Mother's Little Helper

*"Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here."*
— Arthur when entering the house.
**Mother's Little Helper** is a side quest in *We Happy Few*. It activates after the player finished A Sucker For Science.

## Objectives

* Sneak into the house
* Eavesdrop on Mrs. Chaney
* Eavesdrop some more
* Find Mrs. Chaney's notes
* Find the drugs she made
* Go back to the chemist

## In-Game Description

I better find out how Mrs. Chaney is feeling before I try to talk to her. Homebrew drugs can go pearshaped rather easily.

I should find a good hiding spot and hear what she has to say.

If you take more of those, you will get an overdose, I think.

I'll need another hiding place.

Oh, dear. No more running to the shelter of your mother's little helper.

If she's a chemist, she probably wrote down her lab notes. Mr. Adams will want to see those.

Better not leave her homebrew drugs lying around.

I think I will decidedly not use this stuff myself. But Mr. Adams will want it.

Now to discreetly take this stuff back to Mr. Adams.

## Walkthrough

Find Mrs. Chaney's house via the objective marker on the map, it is the house with Sgt. Gainsborough banging on the door demanding to be let in.

Sneak around the back of the house and climb through the open window, sneak upstairs and wait for Julia to move away from the desk to hide underneath it. Once she's gone up the stairs, sneakily follow after her and hide under the desk there.

Search her body for the key to her bedroom and unlock it, go to the bathroom and pick up the Altered Formula Dexipam from the toilet before taking the Diary of Julia Chaney. **There will be a jumpscare and a small fight when taking the notes**.

It doesn't matter whether the player 'killed' Julia or if she 'died' on her own, she'll scare the player no matter what.

Once she's been defeated for good, take the notes, head out of the house and back to Stewart Adams, who will give the player another quest.

### Items the player will gather

* Altered Formula Dexipam
* 2x Duct Tape
* Flour Bag
* Mushroom
* New Formula Dexipam
* 6x Tea Cup
* 2x Tea Leaves

### Containers the player can search through

* 2x Bookcase
* 3x Crate
* 2x Credenza
* 7x Cupboard
* Desk
* End Table
* File Cabinet
* Fridge
* 3x Kettle
* Medicine Cabinet
* Small Dresser
* Stove
* 2x Toilet
* Vanity

## Transcript

### **Send Off**

Lionel: That's very helpful. Now we'll be able to make an antidote for this cursed fog! And you're welcome to buy from my "top shelf"!

Lionel: Oh I don't suppose you could do me a favour! Mrs Chaney was here to buy some ingredients and now that I think about it I'm afraid she might have been up to a little home chemistry. I'd hate for people to think that I'm brewing "experimentals", you know? Sally Boyle doesn't work here any more. This is a respectable shop. Could you see if she's all right, discreetly like? And if you could retrieve the, ah, ingredients from her house, I think you'd be doing me and her a favour.

### **The Return**

Arthur: I've got your ingredients back.

Stewart: Ah, that's a relief. I hope you didn't have any trouble talking her out of them?

Arthur: She, ah, seems to have gone a bit ... on holiday.

Stewart: Oh, I was afraid of something like that. I mean, of course, holiday, yes, jolly good. Jolly jolly good.

Stewart: Let me give you a little something for your trouble. And we'll just keep this to ourselves, shall we?

## Trivia

* The name of the quest is a reference to the Rolling Stones song of the same name, Arthur also quotes one of the lines from the song, "*No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper.*"
	+ Additionally, "Mother's Little Helper/s" was also the nickname for the drug *Diazepam* (Valium), usually used to treat anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, alcohol withdrawal, and more.