The Scottish Play is a quest in We Happy Few. Ollie suggests helping Arthur get to the Parade District, but not before Arthur helps him raid the Victory Memorial Camp.
Objectives[]
- Get out of the Train Station
- Cross the Inkerman Bridge & Meet Ollie
In-Game Description[]
How did Ollie get out? I better find a way out of here.
A crank for a crank. Perfect.
Ollie said he'd help me get to the Parade if I help him rob the Victory Memorial Camp. Oh, what fun. Who doesn't want to break into a lair of aging, heavily armed delusional maniacs aching to fight the next war?
I need to meet Ollie in the old German Bunker overlooking the Victory Memorial Camp. I'll need to cross the bridge to Ravensholm. That's when Ollie's going to make sure the guards are asleep.
A hole in the fence, in the dump? I suppose I'd better find the dump.
Walkthrough[]
The player cannot leave the train station the way they came in (as they fell in through a hole in the ceiling) and will instead have to find a new way out, they'll have to crank a lever to open up a makeshift door.
When outside of the station, head towards Inkerman Bridge as marked on the map.
After the player gets past the drunken soldiers on Inkerman Bridge, they'll have to take a left towards the large bunker/watchtower where Ollie is waiting.
Collectibles[]
See Victory Memorial Camp for specifics.
Transcript[]
Soldier's Story[]
Now you two bloody listen to me. One fine day, the sepoys come running into the regimental HQ saying there's an elephant broke loose. Now, elephants is a very gentle creatures most of the time, and they get along just fine with their man who rides them, he's called a mahout. But when they're in heat, you have to chain them up. And this one had got loose, and his mahout went chasing off in exactly the wrong direction, and the elephant runs into the market and starts eating peaches. And a coolie tries to stop him. And the elephant steps on him something horrible. Mashes him right into the mud and the skin comes off his back like you was peeling a grape.
So the sepoys come running up to the General, only then he was a Major, and say, "You must come shoot this elephant!" So he gets his hunting rifle, it's a .505 Gibbs. And he goes down to the market. Only now the elephant isn't in the market any more. It's in a field, eating leaves as calm as nevermind. So there's no cause to shoot it any more.
And by now the mahout's come back, and he's screamin' and jabberin' about please don't shoot my elephant. You see, he's grown up with that elephant his whole life, and he don't know how to do any other job except sit on that elephant and tell it to pick up this log and carry it over there. But the elephant's taken the life of a man, you see. A coolie, but a man.
And the mahout's crying and jabberin'. And cool as a summer breeze, the General chambers a round and puts it right through the elephant's heart. And the wind just goes out of it. It just kneels down and sighs. And then it's gone. And all the villagers are running to get their knives because it's free meat. Now see, a lesser man would have trembled at the thought of shooting an elephant that's just calmly standing there eating leaves. He might have missed the heart.
Some civilian in Burma had to shoot a rogue elephant and he had to practically empty a whole magazine into the poor thing and it was half an hour a-dying. But the General makes the tough choices, see. So don't you armchair generals tell me what you would have done. Just follow orders, and we'll win the next war. The General's promised, all right?
Trivia[]
- The Scottish Play (The Bard's Play) are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth.
- The story that the soldier tells on Inkerman Bridge is about how Robert Byng handled a situation in India, where an elephant goes on a rampage and kills a man before returning to its calm state. The purpose of the story is to highlight how courageous he is compared to others.
- The story is also a reference to "Shooting an Elephant", a short essay written by George Orwell, in which an English police official in India (the Narrator) is called upon to shoot a rampaging elephant. By the time he arrives with his rifle, the Elephant has calmed down and is harmless. However, with the eyes of the natives on him, the Narrator feels compelled to kill the elephant regardless; it dies slowly before being stripped for meat. The Narrator reasons that had he chosen not to kill the elephant it would've shown that the British were weak-willed, thus destabilizing confidence in British rule and causing social unrest.
- Orwell wrote this as a critique of oppressive regimes, noting that the oppressor is actually no freer than the oppressed. As such, the reference to the story in We Happy Few is a meta-critique of the nature of Wellington Wells.
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