How Many Gb Is Green Hell
Milan Skidmore
The Story or Plot is a series of events that was added to Green Hell in V.1.0. This page is a summary of events that explains some major parts of the story, and, thus, each of the following sections contains many spoilers.
Upon completing the tutorial, the first task listed in the players notebook is 'Find Mia', which prompts the player to begin exploring the Amazon rainforest and progressing through the story. Many story items can be found throughout the game, which expand on the background of the current situation. Using Jake's visions and various story items found throughout the narrative game, this page attempts to sort the fragmented story pieces into an chronological order.
Some time in 2013 Jake Higgins and his wife Mia make their first trip to the Amazon Rainforest. Here they discover the lost tribe of the Amazon called the Yabahuaca. Together they spend time studying and learning about the tribe and notice the tribespeople always seem in good health.
At some point Mia is diagnosed with terminal Lung Cancer. The cost for Mia's cancer treatments are extremely high, with hospital bills reaching into the thousands. The Brazilian pharmaceutical corporation known as Omolu Corp send letters to Jake, expressing a keen interest in his research especially around the natives' immunity and the access to medical substances they have. They offer a collaboration and are willing to fund Jake's travel expenses so he can study these medical substances.
With little left to lose, Jake takes up the offer from Omolu Corp. Jake and Mia then head back to the Amazon rainforest in the hopes of learning why the Yabahuaca people never get sick and possibly even find a cure for Mia's cancer.
It has been three years since Jake and Mia first found the Yabahuaca tribe. They set up camp a short distance from the Yabahuaca main village. Mia plans to go alone to see the Yabahuaca, while Jake stays behind to index new plant species. During conversations with Jake, she mentions that she is worried the tribe won't speak to them. Since Jake's book, the World Health Alliance and many scientists had started to get increasingly interested in the tribe, possibly even performing research on them. Jake expresses his concerns about Mia visiting them alone, but she reassures him; it's for the best, and they have a chance to achieve something and make a difference.
Before heading to the main village, Mia leaves a birthday present for Jake to find. The present is a solar battery powered smart watch. The date on the watch is Monday January 11th. (The year is presumably 2016 as this is the only year where the 11th of Jan falls on a Monday.)
Upon reaching the Yabahuaca village, Mia has no success with communicating with the tribe and is forced to sleep at the edge of the village. In one of Mia's Journal entries she describes that eventually she gains the trust of chief Kwini, who initiates her in to the tribe. Chief Kwini shares the secrets of the tribe in the form of a 'gift'.
After receiving the secrets discovered by Jake and Mia from their second trip to the Yabahuaca tribe, Omolu Corp immediately begin research on a new drug that could cure cancer. The results are so promising that they completely bypass international clinical guidelines and start producing the new drug. The Daily News first reports about Jake's discovery of a miraculous cure in May 2017. The article mentions that witnesses say they have seen cured patients leaving the Omolu Corp's headquarters. It is presumably at this point that Mia would have been one of the first patients to have been administrated with the cure for cancer. The drug was a success, Mia's patient card shows she was completely cured of lung cancer.
According to the Extra newspaper article, Omolu Corp began mass production of the new drug in June 2017. They started to freely distribute the miraculous cure to the population of Brazil. The drug is said to cure not only cancer, but also AIDS and lupus. Omolu Corp start to make billions of dollars: they own the exclusive rights to the new drug and are free to dictate the price of the drug for all other countries. While the rest of the world watches and waits, governments from different countries start negotiating with Omolu Corp in the hope to provide their own citizens with access to the drug.
In April 2018 an unknown virus is first detected. A dozen cases are reported with some patients already having slipped in to a coma. Brazilian authorities urge people who are showing the first symptoms of the virus - high fever and pale blue subdermal lesions - to seek medical attention.
Mia becomes infected with the virus, with doctors giving her six months to live. It can be assumed that she went to Omolu Corp for help to try and figure out what the root cause of the virus is. After performing tests, it becomes clear that the virus was caused by the unknown green fungi, one of the ingredients used in Omolu Corp's cure for cancer. Supporting evidence includes the audio report 16 by Dr. Smith.
