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Lakeside Resort
Lakeside Resort jumps to winter and puts you in control of Ellie near Silver Lake, Colorado, hunting with a bow and searching for medicine. She runs into two strangers, David and James, and for part of the second half the game switches you back to Joel.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Silver Lake
Storylines
Part 9 of 12 in Main story
Found in
- Silver LakeSilver Lake is a snowbound Colorado resort town and the setting of the Lakeside Resort chapter, where Ellie is playable for most of the winter. A group led by David lives here. Its surroundings include an abandoned coal mine and the Whitefish Lake rest area.
- Warren Coal MiningWarren Coal Mining is the abandoned coal mine in the forest near Silver Lake where Ellie's deer hunt ends at the start of Lakeside Resort. Here she meets David and James and fights infected alongside David in The Hunt section.
- Whitefish LakeWhitefish Lake is a snowed-in lakeside rest area near Silver Lake that Ellie crosses in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort while leading David's men away from Joel. A cliffside walkway runs along the frozen lake.
Good to know
- Chapter 9 of 12; set in winter.
- Sections: The Hunt and Cabin Resort.
- You play mostly as Ellie, with stretches as Joel.
- 17 collectibles: 11 artifacts, 3 Firefly pendants (Riley's, Kristof's and Braun's), 2 comics and the training manual Smoke: Shaping.
- Eight of the artifacts and Riley's pendant are already in Ellie's backpack when the chapter starts, including the joke books, the Walkman, the switchblade and Sam's robot.
- Enemies: David's group of survivors, plus runners, clickers and a bloater.
Sections in order
1. The Hunt: Ellie's hunt, the holdout at the coal mine, her ride to the lakeside resort, and Joel waking up to look for her. 2. Cabin Resort: Ellie's ordeal in the town at Silver Lake and Joel's search through it.
The Hunt
Ellie shoots a rabbit, then wounds a deer and follows its blood trail to a barn by an abandoned coal mine, where David and James step out. She offers the deer for medicine and keeps David at gunpoint while James goes for penicillin. Infected close in, and she and David hold off waves of them in a warehouse at the mine. Over the fire he mentions a man traveling with a girl who killed some of his people, and Ellie leaves with the medicine.
Hunt collectibles
The comic Uncertainty is in a desk in the collapsed barn at the end of the blood trail. Kristof's pendant is in a blue container in the room a clicker comes from, after David boosts you onto the mine walkway. Braun's pendant is on a bench in the gazebo near the first cabin, and Negentropy is up the stairs after the cliffside walk along Whitefish Lake.
Joel's part
When you switch to Joel, he enters the Silver Lake town looking for Ellie. Smoke: Shaping is behind a shiv door in a storage shed in the back alley, reached through a motel bathroom window, and the meat ledger is on a shelf in the back of the butcher shop.
The resort and the huntersSpoilerShow
The next morning Ellie rides Callus out to draw David's men away from the house where Joel lies sick. They shoot Callus, she flees on foot into the resort, and David catches and chokes her unconscious. Joel wakes, kills the men still looking, and tortures two captives until one gives up where she is.
DavidSpoilerShow
Ellie wakes in a cage and learns David's group eats people. She breaks his finger, later escapes a butcher's table by claiming to be infected and killing James, and runs into a snowstorm with only her switchblade. David stalks her through a burning steakhouse, and after a brutal struggle she kills him with a machete. Joel, who has found her backpack among hanging bodies, pulls her away and comforts her.
- AnnaAnna is Ellie's mother, known only through a letter Ellie carries and a few remarks from people who knew her. You can read her letter, the Note from mom artifact, from Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort.
- BlondieBlondie is one of David's men in Silver Lake, a member of the group that hunts Joel and Ellie through the winter. Joel runs into him at the cabin resort in Lakeside Resort while searching for Ellie, and questions him alongside Skully.
