Never trust Bernkastel. Especially if she's acting nice. Even Infiltrating, she'll find a way to be on no one's side but her own.

This is interesting, though. Very, very interesting. The fact that we're cut off from the living Investigators is new to me, although apparently the Underworld in Achaia worked the same, upon review. There's certain to be a reason for it; the Arcana may not determine the metaphysics of the worlds we go to, but they do control the Network and Liminal Space.