Obie the Oboe Hobo
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Location |
Goldthwait Park, by the fountain, initially |
Companion? |
Could be! |
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“ | There's just something special about the tone and trill of an oboe. It's like a ray of sunshine coming down from heaven. | „ |
Obie O'Brien is a hobo found playing his oboe in Goldthwait Park.
Most of the interactions are limited until you are asked by the groundskeeper to move him along.
Personality
Obie tends to be more of a relaxed individual among all the hobo, and much like them, prefer to play the music with his oboe. Unlike the other hobos who stick with the group, Obie expresses a bit of a wanderlust, even though he will visit the Hobo Camp.
Interactions
When you meet Obie in the park, you have the option to give him 1, 10, or 50 
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Giving 50 earns you an oboe solo, and for the rest of the game, an oboe track will be added to a number of sound cues.
If he is your active companion, you can learn some hobo codes from him.
Recruiting Obie
To get Obie as a companion, give him 10 or 50 when he asks for it.
Then when you ask him to leave as per the groundskeeper's request, ask him to do it as a favor.
(Or say you'll make it worth his while, and he'll make it a favor anyway.)
Meet him in the Hobo Camp later and ask him to join you.
Quests
After getting the security job from the groundskeeper, you have a few ways of getting him off the park:
- If you already gave him at least 10 , ask him to leave as a favor to you. He will move to the Hobo Camp and can become your companion.
- Make it worth his while with a 50 bribe. Since it was a transaction and not generosity, he won't be willing to join you, and you won't see him at the camp.
- Convince him with Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (4ish mainstat).
- If wearing the terribly cursed fedora, speak in shadow-tongue to scare him away.
Abilities
- Hot Lick: Obie deals his Moxie in Hot Damage to the target.
- Reed Slice: Obie deals his Muscle in Physical Damage and inflicts the same amount of Bleeding on the target.
- Inspiring Glissando: Increase the rest of the team's stats by Obie's Mysticality.
Companion Vignettes
First vignette
In The Big Moist, Obie heads to his old squat to find a contract. Search the inside of the house to find the contract and Obie's Muscle increases by 1.
Second vignette
In S.I.T. Campus, Porkham, Obie goes to the The Infernal Racket, a bar filled with demons. Talk to the bartender (who reveals Obie's surname, O'Brien), then Obie plays an oboe solo to fulfill a challenge. The bartender tears up the contract and Obie gains the combat skill Inspiring Glissando. Then, you can speak with a demon named Denny Badman at the right side of the bar to play an optional Simon Says–style minigame.
- Denny plays a sequence of 3 notes, which you must repeat. The next sequence is 4 notes, and so on up to 9.
- If you play a wrong note, the minigame starts over at the beginning and the notes are randomly re-selected.
- You don't have to play the entire sequence at once; you can play part of it, wait for Denny to play it again, then pick up where you left off.
- Finishing the minigame will allow Obie to save the world.
Notes
- Learning hobo code from Obie requires having him join you as a companion first. You're free to swap companions or dismiss him right after.
- If you prefer he stay at the camp for aesthetic / roleplay reasons, you'll have to miss out on his code teachings.
- Along with Agamemnon, Obie is one of only two (three if you count the pencil guy) hobos who will talk to you if you have Shadow Taint level 3 or higher.