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Yes—help the Mice, accept the Cheese, and leave the undead in the sewer cell alone. Shooting the undead immediately fails the Mummy and Daddy side quest. Keeping the Mice on your side also preserves later assistance, the Mouse King reward route, and the Mice’s Key shortcut. These decisions are separate from the final choice in Bedtime Stories.
Quick answer: which option should you choose?
The Mice encounter is in City of Orphans > Sewers. At the Sewers Lantern, search behind the ladder on the opposite side to find the burrow. When the Mice ask for help, accept the request and take the Cheese. Later, when you reach the sewer cell containing the undead, do not fire on them.
| Decision | Recommended action | Documented result |
|---|---|---|
| Mice request at the burrow | Accept | Preserves the Mice relationship and continues Mummy and Daddy. |
| Cheese offered by the Mice | Take it | Keeps the intended quest path active. |
| Undead in the sewer cell | Leave them alone | Prevents immediate failure of Mummy and Daddy. |
| Kill the possessed parents | Do not choose this if you want the Mice route | The quest fails immediately, and later Mice help is lost according to current choice guides. |
What happens in Mummy and Daddy?
The Mice request
The first interaction is a request for assistance in the sewer burrow. Accepting it and taking the Cheese establishes the friendly route. The Cheese is not a trap that requires a combat response; it is the item tied to the Mice’s cooperation in this sequence.
The undead cell
Progress through the sewers until you find a cell containing the undead associated with the quest. The critical decision is whether to attack them. Current walkthrough coverage consistently identifies shooting them as an instant quest failure. You do not need to defeat them to complete the Mice-friendly path, so keep your weapon lowered and move on without triggering an attack.
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If you shoot them
The failure occurs at once rather than at a later turn-in. That means you should not expect to repair the objective by returning to the Mice, collecting another item, or completing a later dialogue. If you want the Mummy and Daddy outcome, reload a save from before the attack. There is no documented in-game conversation that resets the failed state after the undead have been shot.
Exact route to the Mice burrow
- Enter City of Orphans. Travel to the city area before looking for the sewer entrance.
- Go into the Sewers. The encounter is not in the city streets or in a separate Mice map.
- Use the Sewers Lantern as your landmark. From the lantern, orient yourself toward the ladder.
- Search behind the ladder on the opposite side. The first burrow is tucked out of the main path, so it is easy to pass if you follow the corridor without checking both sides.
- Speak with the Mice and accept their request. Choose the cooperative response rather than ending the conversation.
- Receive the Cheese. Keep the item and continue through the sewer route.
- Reach the cell with the undead. Treat the cell as a no-attack checkpoint for this quest.
- Leave the undead untouched. Continue onward; attacking is the action that flips the immediate failure flag.
If the burrow is not visible, return to the Sewers Lantern and check the area behind the ladder from the opposite side rather than searching only along the central corridor.
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Long-term consequences of helping the Mice
Friendship and later assistance
Choice guides describe a continuing Mice relationship rather than a one-scene reward. Killing the possessed parents damages that relationship and causes the Mice to stop helping later. Accepting the request and avoiding violence keeps the friendship route available for subsequent interactions.
The Mouse King reward route
MetaBot.GG’s 2026 PC launch-build database reports a Mice-friendship counter connected to a later Mouse King reward. On that route, the Giant Whisker Gift is listed as worth 30,000 Catalysts. The same data identifies the Mice’s Key, which opens a shortcut through the nightmare realm. These values come from the launch-build database and may be revised by a patch or differ on another platform.
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Does it change the final ending?
Current choice coverage does not document a separate final ending caused by the Mice decisions. MetaBot.GG lists one ending sequence for the relevant choice data. In practical terms, the choice changes quest completion, relationship flags, assistance, and access to the Mouse King reward path—not a separately documented finale.
Can you change the Mice choice later?
The available guides do not describe a later dialogue option that reverses the relationship after the undead have been shot. The dependable recovery is to load a save made before the attack and replay the sewer section without firing. If you have already completed additional objectives, check whether an earlier manual or autosave exists before accepting the risk of losing that progress.
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Do not confuse ordinary exploration with a reset. Leaving the sewers, resting, or speaking to other characters is not documented as clearing the failed quest state. Once the attack has registered, treat the objective as failed unless you restore an earlier save.
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Do not confuse this with Bedtime Stories
Players sometimes use “help the Mice” to refer to Bedtime Stories, but that is a different quest with a different decision. Its final choice occurs after you return the book, not in the City of Orphans sewers. Violence against an undead cell is not the issue there; the choice is whether to read a story or say goodbye.
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| Quest | Location or trigger | Choice | Reward documented | Effect on ending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mummy and Daddy | City of Orphans, Sewers; find the burrow behind the ladder opposite the Sewers Lantern | Help the Mice, take the Cheese, and leave the undead alone | Preserves the Mice relationship, later assistance, the Mouse King route, and access to the Mice’s Key shortcut; Giant Whisker Gift listed at 30,000 Catalysts in MetaBot.GG’s 2026 PC launch-build data | No separate alternate final ending is documented |
| Bedtime Stories | After returning the book | Read a story or say goodbye | Read a story: two Tiny Whisker Gifts and 6,000 Catalysts. Say goodbye: one Tiny Whisker Gift and 3,000 Catalysts. | Both choices complete the quest; the available guide does not report a different final ending |
Read a story
Reading provides the larger documented payout: two Tiny Whisker Gifts and 6,000 Catalysts. Choose it if your priority is the immediate listed reward.
Say goodbye
Saying goodbye still completes Bedtime Stories, but the documented payout is smaller: one Tiny Whisker Gift and 3,000 Catalysts. The choice is therefore primarily a narrative preference if you do not need the additional reward.
Common mistakes and how to avoid them
- Attacking before checking the cell. The undead are not a mandatory combat encounter for the Mice route. Keep your aim away from them and avoid stray shots.
- Searching the wrong side of the ladder. The first burrow is behind the ladder on the opposite side from the Sewers Lantern, not directly beside the lantern.
- Assuming the Cheese is optional. Accepting the request and taking the Cheese are the documented steps that establish cooperation.
- Expecting an alternate ending. The meaningful changes are quest status, relationship help, a shortcut, and rewards; current databases list one ending sequence.
- Mixing up the two Mice-related quests. Mummy and Daddy uses the sewer-cell decision, while Bedtime Stories uses the book and story choice.
What is confirmed, and what could change?
The immediate quest failure from shooting the undead and the sewer route are supported by multiple current walkthroughs. The friendship counter, Mouse King reward, 30,000-Catalyst Giant Whisker Gift, and Mice’s Key shortcut come from MetaBot.GG’s datamined PC launch-build database for 2026. Datamined values are not the same as a developer patch note, so a later update, platform-specific build, or incomplete guide coverage could alter a flag or reward.
If you are playing after a major update, verify the quest state in your journal and keep a manual save before entering the cell. That precaution lets you test a dialogue or combat interaction without permanently sacrificing the Mice route.
Quick Recap
Recommended decision path
- Find the burrow behind the ladder opposite the Sewers Lantern in City of Orphans.
- Accept the Mice’s request.
- Take the Cheese.
- Reach the undead cell without attacking anything inside.
- Leave the cell occupants alive and continue the quest.
- For the separate Bedtime Stories quest, read the story if you want the larger listed reward; either option completes that quest.
