Kill Joy

**Kill Joy** is a Story quest in the *We All Fall Down* DLC.

## Objectives

* Leave Haworth Labs
* Go to the Old Bailey District
* Get Johnny Bolton's Dart Gun
* Find the Joy Allocation Centre
* Destroy the Joy Pill Allocator
* Escape Old Bailey District

## In-Game Description

I never liked those Doctors of Verloc's. I suppose the feeling was mutual. Better steer clear of them in the future.

I never understood why the Joy distribution was so needlessly complicated. Nevertheless, the pills for Dunkerton are routed through the dingy Old Bailey neighbourhood -- not somewhere I'd otherwise ever visit (unless it was to visit you in your cell, haha).

Is that... Johnny Bolton? My goodness, what's become of him? He always seemed so clever, until the day he cracked up. The constables seem to have fished out some sort of contraption out of his pockets. Maybe I can use it.

It must be somewhere in this rat's nest.

Another memory comes swimming back. They are not all unpleasant. Joy is not selective in what it shrouds in its mist.

Harry asks me to come by the lab. Note sounds urgent. There's something he wants to show me. I don't particularly want to go, but I do regardless. At this point we are grasping at straws. And at the very least, it's something I don't need to bother Father about. You know how testy he can get when he's got his mind on a problem.

Or yes, Mother, even when he doesn't.

His lab is a slum. Cluttered, smelling of somehow... rotten eggs. (Later he'll tell me this is an effect of the sulfur he uses as a precursor.) But he looks... I've never seen Harry like this before. He actually looks happy.

I realize it's been a long time since I've seen ANYONE look like this.

(The last person to look at me this way, well, I believe it would have to have been you. Unless I imagined that.)

I never take strong drink -- are you proud of me? Still do not. And yet...

When, never one for ceremony, he hands me a vial of clear liquid, the glass smudged with his fingerprints, I take it from him, and, without asking any more questions -- yes, I know -- I drink it down.

How to best describe what followed?

I remember reading, in a book about Hinduism Father brought back and buried in his library, about the concept of "moksha." Meaning, in your religion, transcendence. Emancipation. Bliss. I used to wonder what that would actually feel like. I think I do now.

All my needling fears, all my insecurities, my worries, they all cleaved away from me. I didn't even mind that I was shivering (it was a large dose), that my jaw was clenched tight, that I couldn't quite see straight, that the liquid tasted terribly bitter. I didn't mind that I couldn't remember what I had done yesterday, or the day before, or even years before. I felt one thing:

Joy.

But it is not for me to lose myself in it. As tempting as it might be. This is a tool. A useful one. Yes, I immediately realize, this is what we needed. This is what everyone needs. If we are to ever move forward. We need so much more of this.

I was a convert. I had a cause now, one I was willing to fight for.

You know what that's like.

Then, to Dunkerton. To see what we hath wrought. What I have wrought.

## Walkthrough

As the player attempts to leave the facility, Victoria will be stopped by two Joy Doctors, who attempt to coarse Victoria into heading back to Dr. Verloc, when this doesn't work, they attack her.

When the doctors have been dealt with, the player can take the elevator out.

Once the player is out on the streets, the player should head into the alleyway, wait until they're able to climb up on the platform behind the Downer Detector TV, then jump up on the barrel and metal roof. From there, the player can swing up to the roof over the archway, jump off and swing over to the other side.

Climb into the window and flip the switch, this will turn off the Downer Detectors by the archway.

Climb back out from the window and go left down the pipe, then drop down on the awning, and then on the ground. The player may have to distract the Joy Doctors in order to be able to go through the archway.

On the other side, head up the stairs and swing up on the roof above, then follow where the pipe leads. Jump to another platform and balance over the plough boys' alley. Head right and down the pipe, then drop down to the ground.

Head to the left of the bobbies interrogating a Wellette, open up the door to the small maintenance house and sneak inside. The player can choke the worker out, but it isn't necessary, flip the switch and then get out of there.

Go through the hole in the fence, be careful not to drop down in the sewer with the plague wastrels. Go a bit to the left into another fenced area and flip the switch in there, it'll electrify the water, killing the wastrels after a bit. Turn the switch off so that Victoria doesn't get electrified herself.

Go up the stairs and then swing up on the building, the walk across the plank, the player will have to jump and swing to the other side.

Head to the right and get to ground level, run behind the unicorn statue and climb up the scaffolding, jump off and swing over to the other side, head left and into the alleyway. Sneak through the archway and hide behind the nearby hedge, when the doctor isn't near the wheel, the player can sneak close enough to rotate it, effectively opening the gate to the next area.

Once at the Bridle Path, the player can go to the unlocked gates leading to the Old Bailey District.

Now in Old Bailey District, Victoria finds that the bobbies captured Johnny Bolton, and that he has some device next to him. Go up to Johnny and take the device.

Turn around towards the locked door with a conductor next to it and shoot the conductor, it'll open up the door. Go down under the bridge and head into the hole in the wall to the right, walk a little forward and then to the right again, where there'll be stairs. Go up the stairs and shoot the Downer Detector TV.

With the TV disabled, the player can sneak behind the bobby and duck into the alley to the right. Swing up on the roof above, then look to the upper right and swing to the other roof. Enter the house through the window, walk forward, then climb out the other window.

Get a running start and jump to the other side of the tower. Turn left, then jump to the building. Head inside of the building to the left, go down the stairs, and exit.

