A Plague Tale: Innocence – Chapter 2: The Strangers. The second chapter in A Plague Tale: Innocence is “The Strangers”. This chapter follows the de Rune children as they travel through a hostile village while escaping the Inquisition.
Take the clothes from the chest on the upper floor
Talk to the old lady
Take the tools from near the workbench
Take the piece of leather from the backyard
Fix the sling on the workbench
Talk to the old lady
Follow and protect Hugo
Find help
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Thanks to Beatrice’s sacrifice, Amicia and Hugo has successfully gotten out of the estate. Amicia is shielding Hugo from the truth about Beatrice. When they emerge from the stream they jumped into from the cliff, they stumble upon a village. Before going into the village, you need to pick up Gift 2: Amulets and Talismans. To find this, veer to the right when you first see the village, and keep going to a pier, as shown below. Veer right just after this stall.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Keep right, move underneath the red netting.A Plague Tale: Innocence – As soon as you are through underneath this red net, you’ll see the small pier.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Pick up Gift 2: Amulets and Talismans. Go back towards the village, and Hugo will run off to a crate of apples. They are all rotten. This will later enable you to get the chapter specific trophy, Feeding the Hungry.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Amicia tells Hugo not to take the rotten apples, and thus enable you to later get the chapter specific trophy. Go through the village. You will notice nobody wants to talk to you or help you. Some are downright hostile towards you. You do not know why. Continue to explore the village, and you will find Curiosity 3: Soap. When entering the village, keep right, and cross a stone bridge, then turn right directly after, and on a wooden table you will see the soap. See the screenshots below.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Enter the village, and keep right at this junction, towards the stone bridge on the right.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Cross over this bridge.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Turn right immediately after crossing the stone bridge. The soap is on a table in this area.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Pick up the soap. There are also rocks here, if you have space in your inventory. Go out of this area again, and keep right. Go straight until the road splits again, and keep right again.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Keep right here where the road splits and you see a stone statue in the wall to the right.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Keep right here where you see the white cross on the door. As soon as you go through the wooden fence on the right of the screenshot above, take a sharp right to find the apple tree.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Go right here, then veer left to see the apple tree. Simply pick an apple and give it to Hugo, to fulfil the requirements for the trophy Feeding the Hungry. Go back out of the garden where the apple tree is, and turn right. Now turn right again when you get to the dead end. Go up and you will walk in on a disturbing scene. If you are sensitive, I suggest you press and hold E to skip the cinematic. After this, you have to run again!
Escape the villagers
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Conrad and the other villagers are “cleansing” the village by burning those who are believed to be infected at the stake. It’s time to run, children!A Plague Tale: Innocence – As before, hold Shift and press W to run in the opposite direction of where you see the red indicators. The path is very linear, but it might require one or two attempts. After the first corner, you’ll see villagers in front of you. Take a sharp left. Again, villagers in front of you. Take a sharp right, and duck into a little house. Amicia will close the door. Hide behind the table from the guard, and distract him with a stone against the helmets.A Plague Tale: Innocence – If you’re out of rocks, take the rocks on the table, and hit the helmets on the left to attract the guard, then sneak past him.A Plague Tale: Innocence – As you get out of this house, you immediately need to start running again. Keep following the path, until you get to this wall and climb over it.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once over the wall, you have a few seconds breather. Go into the only open door you see there and start moving the cart so that you can climb up. Press E to grab the cart, then use the W and S keys to move the cart and the mouse to orient it. Steering the cart is relatively easy. When you get close enough to where it must go, the kids will let go of the cart.A Plague Tale: Innocence – With the cart in place, you can now help Hugo up and the n climb up yourself to the next section.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Here you can see another crate, but it is suspended, and you need it to get to that little window. You can shoot it down with your sling by aiming for the shiny metal kink as shown in the above screen shot.