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Escape
Ray emerged from the rubble of the lab, climbing through a crack in the metal girders and concrete until the blinding light of the sun hit his face. After searching around the rubble aimlessly for a little bit, he found a medkit and made his way into the outskirts. After coming across no signs of life beyond the increased plant growth for two days, he finally noticed some movement through an alleyway, and just before he could follow it and yell out to see who it was, Vince grabbed him from behind, shushing him until the movement passed. Ray then proceeds to follow Vince despite his repeated threats, having nowhere else to go and not having seen any other human beings.

Eventually Vince reaches his breaking point with Ray, turning around and yelling at him to get lost, which confuses Ray, as he explains to Vince that he is lost. Vince’s earlier yell attracted the attention of some InSpec goons, which swiftly make their way to the pair, incapacitating Ray quickly.

Internship
Vince and Ray are strapped with modified house arrest anklets, designed to kill them upon any tampering or at the press of a button. Here they meet the third person who was captured and assigned to their Intern team, Alex. The CEO of InSpec, Sarah Spec, informs them that they are tasked with entering the Greenhouse in search of the rumored "Heart", which many believe is responsible for the extreme growth of plants. If they return, they will be set free and compensated for their work.

They are given a week's worth of food as supplies, and escorted out of the building, making their way towards the center of the city.

MacArthur's Park
Cornered by an oncoming horde of leaves, the trio run into a nearby gated park, which to their surprise has been trapped with an assortment of spinning blades, crushing machines, and the like. After nearly dying from these multiple times, they finally are met with a small child pointing a shotgun in their face. He forces them inside, and introduces himself as MacArthur, telling them that in order to make sure they're not "goons lookin' to steal our food", he won't disable the traps until his father arrives.

The Cascades
In order to get deeper into the city, the Interns need to cross a quarter mile of river, but every bridge has been destroyed by falling buildings and overgrowth, meaning they must go by boat. Luckily, they were able to find one that with just a few repairs would be able to get them across the currents. All appears to go well at first, until Vince starts to notice movement under the waves, causing him to realize the kelp below has been following them. In this arc they fight a Knight Branch.

Chapel Perilous
The Interns are captured in their sleep, and forced to be props for a stage play performed by the leader of a cult, worshipping him and his abilities as an actor. They are bound and placed in cloth sacks, and told to be the still writhing corpses of those who had fallen to a powerful demon who had rampaged across a medieval empire. After the play, the leader informs his stagehands that the old props had gotten "stale", and as such they should be disposed of. Escaping from his sack by breathing heavily until it dissolved enough for him to squeeze through, Ray cuts off his bindings on a nearby shard of glass from a broken light, and frees the other two. Searching through the backstage areas, they find enough food to feed a large settlement for a month, as well as several other people bagged in a similar way to how they were, some of them moving while others lay completely still. Over the course of the arc they discover that the cult does not include the audience, and that the leader has taken their food stores by force and will only relinquish rations to those who attend his "performances."

Burn a Picture (Working Title)
The Interns descend a sunken building, the layout shifting more and more the further they go. In reality, they are inside the trunk of a large tree, being controlled by a Bishop Branch. It is capable of reading Ray's thoughts through the pheromones he unintentionally exudes.

Danse Macabre (Working Title)
The Interns discover a private militia, lead by wheelchair-ridden Achilles, an ex-military operative who was discharged due to his sudden development of lung cancer. Achilles was recovering from surgery when the world ended, and as such he assumes his son had been killed the day it happened. He sees Ray as a second chance to keep his son, and when Ray gets incapacitated and taken to their on-site infirmary, he makes a personal visit to speak with him. A majority of Achilles' actions in this arc are an attempt to persuade Ray to stay with him, which ultimately ends in Ray and Vince being trapped in a dark basement while Achilles slowly searches for them with a loaded revolver, ready to take him by force.