A mother is dead, and now her killer hunts the child that witnessed the brutal crime.
My boy gets to rip and tear with her until the job is done. MONSTER IN THE CLOSET reunites readers with characters from Karen Roses bestselling Baltimore series. What was originally a much more abrupt and ambiguous ending now seems a bit more fleshed out and bittersweet: 'I'd imagined this outcome anyway,' my fellow Karlach fan informed me, 'but to see it play out is a much-needed capstone to Karlach's love story. I'm still in the middle of Act 3, but PCG staff writer Harvey Randall loaded into his endgame save to see how the new epilogue shakes out. 'If Karlach is in your party at the end of the game and the Blade of Avernus offers to go to the Hells with her, you can now decide whether to go with them, go alone with Karlach, or let them go by themselves.' Notably, the language of the patch notes seems to imply that a player character who hasn't romanced Karlach can now join her in hell: Rather than an all-new ending for Karlach, this patch expands on the pre existing ending where she returns to Avernus with either a renewed pact for Wyll, or a romanced player character.
Even before the endgame, the patch has 'added new moments for companion and avatar Karlach to reflect on the state of her engine between acts.' These are likely meant to better foreshadow the possibility of her infernal engine being irreparable.
