Castle III

Castle III is the third installment in the Castle Series. It is the first to go in depth into the plot and background of the story, and represents a stylistic shift from the "extended Matrix lobby scene" composition of the previous two. it is the first in which characters other than Etrius play a major role, and the first in which the characters are named. It is split up into 4 segments.

Plot
To avoid streaming difficulties and to avoid the 16 000 frame limit in flash, Oscar decided to split Castle III up into four different sections, A, B, C and D.

Part A - A Dead World
This part takes of directly where Castle II left off, with Etrius accompanied by Beecher in the helicopter returning from the Second Castle. Etrius appears to be losing consciousness from the zombie bite in Castle II. The helicopter approaches The Base a fortified human outpost situated on a large plateau in the Castleverse. upon landing, Etrius is carried off in a stretcher. The General enters and asks Beecher whether Etrius will survive. He replies to Beecher's response that he was bitten with the words "I see.". After a moment of high tension between the two, The General takes The Second Book and calls Romanov to examine it.

Inside Etrius loses consciousness and experiences vivid hallucinations including reliving moments from Castle I and II, as well as vague visions of some of the events of the first and Second War of the Ancients. He awakes suddenly, hearing presumably ???'s voice saying "release me".

Flash back three months on Earth, specifically The General's office. Etrius enters, complete with handcuffs, on which he comments that he "could break these damn things as easy as [The General's] neck". The General informs him that it was to see if he would cooperate or not. He tells Etrius that recently a team of scientists built a portal between Earth and the Castleverse, saying that it is a "dark, deserted world". He tells Etrius that a castle was discovered, and the archeologists sent in to investigate dissipated. Etrius, he explains is the only man who can pull off "those missions you're notorious of" and that he is needed to investigate that castle. He informs Etrius that all his old team members have been sent in and are waiting for him.