GFL2 Story/Summary

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This is a general overview of the plot of Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium.

Chapter 1

The year is 2074, ten years after the end of Girls' Frontline. In the wake of the creation of the URNC, PMCs such as Griffin & Kryuger have been forcibly downsized, and the Commander has left to take part in the rise of bounty hunting. Aboard the mobile base Elmo, they take on bounties with the Dolls Groza and Nemesis and the Elmo's mechanic Mayling. In March, the Elmo crew took a job to transport a mysterious high-tech box across Eastern Europe. The day after the welcome party of the newest member Krolik, the Elmo is ambushed by Varjagers, who take down the Dolls and seize the box. Deploying with their spare bodies, Team Groza manage to recapture the box, which opens briefly in self-defense and reveals a young girl inside. After replenishing their stock by visiting the underground broker Poludnitsa, who casts suspicion on the Commander's client, the Elmo makes way to Purification Zone W_2069_0105.

Chapter 2

In Purification Zone W_2069_0105, the Commander obtains topographical maps from the garrison commander, Warrant Officer Vladimir, who is an acquaintance. The crew is also joined by the medical Doll Colphne, gifted to the Commander by Poludnitsa. To lose their Varjagers pursuers, the Commander directs the Elmo to the contaminated region of Port Vest and set a successful ambush, but Team Groza barely survive an encounter with a Boojum-class ELID. Colphne temporarily leaves the other Dolls to save herself before coming back out of guilt, durably damaging Groza's trust in her.

Chapter 3

The box reacts to the Commander's biodata and opens, revealing the girl inside. Called Helena, her lack of ELID symptoms despite exposure to Collapse radiation indicates she's a fully-immune individual. With growing suspicions towards the client, the Commander decides to send the Dolls and Mayling to confront them at the delivery point while themselves travel to Satellite City ODE-01 with Helena to meet an old friend who will know more. When Team Groza attempts to capture the client, they are faced by the powerful third-generation Doll Sextans and are forced to pull back.

Chapter 4

In ODE-01, the Commander and Helena meet Lenna and Kalina, who now work for the URNC's Non-Military Forces Administration. Though they parted on bad terms ten years prior, Kalina reveals she secretly entrusted the contract assigned to the Commander in order to investigate the client, who's suspected to work with the Girard Group. A message from Persica introduces the Commander to Pattern Remolding technology, a portable Reverse Collapse device. Helena is captured while she's scanned by Kalina's team and Team Groza breaks into a Girard lab to recover her, but they are attacked by Darture, another third-generation Doll equipped with a Reverse Collapse devices that transforms her into a giant combat mech. Groza manages to hold her off using her own Pattern Remolding device. Meanwhile, Kalina barely escapes summary execution from ODE-01's police thanks to Lenna and Leva and flees to Kyiv.

Chapter 5

After being destroyed by Darture and uploaded into a new body, Groza temporarily enter a trance where she relives memories from her lost past. With the help of Dandelion and Peritya, the Commander, Krolik, Nemesis and Colphne manage to return to the Elmo. Back in the Yellow Zone, they receives a signal from Kalina to change their meeting point from Kyiv to an abandoned Sangvis Ferri factory. On the way, they discover that Helena is not a true fully-immune individual and Team Groza are all outfitted with a Remolding Pattern. Kalina's message is revealed to be a fake by Darture, but the Dolls prevail by using their Patterns. Before she succumbs, a voice enjoins Darture to abandon Girard Group and join a new faction.

Chapter 6

After contacting Kalina, the Elmo departs for Kyiv. When Groza enquires about the Commander's motivations for helping in a matter that shouldn't concern a bounty hunter, they respond that the ongoing research about fully-immune individuals means their last target while working at G&K might still be alive. Passing near Port Vert again, they learn that Warrant Officer Vladimir was killed by the rampagning Boojum. The Elmo reaches the underground channel used by the broker Saga to replenish their resources, taking out a Varjager ambush on the way. They take in the T-Doll Vepley and help the brokers defend against a vengeful Varjagers.

Sojourners of the Glass Island

Part 1

The story is told through Suomi's letters to the Commander. She's now part of a Doll community born from the caravan of a bounty hunter named Allen. After Allen's disappearance, his Dolls rallied behind the T-Doll Ullrid, who leads the community to live in the Yellow Zone independently from humans. Ullrid is able to inspire hope in the community, but is not actually comfortable in her position and relies a lot on Littara, another former G&K Doll, as her strategist. However, the community is slowly dying from lack of resources. A ray of hope appears when they find the abandoned Marley thermal power station, where a lot of Doll equipment is stockpiled. Only the high concentration of ELIDs seems to be in their way.