Now, the player has to get past the maintenance workers, distract, or knock them all out. When that's dealt with, head inside of the Allocator hub.

Before doing anything to the Allocator, head to the far end of the room and take the elevator upstairs, then head towards the vent. Whilst next to the vent, turn around and shoot the conductor with the dart gun, now that the vent cover is gone, go through the vent system.

Now out of the vent, jump off the ledge and swing to the other side, follow the pipes before heading inside of a building through the window, and exit through the other. Get a running start and jump to the other side.

Head right and get on the pipes, follow them and jump down to the ground and exit Old Bailey District. This ends the quest.

## Collectibles

### Notes that the player will gather

* Untidy
* Peace Offering
* Spanked

* Permanent Solution (We All Fall Down)
* Highly Classified

12x Contraptions (+3x if the player loots the stash from the locked alley)

## Transcript

### **The Doctors**

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Joy Doc 1: Shouldn't be too hard to sniff her out at night.

Joy Doc 2: She won't get far without crossing a Beefeater. Or a revolver.

### **Spoiled Water**

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Man: Did the water taste a bit funny to you this morning?

Woman: What do you mean?

Man: Just a bit ... off. It had a smell, I thought.

Woman: Well, it couldn't be off. They'd have told us.

Man: Oh, I'm sure it was nothing to worry about.

Woman: Of course not.

Man: Uncle Jack would have warned us!

Woman: You must have imagined it.

Man: Oh, you're right. It can't be anything to worry about.

Woman: If you catch yourself worrying, pop a Joy! You'll be right as rain in no time.

Man: You're right! I should have!

### **Famine**

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Woman #1: You look delightfully trim.

Woman #2: Oh, thank you! You, too. I love how we're all on a diet.

Woman #1: I know. Everyone used to be so fat. It's unhealthy, you know.

Woman #2: I know! And always the same meat and potatoes and carrots. Now we have so many new things to eat.

Woman #1: What's new with you?

Woman #2: Dandelion greens!

Woman #1: You can eat dandelions?

Woman #2: They're really quite tasty. Much more flavor than lettuce.

Woman #1: Oh, I never liked lettuce. Good thing we don't have it any more.

Woman #2: Chewier too! It's nice when you've got a mouthful of food and you can just chew and chew and chew.

Woman #1: Oh, how wonderful. I've been filling up on my sawdust.

Woman #2: Really! That doesn't get a bit prickly inside?

Woman #1: A bit, but it keeps me regular, you know?

Woman #2: I'm not sure there's really any ... food in sawdust.

Woman #1: It's just a temporary thing. There's bound to be some new food shipments soon.

Woman #2: Absolutely. Any day now.

### **Sick Treatment**

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Woman: (Coughing) Really, you needn't have come all this way. I'm feeling just the teensiest bit iffy --

Joy Doctor: Not at all, dear.

Woman: Husband is such a fussbudget, I'm fine really. Mostly.

Joy Doctor: Not at all. That's my job. If everyone was healthy, they'd close the Wellington Health! Hah hah hah!

Joy Doctor: You wouldn't want to run me out of a job, would you? Hah hah!

Woman: Oh, it's just a little cough... And a stuffy nose. And sometimes when I cough, I bring up a little sick.

Joy Doctor: Oh, that's nothing to worry about, these days. Perfectly normal.

Woman: (Hacking) And once in a while, there's a bit of red in the sick.

Woman: And a bit of a lumpy... (hacking)

Woman: ...yellow liquid's been trickling out of my ears. Smells a bit like Wensleydale. You know, the cheese? (hacking)

Woman: Oh, and I've been having the weensiest bit of difficulty moving my legs. They just feel a tad ... chilly. (coughing)

Woman: Talking of, every time I try to stand up, I get the silliest little, well, I don't want to call them seizures... (snort)

Woman: I really do hate to be such a bother.

Joy Doctor: Not at all, not at all. I've got just the thing. A miracle cure! Let's just roll up the old sleeve...

Woman: (coughing) Ooh... ouchy!

Joy Doctor: There you are!

Woman: (hacking) Oh Doctor, that's... wonderful! I feel ever so much better! Why, I could get up and dance! Oh!

Woman: I'm fine. I'm fine! (coughing) Don't worry about me! I feel wonderful!

Joy Doctor: There's nothing Joy can't cure, is there? Delighted I could be of service! Pip pip!

Woman: Lovely day for it! (hacking)

### **Johnny Bolton's Arrest**

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Bobby 1: What's that he's got there then? Some sort of ... toy ...?

Bobby 1: To think he used to be head of Counter Intelligence.

Bobby 2: You never know who'll go Downer next. Might be you. Might be me!

Bobby 1: I need to go spend a penny. Then we can book him proper.

### **Victoria's Solution**

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Maharajkumari: And once you destroy this "Allocator"...?

Victoria: Then they'll be willing to listen to reason. Once they've calmed down.

Maharajkumari: You have such a touching faith in the common Englishman.

## Trivia

* The woman talking with the doctor may be inflicted with *Histoplasmosis*, a real life disease that inspired the in-game ailment, the Plague.
	+ It's very possible the woman is going through the first stages of becoming a Plauge Wellie.
* The name of the quest is a double meaning, as it not only refers to the literal sense of Victoria seeking out the abolish Joy, but the term '*Killjoy*' refers to somebody who spoils the enjoyment of others.