Timeline

This timeline lists all known events in the Outlast franchise.

1899

Unknown date

Otto and Arora Kress are born to Anton Kress and his wife, who dies in childbirth.

1918

October 20

Rudolf Wernicke is born in Germany.

1923-1924

Unknown date

Leland Coyle is born.

1933-1937

Unknown date

Sullivan Knoth is born.

1938

Unknown Date

US Chemical company Murkoff is exposed selling weaponized Diphosgene to German forces.

September 6

A report is written in Berlin regarding the progress of Dr. Wernicke's work on the Morphogenic Engine.

1943

May 11-30

The Battle of Attu plays out in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Cornelius Noakes serves at said battle, presumably in affiliation with the US Airforce.

June

During Project Walrider, Wernicke records three instances of spontaneous bleeding. Half a dozen test subjects begin to develop brain tumors. Autopsies reveal the tumors are pure lead.

1945

April 1 - June 22

The Battle of Okinawa plays out in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Leland Coyle serves at said battle as a Marine.

1947

Unknown Date

Leland Coyle joins the Police Force in Blackwell, Oklahoma.

1948

Unknown date

The OSS initiates Operation Paperclip, recruiting scientists from Nazi Germany to conduct research for the USA.

1949

Unknown date

Dr. Wernicke emigrates to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.

April 30

A. Bradley Avellanos proposes cooperation with CIA to the board of Murkoff, initially in the capacity of chemical refinement for heroin, with the deal posing a great financial opportunity, as well as implications of legal protection for the company.

1952

Unknown date

Shirley Pierce is committed to Mount Massive Mental Hospital for hypnotherapy treatments due to bedroom-inspired hysteria and marital issues.

1953

January 12

H.J. Easterman is interviewed by Jameson Lawler to assess his usefulness for CIA studies on Brainwashing subjects of the Korean People's Army in Hong Kong.

February 9

H.J. Easterman arrives in Hong Kong to study the methodologies of brainwashing.

1954

February 10

Misses Jackson and Pierce are subjected to experiments by the CIA as part of the MKUltra program, regarding which they have total amnesia.

April 30

Rudolf Wernicke is officially recorded as citizen of the United States.

April 19

Dr. H.J. Easterman receives an invitation from Olivier W. Baranczyk to meet the researchers in Los Alamos.

July 5

Airman Jerome Gilette brutally slays San Antonio family of five, and molests their farm animals after a woman in white offers him a piece of chewing gum during July 4th celebrations, after the consumption of which he blacks out for several days until law enforcement finds him nude and disoriented among the hogs on the families premises.

1955

February 7

News Article is released stating the following: Law enforcement raid "Futterland Studios" after Phyllis Futterman's criminal escapades of conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, and racketeering; two officers die, five are injured in the process of her being apprehended. Sometime after the fact Futterman is sentenced to life in prison, and committed as an inmate in Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia.

April

Emily Barlow graduated from Saint Mary's College at Omaha, Nebraska with an Associate Degree in Science Nursing.

October 14

In a Meeting between Jameson Lawler and A. Bradley Avellanos they discuss the Suicide of Dr. H.J. Easterman's brother Stanley , as well as the their mother's withholding of Information from Hendrick about Stanley's two prior attempts.

November 3

Moses Scarfiotti is interviewed by A. Bradley Avellanos, assessing if he is a suitable architect for the environments of Project LATHE in Sinyala.

December 28

In a Meeting between Dr. H.J. Easterman and Clyde Perry they discuss what constitutes a Prime Asset, and what Perry should be looking for in his hunt for adequate individuals.

1956

Unknown date

Dr. Bruce Newhouse starts working at Mount Massive on hypnotherapy treatments for patients, during which time he treats Shirley Pierce.

Shortly before February 16

Following his surveillance, Clyde Perry goes to interview Leland Coyle in a bar, under pretences of bribery. Coyle however sees through Perry's cover almost immediately, and proceeds to violently assault him, breaking two of his fingers, and further injuring him very badly in the process to the point where Perry's urine is bloody after the fact.

February 16

After the Altercation with Coyle, Perry retreats to Wichita, Kansas, to evade Coyle and take time to heal from the confrontation, as well as deliver his research reports on the policeman's surveillance over TELEX.

December 13

Clyde Perry goes to interview Phyllis Futterman in Holmesburg Prison.

1957

March 16

Clyde Perry visits Buffalo, New York, where the Kress estate is currently being excavated, following Otto and Arora Kress' crimes being exposed. In his letter to Avellanos, he speaks of a great opportunity for Murkoff, considering authorities desperately want to cover this ordeal up, and the preexisting relationship between the Murkoff Corporation and Kress Chemical.

