Canto I: The Outcast

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Canto I: The Outcast
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Season	Season 1: Orientation
Focus Sinner	Gregor
Story
Location	D Corp. (District 4)
Date	984-01
Story Dungeon	Branch D-02
Involved Factions	Limbus Company Hermann's Group Unnamed Office Old G Corp. Soldiers L Corp. Remnants
Involved Factions	Limbus Company Hermann's Group Unnamed Office Old G Corp. Soldiers L Corp. Remnants
Character Debuts	Hermann Gubo Jia Huan Yuri Aya Hopkins Alex Old G Corp. Head Manager Tomah
Character Debuts	Hermann Gubo Jia Huan Yuri Aya Hopkins Alex Old G Corp. Head Manager Tomah

“

I was given the role of Manager. My Guide instructed me to find a branch of gold, to which my head nodded. Unknowingly, I walked face-first into one of nightmares.

”

The Outcast is the first Canto in Limbus Company, and Gregor's focus chapter. It was available at game launch on February 27, 2023, alongside Season 1: Orientation, and was followed by Canto II: The Unloving.

Summary

Shortly after picking up their Executive Manager, the LCB journeys to retrieve the Golden Bough within District 4's Lobotomy Corp. Branch.

Along the way, it quickly becomes apparent to Dante that the Sinners have only recently met, and as of now is only barely functioning as a team: Don Quixote's Fixer fanaticism upon learning of their current destination annoys Heathcliff, quickly escalating to a full-on skirmish among some of the Sinners and resulting in the deaths of Heathcliff, Ishmael, and Ryōshū. The Guide, Vergilius, intervenes at this point, and asks Dante to "wind back the clock" as they did previously to revive the dead Sinners.
As Dante seemed clueless as to what they are supposed to do, Vergilius asks Faust to guide them. Following Faust's instructions, Dante experiences visions of a "gateway to Hell", is able to revive the dead Sinners while experiencing the pain of their deaths. Further incidents occurred, showcasing major character traits of other Sinners.

Shortly after, Mephistopheles runs out of fuel. Vergilius orders the Sinners off the bus to gather some Hooligans, which are then fed to the bus (to Dante and Sinclair's horror). Faust explains that the bus runs on Enkephalin, which it can extract from the nervous systems of living humans.
Just as the bus is finishing its meal, Vergilius notifies the Sinners that they are to have a "guest": a former employee of the D Corp. Lobotomy Corp. Branch, named Yuri, who will accompany them to the now-buried facility and act as a guide. In return, her contract with the Fixer Office she is currently working at will possibly be extended.

As the bus approaches their destination, the LCB begins running into people with insectile features, not unlike that of Gregor. As the buglike people (explained by Faust to be employees of the Old G Corp.) are intent on obstructing the LCB's journey, the Sinners leave the bus to negotiate, with Gregor unwillingly taking the lead on Vergilius' "advice".
In the ensuing conversation, it is revealed that Gregor has been a major focus of propaganda for the Old G Corp. during the Smoke War, which the Old G Corp. employees are veterans of. The veterans continue to refuse to let the LCB pass, leading the Sinners to resolve to violence to open the way.

As the LCB arrives at the entrance to the District 4 Lobotomy Corp. branch, they find two Fixers from Yuri's Office, Aya and Hopkins, waiting for them. While Aya holds a laid-back, friendly attitude towards the Sinners, Hopkins initially adopts a contemptuous attitude when seeing the Sinners' ragtag appearance, though this is quickly replaced by awe when he learns that the Guide of the LCB is none other than the Red Gaze.
Vergilius drags Dante aside and advises them to not have too high hopes for the Grade 8 Fixers, then retreats back to the bus with Charon as the Sinners and Fixers enter the decrepit facility.

Within Story Dungeon

Main article: Branch D-02
The Sinners and Fixers encounter more Old G Corp. veterans upon entering the underground facility. Similarly to the veterans aboveground, the G Corp. veterans recognize Gregor from war propaganda, and immediately shows great animosity towards him, describing him as a traitor for his "abandoning" his comrades to the side effects of the insectification operations.
After making their way past the veterans, the LCB runs into the Peccatula; Yuri isn't able to recognize the monsters, which she is chastised by Hopkins for. Shortly thereafter, the group encounters an Abnormality, the Ebony Queen's Apple, which kills Aya, and combat ensues. After defeating the Abnormality, the team makes their way down into the second floor of the Dungeon.

In the second floor of the Dungeon, the Sinners run into Gregor's old superior, who attempts to kill Gregor for his "desertion". Near his death, however, upon learning of Gregor's plights after the war, he appears to be satisfied in knowing that Gregor is "no different from [them]". Gregor borrows a cigarette from Ryōshū, which he gives as a last token to his Head Manager.

Proceeding farther into the facility, the group enters a hallway full of corpses, and toxic gas grenades start going off. The Sinners begin falling one by one, while Hopkins, who learned of the poison through scans conducted previously, and completed a satisfactory gathering of Enkephalin, puts on a gas mask and bids his farewell; Yuri, who was treated by the Office as an expendable, was not informed of the gas, nor was given a gas mask, and begins coughing.
Gregor gives her a gas mask he found on Aya's corpse, and they briefly discuss Yuri's feelings about her survival of the site's burial during Lobotomy Corp.'s collapse, before Gregor dies to the gas. After the gas dissipates, Yuri and Dante, who was unaffected by the gas, drag the bodies of the dead Sinners away to be revived.

After defeating the Doomsday Calendar, the team makes their way to the final floor of the facility. As Gregor approaches a containment unit pouring with golden light, everybody is suddenly transported to the midst of a battlefield, right from Gregor's memories.
Very soon, flashbacks from Gregor's past begins materializing, presenting memories of his youth, from the surgery which replaced his arm with an insectoid bio-prosthetic, to his subsequent alienization from society as the Old G Corp. collapsed after the end of the Smoke War. Eventually, hands begin to descend from the sky, crushing everything on the battlefield. The Sinners try escaping them, albeit to no avail. Gregor points out that since the battlefield is a figment of his own ego, the only way out would be to follow how it played out in reality, by allowing them to be grabbed by the owner of the hand.

Back in the real world, the Sinners battle the Abnormality housing the Golden Bough, defeating it and reverting it to its "egg" state. However, the Abnormality evolves into its second form, and Yuri, who steps forward to investigate, is devoured by it. After defeating it for a second time, the Abnormality deployed Yuri's head as a final attempt at self-preservation, a tactic that stays the Sinners' hand for enough time for a newly arrived party, consisting of old acquaitances of several Sinners, to take the Bough. The Sinners return to the bus dejected, awaiting their next mission.

Enemies

• Hooligans
• Old G Corp. Veterans

Trivia

• Canto I originally features slightly different story content that was partially removed and replaced, as evidenced by a compilation of unused voicelines from Yuri.