City News/Underworld Treasure

This is a review of **Underworld Treasure**.

## 1/3

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* **Stats Recommendation**: ???
* **Rewards**: ???

**Introduction**: Go help the apparent victim.
**MC**: What's going on? He seems hurt!

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**Special Event (33%)**

 The guy is Emory. You're about to talk to him when you spot someone getting ready to jump him from behind...
**MC**: Watch out!

**Choice 1**: You grab him and start running!

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) You run with Emory and get away successfully.
*MC: Huff...It's taking too much out of me!*

**Choice 2**: Take your high heels off and fight!

* **Feedback**: (Fail) You can't beat the thug and is almost injured.
*MC: There won't be a next time, it's way too dangerous for me!*

**Choice 3**: Scream for help!

* **Feedback**: (Fail) Bystanders charge and beat up Emory.
*MC: Wait, stop, stop, he's not the one!*

**Special Event (66%)**

 You notice Emory is bruised all over...
**MC**: Don't worry, I'll take care of you.

**Choice 1**: Go find ice to ice down the bruises.

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) You apply ice to relieve the pain and for him to regain senses.
*MC: Okay, that should do it.*

**Choice 2**: It's only bruises. He can take it.

* **Feedback**: (Fail) You miss a cut that gets infected.
*MC: I'm so sorry I missed it!*

**Choice 3**: Oh no, call the ambulance now!

* **Feedback**: (Fail) The EMT'S wonder why you called an ambulance for someone who can still move quite well on his own.
*MC: Did I, uh, overreact?*

**Special Event (99%)**

 Emory tells you he lost his most cherished possession to an O.G. in a turf war a few days ago...
**MC**: It sounds scary.

**Choice 1**: Take him and go get it back!

* **Feedback**: (Fail) Emory: *Hooray, just what I wanted, another beating.*
*MC: My bad, I didn't think it through.*

**Choice 2**: Sneak away when he's not looking.

* **Feedback**: (Fail) Nothing I can do about the problem, anyway.
*MC: I might as well help you now.*

**Choice 3**: Ask him how you can help.

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) Emory: *I have a friend, maybe she can help.*
*MC: I wonder what kind of a friend is it...*

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**Inside the violent life on the streets!**
Passerby claims to witness real street violence! Victim of a brutal gang beatdown calls it a fact of street life, where one either becomes strong or be preyed upon by the strong!
## 2/3

*Follow Ronda and Emory to retrieve the latter's keepsake.*

* **Stats Recommendation**: 1738
* **Rewards**: Manage Brand x2, Creative Value x1, and 181

**Introduction**: Help Emory take back his keepsake.
**MC**: It's do-or-die today!

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**Special Event (33%)**

Ronda is distracting the rival gang while you and Emory go steal the keepsake back, but you get separated and lost...
**MC**: Rats, I'm lost!

**Choice 1**: Keep trying to find your way.

* **Feedback**: (Fail) You waste a lot of time without ever finding your way.
*MC: I'm not directionally challenged. Anyone would get lost here.*

**Choice 2**: Ask passerby for directions.

* **Feedback**: (Fail) Everybody around here belongs to the gang. They give you a not-so-polite talking-to.
*MC: I probably just had a brain cramp.*

**Choice 3**: Hide in a restroom and text Emory.

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) Emory comes and gets you. Problem solved.
*MC: Good thing it worked out!*

**Special Event (66%)**

Someone spots you and Emory after you got the keepsake. Do you...

**MC**: Crap, what to do now?

**Choice 1**: Greet him warmly like you knew him.

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) He pauses and tries to sound embarrassed, "Hey, yeah, it's you... How you doing?"
*MC: Wow, didn't think it would actually work!*

**Choice 2**: Grab Emory and run!

* **Feedback**: (Fail) You're surrounded and easily captured.
*MC: It was a mistake trying to run..*.

**Choice 3**: Tells him you're delivering pizza.

* **Feedback**: (Fail) "We don't get delivery here!" You're caught.
*MC: What, why don't you get delivery here?!*

**Special Event (99%)**
The keepsake is a photo of Emory and his mother, with "Happy 3rd Birthday, Raleigh!" written on the back. So you say...
**MC**: Wow, his mom is really pretty!

**Choice 1**: So your real name's Raleigh?

* **Feedback**: (Fail) Emory turns red, "I went through a lot of trouble to change it, so keep it to yourself!"
*MC: "Emory" is not too much better than "Raleigh"...*

**Choice 2**: So your mother's name is Raleigh?

* **Feedback**: (Fail) You're a regular Einstein, I see.
*MC: My bad, my bad...*

**Choice 3**: Your mother is very pretty!

* **Feedback**: (Perfect) Emory's attitude softens, "Yeah, she is pretty..."
*MC: Wish Emory a good life with his mother's blessings.*

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**Lost since childhood, young hobo still feels compassion!**

Young man regains keepsake with friends' help-- a photo of his mother and himself as a child. It represents the love of his mother and is his motivation for life.