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Move the dropped cart as before, and get up on it to climb through the little window.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once you’re out of the stable, you will be safe until a woman inside a house alerts them of your presence. You need to start running again, until you get to this ladder. Tell Hugo to climb up, regardless of his complaints that it looks unsafe.A Plague Tale: Innocence – As Hugo said, the ladder breaks. You now have to go to your left and climb over the little wall. Shoot down the crate and let Hugo push it down for you.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once you’re up where Hugo is, you see the following scene. From here, go left.A Plague Tale: Innocence – You will get to these two, who will give you a glimpse into Conrad’s motivations for doing what he is doing. Distract the first guard with a stone against the helmets and sneak to the left behind the bush.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Just after you sneaked past the previous villager, you will come to the second guy, with his back towards you. Take the pot if you do not have one, and move into the tall grass. Throw the pot to his right to distract him, then sneak past on his left.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Just past this villager, you will be spotted again. Start running straight until you get to this door. Open it to enter the house.A Plague Tale: Innocence – The door to exit at the other side of the house is locked, so ask Hugo to climb through the window and open it for you from the outside. If Yoda was here, he’d say, “Run some more, you must!”A Plague Tale: Innocence – Keep running linearly. You’ll get to a dead end. Luckily for the children, an old woman, Clervie, opens the door for them to shelter them.
Take the clothes from the chest on the upper floor
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once the villagers leave, Clervie said you can take the clothes upstairs. The clothes belonged to her grand children. Go up these stairs and open the chest and get dressed. Hugo will throw a tantrum. Before going down again to talk to the old lady, you need to pick up Curiosity 4, Incense and Herbs on the desk at the back window.
Talk to the old lady
A Plague Tale: Innocence – After speaking to Clervie again, she gives you permission to repair your sling on her workbench. Go out of the door pictured at the top right.
Take the tools from near the workbench
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Take the tools here, then go out the door to your left.
Take the piece of leather from the backyard
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once outside, turn left and take the leather against the wall.
Fix the sling on the workbench
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Go back inside, and use the workbench to repair your sling.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Once upgraded, you get new options for upgrading your equipment. In the beginning, you can only upgrade your tolls at a workbench and only if you have tools. Later upgrades allow you to upgrade without tools and a workbench. Do not be distracted by that. You encounter enough workbenches in the game, and find enough tools to delay those upgrades. You need to upgrade your pouch first to carry the maximum materials, in order to get 100% upgrades achievement. This is easily possible if you upgrade the pouch first, then the rest. Now go back in to the house.
Talk to the old lady
A Plague Tale: Innocence – When you’re back in the house, and speaking to Clervie, the villagers come back and Hugo is making a racket!
Follow and protect Hugo
A Plague Tale: Innocence – Hugo runs away and crawls through the hole in the wall. Follow him. Go through the gate and run. Hugo is captured.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Hugo runs through this grate. You need to climb over the wall and over another wall again, then find him again.A Plague Tale: Innocence – Amicia’s first kill. This is the turning point for her. Until now, she has not murdered anyone. But she will do anything to protect her brother. Like you dd with the apples, aim at the villager with your sling and fire it. Meanwhile, Hugo runs through the gate at the far left. Follow him, and you will have to fight Conrad himself.A Plague Tale: Innocence – When you get to the end of the road, you must climb over a low wall. You will see Conrad has Hugo. It’s time to fight. Fighting Conrad is a little tricky at first. You first have to get his armor off. When he comes at you, dodge his attack by pressing A or D and holding Space when Conrad gets near. If you’re fast enough, he will miss, and expose some of the rings to you as he recompose, with his back turned towards you. Aim with them with your sling. But be careful! As you shoot more rings, he will become more agile as he drops his armor. Your last shot needs to hit his head.A Plague Tale: Innocence – The rings you need to aim at. Shoot them off one by one until he has no armor left. You need to be fast once he has no armor. It might take you a few tries.
Once Conrad is dead, Chapter 2: The Strangers will end.
Feeding the Hungry
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