Hollow Town — The Flesh Recalibration

BUREAU OF SOIL & STRAIN · FORM 7-S

Field Notebook

Property of the auditor on duty. If found, return to Sector 7-South. Do not read the back pages.

Invite your crew — send them this page

Esc closes the book. Your settings are pencilled in on the right.

Settings

Mouse sensitivity1.0

Field of view80

Volume90

Music60

Quality

Safe mode creatures ignore you · no damage

Auto-fire on target

Aim assist

Second fire button

Button size1.00

Moving

W A S D: walk
Shift: sprint
Space: jump · at a low wall or window: vault over (through the glass)
Ctrl: tap: crouch · hold: crawl
C: crouch
Alt: dash · just before landing: roll (halves fall damage)
Shift+Ctrl: slide
E: use · open · search a cabinet or box · push a trolley · drive
hold E: pick up and carry furniture, crates, generators

Left thumb: move — push the stick all the way forward to run · Right thumb: drag to look (you can also drag on FIRE) · AIM: tap to toggle, hold to peek · CROUCH: tap to toggle, hold to crawl · the gold button appears when you can open, search, carry, drive or fix · the weapon button cycles weapons · auto-fire and aim assist are in Settings.

Fighting & gear

LMB RMB: fire · aim
R: reload
1 2 3: weapon slots
Q F: class abilities
4 5 6 7: medkit · stim · bandage · eat
G / T: use the selected item (grenade, molotov, mine…) / next item
X: detonate C4
V: run a copper wire between two things (Shift+V: cut it)
Tab: your pack: drop things (biomass too), crafting, stash
K: skills
hold J: full HUD
Enter: chat

FIRE (either side) shoots and turns · RELOAD under AIM · DASH, CROUCH, JUMP on the right · the top bar: MED, STIM, BAND, EAT use them at once · G uses the selected throwable or device · GEAR opens your pack (drop things, biomass too) · CHAT · II pauses and opens this book.

Bestiary

Silt-Leechcommon · everywhereSlithers fast across open ground, lunges when close, leaves a slime trail you can follow — or that follows you. Shoot it before it reaches your legs.

Suture-Houndpacks of 3–6A feral wolf stitched back together. Hunts the wounded. Weak at the seams.

Resonant"the Human Deer"Stands perfectly still while you watch it from afar. Up close it keeps walking at you, slowly, even under your stare — look away and it runs. It strikes on a steady beat.

Bone-Graft Apexthe Biome's immune responseRoars once, then charges in straight lines. Make it ram a wall: it staggers.

The Fleshthe wilds only · rarelyA hill of meat on clawed arms and spider legs: a skull grown into its chest over a maw of fangs, dozens of slit eyes that blink and follow you, side mouths on necks that shoot out and bite, faces that scream. It comes for whoever strays furthest — weaving, freezing, then rushing. It never enters the town. Run for the streets.

FeralsAntler-Wretch · Bin-Gnawer · Tree-Rat · Carrion HawkThe wildlife, recalibrated. The tame ones flee and are good meat; the mangy, raw ones attack.

Spore nodesbog, bone gardensPulsing pods. Burn or shoot them out for biomass.

Biomass: everything you kill pays some. Deposit it at the Bureau terminal for the quota — or drop it (Tab) for a teammate.

Survival notes

The safe house. You wake in the camp: nothing hunts you inside it, and nothing is born near it. Rest there.
Falling hurts. From about two metres up. Roll (Alt) just before you land to take half.
Search everything. Cabinets, nightstands, crates, ammo boxes and cardboard boxes hold ammunition, food, medicine — and now and then a gun.
Weapon crates stand at Bureau checkpoints, in warehouses and behind roller shutters (fix the fuse box, give it power).

Power. A generator needs fuel; run copper wire (V) from it to a work light, a fuse box or a street circuit.
Fuel sits in wrecks and drums — siphon it with a hose into bottles, canisters, jerrycans.
Torn walls and windows are ways in. Walk into a window to climb through it.
Smoke blinds them. Fire makes them panic.
Heavy things are carried low and slow — you can't shoot with your hands full.

— The Bureau protects. The Bureau provides.

HOLLOW TOWNTHE FLESH RECALIBRATION