Lincoln High School is a high school located in Lincoln and is a location Joel and Ellie visit with Bill while journeying across the United States of America in The Last of Us. Frank also visited the school.[1]
History[]
2013[]
The school year started off normal in the fall of 2013, with "Game Night 2013" schedules for Friday, October 18.[fn 1]
Following the Cordyceps brain infection outbreak, the school was officially closed on October 4.[2] The high school was later designated as a temporary quarantine zone for Amherst County, which operated under FEDRA's Mycotoxin Level 4 Containment Protocols. The gym was converted into a staging area for supplies, the parking lot turning into a processing area, and the school district's buses were used to evacuate residents. Evacuation began on October 17.[2] Upon arrival, evacuees would be tested for infection and their bags inspected before being split into four groups, with each group going to a different permanent quarantine zone. Group 1 was sent to the Springfield QZ, Group 2 to the Woods Hole QZ, Group 3 to the Hartford QZ, and Group 4 to the Boston QZ. Despite attempts to contain the infection within the temporary QZ,[fn 2] the high school was lost to the infected before evacuations could be completed.
2013-2033[]
Bill and Frank still lived within the town and kept watch over the school, monitoring the rising infected presence, which the former used to ensure hostile survivors were deterred from venturing into the town.[3]
Events of The Last of Us[]
Around 2033, the military grew desperate to locate supplies for civilians living in Boston. As such, they took a truck and tried to reach the school to retrieve supplies within it. However, a horde of infected attacked the truck, causing it to crash through the school, the infected killing any soldiers that survived.[1]
A short time later, Frank ran away from Bill and made his way to the school, stealing the battery from the truck, so he could power a car with it and flee Lincoln. He made it to a nearby house and used the battery to fix a pickup truck. However, he was bitten by a runner. Knowing he would die, he committed suicide in the house, leaving the truck in the garage.[4]
By the summer, Joel and Ellie arrived in the town and asked Bill to lead them to the school, so they could retrieve the truck's battery, unaware of Frank's plans for it. They planned to use it to power a truck that Bill could repair, so they could travel to Jackson.
However, upon reaching the school and finding the truck, they found the battery no longer inside it. With no choice, the trio fought through the infected within the school, making it to the gymnasium. The bloater in the school was in the gymnasium, with the trio fighting against it and several runners, eventually managing to kill it. They then fled the school, finding the house where Frank had lived and secured the working truck he had left behind.[1]
Known inhabitants[]
- Amy Sinclair, member of the cheerleading squad[1][5] (formerly)
- Andres, student[5] (formerly)
- Arnaldo, student[5] (formerly)
- Chase, student[5] (formerly)
- Mr. Craghead, homeroom teacher of room 204[5] (formerly)
- Mrs. Hayden, homeroom teacher of room 205[5] (formerly)
- JFlow, student[5] (formerly)
- Jorge, student[5] (formerly)
- Jose, student[5] (formerly)
- Kevin, student[5] (formerly)
- La Vonce, student[5] (formerly)
- Mr. Meador, homeroom teacher of room 103[5] (formerly)
- Ms. Neonakis, homeroom teacher of room 203[5] (formerly)
- Mr. Odella, teacher and detention supervisor[5] (formerly)
- Pat, student[5] (formerly)
- Paul, student[5] (formerly)
- Ramon, student[5] (formerly)
- Mr. Reece, principal[5] (formerly)
- Spencer, student[5] (formerly)
- Ms. Topal, homeroom teacher of room 106[5] (formerly)
- Trevor, student[5] (formerly)
- Vivian, student[5] (formerly)
- Mr. Weaver, homeroom teacher of room 102[5] (formerly)
Behind the scenes[]
- "Lincoln High School" has never existed in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Lincoln students attend Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in neighboring Sudbury, Massachusetts. Their team name are the "Warriors", not "Eagles".