Barry's Struggles With Artists

Barry’s Struggle With Artists is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake 2. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Transcript[]

Barry used to be the agent of a manic-depressive celebrity writer, Alan Wake. Wake had various addictions on his back. An on-off death wish. Wheeler had seen a thing or two.

Wheeler paid a lot of money for a hood shrink. Got himself convinced that all the nightmares he’d seen leading up to Wake drowning himself were just his imagination. PTSD. Now he had pills to keep the shadows from his sleep.

But the Andersons were something else. The nightmares were starting to creep in again. Or maybe it was the drugs in the air. Wheeler hoped it was the drugs.

The Andersons were so old. Vampires. After every gig and the party that followed, it took them weeks to bounce back. And they never did completely. Each time, Wheeler expected them to croak.

Location[]

The page can be found on the corner of the boiler room of the Valhalla Nursing Home basement.

Notes[]

This page, along with Building The Valhalla Nursing Home and The History Of The Valhalla Nursing Home, contain fragments of the Valhalla Nursing Home Hotline call from the AWE expansion of Control. For this page, the relevant passage is:

The Andersons were so old. Vampires. Princes of fucking Darkness. After every gig and the rampaging party that followed it took them weeks to bounce back. And they never did completely.

― Valhalla Nursing Home

Manuscript Pages (Alan Wake 2)
Note: The pages marked with a "" can only be found in The Final Draft*
Return 1: Invitation	Title Page of Return • The Message • Saga Fights Nightingale With Light • Saga Pursues Nightingale • Saga At The General Store • Saga Anderson's Deja Vu*
Return 2: The Heart	Nightingale Enters The Lake • Nightingale In The Dark Place • Saga Finds A Safe Haven • Saga Opens The Cauldron Lake Overlap • Saga Burns Away The Dark Substance • The Overlap • The Murder Sites • Ed Returns To Cauldron Lake • Tammy Rides The Ferry • Cauldron Lake • The Cult Of The Tree • Dark Poem 1*
Return 3: Local Girl	The Trailer • Scratch On The Hunt • The Koskela's Parade Float • Deputies Make A Grave Mistake • Deputies Corrupted • Deputies In The Morgue • Mocha's Funeral • The Cult Finds The Clicker • Koskelas Break Into The FBC Lab • The Dark Presence Attacks • Saga In The Watery Woods • Saga Fights Taken At The Workshop • Watery • Coffee World Attacked • Breakthrough in the Lake House*
Return 5: Old Gods	Saga At The Nursing Home • Tor Is Bewitched • Odin Stuck In Bed • Saga Opens The Valhalla Nursing Home Overlap • The History Of The Valhalla Nursing Home • Barry's Struggles With Artists • Building The Valhalla Nursing Home • Cynthia Corrupted • Cynthia And Tom • Cynthia's Lamp • Gail Taken • Bright Falls • Rose At Bingo Night • Emmett Taken • Dark Poem 2*
Return 6: Scratch	Rose Receives A Message • Sheriff's Station Attacked • Dark Poem 3*
Return 7: Summoning	The Cult Of The Tree Is Born • The Cult Storms The Lodge • Ilmo Resists The Dark Presence • Odin Loses An Eye • It's Not a Lake*
Return 9: Come Home	Door Traverses The Dark Place