1958

April 15

J. Lawler budgets and authorizes continued research into Dr. Wernicke's Project Walrider as part of Project MKUltra.

May/June

The first iteration of PROJECT LATHE fails, with a total of 171 people either dead or injured; casualties include Experimental Population, Murkoff Staff, and Visitors. The immediate recommendation is for the project to be halted indefinitely.

August 25

PROJECT LATHE TWO is officially authorised after Dr. H.J. Easterman successfully pitches his proof of concept to higher ups at Murkoff and Los Alamos.

September 19

Documents that classify the different archetypes of the Experimental Population of Sinyala are penned, and distributed as memorandums to Sinyala Staff.

1959

Unknown date

The Murkoff Corporation conducts group experiments for CIA program MKUltra.

March 5

Henrietta Grubbs' therapy is deemed a failure, after she presumably died from fatal injuries sustained after she initiated an attack on Prime Asset Leland Coyle. Grubbs - starting out as a Reagent - had previously been Reagent, was transferred to Experimental Population, following a failed trial which left her with devastating injuries. She was designated to the "Heavy Ex-Pop" category, but refused to be subservient to the Prime Assets, leading to her ultimately lethal altercation with Coyle.

April 12

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 0877 in San Antonio Texas, conducting all trigger tests successfully.

May 5

Sinyala's very own Biohazard Disposal Facility is shut down and subsequently abandoned in favour of industrial scale meat grinders purchased from Liberty Meat, that are henceforth used for the disposal of bodies. This decision was made both as a cost cutting measure, as said grinders are able to grind bodies down into a slurry that is far easier to dispose of than intact bodies, and because the defunct facility posed more risk for Murkoff Staff to be injured or infected.

June 20

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 0946 in Muncie, Indiana . Over the course of those days, Perry observes odd behaviour from 0946 and conducts trigger tests with exceptional results.

June 22

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 0946 in Muncie, Indiana. 0946 follows an adolescent girl home, succeeding the viewing of a theatre screening of 'The Beauty and the Beast' at which he had met and approached her among other adolescents. Perry is forced to neutralise him at 11:06PM when he attempts to break into the girl's home.

July 1

Reagent 0877 is sent to Los Alamos to be studied, due to his unusually long post LATHE TWO survival. Olivier Baranczyk is put in charge of his processing.

July 20

Reagent 1733 is interrogated about her repeated usage of the "poem": "EVERYONE, GREED, REGRET, EVERYONE, GREED, OPORTUNITY (stet), REGRET, EVERYONE". She explains the interrogating scientists what these words mean to her, and that her friend Amelia greatly inspired her to express herself in this manner.

August 7

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616, in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the eleventh day of his surveillance, and 1616 has been fired from his job in a shoe department store after groping a customer. Trigger tests are passed exceptionally. Perry observes a number of behavioural oddities from 1616, of most note being him holding metal objects to his eye and turning in circles until he arrives at an estimated heading of 315°.

August 9

Reagent 1616 sells all his possessions, and heads to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

August 10

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He applies for jobs as a cobbler and photographer. 1616 murders a sex worker he had propositioned for her services, after a trigger test is conducted successfully, though the lethal outcome was more or less accidental, as Perry could not interfere quickly enough.

August 11

Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1616 shows no memory of what happened the previous day, instead he resumes his compass like behaviour, this time heading approximately at an angle of 290°, a heading which Perry notes is just shy of the location of Sinyala.

August 28

Easterman makes note of Wernicke's reoccurring visits to the Sleep Room in Sinyala, even participating in Reagent's paralytic trauma therapy.

September 22

PROGRAM GEISTER is discussed between Lawler and Avellanos.

A mail correspondence between Lawler and Avellanos references their "Cuban Adventures", and how the Reagents failed to neutralise their target. This however - Avellanos argues - wasn't in fact a failure, but another trial for the reagents, where more valuable data could be sourced.

September 25

As Easterman and Avellanos discuss the fiasco of their activities in Cuba, the latter reveals that the Reagent dispatched to Havana was in fact only responsible for one of eight murders during their stay, the others having been committed by a man only referenced to by their contacts as "Lupa" or "Lupara" .

September 30

After CIA Agents loose track of Franco Barbi during their surveillance of him in Miami, Florida, Avellanos writes to Clyde Perry, instructing him to go and find Barbi instead.

October 1

PROGRAM GEISTER is Proposed to the board.

Clyde Perry manages to establish contact to an associate of Salvatore Barbi in New Orleans. During their meeting Perry gains valuable knowledge about Franco Barbi's childhood and eventual disownment due to his affair with Salvatore's fourth wife Angelina Barbi. Said associate then tips Perry off to look for Franco back in Florida.

