Goodbye To All That

**Goodbye to All That** is a side quest in *We Happy Few* that Sally encounters in St. George's Holm while passing by Dogberry Park. In wich Benedick Keyes is in need of some truth from his love, Beatrice.

## Objectives

* Talk to Benedick
* Give Sunshine to Benedick
* Meet Benedick in 24 hours
* Find out how it went
* Give the Oblivion Notes to Benedick

## In-Game Description

oh it's benedick keyes! the last time we did bisuness, it was a bit... awkward.

he wants to know if, deep down, beatrice really loves him. huh. i sort of suspect she doesn't.

it would be handy to have a recipe for mojo, since i'm on such awful terms with doctors. i hope it's not a disaster giving him sunshine. especially for her.

how did it go giving beatrice sunshine? i'm sort of worried all of the awful things that can happen when you're off you Joy

it's not enough that you love a man. you have to love him more than anything else. good christ. they all want to own you don't they.

so benedick wants to forget he ever met beatrice. i can do that for him. i don't like to give people oblivion. you never know what someone's going to forget. but i suppose he's a grownup and he can make that decision for himself.

## Walkthrough

The quest starts once the player enters the park, Benedick will ask them to come talk to them.

Benedick explains he wants a 'fake pill that makes you look like you've had Joy' to give to Beatrice so that he knows whether or not she truly loves him. The player starts out with 5 Sunshine pills in their inventory, so it's possible to give him a pill right away.

After giving Benedick the sunshine pill, he will ask them to meet him again the next day, so that he has a chance of using the pill on Beatrice. The player has to wait 24 hours until they can talk to Benedick again.

Benedick tells Sally how Beatrice never really loved him and wants to forget everything about her, begging to get an Oblivion pill. Sally warns him of the dangers, though the player needs to give him the notes of Oblivion in order to complete the quest.

## Collectibles

9x Skill Points

Blueprint: Mojo

## Transcript

### **The Request**

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Benedick: Miss Boyle?

Sally: Look, if you're still mad about that incident with the, uh, "tea cozy"...

Benedick: Oh, no! I need your assistance. It's sort of...private. I've heard there's a fake pill that makes you look like you've had Joy.

Sally: Silly rumours.

Benedick: I sort of need one...

Sally: Why would you want to go off your Joy?

Benedick: It's for Beatrice. Well... it's sort of for me.

Sally: You're going to slip it to her?

Benedick: It's just --

Sally: If you're tired of her, break things off like a man.

Benedick: No, I love her! It's just ... well, ever since we started seeing each other ... she says she loves me. But she loves everything! Me, long walks, sunsets and rainbows of course. Simon Says... Big wristwatches on a man ... wrapping paper... dandelions... a good night's sleep... ribbons ...Uncle Jack's bedtime stories ...six o'clock ... commemorative spoons. I have to know if it's real!

Sally: She'd be a Downer. Even if it's temporary.

Benedick: The moment she tells me the truth, I'll give her a real Joy. Promise.

Sally: Are you sure you want the truth?

Benedick: You used to be very interested in my mojo recipe. "A dab a day keeps the doctors away," remember?

Sally: Yes. I remember. That would be handy.

Sally: All right. The recipe?

Benedick: I'll give it to you tomorrow, after I see ... Beatrice.

### **The Trade**

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Sally: Did you giver her her Joy?

Benedick: She never loved me! She went blubbering on about some childhood sweetheart who left on a train. Apparently he made quite the impression.

Sally: DID YOU GIVE HER HER JOY?

Benedick: I almost didn't. I thought, trollop deserves to be in the Garden District. -- She only stayed with me "to avoid the unpleasantness of breaking it off."

Sally: You haven't taken your own Joy, have you.

Benedick: Joy doesn't help. You never really forget, do you? It just makes things fuzzy around the edges, you know, so you can pretend. I want to forget her forever.

Sally: I'm not sure Oblivion exists.

Benedick: Please. You want my mojo recipe, don't you?

Sally: Forgetting could be dangerous. It's not like Joy. There will be holes in your memory. Like a church made out of cheese, and the whole congregation is mice. You might forget more than you want to.

Benedick: I don't care. It's a fair trade -- your future, for my past.

Sally: Here. Here's the recipe for Oblivion. I'd tell you not to tell anyone where you got it, but there's very little danger of that. Goodbye, Benedick.

## Trivia

* The Notes on Oblivion automatically appear in Sally's inventory.
* Benedick will be found crying in the park after the quest, both during the day and night.
* The name of the quest is a reference to Robert Graves' autobiography '*Good-Bye to All That*'.