A Malpractice of Doctors

**A Malpractice of Doctors** is story quest in *We Happy Few*. It takes place in the Parade District and is acquired right after completing Future Perfect.

## Objectives

* Enter the Wellington Health Institute
* Take the elevator
* Find quarantine access code
* Enter the Quarantine Controls Zone on the top floor
* Disable the Quarantine
* Escape the Doctor Headquarter

## In-Game Description

An entire building full of mad doctors who can smell Downers. What jolly fun.

To get the quarantine turned off I'll have to get upstairs.

I hope there are not really plague victims wandering around the quarantined parts of the Parade. I'd hate to unleash them on the healthy citizens.

Remind me to never come back here.

## Walkthrough

As soon as the player enters the institute, they may proceed to climb on the sculpture to bypass the Downer detector, or simply pop a Sunshine. Underneath the huge portrait to the left is a vent that the player can enter, which will lead them upward on a series of pipes towards the receptionist's room.

Inside is another door leading to the basement where the control for the metal shutter is. Turn it off and go enter the elevator. Press the second floor. Going on the 3rd floor will require the access code, as the whole floor is quarantined.

On the second floor, head to the left and into Doctor Defoe's room, bypass him and climb up on the platforms in the corner of the room to reach a vent, this will lead the player up on the lamps. Continue on top of the lamps and turn left into the Barber Surgeon Operating Theatre.

A group of Doctors can be heard experimenting on a Plagued victim. Continuing to the other side of the room before dropping down on the floor in the other room, the player has to enter Director Ridgwell's Office where the keycard is. As soon as they obtains the code, a Doctor will come inside. Dispatch or sneak past him.

After obtaining the access code, the player will have to trace back to the elevator and go up to the third floor. After unlocking the door, Arthur will be ambushed by two Doctors before being administered the latest "Coconut" Joy tests, undergoing a series of disturbing stimuli which depicts what happened during the war.

After the experiment, he is set free from the chair, but an unfortunate malfunction causes an explosion in the room, allowing the player to escape. Soon after, the player will come across a panel controlling the quarantine gates, disable it using the Framistat and then press the button that opened up above. This causes the whole Institute to be flooded with plague Wastrels.

Run back into the elevator and go back down to the lobby, be careful with the bobbies and plague wastrels. The quest ends after the player runs out the door.

## Collectibles

### Notes the player will gather

* Botany
* Application Form
* Cadavers Are Not Toys
* More Funds Needed For Coconut / Draft Letter
* "Doubling" Applications?
* Quarantine Access Code
* New Patient Questionnaire

### Books the player will gather

* Intimidator
* Chemist

### Items the player will gather

* 8x Bleach
* 2x Bobby Pin
* 11x Cloth Scrap
* Coarse Linen
* 2x Coin Pile
* 11x Duct Tape
* 3x Metal Bits
* Power Cell
* 3x Power Cell (Empty)
* Scotch
* 3x Vinegar

### Containers the player can search through

* Chest
* Coffee Machine
* 53x Cupboard
* 4x Desk
* 7x File Cabinet
* 35x Maintenance Locker
* 3x Night Blooming Nonsuch Bush
* 8x Small Table
* 3x Toilet
* 2x Toolbox
* 2x Vending Machine
* 6x Waste Bin

## Transcript

### **Announcer**

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#1: Attention all attendees, the keynote dissection and luncheon will be starting in the Operating Theatre in five minutes.

#2: Doctor Defoe, please report to the quarantine grid room, Doctor Defoe, the quarantine grid room, thank you.

#3: All nurses are reminded to file their mandatory volunteer schedule by Thursday afternoon at five o'clock.

#4: Please congratulate Nurse Elizabeth Neill for winning the Waste Not Want Not Award, for her adaptation of a crash cart into a file for frequently used forms.

#5: Due to the dissection luncheon, lunch will not be served in the cafeteria today. If you are not attending the luncheon, please make other arrangements.

#6: This is a reminder that the bottles marked alcohol contain isopropyl alcohol, and not ethyl alcohol, and consequently do not go well with tonic water and ice.