October 5

Clyde Perry ascertains more information about Franco Barbi, and stakes out the motel and workplace of Honey Island Jenny - a prostitute known to provide her services to Barbi. During his surveillance of the establishment he would hear screams from the desk clerk of the motel, at 3:44 AM. Upon his investigation Perry finds Jenny dead, and is subsequently attacked and gravely injured by Barbi, who burst out of the dead woman's stomach. Perry barely manages to crawl away and call for help over the telephone.

October

PROGRAM GEISTER has officially been approved and authorised for implementation in Sinyala.

November 4

Avellanos commissions Scarfiotti to start work on a new trial environment for Sinyala: "The Docks"

November 6

Clyde Perry offers up his resignation from his post in the Collections Department after his particularly violent encounter with Franco Barbi, which even after extensive surgeries left him with mobility issues that would otherwise be necessary for this usual field work. He still offers to be reassigned to a different Department, as he is eager to continue his work for the Murkoff Corporation.

November 8

Millionaire Jacque Trégouët is found dead and mutilated following a tip by an anonymous caller.

November 9

The newspaper Article titled "Bizarre Millionaire Suicide" is published in a Swiss Newspaper, detailing the circumstances of the death of Jacque Trégouët.

November 18

The Department for Historical Refinement is established following a meeting between Clyde Perry and A. Bradley Avellanos. In said meeting, Avellanos reveals to Perry that illicit documents have found their way into the trial environments, and that it is now Perry's responsibility as the Director of Historical Refinement to contain the spread of documents as well as find out who is distributing them for Reagents to find in the first place.

November 20

Clyde Perry reviews leaked documents from the Trial environments, and brings it to H.J. Easterman's attention just how inaccurate his spelling and dating of otherwise important documents really is - much to the latter's annoyance.

November 26, Thanksgiving

Clyde Perry interviews Cornelius Noakes about a select array of documents he had lent out, that had not been leaked into the trial environments yet, namely, the files about the Night Hunter archetype. Perry is satisfied after Noakes explains that he had merely been studying the specs of the Ex-Pop's equipment because of its more refined nature in comparison to the Reagent's implements.

December 2

Lawler informs Avellanos of Gottlieb's frustrations with Murkoff's unsuccessful "Cuban Adventures", and how the agency has garnered more data that he wishes to show Avellanos in a timely manner.

December 5

Lawler and Avellanos discuss the souring relations between the US and Cuba, with Lawler revealing to Avellanos just how severe a nuclear winter would be, and how low the temperatures could really get. Avellanos correctly assumes Lawler to bring this up to discuss whether or not Sinyala could train Reagents to operate in extremely cold conditions. Avellanos promises that Murkoff could develop a way to achieve this.

December 6

Avellanos, Scarfiotti and Easterman conceptualise the "Winter Kills" Program. As Avellanos and Scarfiotti are having a conversation about possible ulterior motives of Lawler pertaining to his overly friendly attitude toward Murkoff and Avellanos herself especially, Easterman can be heard loudly humming and rocking in his chair in the background, much to Scarfiotti's annoyance. After Easterman waxes philosophically about the potential of Winter Kills, Avellanos assures her two subordinates that as long as it makes Murkoff Money, the board will green light the program.

1960

January 1

A New Year's Celebration is held at Sinyala, during which Dr. H.J. Easterman personally meets Sidney Gottlieb for the first time. Easterman and other scientists first celebrate in the cantina, then view a New Prime Asset, and after that they apparently drunkenly did things to unconscious Reagents that even he himself sees as them crossing the line; he does not elaborate on that statement.

January 3

Easterman complains about a particularly straining hangover, that he doesn't seem to shake even three days after the celebrations. Most distressingly, he notices his hair falling out in clumps. On the evening of the same day, he finds that somebody slipped thallium into his coat's pocket, and that this is the reason for his excessive hangover symptoms. Easterman is unable to think of a singular culprit, suspecting Scarfiotti, Avellanos, Gottlieb, and even the Pharmacist Emily Barlow of this dangerous prank. He takes Prussian Blue to counteract the symptoms of the substance.

January 5

Moses Scarfiotti and Sidney Gottlieb discuss a new Trial Program which is to incorporate the research of a japanese doctor, who formerly worked in Unit 731.

January 6

Easterman's discomfort grows, after Avellanos tells him that he seems "blue", something that Easterman immediately interprets as an innuendo concerning his Prussian Blue treatment against his Thallium poisoning.

January 10

A. Bradley Avellanos interviews Doctor Jun Kusamura.

January 16

PROGRAM TOXIC SHOCK has officially been approved and authorised for implementation in Sinyala.

January 25

Due to the unanticipated amount of biohazard produced by PROJECT COUNTDOWN, Murkoff Cleanup Employees request more resources for the loading and unloading of human remains out of the trial environments.

