History of Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark is a repeatable The Final Shape post-campaign quest from Micah-10 in the Lost City on the Pale Heart. Each run rescues an injured Ghost and ends in a Cyst encounter.

Overview

• Given by: Micah-10 (acquire from his conduit) in the Arbor of Light, Lost City.
• Unlock: Finish the campaign and Micah-10's earlier quest chain beginning with "The Message". It is also described as part of the Convalescence questline.
• Repeats: the quest cycles through six Cyst variants (Sword Dance, Searing Light, Aerial Ace, Moth-Infested Cavern, Slayer, Smothering Darkness). Expect to run it five or six times to see every variant.

Walkthrough

1. Pick up the quest from Micah-10; it marks an injured Ghost's search area on the Pale Heart map.
2. Find the lost Ghost within the search area (it has an orange glow, often in a Lost Sector).
3. Open Overthrow reward chests near where you found it to heal the infection. Each of The Landing, The Blooming and The Impasse has an Overthrow target of 20. Higher Overthrow tiers fill more progress per chest (15% at tier 1, 45% at tier 3). Destination chests do not count.
4. Commune with the bird of Light (the Light eagle) to invert the cyst.
5. Follow the vision of Light to the hidden cave, shoot the correct Hive runes to open it, and clear the infection inside.
6. Return to the Arbor of Light in the Lost City.
7. Visit Micah-10 for your reward.

Rewards

• One of Bold Endings (hand cannon), Axial Lacuna (fusion rifle) or False Idols (sword), with a chance of a Deepsight version.
• Ghost reputation increase.
• Light Vestiges drop in the Cysts from the Aerial Ace variant onward. Collecting five unlocks Prismatic Fragment locations.

Trivia

• The Light Vestiges drop is noted in only some accounts and may have changed with later updates.