Hobo nickel
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hobo nickel
This is a hobo nickel -- a small coin, made out of some sort of mysterious, unidentifiable metal, into which has been carved a small bas-relief by an industrious hobo. In this particular case, industry did not correspond with creativity, as the bas-relief depicts an unadorned numeral 5.
Cannot be traded or discarded
(In-game plural: hobo nickels)
Obtained From
- Hobopolis Town Square
- Normal hobo (only if the hobo doesn't drop a body part)
- Burnbarrel Blvd.
- Hot hobo
- Exposure Esplanade
- Cold hobo
- The Heap
- Stench hobo
- The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground
- Spooky hobo
- The Purple Light District
- Sleaze hobo
- Items
- Li'l Businessman Kit (sometimes after combat in Hobopolis)
- Boxcar turtle (10) (sometimes)
- Lucky gold ring (sometimes after combat)
- Skills
- Just the Facts (after some combats, see this helpful tool made by Semenar.)
- Obsoleted Areas/Methods
Buying with hobo nickels
There are various things in Hobopolis you may purchase with nickels during choice adventures.
Hobopolis Town Square (nickel content only; full market map at The Hobo Marketplace Table)
- Mind Yer Binder
hobo code binder (30)- Note: You can only buy a binder once.
The Hobo Marketplace in Hobopolis Town Square
- Shopping
- Garment District
- Hats
crumpled felt fedora (250)
battered old top-hat (150)
shapeless wide-brimmed hat (200)
- Pants
mostly rat-hide leggings (200)
hobo dungarees (150)
old patched suit-pants (250)
- Accessories
old soft shoes (250) 
hobo stogie (200) 
rope with some soap on it (150)
- Hats
- Housewares
- Tools
sharpened hubcap (10)
very large caltrop (10)
The Six-Pack of Pain (10)
- Entertainment
- Music
sealskin drum (99)
washboard shield (99)
spaghetti-box banjo (99)
marinara jug (99)
makeshift castanets (99)
left-handed melodica (99)
dinged-up triangle (10)
- Pets
hobo monkey (1000)
- Music
- Tools
- The Guy Who Carves Driftwood Animals
- 3
valuable trinkets (10)
- 3
- Garment District
- Health
- Tanning Salon
- Effect: Healthy Bronze Glow (5)
Effect: Chalky White Pallor (5)
- Effect: Healthy Bronze Glow (5)
- Self-Improvement
- Educational Films
- Effect: Educated (Kinda) (5)
Effect: Educated (Sorta) (5)
- Effect: Educated (Kinda) (5)
- YMHA
- Effect: It Didn't Kill You (5)
Effect: The Sweats (5)
- Effect: It Didn't Kill You (5)
- Body Modifications
- Hobo Tattoo (20+)
- Educational Films
- Tanning Salon
Semi-Rare Adventures:
Burnbarrel Blvd.
jar of squeeze (5)
The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground
deadly lampshade (5)
gift-a-pult (50)
Notes
- These can be used to purchase various rewards at the Hobo Marketplace, one of the adventure results in Hobopolis Town Square (though it may be impenetrable without a hobo code binder). These rewards include food, booze, various effects, and equipment.
- The Hobo Marketplace Table maps out the possible nickel-spending sprees.
- This item can't be pickpocketed.
References
- This is a reference to hobo nickels. Nickels used to be made of nickel.
Collection
- 🥇: ThunderGate (#294980) - 360,000
- 🥈: Rammerking (#1549679) - 109,912
- 🥉: Stupid_hippy (#1557833) - 102,000
- #4: deus ex machina maximus (#1294601) - 89,967
- #5: Chanifean (#1505893) - 83,333
- #6: MoxieMolly (#1349269) - 48,749
- #7: DarkSpuddle (#1437616) - 43,000
- #8: JXQZ (#2778872) - 36,151
- #9: TQuilla (#2771003) - 30,011
- #10: Joell (#253532) - 30,000
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