Bad Dreams

*"Sounds like someone's having a terrible life."*
— Sally when activating the quest.
**Bad Dreams** is a side quest in *We Happy Few*, only available in Act II.

## Objectives

* Explore the House
* Get Sleeptite
* Treat Mr. Ramsay
* Get Hallucinex
* Put Bill Ramsay to sleep

## In-Game Description

someone sounds awful. and a bit familiar. who is it?

he's seeing eyes everywhere, and he can't sleep. at least I can help him sleep. at least that

poor bill ramsay got a bad batch. he's not the first one to see eyes when they went wakey wakey. ugh. like coming down from lsd, and you close your eyelids and there they are staring at you. i wonder if there's anything i can do for him?

how is hallucinex going to help him? but dottie seems to think it will. i suppose i owe her one. well i don't really but i don't want her hating me because she wanted anton he thought she was clingy

get some sleep dear

## Walkthrough

After the player finishes the story quest, Squaring the Circle, they are able to begin Bad Dreams.

Enter the house with a screaming man, go upstairs on the second floor and talk to the woman, who asks Sally to help her put her husband to bed, as he can't stop seeing eyes everywhere from the bad batch of Joy.

The player will need Sleeptite, an item that requires Velvety Emulsion, Blood Toxin, and Digitalax.

After giving Bill sleeptite, it turns out that it doesn't work, and he's still seeing eyes. Dottie tells Sally to give him Hallucinex, even though she knows it's most likely going to kill him.

Nonetheless, after Sally gives Bill some hallucinex, he's knocked unconcious. Sally figures that Dottie gave him something before she could treat him, which she doesn't answer. Instead, Dottie tells Sally she's going to go back to the village, having buried everything she doesn't need anymore around the back of the house.

The quest ends after the player gets the buried loot.

## Transcript

### **Bill's Nightmares**

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Dottie: Sally! Don't tell me you're out here, too!

Sally: I'm just visiting.

Dottie: Well, aren't you lucky.

Sally: You got a bad batch?

Bill: OH GOD THE EYES! MAKE THEM STOP!

Dottie: There was an accident at the lab. Bill didn't get his gas mask on fast enough.

Bill: LET ME SLEEP, OH GOD PLEASE!

Dottie: You know Dr. Verloc keeps trying to make your blackberry. Keeps jiggering around the formula for coconut, but it's never quite right.

Sally: It's -- not based on coconut. It's not based on any of the flavours.

Dottie: Well, you might have told Dr. Verloc that.

Sally: He... wasn't kind to me. I left. We haven't really talked since.

Bill: PLEASE PLEASE! NO MORE, NO MORE!

Dottie: If he could just sleep, I think he'd get better. Can you give him some sleep?

Sally: I can give him something to knock him out, but ... it's risky. I don't know what's going on--

Dottie: --At least help him sleep for God's sake!

Sally: All right. I'll do what I can.

### **A Nightmare on Drugs**

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Sally: He'll sleep for a while now, I hope.

Bill: ... why do there have to be so many eyes ...

Dottie: There, there, sweetie. Rest, if you can.

Sally: I don't understand. That should've knocked him out.

Dottie: Before we had to leave the Village, I bough some quietrapine. Mr. Adams had some on the "top shelf." That made the eyes go away for a while. Until they came back.

Dottie: Was that yours? Did you make it for Mr. Adams? When you were still his shopgirl? Before you traded up to Dr. Verloc?

Sally: Dottie, it wasn't like that! Anton was so smart so ... I mean, he was stylish. I'd never met anyone like that!

Dottie: And you were just an innocent little chemist's girl, and Dr. V just swept you off your feet.

Sally: Are you ... jealous?

Dottie: Will you give him some quetrapine?

Sally: It's not easy to make ... And it's dangerous.

Dottie: Everything he sees has eyes on it!

Sally: Has he been taking anything else? Aside from the knockout I just gave him? You can't take it if you've been taking anything else.

Dottie: He hasn't taken anything else. Where would we get anything? There's no corner chemist here. There isn't even a corner!

### **Good-Bye, Bill**

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Bill: Dottie. They've stopped whispering.

Dottie: I love you, Bill.

Bill: The eyes have gone, Dottie.

Dottie: I'm glad.

Bill: It's all ... dark.

Dottie: Get some sleep, Bill. I love you.

Bill: Okay. I'll sleep now.

Dottie: Goodbye, Bill.

Sally: What did you do?

Dottie: You wouldn't understand. You've never really loved a man.

Sally: You gave him something else. Didn't you.

Dottie: I'm going back to the Village now. There are some things I won't need any more. I buried them behind this house. You don't mind getting your hands dirty, do you?

## Bugs

If the player interacts with Bill or Dottie in any way after the quest completed (looting, attacking, knocking out), the quest will somehow fail. The player will still have their skill points for completing the quest.

## Trivia

* In earlier versions of the game, this quest was known as It's a Terrible Life, and was a quest for Arthur to complete.
	+ Sally references the old name of the quest in her quote right as the quest begins.