- CallusCallus is the horse Joel and Ellie ride from Jackson County to the University of Eastern Colorado and beyond. He first carries Joel when Ellie runs off in Tommy's Dam, and Ellie names him on the road to the university.
- DavidDavid is the soft-spoken leader of a group of survivors near Silver Lake and the main threat of Lakeside Resort, the winter chapter where you play as Ellie. He meets her while she is hunting, trades her penicillin for deer meat, and fights infected beside her.
- Ellie WilliamsEllie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- JamesJames is David's right-hand man in the group of survivors Ellie runs into near Silver Lake during Lakeside Resort. He is hunting with David when they meet her, and he is the one sent back to their settlement for the penicillin she needs for Joel.
- Joel MillerJoel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- SkullySkully is one of David's men in Silver Lake. Joel captures him with Blondie at the cabin resort in Lakeside Resort and forces him to reveal where Ellie is held.
- Braun's Firefly PendantBraun's Firefly pendant rests on a bench inside a gazebo next to the first cabin at the resort, in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort. It belonged to Paul D. Braun.
- Ellie's backpackEllie's backpack is an automatic artifact Joel picks up in the back of the butcher shop in Lakeside Resort. As he walks in, he grabs it from a low shelf, and it stays in his Artifacts menu from then on.
- Joel & Sarah photoThe Joel & Sarah photo is a picture of Joel with his daughter, an automatic artifact in Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. You can view it from the Artifacts menu while playing as Ellie.
- Kristof's Firefly PendantKristof's Firefly pendant is inside a blue storage container in the coal mine during The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort. It belonged to Travis Kristof.
- Lake resort mapThe Lake resort map is an automatic artifact Joel gains in Lakeside Resort. It goes into his backpack right after he interrogates the two hunters in the Cabin Resort section, so you cannot miss it.
- Meat ledgerThe Meat ledger is an optional artifact in the back room of the butcher shop in Lakeside Resort. After Joel picks up Ellie's backpack, look at the shelf on the right; the ledger is on the middle shelf.
- NegentropyNegentropy, issue 8 of Savage Starlight, lies on a bench in a small rest area along the cliffside walk by Whitefish Lake, in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort.
- No Pun IntendedNo Pun Intended is one of Ellie's joke books, an automatic artifact already in her backpack when you take control of her at the start of Lakeside Resort. You view it from the Artifacts menu.
- No Pun Intended: Volume TooNo Pun Intended: Volume Too is Ellie's second Will Livingston pun book. In the main game it is an automatic artifact in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. In Left Behind, Riley gives it to her during the flashback chapter Fun and Games.
- Note from momThe Note from mom is a letter from Ellie's mother, Anna, and an automatic artifact in Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. You can read both sides of it from the Artifacts menu.
- Riley's Firefly PendantRiley's Firefly pendant starts Lakeside Resort already in Ellie's backpack, but it only counts once you open the backpack and look at it. It belonged to Riley Abel, Ellie's closest friend from Boston.
- Sam's robotSam's robot is a small toy robot Ellie keeps, an automatic artifact in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. Viewing it in the Artifacts menu makes Ellie speak to it.
- Smoke: ShapingSmoke: Shaping is a training manual inside a shiv-locked shed in Lakeside Resort. It makes smoke bomb clouds last 20 seconds longer.
- SwitchbladeThe Switchblade artifact is Ellie's personal knife, sitting in her backpack automatically at the start of Lakeside Resort. It appears in the Artifacts menu as one of the belongings you can look over while playing as Ellie.
- To Get to the Other Side!To Get to the Other Side! is a joke book Ellie carries, an automatic artifact sitting in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. It shows up in the Artifacts menu as soon as you play as her.
- UncertaintyUncertainty, issue 4 of Savage Starlight, is in a desk drawer in a collapsed barn that Ellie passes while tracking the deer in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort.
- WalkmanThe Walkman is Ellie's cassette player, an automatic artifact already in her backpack when Lakeside Resort begins. Viewing it in the Artifacts menu prompts Ellie to say she should try to fix it.
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