Hobo Literacy

Hobo Literacy

You are a level X student of the Hobo Alphabet.

You can understand some hobo glyphs

Properties

Class: all
Type: Perk

Acquired From

• Letters McCabe in the Hobo Camp

Your Hobo Code literacy is used to read the various glyphs found around locations in Shadows over Loathing. It can be increased by talking to various hobos you find. Sometimes you need to help them out with a mini-quest first. Hobos who can teach you include:

Name	Description	Location(s)
<random name>	A hobo sauntering down the sidewalk with a bindle over his shoulder, whistling a jaunty tune	Sauntering down the sidewalk in Ocean City / Hobo Camp
Letters McCabe	in the Cryptography boxcar	Hobo Camp
Johnny	the Hobo King, with Bamboozle and 3 Moxie, or Bewitch and 3 Mysticality, or Brag and 3 Muscle	Hobo Camp
Veronica	with the flowery hat	Hobo Camp
Washy	playing the washboard	Hobo Camp
Samuel	mumbling hobo	Hiram's Grocery / Hobo Camp
Obie	playing the oboe	Goldthwait Park / Hobo Camp
Doc	with the doctor's reflector hat	Beppo's Hole / Hobo Camp
Howie	playing the harmonica	The Outskirts of Ocean City † / Hobo Camp
Gus	first found in Plunkett Street on day 1 only †	Hobo Camp
Fifty-Two Teeth Thompson	playing the piano in the grub car	Hobo Camp
Dusty	with the round hat	Ocean City Boardwalk / Hobo Camp
Pepperidge	lunging in front of a gravestone	Sunken Boxcar, after completing The Old Dauphin House quest / Hobo Camp
Calendula Crabtree	flower hat with a still in the grub car	Zeta Omega Omicron / Hobo Camp
Beanie	the grill cook in the Grub car	The Old Junkyard / Hobo Camp
Beatrice		MacMillicancuddy's Farm
Agamemnon		Gatorman Hamlet
Cornelius		The Drexel Stead
Croesus		Black Gold Mine
Creamy Steve		Sandwich Museum
Howie		Inside a Boxcar
Ovid		Ovid's Store
Walter		S.I.T. (River Bridge)

† Warning: you can lock yourself out of Howie and Gus if you don't help them when you find them.