January 26

Doctor Jun Kusamura is to arrive at Los Alamos, leaving the Sinyala Facility after TOXIC SHOCK commences.

Reagent 1733 is observed carving the words "EVERYONE, GREED, REGRET, EVERYONE, GREED, OPORTUNITY (stet), REGRET, EVERYO-" into the body of a deceased Reagent. She is interrupted by Ex-Pop who attack her, and seriously injure her neck and jaw. During her subsequent detainment under anaesthesia, 1733 could be heard apologising to one Reagent only known as "Amelia". After an interrogation that does not wield more information, 1733 passes on, presumably due to the injuries sustained in her Ex-Pop encounter.

January 27

During a conference between Moses Scarfiotti and A. Bradley Avellanos, She tells him that the current budget is locked, and that therefore Cleanup will not get the needed support.

January 28

Doctor Easterman forwards a budget report for the construction of the Inter-Trial Environment Shuttle Switching System to Murkoff's Board. Said system is put in place to make the ESCALATION THERAPY program possible. In the same letter, Easterman speaks condescendingly about Scarfiotti's doubts about the implementation of the system, commenting on how he would only voice his concern about its security if he - as the architect of the original system - didn't have full confidence in the base design already.

January 30

Reagents are implemented into the cleanup process to alleviate the sanitation team's workload.

February 2

Doctor Easterman violently assaults an unidentified Junior Staff member of Murkoff after not getting a satisfactory answer to a question during a conference.

Easterman and A. Bradley Avellanos discuss how it is possible for Franco Barbi to have forged working Ammunition for himself. Avellanos considers taking Franco's Lupara away from him, but Easterman strongly pushes back on the idea.

February 3

Doctor Easterman has a Junior Scientist hold Franco Barbi's Lupara against his head, unloaded at first, then loaded, then loaded and cocked. When Easterman told the Scientist to put the gun into his mouth - which he refuses - he demotes him to cleanup.

In a letter to the board, Moses Scarfiotti voices his concern about the upcoming "Docks" environment, with it housing a working heroin refinery along with highly corrosive chemicals, and wants it on record that he requested additional security for the environment. He stresses that when confronting Easterman with said concerns he was disregarded, therefore it ought be his responsibility should something happen.

February 4

Doctor Easterman resumes his experimentation with Franco Barbi's Lupara, this time inserting it into his mouth on his own volition.

February 5

The concept for the PRIME TIME program is discussed between Doctor Easterman and Avellanos.

February 7

Doctor Easterman and Scarfiotti argue about whether or not they let Franco Barbi have his self made buckshots, with Easterman insisting he keep them.

February 12

Doctor Easterman pries Clyde Perry for information about Reagent 0877, especially in regard to his myiasis, and the way Doctor Wernicke went about his therapy with him, as Easterman suspects Wernicke to infringe on his ideas. During the meeting, Easterman's nose starts to bleed.

February 15

Former Reagent - Now Employee - 0877 is to observe Trials in Sinyala for the week. Scientists are advised to disregard 0877's eccentric tendencies in behaviour and hygiene alike.

March 3

In a letter, Scarfiotti reprimands and threatens Cornelius Noakes over his perceived lacklustre care for the Reagent's ESOPs, as Leland Coyle is able to disable them with a strike of his electric baton.

March 19

In a meeting between Avellanos and Lawler, prior budgetary concerns regarding Sinyala are alleviated as Lawler promises to fudge money for counterrevolutionary training over to the facility.

March 27

In a meeting between Doctor Easterman, Moses Scarfiotti, and Cornelius Noakes, the three of them discuss the issue of signals getting crossed between fuse boxes. Noakes being responsible to engineer the bombs strapped to the Reagent's ESOP's, he protests his involvement, stating that he never signed up to kill anybody. When Easterman tries to manipulate him into compliance, Moses offhandedly reveals to him that he is no longer married to this wife Irene.

March 28

Doctor Easterman journals about finding out about him having divorced Irene about half a year ago. He is shown to be upset, as he has no memory of having signed the divorce papers, less so having had any intention to finalise a divorce in the first place.

April 2

A. Bradley Avellanos and Jameson Lawler discuss PROJECT COUNTDOWN in a meeting. During said meeting, it becomes apparent that they may have gotten closer than their professional relationship may allow.

April 11

At 10:58pm, group of Reagents enters a Trial inside The Docks environment. At 11:49pm only three of them return. Initial presumptions of the fourth member of the group having been killed or detonated as a consequence of the concurrent PROJECT COUNTDOWN are quickly proven wrong, when a Pusher Ex-Pop is found with his mask missing. At that point it is apparent, that the Reagent has escaped the confines of the Trial Environment.

