The People of the Valley, 2004

A night in the Valley runs the records' time in Spain, from the day Leon Kennedy drove in to look for the President's daughter to the dawn he rode away from the burning island. In the records that is about a single day: arrival by daylight, a few hours lost unconscious after the lake, the castle by night, the island in the small hours, and sunrise at the end. A Raccoon City night runs four days; a Valley night runs one, from morning to the next morning.

Asked where they are, a survivor is told:

ΜΝΗΜΗ: Spain. A valley, far from anywhere. It's autumn.

Act	The records' time	Opens	Threads that begin
I	Day: the village, from the morning of the arrival to late afternoon	At the waking	Leon Kennedy, who arrives with two Spanish policemen on the forest road. Luis Serra. Bitores Mendez. Ada Wong.
II	Night: the village after dark, and the castle until the small hours	At the thirtieth minute, when night falls	Ashley Graham, locked in the church. Osmund Saddler. Ramón Salazar and his Verdugo. Jack Krauser. In one account, the Pesanta.
III	Before dawn: the island, until sunrise	When the island opens (The Worlds)	Mike, who arrives by helicopter from the sea. Everyone's last thread: the machine, Saddler, and a way out

The beats

Beat	Act	Where	Needs	What happens
The policemen	I	The hunter's lodge and the plaza	The two policemen with Leon	One, a young officer the records never name, dies at the lodge, and the village feeds his body to the lake. The other, Mario Fernández Castaño, burns on the bonfire in the plaza.
The plaza	I	The village plaza	Anyone the village sees	The village gathers on them, and Dr. Salvador starts his chainsaw.
The bell	I	The church on the hill	The plaza gathered, and someone at the bell	Ada Wong rings it, as she did in the records, or anyone else does. Every host who hears it walks to the church.
Chained	I	The old factory on the Valley Road	Leon taken down by the hosts	Leon wakes chained to Luis Serra with a Plaga in him. They get free, and Luis runs.
The manor	I	The chief's manor	Leon and Mendez there	Mendez strangles Leon, sees the Plaga in his eyes, and lets him live. Ada shoots Mendez through the window.
Del Lago	I	The lake	Anyone on the water	Del Lago rises.
The quarry	II	The quarry	Anyone at the gate in the quarry wall	El Gigante comes out.
The church	II	The church	The church insignia, found in the lake's shrines	Whoever opens the church finds Ashley Graham. In one account, Saddler is there to meet them; in the other, Ashley swings a candlestick at whoever comes in.
The siege	II	The villa at the edge of the farm	Leon and Luis, and the village coming	They hold the villa through the dark against the whole village.
The sisters	II	The checkpoint	Anyone escorting Ashley	The Bella Sisters come with their chainsaws.
Mendez's end	II	The slaughterhouse, burning	Mendez, and someone to fight him	He fights in two forms, and his false eye opens the castle (The Worlds).
The welcome	II	The audience chamber	Anyone who enters	Salazar speaks down from the balcony, his Verdugo at his side. From then on his voice comes over the castle's loudspeakers, and he lies.
The cells	II	The dungeon	Anyone who opens the cells	A Garrador wakes.
Ashley seized	II	The castle	Ashley, and a dominant host near her	Her Plaga seizes her. She turns on whoever she is with, then runs, and the castle takes her: a Novistador in one account, the Verdugo in the other.
Wesker ashore	II	The village	The second account: Ada Wong brought down by the Plaga the Pesanta put in her, in the village, with hosts around her	Albert Wesker comes up from the sea, kills the hosts around her, sets her on her feet, and goes back the way he came. He fights only what stands between him and Ada.
Luis's end	II	The concourse in one account, the mines' cargo platform in the other	Luis with the Amber, and Saddler or Krauser reaching him	Luis dies, and gives whoever is with him his suppressant and his laboratory key.
The knife	II–III	The mines in one account; a catwalk on the island, in Act III, in the other	Leon and Krauser	They fight with knives and nothing else, as Krauser trained him to.
The furnace	II	The blast furnace	Anyone who goes down to it	Two Gigantes, one of them armored.
The laboratory	II	The castle's laboratory	Anyone waiting there for the elevator	The Verdugo comes down from the ceiling.
Salazar's end	II	The ancient chantry	Salazar, and someone to fight him	Salazar becomes what his Plaga makes of him. When he dies, Ada leaves the boat key at the castle dock, and the island opens when someone takes it.
The handover	II	The castle dock	Salazar alive, Ashley taken, and Krauser at the dock	Salazar gives Ashley to Krauser, who takes her across to the island.
The cell	III	The island's facilities	Ashley held there	Keycards open her cell, one level at a time.
The ruins	III	The trapped ruins	Krauser alive	Krauser fights for three insignias. His arm becomes a blade.
U-3	II–III	In one account, the caves below the island's ruins, in Act III; in the other, the mines below the castle, in Act II	In the first, anyone who goes down; in the second, Ada Wong	In the first, U-3 waits among the hanging container rigs. In the second, the Pesanta hunts Ada through the castle, plants a Plaga in her, and turns to fight her in the mines.
Mike	III	The military base	Mike arriving	His helicopter covers whoever fights below. In the records it was brought down. If the guns are silenced and nothing brings him down, he lands (The Extraction).
The machine	III	Luis's laboratory	Two people, and the laboratory open: with Luis's key, or with the code to its lock, written somewhere on the island like any puzzle's clue	The machine burns out a Plaga (What ΜΝΗΜΗ Leaves Out).
Saddler	III	The loading docks	Saddler alive, and someone to fight him	Ada hangs from a crane as bait. When he is down, Ada throws the special rocket launcher, and one shot ends him. Every Plaga dies with him (What ΜΝΗΜΗ Leaves Out), and the island's end begins.

