Pathways: Jacob's Fortune

Pathways: Jacob's Fortune is a story-based DLC for Venture. The game introduces a previously blocked-off region, an island with towns made of the ruins of multiple hospitals and prisons.

Synopsis
After getting shipwrecked on a mysterious island, Robert Jacob journeys to a hidden village. There, a revived civilization awaits him... along with an enemy he never knew he made...

Story
Silvan ruler Qow Bryagnol sails to an island off the coast of his country, hoping to build a death camp there. However, Bryagnol’s ship is attacked by revolutionaries led by Clip, a cannibalistic bandit who wishes to overthrow Bryagnol. While the battle is tense and results in heavy casualties, Bryagnol ultimately kills Clip by impaling him through the head with a sword. Soon after, the revolutionaries find themselves outnumbered and jump ship, leaving Bryagnol’s forces with a victory. Bryagnol breaks his sword’s blade while trying to remove it from Clip’s head, and ultimately kicks the cannibal‘s body off of his ship. Clip‘s corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea, joining many others.

2,100 years later, Robert Jacob, while fishing on a wooden boat, is attacked by a gigantic Bacculite-like creature. The Bacculite reprimands Robert for killing the Wyvern and taking her egg from the Wyve dimension, stating that he has destroyed the balance in nature. Confused, Robert fends off the sea monster by blasting one of its tentacles off with a blunderbuss, but not before his boat is destroyed. Jacob jumps on a piece of debris and tries to hold on, only to get hit by a massive wave. After getting tossed across and under the sea, Jacob blacks out.

Hours later, an unconscious Jacob washes ashore on a sandy shore, before waking up. Noticing that his hand is sinking in the sand, Jacob abruptly pulls it out, before exploring the beach. Robert soon finds and enters a village, where he is politely greeted. Robert meets Robyn Jacob in the village, both of which lived unaware of each others' existence. Despite this, Robyn is aware of Robert’s involvement in the world, claiming that she knows Venturians who were just recently resurrected. After Robyn lets Robert in her hut, he ultimately deduces that bringing the Wyvern’s egg to the earthly realm caused the mass revival. Starting to worry that he has ruined the future of Planet Venture, he is reassured by Robyn that the Venturians weren't supposed to go extinct. Robert disagrees, stating that the Venturians went extinct for a reason and that he has undone the work of potential deities. Robyn walks off, disturbed, as Robert rests in one of her beds for the remainder of the day, wishing that he worded things differently.

The next day, Robert sets off from the village, thanking the villagers for their kindness and shelter. After an hour of walking, Robert comes across a savage, terrifying village. Jacob finds a group of tribesmen and asks where he is, but one of them mutters something incomprehensible. Robert leaves the village, but as he walks away one of the tribesmen pulls out a blade made of bone and tries to attack him. Jacob quickly reacts, pulling out his blunderbuss and killing the attacking tribesmen. This causes the others to attack Robert as he tries to fend them off. Getting alerted by a horn, many of the tribesmen converge where Jacob is, upon which he decides to flee. Jacob runs through the village, going through dwellings and running atop rooftops. Eventually, one of the houses explodes, leaving part of it without a wall. Jacob runs up to the damaged house, uses a ladder, and leaps out of one of the windows. Robert lands outside of the hut and slides down a smooth hill. Some of the tribesmen continue to pursue Jacob as he skids down the slope, brandishing giant cleavers. After landing, Robert saddles and rides a native Hideulater, before getting it to run away from the attacking villagers. Atop the creature, Jacob either outruns the tribesmen or kills all of them with his blunderbuss, before escaping from the village.

Clip's forces, seemingly under the assumption that Robert Jacob is Qow Bryagnol, who killed Clip in his past life, set up a revenge plot; one of the tribesmen, in different garb, offers Jacob a stone of jade in exchange for minimal resources. Believing that this offer is too great to refuse, Jacob schedules a meetup with the tribesman at an upcoming party for Gad Day, which will be held in a club. Jacob is given the jade but his drink is poisoned, with the tribesman offering him an antidote if he returns the jade and submits himself to the Clipiwana. Unwilling, Jacob starts a battle in the club, with him and his allies passing the jade and the antidote between each other before he ultimately recovers both of them. The Clipiwana, realizing that their plan was foiled, attack the village of Pathways soon after, leading to a bloody battle on the shoreline.

After Clip's forces attack the Pathways Village, their children are abducted, and an extremely rare Tanzanite crystal is stolen from a memorial. Robert Jacob agrees to retrieve the crystal and locate the taken children after the village's leader Ashlyn Debussy gives him permission to take the crystal for himself.

New Features

 * A new campaign with over 12 hours of content and professionally motion-captured cutscenes.
 * A new level cap that allows players to become even stronger, faster, and better than before.
 * Note: Base game's level cap is used on servers with players who don't own Pathways. The cap will not be reset and can be utilized on private servers or those that only allow players who own Pathways.


 * New enemies, from resurrected Venturians to the ferocious Epic Beasts who were once lost to time.
 * Brand-new equipment. Whether you're fighting off hostiles with a Steampunk Arrow Gun or casting spells with a Magic Wand, things aren't how they once were.
 * Over 100 new sidequests.

Characters

 * Robert Jacob
 * Qow Bryagnol
 * Abilene Bryagnol

Pathways Village

 * Robyn Jacob
 * Oleksa Fry
 * Cas Fry
 * Seira MacIntyre
 * Adelaide Sokolović
 * Ashlyn Debussy
 * Nicander Gourkuñv
 * Jibril Casilla
 * Guard Gualtiero
 * Guard Jeptha

Endeavors' Village

 * Brénainn Pagan
 * Coel Ren
 * Yosef Zamora
 * Dieudonné Pinus
 * Vinko Zagori
 * Grete Rodrigue
 * Auston Hrdoric

Untergang Village

 * Rhŷs Willimon
 * Brân Jaime

Clipiwana Village

 * Clip
 * Witch Doctor Kalyma

Weapons

 * Flintlock Pistol
 * Ranger Revolver
 * Ranger Snubnose
 * Ranger Rifle
 * Ranger Shotgun
 * Ranger SMG

Behind the Scenes

 * Pathways: Jacob's Fortune was conceived by Crocodilians, Trigger's friend on Discord, as an expansion to Venture. Most of the new features were also suggested by Crocodilians, including the game's title and synopsis.