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see if you can find more valuables and weapons

Look in your room for a Bookbag to store some of the stuff in

look for old school supplies or something like a backpack

Look in your room for a Bookbag to store some of the stuff in

You find your school backpack under your bed. You also find a suitcase and a duffel bag, but those will definitely slow you down a lot and you leave them.

see if you can find more valuables and weapons

You get a bowie knife from your room and a screwdriver and a hammer from the kitchen. The bathroom only has medications and nothing more of interest seems to be found.

Look around for clues as to what the safe combo is (ex. behind paintings)

After quite a while of searching, you find a picture of your mom sitting in the passenger seat of a restored Chevelle in a mountainous region. At her feet is the safe. On the front of the safe at the time the picture was taken is a small piece of paper taped to the front. It reads "Rico, plot 2270". You try "2270" on the 4 digit safe but it doesn't open. Who or what is Rico? What does "plot 2270" mean?

Status:

Time: 10:59am ET Wednesday
Temperature: 59°F
Stamina: Rested
Hunger: A little hungry

You are inside your old apartment in Boston.

Items:

One set of clothing on your back (sweater, shirt, jeans, underwear, socks, shoes)
Backpack
Pen
Pad of paper
$352.32
An old photo of you and your mom
An old photo of your mom taken by your dad in the hospital when you were born
An old photo of your mom with the safe, reading "Rico, plot 2270"
The key to your apartment, will be foreclosed today
An old basic flip phone, not useful for anything except phone calls (80% battery)
Phone charger
Bowie knife
Scissors
Dull kitchen cutting knife
Pepper spray
Small piece of wire
Claw hammer
Flathead screwdriver
Flashlight
Map of greater Boston (Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Quincy, Salem, other smaller areas)
Your mom's locked combination safe

keep moving to the hunting store with the hobo sign

Try to find a house/apartment number with 2270. Ask if Rico is there, once you do.

convert rico to numbers and try it in the safe

horribly disfigure your face with a knife so the po po cannot find you

cut off your fingerprints with the scissors

Dont do any of the above (Except for the turn rico into numbers thing) and search your room.

Try to find a house/apartment number with 2270. Ask if Rico is there, once you do.

All rooms in your apartment are only three digits. You don't have any way to check house numbers in town since you don't have internet.

convert rico to numbers and try it in the safe

You try to convert to alphabetical numerics and get 17-9-3-15, which is too long. You try to convert it to phone equivalent using your cell phone and get 7426. You try the safe and it doesn't work. Hmm...

horribly disfigure your face with a knife so the po po cannot find you

You decide this isn't a good idea.

cut off your fingerprints with the scissors

Nobody even has your fingerprints. No reason for that.

Dont do any of the above (Except for the turn rico into numbers thing) and search your room.

You go in your room and get Ultra Sock, you're favorite action figure that you made out of a sock. Nothing else important turns up, since you were pretty much too poor to buy things anyway.

keep moving to the hunting store with the hobo sign

You take out your pen and paper and scribble out "HOMELESS, NEED MONEY FOR FOOD". You tuck it in your pocket, sling your backpack over your shoulder, and prepare to leave your apartment for the last time. Suddenly, you hear voices in the hallway. You recognize one as your uncle and they stop in front of your front door. There seem to be three people.

You hear your uncle say, "Yeh this is where he lived with my sister."

Another voice responds saying, "Don't worry, we'll get him back for ya."

Someone knocks on the door.

Status:

Time: 11:37am ET Wednesday
Temperature: 61°F
Stamina: Rested
Hunger: A little hungry

You are inside your old apartment in Boston. Your uncle and two unknown men are outside the door and suspect you could be inside.

Items:

One set of clothing on your back (sweater, shirt, jeans, underwear, socks, shoes)
Ultra Sock
Backpack
Pen
Pad of paper
$352.32
An old photo of you and your mom
An old photo of your mom taken by your dad in the hospital when you were born
An old photo of your mom with the safe, reading "Rico, plot 2270"
The key to your apartment, will be foreclosed today
An old basic flip phone, not useful for anything except phone calls (80% battery)
Phone charger
Bowie knife
Scissors
Dull kitchen cutting knife
Pepper spray
Small piece of wire
Claw hammer
Flathead screwdriver
Flashlight
Map of greater Boston (Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Quincy, Salem, other smaller areas)
Your mom's locked combination safe

try and get a ladder or a rope/makeshift rope and climb out the back

Use the claw hammer to bust the doorknob and then parkour out of the window.

Barricade the door then parkour the forget out of the window

Push some furniture at the entrance door and look out of the window, if a building is up close enough then attempt to jump to it.

Jam the closet door so when you escape out the window they think you locked yourself in the closet