Starting Stats: 12 Life, 0 Cool
Choice 1
"Sure, A Time Machine. Now Go Away" (Cool -1)
"Forget The Time Machine!"
Choice 2
Challenge HARV On His Behaviour (Cool +1)
Let It Slide For Now
Choice 3
Hide The Car
No Time. Park Near Hole (Cool +1)
Drive Around Building (Cool -1)
Choice 4
Amplify Hearing (Cool -1)
Look For Heat Signatures (Cool +2) (Achievement Unlocked: Nice deduction)
Just Concentrate On What You Can See
Choice 5
HARV Hack Lab Robots
Search Floors One By One (Cool -1)
Search Elevator For Signatures (Cool +2)
Choice 6
Insist On Cloaking (To Choice 6.1)
Do Not Cloak (Life -2) (To Choice 7B)
Choice 6.1
Shoot Him Now (To Choice 7A)
Drop Cloak And Confront Him (Life -2) (To Choice 7B)
Choice 7A
Electric Charge (Cool +1)
Neurotoxin (Life -2)
Choice 7B
Electric Charge
Neurotoxin (Life -3)
Choice 8
Stun Her (Life -2)
Tackle Her (Life -3, Cool +1)
Reason With Her
Choice 9
Force Him To Lie (Life -3)
Try To Deceive Him (Cool +2)
Choice 10
Involve Police (Cool -1)
Leave Them Out For Now
Choice 11
Stun Them (Life -3, Cool -1)
Sneak In
Entertain Them (Cool +1) (Achievement Unlocked: Joker!)
Try To Get Them To Relate To You
Choice 12
Threaten With Gun (Skip Choice 13)
Shock Him
Reason With Him (Life -1)
Choice 13
Start Out Light
Jolt Him Good! (Cool -1)
Choice 14
"The Bionic Bikini Needs To Be Found!" (Cool -1) (Cool +1)
"She'll Go Away For A Looong Time" (Cool +1)
"Have You Met My Friend Colt-45000?" (Life -2)
Choice 15
Convince Her
Shock Her (Life -2)
Stealth Mode (Cool -1) (Life -2)
Rev-Up Suit (Life -3) (Life -2)
Choice 16
Tell Her The Truth
Make Up A Lie (Cool +2)
Choice 17
Use Randy As Bait (Cool -2)
Look For Romantic Partner
Visit Modelling Agency (Cool +2)
Choice 18
Get Carol
Disguise HARV (Cool -1)
Sneak In (Life -2)
Life +5
Choice 19
Convince Elevator (Life -2, Cool -1)
Tell HARV To Hack It
Choice 20
Prepare To Fire (Life -3) (To Choice 21A)
Pretend You’re Under Her Control (Cool +1) (To Choice 21B)
Play It Cool (Cool +1) (Life -3) (To Choice 21A)
Choice 21A
Gun (Life -4, Cool -1)
Knife (Life -5)
Play Possum (Cool +1) (To Choice 21.1A)
Talk To Her (Life -3)
Choice 21.1A
Knife (Life -4, Cool +2)
Gun (Life -4, Cool -1)
Act Like A Fan (To Choice 21.1B)
Choice 21B
Take The Shot (Life -4) (To Choice 21A)
Get In Closer (Cool +2) (To Choice 21.1B)
Choice 21.1B
Pull The Trigger Again (Life -3)
Charge Her (Life -1, Cool +2)
Turn To The Others
Choice 22
Electrify Suit (Life -3)
Stealth Mode (Cool +1, Life -3)
Choice 23
Stun Her With Gun (Life -3) (Cool +2)
Shock Her With Suit (Life -3)
Ask For Help From HARV (Cool +2)
Choice 24
Sexy Sprocket (Cool -1)
Helena Gevada
Choice 25
Send Message About Bionic Bikini (Cool -1)
Impersonate Electra
Choice 26
World News Now (Cool +1)
Reality Network (Cool -1)
Choice 27
Shoot Her With GUS
Pretend To Be A Fan (Life -2)
Pretend To Make A Deal (Cool +2)
Life -2
Choice 28
Taunt Her (Life -3)
Compliment Her
Shoot Something (Cool +3, Life -2)
Final Points:
Cool x 30
100 Points if Deaths = 0
Final Ranks: (No Bonus Received / Bonus Received)
Smokin’ mind, smokin’ bod! - 700+ (24 Cool / 20 Cool)
Expensive, but worth every credit! - 450+ (15 Cool / 12 Cool)
Old fashioned, but capable - 250+ (9 Cool / 5 Cool)
Electra could do better - 150+ (5 Cool / 2 Cool)
HARV’s dumb sidekick - <150 (4 or less Cool / 1 or less Cool)
Postscript Note: The only choices that don’t have an objectively correct option are Choice 8, Choice 21.1B, and Choice 28. If you take the “no stats change” option in each of these choices and follow the emboldened choices for all other choices, you finish with 12 Life & 24 Cool. While this is technically enough to get the top rank, the maximum score of 900 (or 1000, if you have the bonus) is only achieved by trading Life for Cool in each of these choices, as this nets you an extra 6 Cool at the cost of 6 Life
As always, however, I do encourage picking non-emboldened options for reading pleasure, as there’s a lot of cool stuff written in ‘worse’ choices. Whenever Zach manages to utterly screw everything up, HARV’s sarcastic nature makes for some pretty funny moments
Hope you found this useful,
Yolo
Achievements Note: This story only has two achievements: Nice deduction & Joker!. Normally when I scout for achievements, I use existing information (either a walkthrough, like on this site or Text Game Guides, or personal notes from before I last reset all my progress, because I'm a nerd who keeps notes when they get achievements) to see where the known achievement locations are so I can skip over those choices. However, I may have forgotten to do that for the Nice deduction achievement, so I can’t guarantee that Choice 4 is the only place you can get it. If someone else could check the rest of the book for this achievement, it'd take a good chunk of work off my hands, and I’d greatly appreciate it. If you’ve done this (and you’re 100% sure you don’t already have the achievement), please just leave a comment, and I’ll make sure that’s reflected in the above. Cheers