A fire broke out in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on the night of 22 March 2021. A large portion of the camp was destroyed, and over a dozen people were killed while nearly a thousand were either injured or missing.
In October 2019,[6] Jesse Faden arrives at the Oldest House following a telepathic message from Polaris, seeking the whereabouts of her kidnapped brother Dylan. Inside the building, Jesse discovers the lifeless body of Zachariah Trench, and is instructed by Polaris to pick up his fallen Service Weapon. Jesse is translocated to the Astral Plane, where the Board immediately appoints her as the new director of the FBC in Trench's stead. Exiting Trench's office, Jesse is attacked by FBC agents possessed by an entity Jesse dubs "the Hiss." Jesse learns that the entire Oldest House is under emergency lockdown following the Hiss's spread, and that everyone in the building has been possessed by the Hiss except those wearing Hedron Resonance Amplifiers (HRAs), devices built by missing Bureau scientist Dr. Casper Darling. Jesse agrees to aid the surviving Bureau agents in reclaiming the building and containing the Hiss, in exchange for seeking Dylan's whereabouts.