Welcome to NGB and our walkthrough for the Escape From Placid Waters side quest in The Outer Worlds 2. For this quest, you’ll need to help a patient of the Mental Refreshment Facility on Praetor escape before his mind is permanently affected. Our guide will walk you through all the objectives, highlight the best strategies, and make sure you don’t miss any rewards.
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Escape From Placid Waters Side Quest Guide
How to Start the Escape From Placid Waters Side Quest
To begin the Escape From Placid Waters side quest in The Outer Worlds 2, you’ll need to start the Mysteries of the Mental Modulators faction quest that brings you to the Placid Waters Wellniatrium facility. There, you’ll find Weylon in the prisoner quarters. Speak with him and offer to break him out. He’ll agree, but only after you retrieve his stuff that the Protectorate took.
Escape From Placid Waters Walkthrough
Unseal the Kitchen
To unseal the kitchen, you’ll need to head to the study hall, past the mess hall, and wait for the video to stop playing. Once it does, speak with Refreshment Facilitator Tilden, then convince her to hand over her Mid-Privileged Priority Pass (you won’t need anything special to do this).
With the keycard in hand, return to the mess hall and interact with the device next to the robot to unseal the kitchen.
Retrieve Weylon’s Commemorative Pitchball
Now that the kitchen is unsealed, it’s time to retrieve the pitchball. Between the mess and the study hall, you’ll find another locked door. Use the keycard to access it, then proceed through. There will be enemies in the room that you’ll need to be wary of. Head straight down the walkway, then take a left just before the enemy to reach an elevator. Use it to go up to the Observational Oversight level.
Exit the elevator and take a right, heading through the door in front of you. Continue down the hallway, taking a left at the end. Now you’ll want to head into the second door on the right to enter the room that Yackley was in. On the right side, there will be a door leading to the room with the pitchball.
Pitchball Card: Andrew Erickson – You can also receive a pitchball card on the shelf, next to the pitchball. It increases the Gadget Energy Meter Max by 1.
Return to Weylon
Now that you have the pitchball, head across to the other side of the room where you’ll find a terminal. Interact with it and use it to unseal the door. This will create a shortcut to the main lobby! Head through the door to the right of the terminal then call the elevator and return to Weylon. Speak with him to hand over the pitchball, then tell him it’s time to leave.
See Weylon Out
Follow Weylon through the facility, heading into the kitchen and then the freezer. Speak with him once more in the freeze, and he’ll ask for your help removing the poster.
Interact with it and choose the “Tear down the poster” option to remove it from the wall. This will reveal a hole heading to the outside. Speak with Weylon once more, and he’ll tell you to meet him at the Free Market Station for a reward.
Meet Millie Mealing at Free Market Station
Travel to Free Market Station and head to the bazaar. You’ll find Weylon and his daughter sitting at a table in the back by the bar. Speak with Millie to receive your reward of XP, bits, an Advanced Decryption Key, and a Shock Assault Rifle. The quest will then be completed.
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