You picked up your half-brother Jeppy and brought him back to Quarters in High on Life 2, but Lizzie isn’t done throwing surprises your way.
Turns out, your half-brother isn’t the only family in town; your mom is here too. Even knowing that both you and Lizzie are wanted criminals, she’s still dead set on having a family dinner, insisting that nothing else matters tonight.
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Meet Your Mom At The Spaceforest Cafe
The dinner is supposed to take place at the Spaceforest Cafe shop in Circuit Arcadia. Accept the quest from Bounty ’95 and head to the City Plaza.
As soon as you land, your mum will call and inform you, mentioning that they are waiting for you at the cafe.
However, they needed to take the sewers near the Riverwalk area to reach it, because you are wanted criminals and police are kind of everywhere.
Well, this is the same path that you need to take, so head to the east of the map. After you reach your objective, you need to complete the Creature kid puzzle in order to unlock the door to the sewer.
Use The Sewers
Going through the sewer is just constant platforming, using your skateboard, and gripping through walls and all of that. But what you didn’t expect was a mysterious call from Travis’ wife, Jan.
Somehow, she managed to track you by hiring a private investigator, and she seems to know about the sinking ship of the billionaire Larry Pinkstock that we killed.
Jan threatens Travis by getting a divorce, and she is coming for him, whether you like it or not. This went from a simple dinner with your mom to handling a marital crisis.
Head To The Zoo
After you complete the sewer path, you will reach the Zoo section of Circuit Arcadia, where the Spaceforest Cafe is located. Follow the objective until you reach the cave.
Head inside, and you should find your mom, Lizzie, and Lezduit waiting for you to join them. Sit down with your family and enjoy the family reunion while you all catch up.
It seems your mom has a special announcement to make; that’s why she gathered all her children here. Your mom and Lezduit want to marry each other; they want to get your approval about it.
Lizzie seems not to care about this at all because, well, they already have a kid together and both are grown up. You also have far bigger problems to worry about than who is dating your mom.
When Lizzie asks about dad, it seems that she hasn’t heard from him in a while and wanted to catch up with him as well.
Your mom mentions that he went to Wyoming; the one on Earth, not space, for some type of wellness retreat for divorced people.
Lizzie seems to know something about this and realizes it’s Birch Springs. This is actually not a wellness retreat; it’s a cult, and your dad might be in danger, so you need to help him.
Defeat Tiffany
During the conversation, you will be attacked by Tiffany, once again, the same one who attacked you on the Lido Deck back in Pinkline Harbor.
She and her minions will be attacking you, so you need to defeat them. Start by killing all the smaller enemies so you can focus entirely on Tiffany.
Tiffany is a large alien whose attacks you can easily predict. She uses her gun to send projectiles at you; these you can parry if you melee them at the right time.
Tiffany can also launch at you and throw herself to close distance, followed by some melee attacks. You can easily avoid this by skateboarding away and creating distance, since she takes some time to launch.
After you reduce Tiffany to her last third of health, she will escape, and you and your family will need to make it back to the Quarters.
Head To The Birch Springs
After calling the RV and heading back to the Quarters, Lizzie explains all about the cult of Birch Springs and what rumors surround them, urging you to go check on him at least.
After you reach Birch Springs, head to the main entrance, and you will find two staff members waiting.
When you interact with them, they will start talking in this weird tone of voice, which gives off totally strange vibes.
At first, they refuse to allow Gatlian inside, as this is a human-only space, but since Travis is technically going through a divorce right now, it seems that’s the closest thing he can get to a “human experience.”
Find Your Dad
This thankfully lets you in, and you can access the wellness center. Go inside and then head to the right; here you will find a guy that you can ask about your dad.
Ted, this guy, seems to be your dad’s best friend, so he should know where he is.
Although your dad didn’t appear at the center today and Ted didn’t see him, the only one who might know where your dad is would be Gwendolyn, the one in charge of the place.
You can talk more to Ted about your dad to hear some additional info about his time being here, but if you’re ready to proceed, make your way to Gwendolyn.
You would think Travis has gotten away, but oh boy, Jan calls again, and she is coming for you.
She knows exactly where you are, and you are signing those papers; she said that with a weird, very evil laugh, “Oh Travis, you’re… well, you know.”
Follow the objective to the meditation room inside the center, and you should find Gwendolyn at the center giving a speech.
Approach her and ask about your dad. You will learn that your father is “self-reflecting” in the Ego Chamber out in the woods.
Of course, the way Gwendolyn confirms it, the vibe feels off in this place, and it’s definitely not a normal “wellness retreat.” At least you got your clue, and you need to go to this Ego Chamber.
Find The Ego Chamber
Head outside of the building and make your way to the old farm grounds in the woods; if you feel lost, just pull up your scanner and follow the objective marker.
As you make your way deep into the forest, you will get another call from Jan, saying that she is almost there and that she is getting you, Travis.
Shortly after the call, you reach a dead end and see a space ball ship coming down, but it sticks to the ground, and you need to unlock it.
Meet Jan
While Travis says that this is not necessary and you just need to focus on finding your dad, the drama is good, and we are already invested in this marriage, so we went ahead and shot the seals to unlock the ship.