Omolu Corp had unknowingly caused an epidemic that kills millions of Brazilian citizens. Desperate for a cure, Omolu Corp sends an expedition team to the rainforest. Before Jake leaves to join the expedition, Mia leaves him a voice message on his phone begging him to come stay with her, saying that she needs him to be with her in her final days. Unfortunately, by the time Jake goes to see her in the hospital, Mia is already in a coma and on a life support machine. The stakes are high and Jake is determined, more then ever, to find a cure.
Jake and the Omolu Corp expedition team head to the rainforest and set up camp Omega in the wetlands, not too far from the Yabahuaca tribe's main village. The team consists of Jake, Dr. Smith, Alvarez, and Vega, all of whom are there to find any substances that could provide a potential cure for the virus. Dr. Smith leads the team, testing all samples and sending them back to Omolu headquarters via the airport.
At some point Alvarez falls into a cave, breaking his leg, and becomes trapped. With Alvarez missing and the team showing no signs of being any closer to finding a cure, Omolu Corp sends Dr. Smith an email ordering the team to evacuate and abandon the mission. Dr. Smith and the remaining members of the expedition evacuate as ordered. However, Jake and Alvarez miss the last flight home. It is unclear when the expedition first arrived in the jungle, but from calendars seen in the jungle, they hint towards the team breaking camp in November 2018.
Presumably, Jake ignored the order to evacuate and continued on his own, not wanting to give up on finding a cure. It can be assumed that at this point, Jake's fragile state of mind rapidly declined even further. The guilt he feels over his contribution to unknowingly spreading a virus that killed millions and over being unable to save Mia could have contributed to Jake suppressing his traumatic memories resulting in amnesia.
There is evidence of a strong cartel presence in the rainforest at some point in the recent past. Although all the sites seemingly connected to the criminal organization, it can be presumed they are connected to both the drug factory and gold mine, as road tracks seem to connect each site.
The virus spreads very quickly throughout the camp, and all workers are dead within the short span of three weeks. They recruit more workers, with the worker log suggesting they recruited a further two teams. At first they are unaware why workers keep getting sick, thinking it could possibly be poisoning. However, they soon hear news of the virus. Realizing that whoever finds the cure could possibly make a fortune, they set about trying to find the cure themselves.
The cartel starts abducting people from the jungle, including members of the Yabahuaca tribe. They lock the abductees in bamboo cages and start performing tests on them. Using the stolen medical supplies, they give test subjects blood transfusions, presumably the blood from the natives. Evidence to support this can be seen in surveillance notes by Antonio Almeida. A list of test subjects found at the gold mine suggests that not only did they experiment on refugees but also some of their own workers. The cartel plan fails, with all subjects dying from the virus. They dispose of the bodies by burning them in a pit at the edge of the camp. It is unknown what happened to the remaining members of the cartel.
According to the drug factory production log, workers became infected with the virus in week 21. Most of the crew died and they end up hiring more workers. In a letter by one of the workers, Tiago, mentions the cartel have captured a refugee, presumably to be used as a test subject at the gold mine. Unfortunately there is another outbreak at the factory and all production is halted. After the new outbreak of the virus, it could be inferred that the remaining workers either died or fled.
According to journal notes left by Nurse Izabel, after seeing the horrors of the virus Izabel Velho along with three friends, Carlos, Blanca, and Joao set out into the rainforest to find the cure and save the world themselves. Using knowledge from Jake's book they plan to find the Yabahuaca tribe and take blood samples.
At some point the group come across some natives, and, believing them to be from the Yabahuaca tribe, they attempt to make contact. Unfortunately Joao is killed with a spear. They manage to flee after Antonio shoots one of the natives. Izabel details in her journal that the natives had skulls painted on their faces. Antonio relocates the group to a more secure and tactical location on anaconda island. The audio report no.8 by Alvarez confirms that six people are camped on the Island, north-west from the delta camp. He observes the group noting they have a child with them.
It is unclear as to how or when, but the group of refugees end up being captured by the Cartel and taken to the gold mine. According to a surveillance log kept by Antonio they were held captive along with 20 other people. There was an outbreak of the virus in the camp and Izabel states they are being experimented on. The log suggests the group was held captive for at least a week, and perished not long after.
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