H2:High Charity
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Inside High Charity |
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Stop Truth from reaching the Dreadnought. |
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00:15:00 (Master Chief Collection) |
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9,000 (Master Chief Collection) |
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Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see H2:High Charity/Walkthrough. |
| “ | Cortana can handle the Index - stopping Truth is up to you. | ” |
High Charity is the fourteenth and penultimate campaign level of Halo 2. As the Master Chief, the player must battle their way through the Flood-infested High Charity to stop the Prophet of Truth before he boards the Forerunner Dreadnought. This is the last level played from Master Chief's perspective in Halo 2; the next and final level, The Great Journey, returns to the Arbiter as a playable character. This level is also the only time when Master Chief encounters the Flood in combat in Halo 2, and also the only level in the game with no allies aiding the player. It is also the shortest playable campaign level. The Iron Skull can be found on this level.
Transcript[edit]
{Cutscene} {Anniversary Cutscene} The Master Chief drops down a gravity lift just in time to see the Phantoms containing the Brute Chieftain Tartarus and the Prophet of Truth fly away. He walks over to the High Prophet of Mercy, who is still struggling against the Pod infector latched onto his throat.
- Prophet of Mercy: (weakly) "Earth... to finish what we started. And this time, none of you... will be left behind..."
Master Chief grabs the Flood form and rips it off of Mercy, squeezing it in his hand, and pops it. Mercy gives a strangled cry and dies. Cortana's hologram appears on Mercy's throne.
- Cortana: "That structure, at the center of the city... it's a Forerunner ship! And Truth is heading straight for it! If he leads the Covenant fleet to Earth, they won't stand a chance. You have to stop him!"
- John-117: "That Brute has the Index. And Miranda and Johnson. He can activate the ring."
The view shows the UNSC In Amber Clad crashed into a nearby tower.
- Cortana: "If he does, I'll detonate In Amber Clad's reactor just like we did the Autumn's. The blast will destroy this city and the ring. Not a very original plan, but we know it'll work."
The Master Chief reaches for her.
- Cortana: "No. I don't want to chance a remote detonation. I'll need to stay here."
The Chief and Cortana then watch as a Pelican crashes onto the platform, and soon the Flood combat forms inside the dropship run out.
{Gameplay}
Cross-Purposes[edit]
- Cortana: "Flood controlled-dropships are touching down all over the city! That creature beneath the Library... that 'Gravemind'... used us. We were just a diversion. In Amber Clad was always its intended vector. There's a conduit connecting this tower to the ship. Head back inside. I'll lead you to it."
A mass of Flood combat forms attack a pair of Jiralhanae near the door leading back into the Mausoleum tower. Two more Pelicans fly in over the platform, one of them disgorging a pair of Flood carrier forms, before they fly away, one heading down to the Lower districts and the other accelerating higher.
If the Chief spends too much time fighting:
- Cortana: "We don't have time for this, Chief. Truth's Phantom is nearing the Forerunner ship."
A pair of Unggoy flee out of the door, pursued by a combat form. The Chief fights past them, and meets a cluster of Jiralhanae in the next room. Flood soon attack from behind the Jiralhanae. The Chief battles his way through and soon reaches a gravity lift leading upstairs.
- Cortana: "I'll disable this lift once you reach the top. That'll slow them down... I hope."
After the Chief reaches the top:
- Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker): "Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood too shall fail."
The Chief passes through a room with a dead Sangheili and a dead Kig-Yar and comes to a massive open room. He stands on a platform in one corner, while other similar platforms are spaced around the room. The Spartan notices a huge array of colored shards of glass, taken from each world the Covenant have glassed. Far below, the Mausoleum of the Arbiter is barely visible as mist surrounds it. The Chief watches a skirmish between several Flood combat forms and a swarm of Yanme'e and a Jiralhanae on a distant platform.
- Cortana: "I'll do what I can to slow the launch sequence, but there's something inside the ship...a presence that's fighting back. For a Covenant construct, it's unusually formidable."
If the Chief remains in the chamber for too long:
- Cortana: "No time to admire the ceiling, Chief. Truth's Phantom has reached the Forerunner ship."
More Yanme'e enter the area from the other side and engage both the Flood and the Master Chief. The Chief activates a series of gravity bridges and makes it to the opposite side of the chamber. He defeats several combat forms and leaves the area. As he enters the next room:
Please, Make Yourself at Home[edit]
The Master Chief finds that the Flood have already begun to infest the city, the beginning of a process that will ultimately see High Charity converted into a Flood hive. Flood biomass clings to the walls, and the air is darkened with Flood spores, making navigation difficult. Signs of the constant fighting are evident everywhere, with Covenant and Flood corpses scattered around. He makes his way through a corridor filled with Flood, and then another with battling Flood and Covenant. Ultimately he makes it out into a garden-like area, where Jiralhanae-led Covenant patrol.
- Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker): "The parasite did not defeat the Forerunners...and it shall not defeat us."
- Gravemind: "Arrogant creature! Your deaths will be instantaneous, while we shall suffer the progress of infinitude!"
Flood soon appear and engage the Covenant present. The Chief can either fight all enemies present, or attempt to slip past. After passing through another darkened corridor, he emerges into another garden-type area. This time, only Flood can be seen.
- Cortana: "The security systems in this part of the tower are particularly robust."
- Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker): "Whosoever is gripped by fear, take heed. I am the Prophet of Truth... And I am not afraid. Noble Mercy is here at my side. His wise counsel ever in my ears."
- Gravemind: "We exist together, now... Two corpses, in one grave."
A swarm of Yanme's enter through a broken window looking out over the massive chamber that the Chief previously traversed. The insectoid aliens engage the Flood. Several massive Flood tentacles can be seen outside the window (possibly part of the Gravemind). Leaving the room, the Chief reaches another cross section and heads to the left, towards a lift.
- Cortana: "Apparently, these are the Prophet Hierarchs' private quarters. Their inner sanctum."
Sanctified[edit]
- Prophet of Truth (Loudspeaker): "This crisis will not be the end of us. It is but one last hurdle before the Journey and salvation!"
The Chief enters the Sanctum. A Covenant position consisting of Unggoy, Kig-Yar and Jiralhanae, including several Jiralhanae Honor Guardsmen is present at the far door in the room, defending the inner Sanctum. The Covenant forces hide behind multiple stationary shield generators and crates. Flood soon invade the Sanctum, clashing with the Covenant. The Chief eventually breaks through and enters the inner Sanctum, which is also infested by Flood biomass. Several Covenant corpses lie scattered about.
- Cortana: "Brute and Elite ships are engaging one another all around High Charity. I'm running out of options, Chief. I can't stall the launch sequence much longer. The next lift will take you up to the conduit. Hurry!"
The Chief makes it to another gravity lift, and takes it to the top. A green conveyor, the