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Navigate the perilous choices in Until Dawn's Chapter 9: Despair/Karma. Discover the consequences of investigating voices and the fate of Ashley and Chris.

This section details the Butterfly Effect choices and consequences in Chapter 9 of Until Dawn, focusing on Ashley and Chris's paths after investigating a voice or leaving someone behind.

Possible Butterfly Effect Update: Left Behind

Ashley rejoined the group OR Ashley followed the voice, leading to Ashley rejoining the group OR Ashley going to the trapdoor.

If you investigated the voice, the following details apply:

COLLECTIBLE - LOSS TOTEM #5

Chapter: 9 - Despair/Karma
Found By: Ashley/Chris
Location: While heading to the Sanatorium, Ashley hears a voice. Choose to investigate it. Cling to the left and you'll eventually take a turning into a dead end, where you can find this TOTEM.

Vision: A Wendigo crushes Josh's head with its hands.

IF YOU LEFT CHRIS BEHIND EARLIER:

You now take control of Chris and must catch up to the group. When you reach the fork in the road, you get two options. Here is what happens depending on which path you take, and also depending on Ashley's life status.

INVESTIGATE VOICE (AND ASHLEY DIED FROM OPENING THE TRAPDOOR):

Make Chris walk along the path until you reach the trapdoor area, where he will find Ashley's hat and a blood trail leading to the trapdoor. If you open the trapdoor, you have to use R2 and your motion controls. Chris opens the trapdoor but sees nothing in the cavern below. He closes the trapdoor... and the Wendigo strikes from behind it! It pulls Chris' head clean off of his neck, and Chris' story ends here. If you choose to walk past the trapdoor, you'll get the death from DEATH TOTEM #3. Just as Chris is approaching the ledge, he suddenly gets pulled up to the ceiling by the Wendigo, lurking above. It pulls his head clean off of his neck, and Chris' story ends here.

INVESTIGATE VOICE (AND ASHLEY REJOINED THE GROUP):

Make Chris walk along the path until you reach the trapdoor area. You can either open the trapdoor, resulting in Chris' death, or you can walk right past it and rejoin the group.

REJOIN GROUP (AND ASHLEY DIED FROM OPENING THE TRAPDOOR):

This is not a safe option. Chris drops down the ledge to rejoin the group, and as he walks forward the Wendigo is lurking above. It pulls Chris up to the ceiling, and decapitates him.

REJOIN THE GROUP (AND ASHLEY REJOINED THE GROUP EARLIER):

Chris drops down a ledge on the right. Make him keep walking until he safely joins the other survivors.

Possible Butterfly Effect Update: Left Behind

Chris was killed OR Chris was safe.