The reunion with Elena — the game reestablishing the relationship that Drake's Fortune built and then putting it in a new context. The convoy following is the session's operational content, the game at its most confident in action sequence design. But the significance is in the partnership being restored, the two people who should be together finding their way back into proximity through the specific logic of a treasure hunt that keeps putting them in the same place.

The monastery is the game's transition point between the urban and the mythological — the last piece of the real world before Shambhala makes the quest into something else entirely.