April 12

Clyde Perry gets involved in the matter of the escaped Reagent. Due to the records of all involved Reagent having been erased, he is set to find the team members of the escapee. Perry is able to identify the reagent that had initiated the trial, his number being 0741. Questioning the Pusher wields no usable information to Perry. Additionally, sabotaged equipment and vandalism has been reported.

April 13

Word about the escaped Reagent reaches A. Bradley Avellanos, who informs Doctor Easterman about the situation. He asks Moses Scarfiotti to be informed, as him being Sinyala's architect could greatly help them to find the escapee.

Clyde Perry's interrogations of the escaped Reagent's team mates wields no new information, as they vehemently deny a fourth member even being present.

April 14

Doctor Easterman interrogates the escapee's teammates using his own methodologies, and is able to find out that the Reagent uses the name "Amelia".

April 15

Moses Scarfiotti questions Cornelius Noakes about the latter about him disassembling a radio that had mysteriously been placed within the trial environment. Noakes merely states that he cannot recall what he did, as he often scavenges damaged goods for parts he can repurpose. Scarfiotti regardless presses on about why Noakes burnt the radio's tape, which Noakes only answers evasively.

April 16

In an effort to investigate the currently unfolding situation of Amelia's breach, Doctor Easterman, Alice Bradley Avellanos and Clyde Perry work to find leads to her identity, deciding to interrogate Dorris Ritter because of her many connections she has forged in Sinyala, one of which apparently includes the facility's architect Moses Scarfiotti. Easterman strongly discourages Perry to harm Dorris, and retrieves the Case File of Henrietta Grubbs, a former romantic partner of Dorris', as Perry hoped to use information of Henrietta as leverage to perhaps use to pressure her into giving up information she may have about the breach.

Additionally, Avellanos directed the research personell to look for the name Amelia in the files, which resulted in them finding out about the fatal incident of Reagent 1733, and her previous mentions of Amelia in an interrogation about a poem she obsessively repeatedly wrote down in her cell.

April 17

Lawler contacts A. Bradley Avellanos over telephone, as he is currently in Morocco. He informs her, that there is a possibility the Agency may enlist Murkoff's assistence in presumably obtaining uranium from Moroccan mines. Lawler then tells Avellanos to await a call from the Staatsveiligheid.

Clyde Perry conducts his interrogation on Dorris Ritter, managing to find out Amelia Collier's full name in the process, as well as the fact that she was in Sinyala in an effort to find her significant other. In a letter to Avellanos preceding Greene's interrogation, Perry mentions having a lead on who the leak leaving confidential documents in the trial environments may be, but keeps the information secret for fear of this correspondence to be leaked as well. Upon further digging into Amelia's files, Perry is able to identify her boyfriend as Damon Greene, an alcoholic, who had volunteered for LATHE Two hoping he would overcome his substance abuse issues. Due to Greene and Collier being held in separate Sleep Rooms, Greene was unaware of her even being in Sinyala, but in his confrontation with Perry, he asserts that Amelia is steadfast in her convictions, and is not to be underestimated. Perry goes on to torture Greene in hopes of driving out Collier should she somehow be watching, but only ends up killing him in the process.

In a journal entry of Easterman's, he strongly voices his suspicion of Moses Scarfiotti, upon finding out about deceased Reagent 1733, her mentioning Amelia on at least two separate occasions, and at some point referring to Moses. She herself asserts she was talking about the biblical figure, however in Easterman's mind this is proof that Scarfiotti is plotting against him. He also notes seeing tendrils of fhungi in the mirror, prompting him to refuse looking in the mirror again.

April 21

Sinyala Facility is under full lockdown due to countless amount of Reagents escaping through the shuttles that were hacked by Amelia Collier.

A. Bradley Avellanos, Clyde Perry, and Scarfiotti went to the conference to discuss the prevention of Reagents escaping. Scarfiotti said that the automatic shuttle operations can be stopped using punch cards that were kept in Easterman's office.

April 22

A. Bradley Avellanos and Clyde Perry discuss informing the board about the Sinyala Facility breach. When Clyde raises concerns of the facility shutting down, Avellanos replies that Murkoff is not concerned about the mess due to its profit brought into Project Lathe and only seeks someone to blame for the breach. Clyde suggests identifying whoever authorized the new switching stations for Escalation in January and fabricating a convincing story. Avellanos told Clyde that if he could resolve the problem, Murkoff would promote him for his loyalty.

Clyde Perry, Scarfiotti, and the security personnel broke down the door to Easterman's office to retrieve the punch cards. However, they discovered that Easterman was in a state of physical and mental instability, and managed to restrain and sedate him in a hospital bed.

