Mystery House

**Mystery House** is a side quest in *We Happy Few*. It takes place in Lud's Holm at the Gardner House, the only way to get the quest is to progress through another side quest, Treehouse.

## Objectives

* Cleanse the doors of your perception.
* Find the source of the strangeness without being seen
* Neutralize the Cultist Priest
* Leave the Mystery House

## In-Game Description

Apparently I can't get in without cleansed perception. What does that mean?

Oh. Magic mushrooms. of course.

What on Earth is going on around here?

Well. "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," innit?

What is he trying to do? Summon demons? Eldritch abominations?

Well, no abominations shall be nominated today.

Well that takes care of that. Although I should probably grab as many Ephemeral Linens as I can.

## Walkthrough

The house can only be entered during the night (9pm to 7 am) while high on Histoplasma Mushrooms. The player does not have to keep this meter up to continue through the house.

Inside will be tons of wastrels high on the same mushrooms, upon spotting the player they'll teleport them back to the front gates, so the player will have to be careful about not getting spotted.

It's best to stay low and watch around for their footsteps, sneak up behind the wastrels and choke them out one by one.

Because this quest is technically part of the Treehouse quest, the player will have to search the house for Ephemeral Linen to get to Johnny Bolton. There is a total of 20 linens in the house, but only 10 is required.

Find a way upstairs and into the open room with a priest bowing in front of a wall, the player can either choke them out or kill them outright. The quest ends afterwards.

## Collectibles

### Books the player will gather

* Creeper
* Undertaker

### Items the player will gather

* 7x Cloth Scrap
* Cricket Bat
* Duct Tape
* Empty Pill Bottle
* 20x Ephemeral Linen
* Glass Bottle
* 8x Histoplasma Mushroom
* Leather Scraps
* 2x Metal Bits
* Power Cell
* 3x Rotten Potato
* 2x Rubber Duck
* Sanitol
* Scotch

### Containers the player can search through

* 2x Ashes
* 4x Crate
* Desk
* 4x Kettle
* 5x Low Dresser
* 9x Small Dresser
* Stove
* Toilet

## Trivia

* Some walls depict what appears to be the popular H.P. Lovecraft entity, *Cthulhu*.
* The player can play the same tune for when opening the bookcase to General Byng's secret hatch (note, chord, note) to open up a secret bedroom. Sanitol can be found on top of the bed.

## Old Content

**Mystery House** is one of the oldest quests in the game, implemented in the Early Access 27755 build of *We Happy Few*. It went through minor changes over the years.

###  Objectives

* Do come in
* Find the source of the strangeness without being seen

###  In-Game Description

Why do I feel like I'm in one of those old American horror movies Sally and I used to sneak into? I wonder if Lon Changey, Jr., is hiding around the corner?

What on Earth is going on around here?

"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

###  Walkthrough

The player is encouraged to head into the Gardner House by Johnny Bolton in order to complete his quest, Johnny Bolton, Special Agent! Although they can head to the location on their own.

Before being able to head inside, the player had to be outside the gates during the night, and be high on Joy.

Once inside, the player had to be extremely careful, as several cult members wandered around the house and could easily spot the player. It was not possible to choke them out, making the quest even more difficult.

The player only needed to gather one Ephemeral Linen for Johnny Bolton, but there were many more to collect in the house. That said, if the player was spotted by any of the members, they'd be teleported outside the house, and all of the Ephemeral Linen they'd collected would have disappeared.

To complete this quest, all the player had to do was head to the second floor and into the room in the far right corner, where the leader of the cult could be found praying to some eldritch horror.

The blueprint for Sanitol could be found in the same room as the leader, taped onto a piano on the left side of the room.

###  Transcript

Wastrel: Come, ye guardians of the watchtowers of the sky, Ye who walk the battlements that keep the Shapeless at bay. Hail ye guardians of the worlds. We call to you and beseech you. Be here with us now.

Wastrel: Come, ye guardians of the watchtowers of the depths You who hoard the mysteries and the words that may not be spoken aloud. Hail, ye guardians of the worlds. We call to you and beseech you. Be here with us now.

Wastrel: Come, ye guardians of the watchtowers of the middle world You who stoke the fires That burn away the dross. Hail, ye guardians of the worlds. We call to you and beseech you. Be here with us now.

###  Changes

Unlike the final version of this quest, the player had to be high on Joy instead of Histoplasma Mushrooms, despite the mushrooms existing in this version.

The player was unable to choke out the cult members, which only made the quest more difficult.

Finding Ephemeral Linen wasn't too difficult, especially since the player only needed one to complete Johnny Bolton's quest.

More objectives were added, and the in-game description was expanded.

Lastly, this version has two more Wastrels chant to the guardians of the watchtowers, but in the final version of this quest, only one of them can be heard. It's worth noting that these two chants have grammar mistakes in them.