Interloper Mode

"Searching for guidance, are we?"
Warning! This page contains spoilers for hidden content. As such, it's best to avoid scrolling more than necessary to avoid said spoilers. The game also explicitly warns against searching for walkthroughs while Interloper Mode is active, but we're providing them anyway.
== Overview ==
Interloper Mode is a hidden difficulty in My Normal Obsession that's only accessed via deleting the "time.dll" or "intruder.png" files found in steamapps/common/My Normal Obsession/assets/42. If the game is open while any of the two files are deleted, the game will play a death whistle sound before closing. Once one or both files have been removed, restarting the game will bring the player to the main menu screen, except the background and title are completely gone, with the only options are "START" and "QUIT". The title screen's music is also replaced with a low droning sound, which is named in the files as "ctrlshiftesc.oga", referring to the shortcut needed to open Task Manager on Windows.
After proceeding to hit "START", there is only one difficulty setting, which has no title and is instead replaced with hyper-realistic blood a heavily pixelated image of a human eye. There are no options to load a save file, as Interloper Mode automatically creates one for the player. It's worth noting that closing the game will sometimes reload the player's save file in a random room (within the same area they originally saved at) and with a random team.
== The Interloper ==
The Interloper serves as a "puppeteer", assuming control over the player's computer and forcing them to play a bleak "early access" version of My Normal Obsession that uses enhanced horror elements while containing only one or two jumpscares. He takes on the form of a Wendigo with a brown duster coat and a CRT monitor for a head, which is mostly filled with static or a black screen with the eye PNG from earlier.
The Interloper is one of the only characters in My Normal Obsession that's aware of their existence within a video game, as well as specific data on the user's computer such as saves from other games (namely Cult of The Lamb, The Binding of Isaac, Metal Gear Rising, Postal 2, Postal Redux, Don't Starve Together, Lethal Company, Enter the Gungeon, etc.), the time on their computer, how long they've played MNO for, progress on their most played save file, and whether or not they own When the Sun Dies or Unnamed Dungeon Crawler. He has hundreds of lines of dialogue with a sarcastic "god complex"-oriented personality that was inspired by Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls. He has a knack for seeing the player distressed, simply because they deleted the only remnants of My Normal Obsession's beta (even though this is false). His goal is to make the player realize what they've done by deleting his work, and can sometimes be seen watching the player in several predetermined areas such as specific places in Karthot. When loading a save file, The Interloper has a base 13% chance to appear, exiting the player's current room/line of sight after the loading screen fades away.
== Achievements ==
* Faraday Cage - Play an older version of the game.
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