Things Gum Heads can steal from you

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Things Gum Heads can steal from you

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Earlier today, one of them pilfered a holy candle from my inventory and began wielding it. To quote Henry, "what the hell?"

In the past I've had a steel pipe and a golf club stolen from me. Strangely, as I returned to the 1B floor of Building World (second time around) I could find my stolen steel pipe on the floor right next to the hole. I haven't tried if this always happens...

So, have you had similar experiences? Is it normal for those things to steal even items like holy candles (which I would imagine are awkward to bash someone's head with)?
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Post by crucifix »

i thought they could only steal items if you were holding them. not in the inventory, but actually in henry's hands.
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Post by lumpo »

Yea this is surprising, then again, I've only had 1 thing stolen from me so I don't know. I'm just that cool :wink:
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Post by Enika »

I never even knew they could steal stuff from you O_O Guess I somehow avoided it / I was playing on Easy. I'm doing another playthrough now, though, I'm gonna have to experiment a bit.
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Post by cascade88 »

Ditto, I never knew they could steal either. While it probably sucks when they do, I still want to see if I can get it to happen, just to see it for the lolz and whatnot.
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Post by Mis Krist. »

I've never had them steal anything from me because I either beat them all up so they don't get the chance or I don't bother with them.

Interesting that this happens, though.
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Post by angelofROOM302 »

Wow.
This is so interesting!! They actually stole a holy candle from you? Cool!
I'm going to try it and see if they steal anything from me!
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Post by GioGio »

Hey, that never happened to me.
I'm going to try and play again
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Post by lumpo »

You guys are jerks, I thought I was cool only getting 1 thing stolen from me :x .

Play on hard, that's what I did.
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Post by Akheon »

This run was on easy, just trying out various speedrun strategies.

I attempted to make him steal from me earlier today, and again, I lost a holy candle. On a later attempt he stole a broken golf club and used it in a perfectly viable manner. (when I re-picked it up after having defeated him, it was as useless as before... go figure.) Just now, he also took a bug spray, what's up with that? Fortunately he didn't know how to spray with it.

Edit: more items he could steal: paper-cutter and stun gun. They all do the same amount of damage to Henry, apparently. I also encountered a neat glitch: I killed the gum head on stairs, and as he glitch died (sort of skipped straight down the stairs), my stolen item was left floating in air. A cool thing in this all was that Henry automatically either crouched down to examine it or didn't depending on what angle/height I tried to pick it up.

Some items that never got stolen: handguns, sword of obedience, axe, saint medallions, health drinks...
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Post by Dutchman »

I was unaware that they could steal items from you. That's really interesting and awesome! I think I'll have to try it when I'm playing SH4 again...
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Post by rm2kking »

crucifix wrote:i thought they could only steal items if you were holding them. not in the inventory, but actually in henry's hands.
No they steal crap from my inventory too. I hate the bastards.
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Post by Mephisto »

Yeah it's true, they can steal your items.
They stole from me: Steel Pipe, Golf Clubs (both broken and normal), and I believe a Health Drink. Nothing else :P
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Post by carneeval »

They stole a golf club from me...But if you kill the one that is holding one previously and click on it you can take that one :3
So I replaced my golf club >D
I didn't know they could steal the steel pipe O.o
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Post by SHF »

they can only steal the golf clubs
anything else is a glitch
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Post by Shannen the Manic »

I've heard of Gum Heads stealing your items but I just club them to death with my aluminium bat before they can do so. Although, I think I have had a golf club stolen before.
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Post by EileenGalvin »

I played several times and had a lot of stuff stolen. Got it back though after smashing their heads in though.
Golf Clubs, Aluminum Bat, Steel Pipe. I am not sure, but I think one even stole a Holy Candle one time? I don't know.

Makes me wonder if they can steal Henry's gun and shoot him down oO
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Post by lumpo »

Most likely can, if they can steal a health drink and a holy candle, they should be able to snag a fire arm.
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The question is though: can they USE it?
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EileenGalvin wrote:The question is though: can they USE it?
I know they can swing at you when they are already carrying a weapon...
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