There are many missions in The Outer Worlds 2. That's expected of course in any RPG, although you'll often find quests buried in the most unexpected places here. For example, did you really think there would be an entire area during the penultimate mission of the game that had even more optional locations and missions for you to uncover?
As you explore the Cloister Underlands during your repairs to the Archive, you may find more than a few Order and Aunt soldiers trapped beneath the surface, forming a tentative alliance with each other in their common enemy of the Protectorate. And that leads you to Trooper Ward, makeshift medic trying to take care of members of both sides.
How to start the Contraband Contrivance Quest
After first entering the Underlands, you can go in two directions, either further south or west. If you want to meet Trooper Ward, continue south and take the lift down. You'll find a small opening in the wall to the left, and inside is Trooper Ward, as well as quite a few injured soldiers from both Auntie's Choice and Order of the Ascendant.
As you learn from talking to her, she is not actually a doctor. She had some training in first aid, and that made her the only one left with medical experience. She is out of her depth and has no tools. So the best she can give is pain relief. But even the medicine she needs for it is missing. So of course she asks you to find it for her.
However, she is not sure where it is the storage building is the most logical place for it, she reasons. Go there now.
You can also buy some items from Trooper Ward if you want, including one Advanced Decryption Key.
Find the facility the medicine is kept
The facility you are looking for is not too far from where Trooper Ward is stationed, although it is well protected. That's it just south of where you meet her, and then straight across the bridge. There are a lot of Ursopods on this bridge, so try to pick them off from a distance to lighten the load, or at least lure them away from the bridge and closer to you/
And why should you do this? Because the bridge and the rest of the path leading up to the storage building are littered with landmines, and it only takes a few to get you out completely, which will be shortened even more by the onslaught of Ursopods. If you have enough explosives, you can disable all these minesor you can shoot them from a distance to take them out.
worst case scenario, just run and jump. If you're fast enough and don't land directly on a mine, you should be able to bypass them all without losing any limbs. Once you reach the entrance, you are safe.
Get the reconstituted medication
When you get to the warehouse building, quickly turn into the room on the right to find two characters at each other's throats. They fight over who gets to keep the items they found. You can try to get them to calm down and cooperate, or you can take a side. Or just let it play out. It doesn't matter in the end, and you will get to take some of the loot yourselfalso. The living will also tell you that the drugs you are looking for should be here.
Little fast platform
In the main room, you will immediately see a crack floating in the middle of the roomand another on the second floor. Before activating the rift on the first floor, be sure to check that the elevator in the corner of the room on the second floor is there. After activating the first floor elevator, quickly run to the elevator and get to the third floor.
Once you're up there, activate the crack on the second floor by getting close to it. This causes the container containing the medicine to appear. If you activate from the second floor, it creates a blockade that prevents you from advancing past the elevator on the top floor. Once you get to the container, inside it will be the medicine you are looking for, it Reconstituted drug packagingas well as the unique weapon, the Icebreaker.
Returning to Trooper Ward
With all that done, you can go right back to Trooper Ward. She's shocked at what you're handing her over because, well, it's not exactly what she asked for. Or at least, it's not quite in the same plane of existence as the one she asked you to find, even if it's the right item. Either way, she'll be glad you found it, even if she can't really use it.
As a reward you are given and Advanced decryption key and a trauma kit.