April 23

A. Bradley Avellanos confronts Easterman, who is restrained in a hospital bed, to ask for his punch cards. When Avellanos informs him about the degree of urgency, Easterman tells her everything he knows based on the documents. Avellanos is more surprised that Easterman is aware of her private affairs with Jameson Lawler before he demands her to remove the straps.

A. Bradley Avellanos requests Jameson Lawler to delay his trip to the Sinyala Facility, likely due to an ongoing breach. Avellanos informs that the Kress chemical reports for Sidney Gottlieb will be put on hold and Doctor Jun Kusamura returned to Los Alamos. Avellanos also warns him to be more cautious about their personal conversations, which confuses Lawler, and said he will be told eventually or through the newspapers.

April 24

Clyde Perry, Security Guards, and the Scientists arrived at the abandoned disposal facility to find Amelia Collier and stop the Reagents escaping. When Clyde discovers Amelia in the shuttle tunnels, he was tricked into stepping a blind mine and gets struck by a brick in the head, causing him to fall onto the tracks before he gets immediately ran over by the shuttle. After Amelia fled, Clyde saw Easterman appearing beside him and asked for his help. However, Easterman chooses to leave him for dead and tells Clyde, during his final moments, that he would find someone to blame for authorizing the switching stations for Escalation Therapy before losing consciousness. Amelia was physically beaten by the security guards, sedated by the scientist, and taken to the medical facility. Easterman orders the staff to place her on display in the Sleep Room as an example for Reagents attempting to escape.

Henrietta Grubbs was found attacking security guards attempting to apprehend the Reagents before she was eventually captured from the Biohazard Disposal Facility. When Easterman confronts her in the cage, he tells her they will make her better, beautiful, and free.

Casualties reported after the Sinyala Facility breach: 23 Ex-Pop, 27 Security Guards, 4 Scientists, 8 Maintenance, 44 Reagents.

April 26

A. Bradley Avellanos corresponds with Silas Knisely, the head of Mount Massive Asylum's Human Resources and Corrections Department. In her letter to him, she pitches a closer cooperation between Sinyala and Mount Massive, in which the latter would act as a supplier of patients for PROJECT LATHE.

April 29

A. Bradley Avellanos, Easterman and Scarfiotti discuss the sudden spread of graffiti in Trial environments with Amelia Collier's handwriting drawn by her followers. Avellanos makes a crude remark about correcting the behavior, while Scarfiotti asks how to stop the graffiti. Easterman suggests that Reagents crave leaders, proposing increased exposure to Prime Assets and the revival of Prime Time, including Franco Barbi. When Scarfiotti raises concerns about the environments, Easterman frames these issues as their art and potential for his subjects.

May 2

In his response to her letter, Silas Knisely, expresses curiosity to A. Bradley Avellanos about Murkoff Operations at the Sinyala Facility, and enthusiasm at the prospect of a cooperation between it and Mount Massive Asylum. He mentions that Mount Massive's Department for Human Resources and Corrections had previously aided in the support for the travel of Dr. Wernicke to Haiti, and that he would happily arrange for a meeting at Sinyala. Knisely furthermore states that Dr. Newhouse approves of a patient transfer, for which the most dangerous patients that might fit the profile of a Prime Asset would have to be taken off their chemical restraints in order to be assessed for the distinguishing Behavioural Markers. Already, Knisley makes note of a particular female patient, who has prior experience with Dr. Wernicke.

May 18

Scarfiotti reports to the board that all security vulnerabilities in the Sinyala Facility has been fully sealed and hardened. The Biohazard Disposal Facility has been left opened for renovation as a Trial environment for PROJECT SCAVENGER. The construction of the Shopping Mall Trial environment has been completed, with the next one to be themed around Kress Twins’ original crimes.

June 1

Easterman orders the personnel from the security and the patient relations to remove Amelia from the Sleep Room and place her under urgent care in the medical facility.

June 14

Dr. Easterman meets with Silas Knisley, to discuss a roster of his patients that would be suitable to be introduced as Prime Assets in Sinyala. During said meeting one particular female patient stands out to Hendrick on account of her past and anatomically curious tongue. Over the course of their interaction, Easterman notes that Knisley seems familiar to him around the eyes, and proceeds to overstep Knisley's boundaries enough for the latter to clearly tell him to back away and keep his hands to himself. A minor physical scuffle ensues, and Knisley appears very uncomfortable during the rest of their exchange.

June 25

Easterman considered reopening the Rebirth program, utilizing Kress MIVIM (Kress Formula Mirror Image Visual Morphosia) chemicals on Reagents who chose Communal Rebirth so they can complete their final Trial with mirrored perspective.

June 20

Dr. Easterman journals about his frustrations with the Reagents' continued loyalty to Amelia Collier and her cause, even in their dreams. He is overtly displeased that instead of them idolising him, they remain dedicated to her.