#7: Attention all staff. A Downer with plague has escaped from the test labs! Please consider him armed and dangerous. Be on your guard!

### **Conversation**

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Doctor 1: She was positive she'd figured it all out!

Doctor 2: Oh really?

Doctor 1: I read Miss Olsen's notes. Did you know we mixed Joy mushrooms and "chemicals," and created mutant spores that drive people loooony?

Doctor 3: Hah hah hah hah hah!

Doctor 2: Didn't you know? "Chemicals" are evil?

Doctor 3: I'm still a bit foggy on all this. Didn't the ... bad batch ... mutate the mushrooms? Or something?

Doctor 2: Oh, Algie. Didn't you read the report?

Doctor 1: It's an opportunistic infection. A sort of fungal encephalitis. The spores have always been around. Didn't bother anyone till the bad batch knocked citizen's immune systems.

Doctor 3: So what are we doing about it?

Doctor 1: It'll burn itself out, as soon as the bad batch runs out. It's not actually contagious, so long as you're not bitten. Fortunately we've got them all safely quarantined on Lud's Holm.

Doctor 3: But what about Dr. V's new batch? Have we tested that.

Doctor 2: Look, we can't very well have people doubting Joy. Where would we be if they stopped taking it?

Doctor 3: I wouldn't dream of suggesting...!

Doctor 1: Obviously we still had to take her in for "observation." can't have newspapers publishing inflammatory nonsense.

Doctor 3: Oh. Yes.  Obviously.

Doctor 2: ... We're not going to have to use the new batch, obviously.

Doctor 3: Oh! Hah hah.

Doctor 2: Hah hah hah, no. We still have a few months of the blackberry left. And by then we're expecting the permanent solution.

Doctor 3: Oho! Lovely.

### **Dissection Hall**

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Ridgwell: So that was rather disappointingly inconclusive.

Ridgwell: However, our next electrode proved far more interesting.

Ridgwell: We thought that if we applied electrical stimulation to the Broca's Area, we might enable the subject to speak. Which would have proved obviously useful.

Ridgwell: We had a subject in stage 1 of the plague, just beginning to revert to Old English. We even had a linguist ready to translate.

Ridgwell: But we obtained a very off result. I'll just use a bit of juice here.

### **Coconut Tests**

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Doctor: How long until the coconut Joy takes effect?

Doctor: There we go. Lovely.

Doctor: Now, Doctor Brooks is going to bring in a series of disturbing stimuli.

Doctor: Hopefully with the coconut Joy I've given you, you won't be a bit bothered.

Doctor: We won't actually see the stimuli. There's a blind between us and you, and a blind between you and the stimuli. It's what we call a "double blind experiment."

Doctor: Off you go. Don't forget to write! Hah hah. That's my little joke. I know you've forgotten how to write.

Doctor: That's a rather strong reaction. I hope the equipment is properly calibrated.

Doctor: Oh, dear. The coconut's not terribly effective at all, is it? Don't tell anyone I said that.

Doctor: Well, wasn't that fun. I think we've made all the necessary observations.

Doctor 2: I'll unlock the chair.

Doctor: Please take the corridor on the left back to your cell.

Doctor: Odd. The button's on the fritz again.

Doctor 2: No, no, you have to reroute the power for some reason.

Doctor 2: Try it now.

Doctor: Nada.

Doctor 2: Oh, bother. Give me a moment.

Doctor 2: Try it now.

Doctor: It's making noises, that's promising--

## Trivia

* According to the announcer, facility personnel may have put rubbing alcohol into tonic and ice, and therefore reminds them not to do it again.
* On a note, it's revealed that their lunch consists of "*Monday: Bubble & Squeek, Tuesday: Bangers & Mash, Wednesday: Beans on Toast, Thursday: Toad in the Hole, Friday: Chef's Surprise!*"
* The Doctors have scribbled a recipe of their liquor, no inclusion of ice.
* Gifts have been given to the Health Institute, three of which are of Water on Concrete, and two are of giant silver statues depicting Anton Verloc and Director Ridgwell.
* The term malpractice is used to describe any action that an official in a given field does against their patient that is improper, illegal, and or negligent, which causes injury to said patient.