You will finally meet Jan, and well, things get intense between the two. This dynamic duo will be in your hands, and Jan will join you as a secondary gun alongside Travis; the perfect couple, you know.
Travis says that they need to put their crisis aside for now and help the human, you, I mean, the protagonist, find his dad and save him.
Go Back To Finding The Ego Chamber
With Jan joining your team, you’re back to finding the Ego Chamber, located to the northwest of the forest. It looks like a brand-new, painted triangular shack.
Knock on the door, and no one will open, but you will hear your dad’s voice saying that he is tied up inside and can’t open it. Now you need to find a way to get inside.
On the left side of the shack, you will find a small window that you can jump to and enter. Here, you will finally see your dad again, tied up on a chair.
After you cut the ties from your dad’s hands, you will be approached by two staff members who will try to stop you from interfering with their “rituals.”
Of course, you’re just going to kill them in order to escape. But after you kill them, they will turn into monsters, and Lizzie will come in to rescue you.
After you deal with the enemies, your dad wants to save his best Ted, the same person who pursued him to join this “resort,” and he insists he won’t go without him.
Oh well, we have no choice but to find Ted and save this male friendship.
Escape The Birch Springs
From here forward, all the staff members will turn into monsters and attack you on sight, so be prepared to be constantly fighting them.
Your mom contacts you and mentions she is having trouble with these monsters in the chapel, so the plan is that you need to go and help your mom and Lezduit while Lizzie sticks with your dad.
Your destination is the chapel, so follow the path through the forest and head there. Just outside, you will see your mom fighting some of these monsters, so go ahead and help her.
After you defeat all of them, go inside, and you will regroup with Lizzie and your dad. Now, all together, you go and hope to find Ted inside this whole mess.
When you open the door to go inside the retreat, you will see that it has turned into this weird alien space with many monsters trying to attack you on sight.
Keep progressing forward and defeat all the enemies that you come across. Eventually, you will reach a room where you will find Ted’s uniform on the floor.
Your dad somehow still believes that Ted is finally going to get laid with Gwendolyn, despite seeing how the whole retreat is a cult with all the monsters and divorced people. What can we say?
Defeat The Mini Boss
You will be attacked by a big, strange mutated cult member, and you need to kill it. Given his large size, he is slow to move, and you can predict all his attacks.
It’s best to use the walls around the room to take cover from his ranged attacks. Alternatively, you can just skate away and then turn around to shoot the monster; it takes him a while to reach you.
Travis and Jan remain the best weapons to go full DPS on the boss. After you defeat the boss, exit the room through the broken window and head to the Completion Hall, a big barn just ahead.
Make your way there, and you will find Ted trapped in a strange-looking machine while Gwendolyn is holding a tub of some kid who needs to breathe it so they can become one.
Darn it, this cult is really weird, right?
Gwendolyn will start breathing on Ted, which will cause him to die. However, she will begin to transform into this big bug monster that, of course, you will need to kill once again.
Defeat Gwendolyn Birch
Phase 1
Inside the small barn, you face Gwendolyn, or whatever remains of her. There is not much you can do here except keep shooting Gwendolyn.
Early in the fight, she will take Jan, and Travis will start confessing his love to her, which is definitely the worst time you want to do that.
While Travis does his monologue, you need to keep shooting Gwendolyn until you spot a glowing part. That’s her weak spot, and you need to shoot it as soon as possible.
You need to repeat this process a few more times while constantly moving and trying to avoid as many attacks as possible. After you manage to lower her HP to zero, she will throw Jan, and you will be able to pick her up again.
It seems that things between Jan and Travis are smoothing out, and all is fine between them. Jan reacts to this new adventurous Travis, and she only did what she did to push him to become “more adventurous.”
Gene checks on you and sends the RV to pick you up. Seems all is going well so far.
Phase 2
Too soon to celebrate, huh? It’s not over yet, because the real fight is about to begin. As soon as you approach the RV, you will be in the cornfield. You won’t be able to see her at first.
Simply shoot the plants to gain visibility on her, or you can also double-check to see where she is moving. The fight is basically the same, only this time you have a larger field in which you can move freely.
Keep shooting at Gwendolyn while keeping your distance, and eventually she will reveal the same weak spots as before.
These are what you need to destroy as soon as they appear in order to deal massive damage to her health. You need to repeat this a couple of times until you lower her health to zero.
Phase 3
You would think that after defeating her this time, it will be all done and you can finally go back home, but no.
Somehow, Gwendolyn will revive herself one more time, hopefully the last time, and she will become more aggressive.
Nothing in the fight changes, and the same strategy works here, but this time around Gwen will often leap at you as you close distance.
Your skateboard is faster than her, so just keep distance, shoot her until you see a weak spot, and then destroy it.
Eventually, you will finally and once for all manage to kill Gwendolyn Birch and destroy this cult with it.
Head Back To Quarters
The RV will be waiting for you, so go inside, and your family will be safe.
You urge your parents to stay with you at the Quarters because things are not safe anymore for them.
Mission Accomplished
It seems that the FBI were investigating the cult and Gwen to stop them, but had no clues where to start. You, of course, managed to figure it all out once again.
Gwendolyn Birch is dead, and you can cross that bounty off the board.
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