Helping Your Boyfriend Endings

The visitor’s first-night pill

The visitor interrupts our first night and offers a pill. We save before answering: this is the earliest useful fork, and it leaves us room to compare staying with Adrian against investigating the house.

1. Take the pill

   For the investigation route, we accept it. The next morning brings the number on our arm, and later we can move around when Adrian leaves.

2. Doesn’t take it

   For the short staying route, we refuse it and continue Adrian’s storyline. We keep that run separate from the rescue attempt; refusing this offer is not a shortcut to Oliver.

↺ Replay from: before the visitor offers the pill

Record the number before it fades

When we wake, the writing on our arm looks like a telephone number. We note all the digits now, before the story smears the ink. Seeing the clue is useful; remembering only the two digits left later is not enough.

1. Keep the complete number

   The number we use at the telephone is 015767438. We check it digit by digit rather than trusting the shapes of the handwritten groups.

2. Continue the Day 2 scenes

   The phone is not accessible yet. This is preparation for a later room search, not a call we can make from the bedroom.

↺ Replay from: before the Day 2 morning

Inspect the package in Adrian’s room

When Adrian leaves and our legs allow us to explore, we inspect the package in his room. We read its label instead of rushing through the rooms: Oliver will need a location, not just a successful phone connection.

1. Write down the full address

   742 Silverwood Creek Lane, Silverwood Springs, CA 95401. We keep the street, town and ZIP together so that the later near-matching answers do not trip us up.

2. Return with both clues recorded

   The arm number and this address serve different jobs. One reaches Oliver; the other tells him where to find us. Finding either clue alone does not complete the rescue route.

↺ Replay from: before exploring Adrian’s room

Adrian’s medication: pretend, then spit it out

Adrian’s medicine is a separate decision from the visitor’s first-night pill. We do not treat every pill as interchangeable: accepting Ian’s help does not mean we should swallow Adrian’s medication as well.

1. “Pretend to swallow the pill and spit it out”

   We choose the pretend option to keep the investigation going. This preserves the next nighttime conversation and the opportunity to act on what we learn.

2. “Take the medicine”

   This belongs to the staying-with-Adrian route rather than our rescue checklist. If the investigation scenes disappear, we return to this checkpoint before changing unrelated choices.

↺ Replay from: before Adrian’s second-evening medication

How we respond to Ian matters later

Ian’s disclosures are unsettling, but we can answer with warmth or distance. For Moving Forward, we build the supportive direction here and keep it consistent through later conversations. For The Empty Cage, we keep our replies distant while still following the investigation.

1. Supportive direction: “I’m your friend”

   We reassure him and respond kindly when he talks about himself. These early exchanges matter more than trying to change the relationship after calling Oliver.

2. Distant direction

   We do not pursue the affectionate responses. Accepting the useful pill or receiving the scalpel is not, on its own, the same as building a supportive relationship.

We also keep Adrian’s relationship direction separate. A warm Adrian run can restrict the later search of his body. For the full rescue routes, we avoid reinforcing his reassuring version of events. We focus on our replies and the available scene, not on a hidden point total.

↺ Replay from: before Ian’s nighttime conversation

Use Ian’s scalpel—or leave it unused

Ian gives us a miniature scalpel before the next confrontation. We make a new save before Adrian’s Day 3 scene, then decide whether to use it. This is an action fork, not an affection reset.

1. “Use it”

   We act when the opportunity appears, then complete the confrontation prompts. Choosing to use it starts the dangerous escape path; it does not instantly finish an ending.

2. “Don’t”

   We leave the weapon unused and continue to My Boyfriend Is the Best. The newspaper outcome is different from being interrupted by a failed timed task.

↺ Replay from: before the scalpel decision

Finish the confrontation before investigating

Once we use the scalpel, dialogue alone cannot carry us to the next room. We watch the input prompt and finish the struggle rather than letting Auto or Skip hide what the game is asking us to do.

1. Match the visible input

   We use the key shown by the game. The later struggle also uses a timed input, so we keep a working save before each mechanical section.

2. Retry without rewriting the route

   If we fail, we reload the task checkpoint. There is no reason to change Ian’s early replies merely because one timed prompt went wrong.

In builds that offer a gameplay difficulty setting, we can reduce the timing pressure. Surviving the confrontation only opens the next investigation opportunity; it does not mean the rescue is complete.

↺ Replay from: before the confrontation input

Search Adrian’s body for the key

We pause during Investigation Time and inspect Adrian’s body. The key is the missing link between surviving the confrontation and opening the locked room. Running straight outside skips that opportunity.

1. If the search is available

   We inspect the body and collect the key, then use it on the previously inaccessible room. We wait for the pickup feedback before leaving the scene.

2. If we cannot search

   We return to our earlier relationship save and take a less trusting direction with Adrian. Reloading the same late save does not undo the replies that led us here.

A successful struggle is not proof that the body-search option will appear in every relationship state. For the rescue routes, we prepare that earlier direction as well as recording both clues.

↺ Replay from: before Investigation Time; earlier if the search is absent

Open the locked room before leaving

With the key collected, we go to the locked room instead of following the exit outside. We finish the intervening confrontation and enter the room; the phone on its desk is why this detour matters.

1. Key first, room second

   We cannot replace the key search with random room clicks. If the door will not open, we check the pickup and the earlier body-search state.

2. Stay until we reach the desk phone

   We keep a checkpoint around the door sequence. After entering, we inspect the telephone rather than assuming that unlocking the door has already summoned help.

↺ Replay from: after collecting the key, before the door sequence

Dial Oliver’s number

The telephone lets us set the missing digits with arrows. We enter 015767438 and confirm the number. We move one digit at a time: the similar-looking handwritten marks are easy to misread when we are rushing.

1. Reach Oliver

   We wait for Oliver Freeman to answer. A correct number opens the conversation, but the rescue still needs our next answer.

2. Do not leave midway

   For a rescue attempt, we stay through the address exchange. Leaving without completing the useful call follows the unresolved escape direction instead.

↺ Replay from: before setting the telephone digits

Give Oliver the package address

When Oliver asks where we are, we choose the answer that matches the package: 742 Silverwood Creek Lane, Silverwood Springs, CA 95401. In the English scene shown above it is the third option; matching the text is safer than remembering its position.

1. Check the whole line

   The alternatives change the street, town or ZIP. We compare the complete label rather than clicking the first answer that contains Silverwood.

2. Wait for his response

   We let Oliver acknowledge the location and continue the scene. We have now supplied both pieces the call needs: whom to contact and where to come.

↺ Replay from: before answering Oliver; before Day 2 exploration if the clue is missing

The rescue is shared; Ian’s future is not

After the completed call, we continue the outside sequence and its remaining prompts. Both rescue endings lead to a hospital recovery with Oliver. What changes is Ian’s place in the epilogue.

1. Earlier distant replies

   The investigation still matters, but we have not built the supportive connection with Ian. Follow this accumulated direction to The Empty Cage.

2. Earlier supportive replies

   We have reassured Ian through the earlier conversations. Follow that accumulated direction to Moving Forward.

These are descriptions of the state we brought into the ending—not two new choices that appear after the phone call. A late reload cannot turn one relationship history into the other.

↺ Replay from: before Ian’s early replies to change the relationship direction