The named hosts and creatures. Each can be killed as any Heavy can (Survival, The Heavy), but only where it can be hurt, which the table gives. The way the records ended it is the fastest, and needs nothing more; anything else takes a secret weapon or many hands, and time.

Who	Where	Act	How the records ended it
Dr. Salvador	The plaza, and again later	I–II	Headshots and explosives. The bell ends his first siege whether he is dead or not.
Del Lago	The lake	I	Harpoons thrown from a boat. Gunfire from a boat hurts it too, slowly.
El Gigante	The quarry; the battlements, armored; the blast furnace, two at once	II	Its body cannot be hurt. Shot until it kneels, it shows the Plaga on its back, and someone climbs up and cuts it out. The armored one on the battlements falls to their cannon; the furnace's pair are dropped into the molten iron.
The Bella Sisters	The checkpoint	II	Like any host, but much harder to stop
Bitores Mendez	The village, the manor, the slaughterhouse	I–II	The village chief and priest, a giant: calm, imposing, and relentless once he has decided. His first form falls when its spine is cut; his second hangs from the rafters.
Garradors	The dungeon and the castle	II	Blind, steel-clawed, hunting by sound. Only the Plaga on the back can be hurt. They charge at noise and stick in walls.
Novistadors	The sewers and the ballroom's nest	II	Insects that are invisible until close, and later fly. Flashbangs bring them down.
Armaduras	The library and the mausoleum	II	Suits of armor with a Plaga inside. Light holds them back; only the Plaga can be hurt.
The Verdugo	The castle's laboratory	II	Salazar's right hand. In one account it is Isidro Uriarte Talavera, a servant who made himself into it. Little hurts it until it is frozen with liquid nitrogen; frozen, anything does. It can also be outlasted until the elevator comes.
Ramón Salazar	The castle; the ancient chantry	II	The eighth castellan, small and aged-looking: in one account he is twenty. Sadistic and theatrical. His monster falls when its great eye is shot, then Salazar himself, in the pod.
Jack Krauser	The castle, the mines, the island ruins	II–III	Leon's old mentor, thought dead, bitter at those who left his unit to die, and hungry for power. In the mines, knives only. In the ruins, his blade-arm cannot be hurt; his body can.
U-3	The island's caves in one account; the castle and its mines in the other, where it is called the Pesanta	II–III	In the first account it falls into the chasm with the third container rig and is finished by the Plaga on its back. In the second it was once Salazar's housekeeper, made into it by the servant who made himself into the Verdugo; it falls when the weak points on its belly and the tip of its tail are struck.
Regenerators and Iron Maidens	The island's facilities	III	They regrow what is shot off. Every Plaga inside must die, and they can be seen only through a thermal scope.
Osmund Saddler	The church, the castle, the island	II–III	The leader of Los Iluminados. Contemptuous, patient, and in command of every host. The eyes on his limbs bring him down, and Ada's rocket ends him.

