Keep the Home Fires Burning

**Keep the Home Fires Burning** is a story quest for Sally Boyle in *We Happy Few*. The quest is unlocked after her interrogation at the Constabulary.

## Objectives

* Go back to your lab
* Put out the fire!
* Examine the lab
* Travel to the Boyle Residence
* Get your old chemistry box
* Repair your lab

## In-Game Description

i better get back to work and finish that blackberry. i really don't want another visit from the boys in blue

i need my fire extinguisher!

oh sweet jesus how bad is the damage?

i need my old chemistry box from my old house. i was really, really hoping i would never have to go back there again.

look at that. a brand new N7 tube from 1946.

it would be upstairs somewhere i guess

if nothing else is ruined then i should have a working lab again.

## Walkthrough

After the interrogation with the Bobbies at the Constabulary, head back home. Sally will find that her whole lab is set ablaze due to negligence.

To stop the fires, go around to the other side of the lab and grab the fire extinguisher off the wall. Now that it's in the player's inventory, all the player has to do is interact with the fires.

With the fire gone, the player can examine the damage. The only broken part is the triode on the crystallizer, and a spare triode is in Sally's old home in Lud's Holm. The house isn't marked on the map as a House or Point of Interest, and can therefor only be found through the objective marker.

Once the house have been located, Sally will endure a memory of the time she ran away from home during dinner, got escorted back by Chief Inspector Peters, and discovered her entire family was dead by deliberate food poisoning caused by her Mother.

After this, the player has to reach the top floor of the house to get the spare triode. However, the whole house is inhabited by plague wastrels, so the player will have to sneak and be extremely careful as to not get spotted and accidentally killed by them.

After gathering the spare equipment, get out of the house and travel back home. Once home, interact with the broken lab to repair it. After that, the quest ends, and Sally is off to get all her chemical ingredients back.

## Collectibles

### Items that the player will gather

* Duct Tape
* Empty Atomizer
* Frying Pan
* Honey
* Rolling Pin
* 4x Rubber Duck
* 5x Tea Cup
* Tea Leaves

### Containers the player can search through

* 2x Cupboard
* End Table
* File Cabinet
* 3x Kettle
* Small Table
* Stove
* 2x Toilet
* Vanity
* Wardrobe

## Transcript

### **Interrogation**

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Bobby: Sorry to bother you, Ma'am. The lads is wondering if you've any blackberry ready for them.

Sally: Oh! I'm working on it. In a day or two, I hope.

Bobby: The lads is getting a mite twitchy, to tell you the truth. I must ask you to accompany me to the station, so you explain yourself to them precisely.

Sally: I don't understand the worry. Haven't I always provided you with blackberry? I just had a little hiccup in the lab. I'd be working on it right now, but apparently you lads are lonely.

Bobby 1: That ain't quite true, though, Ma'am, is it? You've been seen all over town doing all sorts of things.

Bobby 2: We don't imagine that Lionel Castershire is much of a source of pharmaceutical ingredients.

Sally: Oh, but there you'd be wrong, Constable. See, I had to replace some bits of lab equipment.

Bobby 1: And you've been roamin' around the Garden District doing Lord knows what.

Sally: Yes, well, I, ah... blackberry's made with herbal extracts. Why do you think it's called "blackberry"?

Bobby 1: And the Victory Memorial Camp? Two visits in the last week? I suppose them visits was for our benefit as well?

Sally: Not at all. I was visiting the General. He also gets quite cross when I haven't seen him in a while.

Bobby 1: Oh, so he ... oh, yes. Of course he would. Right. Well, we can hardly expect Miss Boyle to ignore the General, now, can we, lads? Hah. Of course he would.

Bobby 2: Nonetheless, Miss Boyle, the lads have developed an appetite for you fine cooking, as it were. If they go hungry, chaos will ensue. We must insist that you devote your full and urgent attention to feeding them.

Sally: Or what?

Bobby 2: Or we shall be compelled, willing or no, to provide your assistance, willing or no, to Dr. Verloc. And that won't be cheery for either of us.

### **Flashback**

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Peters: Well... Young Miss Boyle. Y'know there's a curfew?

Peters: Y'don't want some Fritz to shoot you dead, do you?

Sally: Sorry, sir.

Peters: Let's get you home. You had another fight with mum, didn't you.

Peters: Why don't I put in a good word?

Peters: Miss erh, Mrs. Boyle? I've got a young lady out here who...

Peters: -I'm sorry, they don't seem to be at home.

Sally: What? Let me go in.

Peters: They're not. At home! Let me take you to the station for a cup of tea.

Sally: What happened? Let me in!

Peters: Best you don't go in, Miss. Cup of tea's best.

Sally: What did she do? What did -- What did she do?

## Trivia

* The name of the quest is a reference to the 1914 song "*Keep the Home Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)*" which is a British patriotic song that got very popular during the First World War.