

The player(s) then visits Forever Fall to continue investigating the trail left behind by Merlot Industries. They also encounter mysterious Mutant Creeps, which detonate explosively when they get close.

The player(s) manage to contain the explosion by dropping the bomb down a large chasm. The team falls into the subterranean ruins of the city, which they find have been booby-trapped with a large bomb.

There, they fight through more Grimm before an enormous explosion causes the building to collapse around them. The player(s) head to Mountain Glenn to investigate the abandoned facility of Merlot Industries, this time guided by Bartholomew Oobleck. They also find mysterious cages used for capturing Grimm, created by the now defunct Merlot Industries, an old research and development corporation that had its primary facility at the ill-fated settlement of Mountain Glenn. The player(s) discovers that the network was reprogrammed by an unknown party. Along the way, they fight off hordes of Grimm, defending the security network control centers as Port fixes them. In the first level of the game, Peter Port guides the player(s) through a mission to the Emerald Forest, where there have been issues with the security network. The storyline of the game takes place between RWBY Volume 2 and Volume 3. Series writers Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross are collaborating with the game development team on the story. The game features its own unique plot that will be canon within the main show's continuity, and will introduce a new villain unique to the game's storyline.
