Items

Item in the inventory

Items are things which can be picked up by the Cat in Stray.

There are two main types of item in the game: Carryable items, and Inventory items. There are also Manipulatable items (paint cans, flower pots, etc.), which cannot be put in inventory or picked up.

In addition there are also badges, which are arguably a type of item, but have their own pages.

Carryable Items

These are simple items which can be picked up in the Cat's mouth and carried around in that fashion. Nobody talks about them, they can't be investigated, so there is no ingame text about them.

Chapter	Description
2	Small Bucket
2	Electrical Box for AC vent
3	4 x Electrical Box for computer
4	Electrical Box for AC vent
10	Vinyl record
11	Keys (Jail)

Inventory Items

The more complex type are items which can be "digitized" by B-12. This removes the item from the environment and places it in an inventory listing which can be accessed by hitting the appropriate key. From there, each inventory item can be selected, examined and rotated, or shown to B-12 for his commentary on them.

All inventory items can also be shown to any of the Characters for whom the "Show Item" option is displayed. This will allow that character to comment on the item, generally giving a clue to what the quest target for that item is.

If they are the quest target, it will instead give the item to them. For example, showing a letter to most people will get advice on how to find the address on the envelope; bit showing it to the addressee will give it to them.

Items are also removed from the inventory when they are used on quest target items; for example, using a locked door will use up its key from the inventory, if you have it, causing the door to unlock.

Each item in the game has only a single quest target, so there is generally no need to worry about using items "accidentally". At the worst, if you accidentally show a quest item to its target, you will miss out on the dialog you would have got by showing the item to everyone else in the area first, and possibly move the main quest along faster than you intended.

Id	Ch	Name	B-12 description	Quest target
n/a	n/a	(unknown items)	"That's a weird object." or "What is that?"	n/a
🛈	3	Keys	A key! Now we can get out of here.	Exit door to B-12 flat
🛈	3	Postcard	The Outside. We will see the sky again, I promise!	Momo
🛈	4	Keys	Another key. We have to find what it opens now.	Safe in Library
🛈	4	Momo's Notebook 1/4	It's the notebook Momo gave us. It reads: (contents of book follow)	Momo
🛈	4	Clementine's Notebook 4/4	This one seems to belong to someone named Clementine. (contents of book follow)	Momo
🛈	4	Zbaltazar's Notebook 2/4	This one seems to belong to someone named Zbaltazar. (contents of book follow)	Momo
🛈	4	Doc's Notebook 3/4	This one seems to belong to someone named Doc. (contents of book follow)	Momo
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Safe's Mysterious Password	It's written "follows the numbers" but it looks like a binary language, a succession of 0 and 1s. We must be able to decipher this code in one way or another. It is probably related to this safe.	Elliot
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 1/8	This is "Petite valse". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 2/8	This one is called "Ballad of the Lonely Robot". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 3/8	"Untitled". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 4/8	That's "The way you compute tonight". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 5/8	That's "Tomorrows". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 6/8	That's "Cool down". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 7/8	That's "Mildly important information". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Sheet Music 8/8	That's "Unreadable sheet music". I would love to hear that played.	Morusque
🛈	4,6, end of 7	Energy Drink Speed 2K	I don't know why, but the robots in the Slums seem to use that as some kind of currency.	Azooz
🛈	4,6	Super Spirit Detergent	This Super Spirit bottle looks really valuable. We should be able to trade it with someone.	Azooz
🛈	4,6	Electric Cable	That’s the kind of cable that Grandma was looking for, isn’t it?	Grandma
🛈	4,6	Poncho	This looks really warm, perfect for a cold robot!	Elliot
🛈	5	Transceiver	We have to put it on the roof of the tallest building, let's go!	Antenna at the end of Chapter 5: Rooftops
🛈	6	Broken Tracker	This Tracker is meant to find a specific robot given the right coordinates. Unfortunately, it's broken. We should find a way to repair it.	Elliot
🛈	6	Fixed Tracker	That Tracker looks fixed to me! Let’s show it to Seamus.	Seamus
🛈	7	Fuse	That's a weird object. (lacks text, so it gives the default)	Socket in Chapter 7: Dead End
🛈	9	Purple Plant	Those flowers look pretty! There is probably a robot that would love them!	Malo
🛈	9	Red Plant	Those flowers look pretty! There is probably a robot that would love them!	Malo
🛈	9	Yellow Plant	Those flowers look pretty! There is probably a robot that would love them!	Malo
🛈	9,10	Clementine's Picture	This is a picture of Clementine and Zbaltazar. He told us to find her. She's an Outsider too. There's also a series of symbols written on the back of the pictures.	Clementine
🛈	10	Contact Message	So this guy wants to help Clementine? Let's find him. He is our only way to find the Atomic Battery! Remember he's the robot wearing a bomber jacket and a gold chain!	Blazer
🛈	10	Cassette Tape	It's a tape, the song is titled "My graphics card can't stop screaming". Given that name, it should play some loud music.	Ozi's ghettoblaster
🛈	10	Worker Hat	Unfortunately this helmet is too big for you.	Blazer
🛈	10	Jacket	That’s the jacket we stole in that shop!	Blazer
🛈	10	Worker Keys	It seems that someone lost their keys here.	Worker
🛈	10	Battery	We finally found the Atomic Battery! It looks really powerful doesn't it?	Midtown Subway station socket
🛈	10	Mysterious Message	"For B-12 and the cat: The answer lies in my stuff. Clementine" And then there's weird symbols. This coded message was left to us by Clementine.	Solve puzzle
🛈	10	Strange Drink	I wonder what is in this drink. It might be of interest to someone here.	Fripp
🛈	10	Lever Handle	This is the lever we can use to repair the hologram device.	Nightclub hologram
🛈	10	Subway key	This key look like it can start the subway car.	Subway train

Manipulatable (non-inventory) items

These items cannot be taken in the mouth, and they are not in the list of inventory items, but you can interact with some of them in the game.

• Paint Bucket: drop
• Boxes: hide inside, move
• Doors: scratch
• Levers: press
• Keyboards: press the keys
• Radios: change the song
• Backpack: put on or take off
• Books: read (B-12 Translations), move
• Flower pots: break, move
• Basketballs: move
• Cat toys: move
• Paper Bags: put on the head
• Bottles, cans, cigarette packs, glasses: move
• Lights in the Dead City: meow
• Cameras in the Dead City: meow
• Buttons in the Nightclub lamps control panel: press
• Vending Machines: scratch
• TV remote: press the buttons