Life Is Strange: Before The Storm doesn’t have a time reversal gimmick, however, it does present players with challenges that they must overcome without the use of superpowers. Chloe Price, the protagonist of the prequel, is a character known for her quick wit and creative solutions to stubbornly get what she (or those around her whom she cares for) wants. This game mechanic that makes players use the environment and characters around them in order to overcome a challenge makes sense for Chloe as the main playable character.
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In the second chapter of Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, “Brave New World,” Chloe is faced with a tricky challenge when she’s asked by her drug dealer, Frank, to break into the dormitories at Blackwell Academy in order to steal back some money one of the students hustling oxy owes in order to relieve Chloe of her debt to Frank. The dormitories are locked, meaning that she needs to distract Samuel, the janitor, in order to get the keys to slip inside.
Step 1: Locate The Keys
Getting the dormitory keys isn’t a tedious process, but it can be if players don’t know what they’re looking for. After trying to enter the locked dormitory, players need to head back to the utility shed where Samuel stands, tinkering with a fuse box. To the left of Samuel, on the round table right by the door, are the dormitory keys.
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Chloe will be unable to take them, as Samuel is standing right there, but she’ll acknowledge that she needs to distract him in order to swipe the keys.
Step 2: Break The Sprinkler
In order to lure Samuel away from the utility shed, players must break the sprinkler that Evan is crouched by as he tries to take a picture of a bird that he lured over with some piles of seeds sprinkled around the courtyard. As long as Evan is beside the sprinkler, players will be unable to break it. In order for Evan to move away from the sprinkler, Chloe needs to scare the bird he’s trying to photograph away four times.
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Each time Chloe scares the bird it’ll fly over to another nearby pile of birdseed, but if it’s scared four simultaneous times it’ll fly over to the totem further into the courtyard. Once Evan goes away to photograph the bird on the totem pole, Chloe can break the sprinkler.
Step 3: Take The Keys
Once the sprinkler is smashed, this will trigger a cutscene where the sprinkler is turned on and Samuel rushes out of the utility shed and over to fix the broken sprinkler. After he’s left the utility shed, Chloe can enter and take the keys to unlock the dormitory.
There will be an option for players to graffiti the white wall at the back of the utility shed now that Samuel is gone. Afterward, players should walk up to the once-locked door of the dormitory and unlock it in order to progress the story.
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