Verloc Down

Verloc Down is a 7th DLC of We Happy Few 2. Playing as Dr. Anton Verloc it focuses on Dr. Smilez's lair. It was released on ???, And it also part of the We Happy Few 2 Season Pass.

Dr. Anton Verloc is the playable protagonist of Verloc Down, The teasers show how Dr. Smilez betrayed Dr. Verloc and escape from his glass cells, and will feature characters such as Sally Boyle, Gwen Boyle, and Johnny Bolton. Anton's weapons are syringe gun and dart gun so he can shoot at the enemies.

Gameplay
It takes place after the escape from both destroyed Haworth Labs and Dr. Smilez's glass cells.

Plot
After the Haworth Labs has been destroyed by Victoria Byng, Dr. Smilez notices the paper of ingredients for Joy is the only one who survived the explosion. Suddenly, Dr. Smilez's henchmen saw Anton running from the now-destroyed Haworth Labs. Dr. Smilez orders his henchmen to capture Anton and lock him up at the glass cells. They obey his order then begin to chase in hot pursuit through the streets. Anton saw them running as he still continues escapes from Dr. Smilez's henchmen until he's ambushed by them and sent to the glass cells.

Anton got himself in anger breakdown while Dr. Smilez tried to calm him down and push the red button and the Joy gas consumed Dr. Verloc to unconsciousness, Dr. Smilez smiles at him as he falls asleep and leaving him behind and took all of his notes with his henchmen.

Sometimes later Anton was having a dream of his doppelganger of himself and reveals that he is him and the grass appeared and saw the beautiful place he has the doppelganger. The Doppelganger Anton walkthrough Sally Boyle and He tried to stop him but it transforms to be his own daughter, Gwen Boyle on her toddler form, Sally and Gwen walk together with holding hands and until he wakes up from his nightmares.

He gets up and holding a table behind him and break himself in the glass cells, escape, gasping for air and fall into unconscious again, later Johnny Bolton appears and found him unconscious that Johnny was wrong about him that became redeemed and spared his life and giving him some oxygen and allow him to live, Johnny leaving him behind and with healing balm until Anton wakes up and found his dead mother named Ariel Verloc and his father named Timothy Verloc.

Anton becomes remorseful towards his parents and finds the syringe gun as he searches for the exit. After that, find Dr. Smilez's henchmen were still here and find through the exit.

As Anton was about to leave, the blood is bleeding from his nose because he starts to hallucinate. His father appears while talking to him which scares Anton. He tells him about what happened to the workers of Haworth Labs.

Anton felt guilty due to a bad batch of Joy and people become downers after they heard Uncle Jack's last tape. Suddenly, he heard the footsteps that coming from the hallway. It turned out to be Dr. Smilez's henchmen who found him earlier.

After escaping from Dr. Smilez's henchmen and using the Underground tracks to get the Barrow Holm, he founds himself inside of the hatch filled with plague wastrels. Anton saw the torch that it is on the floor, he then picks it up and turns on the light. And he found the other headboys are brutally killed by a plague torn their organs apart, it makes Anton sick and found a power switch turn it on the plague are run away due to afraid to light. His mother appeared again to talk to him to find a way out to Wellington Wells, He goes up to the hatch and found the Garden District was fallen apart, other wastrels are happy because the Haworth Lab was destroyed and Anton found Mr. Smilez's boat. He sneaks Through the boat and escapes from Wellington Wells.

Until Anton goes back to Great Britain and found General Byng was still alive who got a bandage himself in the left eye, talks about Sally slices him with a broken glass earlier. Anton get inside of Mr. Smilez's lair, and found the dead employee workers of him, are dead while found a cassette player and ten cassettes, He goes to General Byng. Mr. Smilez planning to sent all the children away to Germany like they did from Wellington Wells. Anton record it with the cassette player and write it.

He sneaks way through to Mr. Smilez and record it with the cassette player, Mr. Smilez plan to use children who didn't send away to experiment them using their blood to make his happy pills perfect. Anton was shocked that he would do that to the children, His father appears again and tell him to stop it.

Anton thinks happy pills were actually made of someone's blood because people want to take happy pills. His mother notices there's a something on his head. It turns out that Victoria Byng was right about this situation that they need to stop taking Joy before Mr. Smilez will turn the whole Britain into "The Childless Dystopia".

Anton found a dead brute holding a dart gun and took it and run off to find the General's services office. He sneaks to Robert Byng's Office and took the evidence and also his notes and leave before he gets caught. Anton reads the evidence that he would send all the children in Germany like he did before. Anton read his notes that Sally has a baby, then his flashback came to his mind that he hurting and locking her in the rain the flashbacks end, Anton felt sorry about himself to Sally that he knew what he had done.

His mother appeared again that he would do that to Sally, Anton really hate himself because he was abusive towards to her. Ariel told to him that he was grieving but it is only way to forgiveness, Anton search for the underground to find way through the upper floor of the lair, Anton found the caged plague wastrels, find the key card and open the cage.

Suddenly, the caged plague wastrels got out of the cages after Anton opens it. He will be ready to fight the plague wastrels. After defeated the caged plague wastrels, Anton finally reach the main office.

Suddenly, Anton was bitten by an incoming plague wastrel, get in the main office and find an antiseptic bandage in the washroom, then he bandaged himself to recovered and his father appeared again to he would stop General Byng. He goes to the main office and Sally found her, Anton apologize to her, but he heard a baby noise it turns out to be her daughter. Sally forgives her and hug him gently.

Anton tells her about his story where he and his uncle goes to Wellington Wells after the war begins. But, as he telling his story, Johnny appears again and accidentally interrupted Anton.

Transcript
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Trivia

 * In Forgiving cutscene, Sally reveals to Anton that they're were having a child named Gwen. But she forgives him for locking her in the rain, also framing her to Julia Channey's murder.


 * It takes place during Annie's story.


 * Anton was experimented by Dr. Smilez's tested Joy gas, later began to hallucinate his dead parents.


 * In Released The Infection cutscene, Anton got bit by incoming plague wastrel in the left arm, goes to the washroom and find the antiseptic bandage.


 * It shows about Anton's flashbacks/backstory that he inherited his uncle's house and goes to Wellington Wells.