If you’re playing The Outer Worlds 2 and you’ve stumbled across a character named Savannah Lockwood, you may have heard whispers of her journal—a key piece of lore that can unlock richer dialogue and help advance a side-task in Paradise Island. Here’s a clear, easy-to-follow guide to finding the journal, why it matters, and how you can use it to your advantage.
Savannah’s journal is not just a collectible—it ties into a specific task (often listed as a side-quest) that revolves around uncovering secrets relating to another character, de Vries, and the faction dynamics in the mission chain. The journal allows you to drop additional dialogue options when talking to Savannah, and to gain further insight into de Vries’ actions in the area.
In simpler terms: by securing the journal, you can get more story, more choice, and possibly better outcomes. If you enjoy exploration, lore, or fully fleshed-out character arcs, this is a must-find.
How to Find Savannah’s Journal (Step-by-Step)
Here’s how you can locate and obtain the journal:
- Start the Relevant Side-Task
- You’ll first need to access the task typically referred to as Stalking an Associate of Angry Ascendance on Paradise Island.
- This task becomes available after you read a memo on de Vries’ computer terminal in her house in Fairfield.
- Once triggered, head to the chapel of the faction linked to the Order of Ascendant.
- Head to the Chapel
- The location of interest is the Order of the Ascendant Chapel (sometimes written as “Order of the Ascension”), which lies to the northeast of the town hall in Fairfield.
- Inside the chapel, you will find Savannah Lockwood.
- Pickpocket Savannah (Optional but Rewarding)
- If your character has the Pickpocket perk unlocked, you can stealthily steal the journal from Savannah while she is inside the chapel.
- Without the pickpocketing perk, you can still complete related parts of the quest, but you will not obtain the journal via that route. The game will offer alternate ways to proceed, but you might miss some dialogue options.
- Return to Talk to Savannah
- After securing the journal (or even if you didn’t), engage in dialogue with Savannah. With the journal in your inventory, you’ll unlock extra lines of questioning about de Vries’ time in Fairfield and their involvement with voice relays.
- Doing this successfully paves the way for the task to progress and offers deeper narrative detail.
Important Tips & Strategy
To make everything go smoothly, keep the following in mind:
- Make sure your character has the Pickpocket perk unlocked before engaging with Savannah in the chapel. If you talk to her first and she leaves or the interaction completes, you could lose the opportunity to steal the journal.
- Try to approach stealthily. Enter the chapel quietly, wait for an opportunity when Savannah is unobserved, and go for the pickpocket action.
- Save your game before attempting the theft or the dialogue sequence. That way, you can roll back if things don’t go your way.
- If you prefer a more direct, non-stealth approach: you can still proceed with the task without the journal by investigating de Vries’ terminal in her house and then talking to Savannah. You’ll just miss some of the bonus conversation options.
- After acquiring the journal and talking with Savannah, you might open up a secondary mission that rewards experience and additional lore.
What You’ll Get from the Journal
Securing the journal gives you:
- Additional dialogue options with Savannah, which deepen your understanding of characters like de Vries and their relationships in the story.
- The chance to reveal hidden identification codes and access locked terminals tied to the main quest chain.
- A sense of completion for side-story seekers, since you’ll have found an optional item that most players might skip.
- Experience rewards and potentially some bonus loot.
