Roland Childs was a private investigator hired to track down Viktor, who was rumored to be somewhere in Romania. He also created several tape recordings to document his findings during his investigation.
Rise of Nightmares[]
Having originally planned on retiring from being a private investigator, Roland was approached by a woman representing the Thomas Foundation who requested him on their behalf to locate one of their ex-employees, Viktor Fleischer, in exchange for a substantial fee, which he gladly accepted as his last job. Roland arrived in the forest located somewhere in eastern Europe where Viktor was rumored to be, he felt dread once he had seen the forest due to the rumors circulating about it being cursed as well as its known history of misery and bloodshed.
Roland joins his guide, Dorin, and made their way over the mountain trails until they came across crude yet eerie grave markers. Dorin panicked and quickly fled, things became worse for Roland as the map left behind by Dorin was nothing but a scrap of paper and was forced to travel blindly further into the forest. While attempting to find his way out of the forest, Roland came across numerous disturbingly defiled corpses that seems to have been brutally butchered. Roland came across an ancient and decrepit graveyard, and found an entrance to an underground chamber. He enters the underground chamber, only to find several corpses fitted with strange mechanical parts laid on pedestals. Shortly after recording his findings, the corpses came to life and attacked him. Roland punches one of them straight in the face and quickly fled from the chamber.
Roland ventured further into the forest while wielding a semi-automatic pistol he had brought along in order to protect himself from the altered corpses. He emerged from the forest and found himself near an ancient, crumbling mansion. Expecting that the mansion too will be filled with other dangers, Roland managed to make his way inside through a collapsed wall on the mansion's east end. While inside, Roland discovers that the entire residence is full of the same altered corpses he had encountered earlier, as well as a dungeon full of captives subjected to various torture. Roland begins to suspect that Viktor himself was responsible for this madness. While there, he had also encountered a hysterically ranting woman clad in a formal dress, suspecting it to be Mary, Viktor's wife who had disappeared along with him, believing that she had succumbed to the same madness as her husband. As he spent more time in the mansion's grounds, Roland discovered that the mansion is a treasure trove of ancient documents and alchemical tools, possibly gathered there for research purposes during the war. Roland deduced that Viktor most likely learned of the mansion's existence and took up residence there to further his own research. As Roland made his way through Viktor's dungeon, he ran into a young couple, a girl with mystifying eyes and a solidly built young man, both fatigued by the torture subjected to them. Roland tried to open their cell door, but found it impossible to open. Unable to help, Roland chose to lie to them that he would get help and fled, though he sensed that the girl might have seen through his lies.
Trivia[]
- Roland could be considered an equivalent to Roger Howard from Dead Island, as both characters share similar roles in each of their perspective games.
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