Ashes of the Damned:
Dust To Dust

Steps

1. Klaus: from round 8, kill the Uber Klaus that comes out of the wreckage across from the Warden 308 in the Janus Towers Plaza, then wake Klaus in the jail of Ashwood with its Stabilizer Chip and Stun Grenades.
2. The Necrofluid Gauntlet: with Klaus, the scanner of the Zarya Cosmodrome, the three Power Pumps and the cube of the Vandorn Farm Cellar.
3. Ol’ Tessie: T.E.D.D.’s head, the Pack-a-Punch and the Abomination heads.
4. The serum: gather six ingredients, take them to Yuri’s Lab at the Zarya Cosmodrome, read three pigpen ciphers on the chalkboard to know which to use and in what order, then add your blood and survive a lockdown where only the Gauntlet heals.
5. The Seal of Sorrow: pull three keys out of the Fog with the Gauntlet and bring them to the chained seal of Ashwood. A cutscene follows, and the DG-2 Turret barrel is ready.
6. The Gauntlet challenges: freeze the clock tower over Ashwood with the DG-2 Turret to charge the Gauntlet, then use those charges in a ritual at Vandorn Farm, a rocket launch at the Zarya Cosmodrome, three revived corpses at Exit 115 and a film projector at Blackwater Lake, where Klaus takes the Hellion Horn.
7. The rally: Klaus blows the horn, and Ol’ Tessie collects red orbs in four parts of the Fog, in order: Monolith Forest, Collapsed Tower, Grounded Ship and Lost Cabins. The truck and the crew are then taken into the Sepulcher.
8. Veytharion: the boss fight, in the pyramid that floats over Blackwater Lake.

Ingredients of the serum

Hoard Hunk Chunks

From a purple Hoard Husk destroyed with the Abomination beam of Ol’ Tessie.

Widow’s Lantern

The jar of spores under the kitchen cabinet of the Blackwater Lake cabin, used on the horse corpse covered in mushrooms outside the gate of Vandorn Farm, then taken back three rounds later.

Powder of the Forgotten

With Wisp Tea, in the Tailor Shop of Ashwood: the Wisp goes into a mirror, which the Gauntlet then breaks.

Ravager Eyes

From a Ravager killed by a Saw Trap.

Human Bones

The foot of the corpse hanging in the Barn of Vandorn Farm, knocked down with a Tomahawk and burned with a Molotov.

Mysterious Limb

From a Zursa killed with the Abomination beam.

The ciphers spell the ingredient to use: FUNGI for the Widow’s Lantern, LIMBS for the Mysterious Limb, OCULI for the Ravager Eyes, CONCH for the Hoard Hunk Chunks and TALUS for the Human Bones. A wrong order gives black smoke and a wait until the next round.

The three keys

Bruin Key

Yellow, on the road from Ashwood to the Zarya Cosmodrome, by the fallen Radio Tower or the Crashed Rocket. Holding it forces the player to use a melee weapon.

Nightbird Key

Red, on the road from Ashwood to Exit 115, in the Orda Graveyard or by the gate of Exit 115. Holding it stops health regeneration.

Terrapin Key

Green, on the road from Ashwood to Vandorn Farm, on or under the Grounded Ship. Holding it slows the player down.

Veytharion

The fight takes place in a hall big enough for Ol’ Tessie to circle in. Ramming him with the truck reveals his weak spots. When he turns immune and spins around the arena, a DG-2 shot deflected to the ground leaves a beam that charges the truck, and a charged ram breaks the immunity and opens a yellow weak spot under him. He fires missiles, then barrages, then a laser at one player, which a boosted ram can interrupt. Zombies and Ravagers keep coming, and in co-op Zursa join the last phase. Max Ammo and Max Armor wait in the hall, often high enough to need the Gauntlet.

Beaten, Veytharion is freed from the Warden’s control and gives Maya and Dempsey their souls back. Players who keep playing return to Blackwater Lake with every perk and a pile of loot. Season One closed a glitch that let players back into the Sepulcher through the portal of an LT53 Kazimir.