Top-left of the inner circle of the university (west of the gym entrance) you find two Skullgirls with sunglasses. Talk to the one to the right for skull token exclusive items.
Because you keep getting corrupted or consume items without paying attention. If you really destroyed your build to the point stats are below 10 (is that even possible?) consuming burgers, strawberry juices and fresh salads will add 2 points back to the max, up to 150.
Drugs will really destroy you by literally halving all of your experience and causing a sharp willpower drop, so if you want to try out Ray's stuff for whatever reason (completeness?) do it as soon as possible to minimize the damage. Unless you've been playing hardcore, the player character should still be pretty weak by the first Sunday. In the event you do it late, you can still recover, don't worry.
Intelligence will massively boost your XP gains and you want a daily green tea from Elsie, drink it too. Get that business and biology XP to 15k or 25k as soon as possible, every 10 XP reduces base stat costs (coins not included) by 1, down to a minimum of 5, and there are many sources of experience by now too, even if you don't do shit and rest or do a presentation (which you should - activate those papers).
Pay attention to lessons that are not worth it and the ones that are really good, especially since they are all repeatable. Save before entering either Biology or Business and if the lessons are crap in both, either take a nap or do something else. You
want metabolism and hydro boosts to get daily stat increases and fight off the effects of corruption.
Things that will do damage to your stats:
- Ray's drugs (no shit), don't do them. If you want your save to flag Ray's deal as done get her to pink pill you once and that's it. Don't touch weird Skullgirl wine either, though spiked drinks are fine as long as you know what's inside.
- Lollipops with "coating" on it
- Breastmilk
- Hunger (don't starve; this also disables choices)
- Going aggro on every occasion (do it responsibly if you want to play crazy badass lame citizen;
don't fuck with Ashley)
- High corruption (massages and generally being around feet causes foot corruption; eating shit or drinking piss causes scat corruption, this recovers naturally but do it in moderation if you don't want it to damage your will - there is an advantage to having high foot corruption but it is up to you to see whether it is worth it, or if it fits your playstyle)
- Low rep (Ms. Herlinda's manual does state that D-class citizens are
meant to be trash used by the regular classes, but you can still be popular trash so someone uses you instead of disposing of you)
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Lessons (read the description before you pick one!)
Things that will improve your stats:
- Food items early on (cap to 150 if you're below, then 250 from perks)
- Perks (obtained from some lessons and papers you presented to class; lesson ones are cumulative)
- Ritalin (don't overdo it, even though you can glitch it, your INT gets so high you literally instacap every lesson)
- Bubblegum (helps you with rep loss if you chew gum for 10 days as it increases charisma, but there are so many sources of reputation you can casually loot trash bins and still have 300 reputation - after getting Mara's global portfolio - pretty fast; you generally won't need more than 100)
- Ms. Herlinda's hypnosis (you
need willpower once you've become a complete slave, so keep it high)
Just be patient and explore how you can play the game, this is what makes a non-linear game interesting imo and Salia really delivered here. If something fails, try another approach to get the desired outcome. My previous save was on day 1187 and I've restarted from scratch to check the balancing. Try and interact with NPCs. Everyone. Save often. Reload often. If you run out of save slots, use more slots. Name your saves. This isn't
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, they usually have a purpose other than telling random stuff.
The only thing you can't normally "cheese" is sleeping in again and again once you've got daily perks to get those stats really high as this requires an exploit that sends you back to the night version of your room. Besides, if your stats are too high, this will start to hurt unless you remember to completely refill before you go to sleep *and* don't need to take fixed stat damage until you drop (rather than damage% to stats). Even with 100 in base stats, you can generally make it up with consumables before you're screwed as long as you can afford it, and as a bonus, that makes it easier to go down as the main goal is to indeed fail hard and lose in the funniest/most arousing/humiliating way possible, maybe even one you didn't expect at all.
Salia still left the option to try hard and survive the hard way (by including aggressive options that don't automatically exmatriculate you) but you still have to think and plan ahead; you're basically a nobody and weak shit in a high class world blessed with benefits and privileges. Don't expect it to be easy, you're supposed to be treated like trash and have a miserable life.
And because this is a game and in 2022 almost no one seems to grasp this: play the game the way you want to as long as you have fun, no one's judging you on how you're going to play it.
tl;dr: Don't take it too seriously. Have fun. Take breaks. Don't overdose.
SaliaCoel
