Shopkeepers will refuse to sell their wares to you, townspeople will attack you on sight, and most people will refuse to lend you shelter, meaning you'll eventually drop dead from exhaustion.
One Steve Limit: Averted; there are two characters who go by the name of "Alexander". They're both referred to by their surnames, though, so the problems with the trope are sidestepped.
Somewhat related, the Polyhedron is kept up because of a base that goes deep into the earth. This "wound" getting infected is what causes the disease in the first place.
Random Effect Item: Twyrine. Sometimes it functions like a painkiller, sometimes it messes with your immunity, sometimes it decreases infection slightly. Mentioned in its description, where it says that many of its effects haven't been discovered yet.
Real Is Brown: The whole town. Possibly justified, as it's in the middle of a steppe (and in the middle of autumn), and is thus covered in sand and mud all the time.
Reckless Gun Usage: The reloading animation for the Sawed Off Shotgun shows the Player Character using the stock "flick the gun back to close it using its own weight" technique. In Real Life, this is actually a rather dangerous action that can damage the gun.
There's also the fact that the characters insist on Firing One-Handed with everything except the rifle, despite the fact that trying that with a Sawed Off Shotgun (or even a revolver, depending on the caliber) should result in broken wrists.
Revolvers Are Just Better: Averted. The revolver is the least accurate and second-weakest gun in the game. Its only real advantage is a (relatively) large magazine size, but More Dakka is a horrible strategy in this game, so that's not terribly useful. (And just in case you still want to try that, its ammunition is the most expensive as well.)
Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: The Bachelor's scenario makes a case for the Enlightenment, while the Haruspex is on the side of Romanticism.
Rule of Three: Three playable characters, three ruling families, three town districts, three gangs of kids... it goes on.
You can't run. At all. Only walk at a leisurely pace. Coupled with the rather brutal In Universe Game Clock, this can cause the game to range from Nintendo Hard to nigh Unwinnable.
The weapon selection is annoyingly clunky, since it's only available by opening your inventory (which is the only menu that averts Menu Time Lockout). This wouldn't be necessarily bad — but imagine you need to switch to another weapon quickly in the middle of a fight with a local looter...
This is very minor compared to the other two, but... Melee weapons often have multiple attacks — for example, when unarmed, your character may execute either a quick jab with their left fist, or a long windup punch with their right. However, there is no way to control which attack is executed (it's random), so you have no idea whether you can afford to be right next to an enemy, or if you have to start further back because your character is going to twirl their knife in the air dramatically before plunging it in a downward stab. Given how incredibly important timing is in melee combat, this can be quite irritating.
Somewhat related to that: Fortunately, ranged weapons avoid this problem, for obvious reasons...however, just drawing a gun takes an absurdly long time; the animation for the revolver in particular makes it look like your character's moving through molasses. Needless to say, this can result in problems when you're being charged at by a crazed mugger...
Shout Out: The original Russian title of the game is More. Utopia (Мор. Утопия), being a reference to the most famous work by Thomas More.
Show Within a Show: The Theater puts on a play each night after midnight. Attending it is completely optional and has no tangible benefits, but you might learn something if you do.
Slave to PR: Your player character, quite literally. See One Stat to Rule Them All, below; managing your reputation is really important in this game.
Even moreso if you're playing as the Devotress, as her Reputation decreases constantly. She has a bit of an easier time recovering it than the other heroes, though, due to her Healing Hands.
"In a single word, Pathologic is dark. And not 'we’re going to make our sequel a darker, more adult experience' dark. Not ‘teen angst’ dark. Pathologic is an endlessly bleak game with an atmosphere that smothers all hope. It’s ‘pensioner breaking a leg in his bedsit and no one finding out until the smell starts to get unbearable’ dark."
Daniel can be like this too, depending on which options you pick in his Dialogue Trees.
Sniper Pistol: Averted. Every weapon has an accuracy value (a random variance of how far the bullet actually hits from the crosshairs), and the revolver has the worst accuracy. If you want to snipe, you need to use the rifle, but even that's pretty unreliable at low durability. (It's also not a Sniper Rifle, i.e., no scope, so aiming over long distances with it can still be difficult.)
Soul Jar: Appears to be the primary purpose of the Polyhedron, though that's not all it can do.
