> > > From looking around these boards, it seems like a certain very sharp object is needed to break into the school in the past. However, I just busted (and thus lost) that item at the vending machine before trying to use it to get in the school! Is this an actual glitch, or am I just overlooking something?
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> > If you've finished the job for the physics teachers, you won't need that item anymore. You can't get into the school in the past at all, but you can open something that you can't open in the present. I don't think it matters in the end whether or not you open that thing in the past.
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> But that's just it - I HAVEN'T gotten what the physics teachers want yet. At least, I don't THINK I have . . .
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> Maybe I'm just distressed because I think I've ruined my shot at the secret area this playthrough, but I just can't seem to figure out where that item those teachers want is. If I'd found it by now, I probably wouldn't be so worried.
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> cd"my brain aches"adams

Inventory? You might have what the teachers want but not yet have given it to them.