Ullrid insists that the community decide their next objectives with votes, but more Dolls are abstaining from participating as their situation worsens. Ullrids needs to convince them to brave the ELID danger at Marley instead of going on their way and hope to find resources elsewhere. By chance, Suomi runs into the deactivated body of former elite T-Doll KSVK and brings her back to camp to repair her. After losing all memories of her past, KSVK has been wandering trying to find people who knew her. Suomi and Littara didn't know her well at G&K, but they help her remember the Commander, DP-12, and her true name: Dushevnaya. As thanks, Dushevnaya promises to help the Doll community fight the ELIDs at Marley, which tips the scales during the vote.

While investigating the station, the Dolls discover that it was actually being used by an experimental agricultural project aiming to make Yellow Zone agriculture viable by developing underground cultivation techniques. But when they try to enter the subterranean fields, they are attacked by bots and pursued by an incredibly powerful Creepy Doll. They also discover that the station's cooling towers are artificially increasing the local concentration of Collapse particles to lure ELIDs in the region. All signs point towards the fact that Marley is actually a secret but active human operation, but Ullrid skews the community's vote again by hiding some information and promising that the chances are in favor of the community taking the station by force. When investigating Ullrid's reasons, Littara discovers that the community's resources are actually nearly depleted and that their only other choices are to go to their death in the Red Zone, or abandon their freedom and return to human settlements. Despite uncovering Ullrid's lies, Littara, Suomi and Dushevnaya support her ideals of freedom and her plan to take over Marley.

The next day, the Doll community enters the cooling towers and deactivate them, causing a general attack by the bots and the Creepy Doll. After a harsh battle where Littara is nearly destroyed, the Creepy Doll is engulfed in the explosion of one of the cooling towers and only one of her previously severed arms remains. In the locket attached to the wrist, the Dolls find records revealing her true name, Lambertia, and her apparently unfruitful attempts to complete the cultivation research after the humans abandoned it. Shaken by the deadly battle that reminded her of her past as a prey in a Doll hunting ground, and the revelation that the underground fields are unusable, Ullrid is about to make amend for endangering the community by giving up her role as leader. Littara then finds more hidden reports revealing that Lambertia's efforts actually paid off, and that Marley is so isolated that she wasn't even able to contact other humans to reveal her progress, ultimately making Ullrid's gamble a success.

Part 2

After the events at Marley, Suomi is sent on a resource gathering expedition and helps a bounty hunter convoy, in hopes of meeting the Commander to give them the letters she wrote. She's abandoned by the convoy and found by the Elmo, who followed the light of her lantern. By having Suomi on board, the Commander is breaching “the contract”, a mysterious agreement which prevents them from staying in contact with their former Dolls, with the exception of Groza. Two months after Suomi's rescue, the Elmo receives an ad about the “Spectrum Bubble-Cart”, a bubble-spewing toy tank. Suomi recognizes the ad as a secret message from Ullrid recalling her to the community, but she decides to wait for a proper occasion to announce her departure to the Commander. Mayling mistakes Suomi's interest in the ad for an interest in the bubble-cart and starts working on a makeshift version.

To craft a situation to announce her leave, Suomi organizes a Game of Kings with the crew, but none of the situations that emerge are what she expected. Mayling duels the Commander in a tactical command simulation, loses and gets too drunk to keep playing, Nemesis gets asked to tell a joke and Groza launches into a monologue about the proper criteria for selecting a tea set. The game ends when combat arises against ELIDs. Later, the Commander receives an ominous email warning them not to keep Suomi any longer, while Suomi prepares a letter of leave for the Commander. She walks in on Mayling preparing the bubble-cart and a mechanical issue causes the entire command deck to become covered in slippery bubbles, causing Suomi's letter to reach the Commander's hands ahead of time. After rescuing their client from a Varjager attack, Suomi and the Commander come clean with each other. Because the Doll community includes several of their former Dolls, the Commander can't escort Suomi back, but sends Groza with her along with a gift of resources, and they hope “the contract” will end soon so they can all be reunited.