Standard FPS Guns: Calling Pathologic a "standard FPS" would be laughable, so many of the traits inherent to the guns don't apply, even if the game does use them.
Knife Nut: There are two kinds, both of which have limited durability, undermining their use as Emergency Weapons. They can cause a One-Hit Kill if you use them to attack an absurdly tiny hitbox located around the back of the neck, but due to the fact that people shift from side to side when walking, as well as the rather long delay when attacking, it's very hard to actually pull it off.
Handgun: The derringer is roughly equivalent to the pistol in most shooters, but you can forget about ammo being plentiful.
Revolvers Are Just Better: The revolver actually subverts many of the standard tropes surrounding it; it's more powerful than the derringer, but still one of the weakest guns overall.
Sniper Rifle: The rifle is hard to classify, actually — while it is the most accurate weapon, it doesn't have a scope, so it's not a Sniper Rifle. It's not a Marksman Gun either, since it can only hold one bullet at a time.
Sawed Off Shotgun: You only get it halfway through the game, though it is quite effective at killing large mobs.
Strange Girl: Laska, the keeper of the cemetery who communicates with the city's dead, singing to them and bringing offerings to their tombs.
Ospina, a girl from the steppes who calls herself an evil spirit and keeps creepy dolls lying around her house.
Stupid Evil: Acting this way is one of the quickest ways to doom yourself; going on random killing sprees and kicking puppies will drive down your Reuputationfast.
Timed Mission (plus In Universe Game Clock): Basically the entire game. All quests must be finished the day they were received. The game spans 12 days, and you know this from the very beginning.
Translation Trainwreck: The game itself has a notoriously awful translation, but isn't this bad. The manual, on the other hand...
Trauma Inn: Averted for the most part. Though exhaustion will always decrease, you'll only recover health if you take painkillers beforehand. It can also be a double-edged sword: hunger will always increase while sleeping, as will the infection level if you're already infected.
Twist Ending: And... how! More like a series of twist endings, to be precise. Nope, we won't dare spoil it for you. Your mileage will definitely vary about whether it's more of a Karmic Twist Ending or Cruel Twist Ending...
The game's original Russian title - Pestilence: The Utopia - hints at this, along with a short throwaway dialogue with one of the town's Upper Class TwitNPCs.
Also, russian word for pestilence is "Mor", making the title a Shout Out of Thomas More and his Utopia
Video Game Cruelty Potential: In-universe, during a bonus scene in the Polyhedron, but minus the "video" aspect of "game." No, seriously.
Video Game Physics: It's mainly used just to calculate falling damage - and it's pretty unforgiving about it too. The player characters' legs must be made of plaster to break from such short falls...
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Many of the characters who look like they're going to be the Big Bad turn out to have their own beliefs, morals, and reasons for their actions, turning them into this.
Wham Episode: Day 6 in the Bachelor's scenario. Up until that point, things have actually been going surprisingly well — you've managed to set up a hospital and isolation ward, and your fellow scientist Rubin has even managed to isolate a vaccine (albeit at a cost). But then everything starts going to pieces.
Firstly, Rubin has a My God, What Have I Done? moment because of yesterday's events, and turns himself into the authorities. He is subsequently executed. You're on your own now in your battle against The Plague.
Secondly, a plague carrier somehow managed to infiltrate the hospital you set up, causing death and despair. The town is now degrading into madness and hysteria trying to hunt town the perpetrator.
Thirdly, Saburov has gone mad with power — power you gave him yourself. He's now arresting people with wild abandon and little basis. If you don't pay their bail by midnight, the Inquisitor will almost certainly kill them.
Fourthly, a mob of arsonists is trying to burn down the Apiary because they believe it's the source of the plague. Even Vlad Senior, the overseer of the place, doesn't seem very concerned about this — and he later reveals that the infection has indeed found its way into the Apiary...
To top it all off, the Inquistor is poised to arrive the next day, and if you can't stop the disease by then, they are likely to take the reins themselves and destroy the plague at any cost.
Probably not coincidentally, this is the point where the red angels of death start appearing in the infected districts.
What You Are in the Dark : One of the main themes of the game. The plague and the methods you employ as a character in order to stop it and save the city could be interpreted as one big Secret Test of Character.
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