City Documents Exclusive | Wwz Key To The
There are two chapters in the Marseille episode, and documents are hidden in both. Below is a guide to finding the exclusive "Key to the City" documents.
Note: You must pick up the document for it to save. If you die, you must pick it up again, though the game often saves collectible progress if you reach a checkpoint after picking one up.
These documents are gated content. Unlike the base game documents, you cannot access them unless:
If you collect all 48 documents, a hidden 49th file appears in the main menu: Letter from a UN Deputy to an unknown recipient.
It reads, in part:
“We have confirmed that Patient Zero was not an accident. The ‘Key to the City’ documents you’ve recovered contain the same statistical anomaly—a 0.4% deviation in infection vectors across four continents. That is not nature. That is design. Someone turned the keys. We just don’t know who.”
This implies the apocalypse was engineered—and the documents are the proof.
Among the exclusive documents are three specific cases that highlight the desperation of the era.
Case File: New York (The Tri-State Area) The documents reference the "Manhattan Key." Contrary to rumors that this was a gift to a foreign dignitary, the papers reveal it was awarded to a collective of salvage engineers. The text is heavily redacted, but a margin note reads: "For the clearing of the tunnels. Without them, the city breathes no air." This suggests the "Key" was payment for hazardous duty—essentially, a bribe to clear the subterranean hives. wwz key to the city documents exclusive
Case File: Troy, Montana This file details a "Key" awarded post-mortem. In a departure from tradition, the city council voted to grant the Key to a former "Renegade" who provided intelligence on swarm movements. The document authorizes the transfer of the Key's benefits (food rations and housing) to the Renegade's next of kin, establishing a precedent for the "Inheritance of Valor."
Case File: [REDACTED] (Coastal Fortress) This heavily censored document mentions a Key being revoked. The language is sterile but terrifying: "Subject 89 found in violation of Access Protocol 6. Key revoked. Access to the Eastern Gate denied. Subject remanded to the Exterior." This confirms that losing one's "Key" was a de facto death sentence.
The primary reason players hunt for these documents is to unlock the "Tourist" trophy/achievement. This achievement requires you to collect every single document in the game (or specifically within the DLC episodes, depending on the platform version).
My exclusive archive reveals three key distributions that the UN Council voted unanimously to bury. There are two chapters in the Marseille episode,
1. The Key of the Damned (New York City) Recipient: "Lieutenant" Maria Vazquez (posthumous, presumed feral) Details: New York had been a tomb for six months. The UN wanted to drop a tactical nuke to clear the tunnels. Castellano vetoed it. Instead, a drone dropped a single key on a string into the Hell’s Kitchen tunnel intersection. Engraved on the key was a promise: "Restoration of Human Charter." Three weeks later, Vazquez emerged. She wasn't a soldier. She was a queen. She had united 40,000 feral survivors living in the dark. She held the key in her teeth like a knife. She traded it for extraction of her "children." The UN agreed. They never gave her the city. They gave her a key to leave it.
2. The Key of the Collaborator (Seattle, WA) Recipient: "The Geek" (Name redacted – Witness Protection 7X) Details: This is the ugly one. Seattle fell not to zombies, but to starvation. A cartel of preppers held the Space Needle. They called themselves "The Anchorites." They had the food. They had the guns. But they wanted legitimacy. Document WWZ/LOG/SEA-09 shows a secret flight landing on the roof of the Needle. A UN diplomat handed over a custom key—platinum, set with a single emerald. In exchange, The Anchorites opened their silos. They saved 200,000 lives. But the price was that the UN would officially record that the Mayor had voluntarily handed the key to them "for safekeeping." The mayor was dead. He had been dead for two weeks. The Anchorites kept the key. It now hangs in a private bunker in Montana. The city of Seattle is still unaware of the transaction.
3. The Key of the Martyr (Jerusalem) Recipient: The Tenth Man. Details: The most disturbing document is a single photograph. A hand, decaying but wearing a UN peacekeeper glove, holding a key up to a security camera. The file name is "Tenth_Key_Final.jpg". The backstory: After the fall of Jerusalem, the Israeli government activated the "Ktav" protocol. Ten keys were forged. Nine were given to the commanders of the retreating columns. The tenth key was placed in the hand of a soldier who stayed behind to trigger the seismic charges that collapsed the Temple Mount tunnels. The exclusive audio log (translated from Hebrew) contains the last transmission: "I am the key. I am the lock. Tell them the city is closed." That key was never recovered. Satellite imagery suggests it is buried under 40 meters of rubble and quicklime, directly on the fault line. Some say that is the only key that actually worked.
