Cauldron Lake (manuscript)

This page is for manuscript page. For the location, see this page.

Cauldron Lake is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake 2. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Transcript[]

Animals stayed away from the water's edge as if to avoid some unseen, submerged predator waiting just below the dark surface. They never drank water from the lake. Birds flew around it, never over. Darkness flowed from Cauldron Lake.

Gaze in the black mirror of the lake, you'd see it all around you, and you'd understand, it was already out, already where you were. It was already too late.

Cauldron Lake used to be alive with people. Beautiful forests. Hiking trails leading to stunning vistas. Then the government put up a fence. Kept the people out. Volcanic gas, they said. They didn't want anyone knowing the truth.

The lake wasn't a lake at all. The dark water a mask to hide the hungry and bottomless ocean below. A fence couldn't stop the flood that was coming. Nothing could. The return of the nightmare, rising from the depths.

Location[]

The page can be found on a desk inside the rental cabin 1, on Cauldron Lake. The gate of the Rental Cabins area must first be opened using the bolt cutters, which are acquired on the Valhalla Nursing Home Overlap.

Notes[]

For the reasons stated above, this page cannot be obtained until after Return 5: Old Gods; despite this, it is listed under Return 2: The Heart in the Mind Place.

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