June 29

During a meeting between A. Bradley Avellanos and Jameson Lawler, the dangerous pyromanic tendencies of Reborn Reagents are discussed.

July 8

Dr. Easterman journals about him wanting to quell the Reagents love for fire somehow. He then drifts off into philosophising about him being a gift tasked to be a slave to history, and how he is now antagonistic towards the sun. To contrast his animosity to fire, he proceeds to note how water both symbolises birth and death. He recollects his childhood experience and relates them to this symbolism, recounting his Sunday chore of drowning mice, and his sexual self discovery in the bath.

July 13

DEEP BURN has officially been approved and authorised for implementation in Sinyala.

July 18

A Memorandum letter to the Engineering Department at Sinyala announces modifications that will be made to the insertion gates, on account of certain risk factors. Said modifications entail that there be no possible access overlap of Ex-Pop or Prime Asset insertion Gates. It is noted that all modifications will have to be signed off by architect Moses Scarfiotti before they can actively be used for Trials.

1961

May 21

Father Clarke conducts sermons for patients at Mount Massive Asylum.

1964

Unknown date

Shirley Pierce ceases being a patient at Mount Massive.

1965

Unknown date

Bruce Newhouse leaves employment at Mount Massive.

1966

November 26th

Sullivan Knoth works as a shoe salesman in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He receives his first vision from God while listening to the radio.

1967

Unknown date

Eddie Gluskin is born.

Three scientists are murdered by an unknown patient at Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Authorities order the asylum to cease all activities.

Knoth and his followers live communally on a luxury ranch owned by a wealthy woman named Lydia Degan. He records “The Gospel of Knoth.” With a warrant for health and safety violations, New Mexico police raid the ranch and arrest a dozen cult members. Knoth barely escapes with a handful of followers.

1968

Unknown date

Mount Massive Asylum ceases operations. Murkoff buries evidence of its crimes.

1969

Winter

Sullivan Knoth sacrifices an eye in exchange for his vision of Temple Gate. He and his followers caravan out into the Arizona Desert.

1971

Unknown date

Mount Massive Asylum is shut down amid scandal and government secrecy.

Sullivan Knoth and his followers finish building Temple Gate in the Havasupai Indian Reservation.

1972

Unknown date

CIA Director Richard Helms orders all MKUltra files destroyed. A small number of documents survive.

1974

Unknown date

Frank Manera is born.

1978

Unknown date

Murkoff expands mind control programs for public testing. Mass suicides ensue.

1980-1981

Unknown date

Chris Walker is born.

1985

December 27

Dr. Wernicke conducts an exit interview in Los Alamos, New Mexico regarding his work on the Morphogenic Engine and Project Walrider.

1987

Unknown date

Paul Marion passes the State Bar exam in Ohio.

1990

Unknown Date

William Hope is born.

1995

December

Blake Langermann, Lynn and their classmate Jessica attend St. Sybil High School. Jessica is found dead after having presumably committed suicide.

1997-1998

Unknown Date

Alison Marion is born.

Anna Lee is born.

2000

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Joanne Marion dies in the hospital of the rare blood disease she shares with her daughter Alice.

2006

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The Murkoff Corporation purchases the Spindletop Psychotherapy Clinic in Hattin, Texas, as part of Jeremy Blaire's "Research Through Charity" initiative.

2007

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Simon Peacock leaks Murkoff files and disappears.

2008

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Paul Marion and Pauline Glick are partnered as Murkoff Insurance Mitigation officers.

July

Dr. Wernicke moves to the Mount Massive Preserve to do charitable work for the Murkoff Corporation.

Late 2008

Marion and Glick solve the Hat Box Murders at the Spindletop Psychotherapy Clinic.

2009

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Mount Massive Asylum is reopened by Murkoff Psychiatric Systems for charitable work.

Chris Walker is interned as patient.

William Hope's mother Tiffany responds to an advertisement for free psychiatric care in the paper to get her son help for his clinical depression and disordered sleeping.

February 28

Dr. Wernicke is officially pronounced dead at the Mount Massive Preserve.

April 12

Billy starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.

2010

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Murkoff has issues with female employees experiencing psychosomatic pregnancies based upon the Morphogenic Engine's interaction with the immune system.

Melissa Cho files a lawsuit against Murkoff regarding the termination of her contract at Mount Massive Asylum based on gender selection.

November 1

Frank Manera starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.

2011

January 28

Chris Walker starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.

2012

October 4

An anonymous employee at Mount Massive complains to Human Resources on safety conditions at the hospital. The Pauls are sent to the asylum to investigate.

October

Richard Trager is fired from his post as an executive in Mount Massive and interned as patient of the Morphogenic Engine program.

