Chase Barrister is a character mentioned in Escape Dead Island. He is the father of Kevin "Charon" Barrister and was the co-founder of GeoPharm, along with Ronald Crown.
Chase founded the company with Ronald back in San Francisco, the United States of America. Together, they founded several labs on the islands in the Banoi Archipelago with the intention of researching cures for diseases. The idea was noble, and together, they built laboratories and successfully started the company, which experienced some successes. After Ronald hired him, Chase built new laboratories and discovered a special enzyme which showed a lot of promise, which they called the Hewitt Kahn enzyme accelerator, or HKEA, which was based on research conducted by scientists Hewitt and Kahn.
While they were continuing tests on this enzyme, Emory Crown, Ronald's son, found out about this and was very interested in it, as were his 'associates'. These people belonged to a secret global order called the 'Palm Garden Order,' and because Ronald didn't trust them, he tried to keep HKEA away from them as much as possible. Chase continued to experiment with HKEA during this time, and while doing so, they discovered that it was still very dangerous and not safe to unveil to the public, as it caused cancerous growth on the tissue it repaired.
Then, the unthinkable happened, and a researcher that was appointed by the Palm Garden Order conducted an unscheduled test of HKEA on a test subject, which ended in the agonizing death of the subject. Chase and Ronald were horrified at this, but before anything could be done, Emory kidnapped his father and forced him to sign ownership of the company over to him. Just before this, Ronald warned Chase to escape the island with his young son, Kevin Barrister.
Before he could, however, Emory caught up with him and 'made an example' of him to his followers and those of the Palm Garden Order. It's not known what exactly he did to Chase, but he likely killed him in some way, whether it was just making him disappear or some darker ritualistic murder; it's not known.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly enough, Chase intended to find a cure for Kuru while his son had the exact opposite goal: to spread the disease.
- It was the killing of his father and mother that caused Kevin to work for the Consortium in pursuit of the downfall of both the Palm Garden Order and GeoPharm.
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