Everywhere else, the hosts of each part are its common enemies: Ganados with farm tools, molotovs, and dynamite in the village; Zealots with scythes, shields, and crossbows in the castle; soldiers with stun rods and rocket launchers on the island. Colmillos, the Plaga's dogs, run in the village and on the island, and Brutes in animal-skull masks lead the worst of them in both.

Companions

Person	Records	Who they are	What they do well	What they will not do
Leon S. Kennedy	Resident Evil 4	A government agent, twenty-seven, six years after Raccoon City, sent for the President's daughter and trained, once, by Krauser. Dry under fire, mission first, haunted by the city.	A handgun, a shotgun, a knife that parries	Leave without Ashley, or take the machine before she has
Ashley Graham	Resident Evil 4	The President's daughter, twenty, a college student, with a Plaga in her from the start: Hatched when she is found, and moving only with her story after that. In one account she is helpless; in the other she is a partner who will not stay down.	Fits through gaps no one else can; works the machine and the cranes; sits in the second chair of any puzzle built for two	Fight. Or stay where she is told when Leon is calling (Ties).
Luis Serra	Resident Evil 4	In one account, a researcher Saddler hired who calls himself an ex-policeman from Madrid: mocking, flirtatious. In the other, a former Umbrella researcher who built the machine and wants to undo what he helped make.	Knows the valley; carries the suppressant	Tell all of it
Ada Wong	Resident Evil 4	Albert Wesker's agent, here for the Amber. In one account she means to give Wesker less than he asked; in the other she turns against him, and carries a Plaga the Pesanta put in her.	A grapple and a crossbow; appears where she is needed	Fire on Leon or on whoever he follows. She leaves with the Amber, and her helicopter carries only her (Ties).

Person	Records	Who they are
Mike	Resident Evil 4	The helicopter pilot Hunnigan sends: cheerful under fire, and as brave as his records. He flies, and never leaves his seat.
The Merchant	Resident Evil 4	A hooded arms dealer who deals with anyone "as long as the price is right." He sells what he carries for pesetas, in safe rooms, for a few minutes at a time, and is gone again (What ΜΝΗΜΗ Leaves Out, Pesetas and the Merchant). He harms no one, and nothing harms him. The records never say what he carries inside him, and neither does ΜΝΗΜΗ: he is still there after Saddler dies.

The Island's End.

• The count begins when Saddler dies. In one account it is Ada Wong's bombs; in the other, the override Albert Wesker had her connect in the comms facility. The island has three minutes.
• If Saddler lives, the count begins anyway, twenty minutes after the signal. Wesker counted everyone on the island an acceptable loss.
• Saddler's death raises the signal at once if it has not yet risen, at any minute of the night.
• The count is in the world. The island's sirens and loudspeakers give it every thirty seconds, then every second of the last ten.
• Every way out in the Valley leaves before the blast, on the mainland too, after its Last Call. The blast takes the island and everything on it, and the night ends with it. Survivors still on the mainland have been left behind (The Extraction).

Not in the Valley. Ingrid Hunnigan is a voice on Leon's radio, and Salazar can take her line. Albert Wesker is on a ship offshore. In the first account he is never seen; in the second he comes ashore once (Wesker ashore, above). The mercenaries of the Valley's score trials, HUNK among them, were there only in those trials, and are never placed in a Survivor night. No child is placed, and the records hold no child among the hosts.

Companion Roster

Map	Roster
The Valley, 2004	Leon Kennedy on the mission that brought him there, Luis Serra, Ada Wong, and Ashley Graham, who does not fight but fits through gaps no one else can and can sit in the second chair of any puzzle built for two

Ties

Time	Between	Tie
The Valley, 2004	Ashley Graham and Leon Kennedy	Loyalty. Ashley goes to Leon even if her survivor refuses: she slips away the first time no one is watching her. If Leon is dead, she has no one to slip away to, and stays with whoever got her out.
The Valley, 2004	Luis Serra and Leon Kennedy	Loyalty. Each asks their survivor to go to the other.
The Valley, 2004	Ada Wong and Leon Kennedy	Use. She came for the Amber. She stays close while he is useful, leaves with the Amber when it is within her reach, and never fires on him or on whoever he follows.
The Valley, 2004	Jack Krauser and Leon Kennedy	Enmity. Krauser wants Leon dead by his own hand, and fights him on sight.