Canto III: The Unconfronting
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The Unconfronting is the third Canto in Limbus Company, and Sinclair's focus chapter. It was available at game launch on February 27, 2023, alongside Season 1: Orientation, and takes place between Canto II: The Unloving and Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken.
Summary
The Sinners enter District 11 to claim the Golden Bough in Calw, Sinclair's hometown. At the Nest immigration checkpoint, Don Quixote attempts to stop the border guards from separating a family, resulting in the guards turning on the LCB, forcing them to fight. K Corp. calls one of their "star Fixers", Siegfried, to deal with the Sinners: only after killing all of them on camera Siegfried allows the LCB to go. Vergilius gives Don Quixote a dress down for her repeated offensives. The LCB then meets up with Saude and Effie, who, as members of the Before Team, scout ahead in the direction of Calw.
Later on, as the LCB makes their way to Calw, they are stopped along the road by the Nagel und Hammer Inquisition, that call both Dante and Mephistopheles "tainted", threatening them and beginning combat with the Sinners. Upon reaching Calw, the LCB discovers that the entire town was targeted and destroyed by the Inquisitors, who carry a violent hatred for prosthetic users. The Sinners are welcomed by the voice of the leader of the Inquisition, Kromer, playing through the speakers of the town, and calling for Sinclair. Sinclair identifies her as the woman who killed his family.
The Sinners make their way to Sinclair's family's mansion, which has been set on fire by Kromer, and is now lined by the tortured bodies of the prosthetic users of the town, including the corpses of Sinclair's family, which Kromer has unearthed. At the mansion, the Sinners find Effie nearly dead, having been tortured by the Inquisitors, with Outis deciding on giving him a coup de grâce, before the group is attacked by Kromer's second-in-command Guido. The sight of everything that has happened to his hometown sends Sinclair into a blind rage, and after killing Guido, he stabs into the enemy over and over, with his outburst only quelled by Don Quixote beating him to a pulp.
The LCB keeps marching into the mansion's basement, which had been converted into a base for the Inquisition, and where Dante perceives the Golden Bough might be hidden.
Within Story Dungeon
Within the dungeon, the LCB meets a heavily wounded Saude, who asks if Effie was still alive. Outis claims that he is, but just then, Guido, who the Sinners believed was dead, turns up again and attacks Dante. Guido gives Saude a chance to save herself by killing Dante: Saude seemingly turns against the Sinners by pointing her gun at Dante, but once Guido lets his guard down, she shoots him instead. After he is dealt with, Saude admits that she knew that the Sinners were lying about Effie, and asks to be left behind so she can keep the Inquisitors off the team's back. They reluctantly do so, and head deeper into the dungeon.
The LCB make their way through several areas under the control of the Inquisition, some of which still active torture rooms where the Sinners must choose whether to intervene and stop the Inquisitors, corroded in to monsters from their use of E.G.O. As they travel, they start to learn the tragedy of the town and of Sinclair's family. Back when Sinclair was in school, prosthetics had become popular in the town of Calw, and Sinclair's entire family had gotten full-body prosthetic replacement. Sinclair, who was supposed to receive it as well, showed himself as excited for the procedure, but secretly feared it, and hated the distance it put between him and his family. Kromer, his classmate at the time, picked up on his feelings, and promised she would save him from the procedure, if he collaborated with her. Kromer convinced Sinclair into giving her the key to his mansion's basement, which housed an L Corp. branch facility.
Despite her promise to return it, Kromer never gave the key back, and further down the line, on Christmas Eve, she would intrude the mansion together with Guido and kill Sinclair's parents and sister. After this event, Sinclair awoke in an alleyway, where he was greeted by his friend Demian, who spoke to him cryptically, and whose behavior made Sinclair think he'd already known that what happened to his family would come to pass. Nonetheless, Demian encouraged Sinclair by telling him he would one day break through and fly away; after these words, Sinclair passed out, supposedly making this the last time he saw Demian.
Eventually, the Sinners reach the lowest floor of the dungeon, which has turned into a field covered in gore through the resonance of the Golden Bough. At the center of it all, Kromer awaits, on a hill of corpses.
Upon the Sinners reaching her, Kromer talks to Sinclair, beckoning him closer and commanding him to join her, speaking of how him becoming her subject in her crusade against heresy was preordained, having seen it happen in an alternate timeline. Using the power of the Golden Bough, she then undergoes Distortion, mutating into a monster resembling a Lust Peccatula. During combat, one of her attacks melts nearly everyone but Dante and Sinclair, who are then saved by Demian's sudden appearance, with him killing Kromer in one blow, seemingly making use of Mang. Demian speaks briefly to Dante and gives them the Golden Bough before disappearing.
Members of the LCCA then arrive to rescue the Sinners, injecting Dante with a K Corp. ampule and healing their wounds. While Dante calls it a dismal defeat, back on the bus, the Sinners enjoy chicken kebabs as a reward for claiming their second Bough.
Enemies
Trivia
- In certain battle encounters, Kromer will periodically whistle, giving all Inquisitors 2
Fanatic FanaticSkill Final Power +X against units with Nails for this turn. (Applies to clashes as well) and causing Sinclair to lose 30 SP. - This Canto introduces the feature where specific Sinner Identities can trigger unique effects during story encounters. In the dungeon of Canto III if The One Who Shall Grip Sinclair is brought into battle, Kromer will have a unique line of dialogue and become staggered for the first turn of combat.
Story Chapters
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| Inferno (Main Chapter) |
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| Deviazione (Detour Tales) |
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