Ghoul (Timeless)

The Ghoul is an ennemy from Timeless fought during certain levels of Wild West, namely those which are taking place at night with fog. They are very tall zombies, usually wandering around mindlessly until they found a target which they will start chasing it with a higher speed. Sometimes, they are hidden underground, in small dirt piles, from which they will ambush players, grabbing and stalling them until shoved back manually
==Appearance and origins==
Dressed aristocrastically, they have classy suits with leather shoes, black plants, a shirt, a dark vest with small buttons, a bowtie/tie, with its clothing often weathered or bearing gun wounds as well as what remains of hairs or a mustache. Both its fingernails and hairs are long than those of other zombies, strangely.
Strangely, Ghouls often seems like they were stretched, reaching sometimes more than 1.5 times the size of a normal zombies, and this is seen too with his longer arms and legs.
Ghouls can also be hidden underground, where they will be shown by a small dirt mound that seem to have been freshly made. In this case, he will suddenly grab players with their hands when they pass by, latching onto them doing 5 damage and stunning their target for 7 seconds, where players have to mash a certain button to escape. If they manage to do it, the zombie will be stunned half-underground and take 250 damage, but if the player fails, the zombie will bite them, doing 35 damage and freeing the ensnared person
==Strategies==
Wandering around in the maps with graveyards, they are usually seen wandering with a slow speed, not getting boosted or particularly aggresive until they notice you. Use this at your advantage, and try to take them down from a safe distance ; it is here generally advised to use powerful but slow weapon, to avoid triggering them and risking any rushed attack. If they start trying to chase you, remember that they have approximatively the same speed as you, so outrunning them normally and turning back to gun this zombie down isn't possible. Instead, you can try to trigger them all, in order to have the whole graveyard chasing you. Then, proceed to run in a straight line, without stopping, and when their is a distance of a few meters between you and them, select some Dynamite, and look behind you to have more informations on the way they are grouped. If they are in a straight line, slow down a bit to make them stack up, and when this is done, select 2-4 sticks, ane while running, throw all of them behind you at the compact horde that should be following you. If executed correctly, this move should allow you to explode almost any of them with little efforts. On the other hand, their secondary ability that allows them to ambush players can be problematic too, especially since people running may not watch out for suspicioud dirt piles from which these emerge. The best thing you can do is first to scout the area for them ; once you see one, you can else tell other players about their position, which still leave them as enemies for the final wave, or you can use your Dynamite to strike the dirt pile, waking them up stunned a bit. Sonic Grenades can also be used, altough these aren't native to Wild West and thus may not always be avalaible. They can sometimes be summoned from gravestones during the ambush Midnight March, and in this case, you should shoot them before they can stand up
==Trivia==
*He was first supposed to be also featured in Steam Ages, but this was later scrapped, altough it may make a return in this zone too
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