October 28

Last corn harvest in Temple Gate.

2013

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Murkoff subsidiary Heartland Springs Charity begins construction of three Alsab-built water purification plants in Detroit.

Helen Granat begins removing Wernicke from structural and financial systems at Mount Massive Asylum.

Patients 14306-8, 14279-1, and 14868-1 are transferred from Project Walrider at Mount Massive Asylum to the Zeichner Facility.

Jennifer Roland requests reassignment from Mount Massive and is involved in experiments at Temple Gate.

January 7

Three more members of Temple Gate are sent to live with the Scalled. Val takes seven more orphans under her care; over forty orphans in total.

February 14

Eddie Gluskin starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.

March 9

Val sacrifices six orphans. She receives more visions regarding the infanticides Sullivan Knoth commits for the Testament of the New Ezekiel. She starts to question her commitment to the faith.

May 9

Miles Upshur publishes his article The Devil's Bargain on the history of the Murkoff Corporation's manipulation of the global water crisis and human rights violations.

June 17-19

Val's vision of another God become clearer and she fully embraces her own faith, taking other Heretics with her as she departs the Testament of the New Ezekiel.

September 17

Waylon Park leaks information regarding the experiments at Mount Massive Asylum to Miles Upshur. He is consequently arrested and processed as a patient.

September 18

The Mount Massive Asylum Incident takes place. The events of Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower occur. Waylon Park escapes Mount Massive Asylum.

Waylon Park meets with Miles Upshur and Simon Peacock, releases his footage of the incident to expose Murkoff, sets his home on fire to get rid of any evidence or leads, and flees with his family.

Paul Marion and Pauline Glick investigate the Mount Massive Asylum Incident. They search for Waylon Park to prevent leaks incriminating the Murkoff Corporation, but are unsuccessful.

Late September

A few days after the Mount Massive incident, the Pauls follow Miles Upshur's bank account activity to Nathrop, Colorado. They meet William Hope's mother Tiffany Hope and discover he has survived Mount Massive. Murkoff believes they eliminated Billy's manifestation of The Walrider, but Paul is not certain after he witnesses it switch hosts to a colony of ants.

Paul Marion conducts a forensic gaslight to discredit Waylon Park's video.

The Pauls investigate Miles Upshur's residence in Washington, DC. A neighbor states she has seen him, although he has been pronounced neutralized by the Murkoff Corporation. The ant colony from Colorado destroys any evidence left in his apartment. Paul discovers that they are being followed by Simon Peacock. Peacock gives Marion coordinates to Temple Gate and asks for his help in destroying Murkoff. Paul refuses.

October

Simon Peacock contacts Paul Marion at his residence with the coordinates, claiming his daughter Alison is connected to the experiment being conducted at Temple Gate.

Paul chooses to disregard Pauline's orders not to investigate and flies to Arizona. He follows the coordinates and falls under the effects of the Radio Towers. He encounters Anna Lee and another cultist, whom he kills in their confrontation. He passes out from his wounds as Anna Lee flees.

Anna Lee is found wandering on a stretch of the highway, ultimately picked up and taken to a hospital where she is found to be pregnant with a remarkably healthy baby boy and to have sustained similar brain injuries as patients of Mount Massive Asylum. Paul Marion is also taken to the same hospital. Pauline Glick strangles Anna Lee to death at the hospital in order to cover Murkoff's tracks and contain evidence of the Temple Gate experiment.

Paul Marion discovers upon returning home that his daughter Alice has been kidnapped to force his cooperation.

The cultist body is brought back to Temple Gate by Marta.

Blake Langermann and Lynn Langermann take an interest in the Jane Doe story and investigate. Pauline assigns Paul to the case to prevent the Langermanns from uncovering the truth of Anna Lee's murder. He does not prevent their investigation.

Two weeks after the events of Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 5, the events of Outlast 2 take place.

The Walrider destroys Murkoff's Radio Towers in Temple Gate. Seven hours after the destruction, Pauline Glick and a Murkoff cleanup crew arrive. The only survivor found is Blake, now in a catatonic state. Pauline orders him to be taken away to the Elrich Black Site facility to be interrogated with Morphogenic Engine compatible technology.

Meanwhile, Paul Marion is interrogated by Simon Peacock, who needs his help finding The Walrider.

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Simon Peacock is pronounced dead.

Paul Marion turns himself in to an FBI office in Detroit, Michigan, after doing an unspecified amount of damage to the Murkoff Corporation. He confesses his crimes in the service of the corporation while being treated for a head wound, which must be operated on due to a severe infection.

Pauline Glick recovers at a Murkoff Rehabilitation Center with a wounded arm and tells the mitigation agents hunting down Paul her side of the story.