Chalkles

Chalkles is a chalk-drawn character in Baldi's Basics Plus and Demo Style of Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered.
== Description ==
Chalkles appears as a scribbled face drawn in chalk. The circular face is drawn with a "mustache", two buck teeth, a comb-over, a button nose, glasses, and two eyes. The left eye is bigger than the right.
== Personality ==
Chalkles' description from the Principal's office suggests that he loves causing mischief around the Super Schoolhouse.
== Artificial intelligence ==
=== Main gameplay ===
ChalklesAppearing.png|Chalkles in a classroom.
ChalklesFacultyRoom.png|Chalkles in a faculty room.
ChalklesInRoom.png|Chalkles floating around.
Upon entering the classroom or the faculty room, Chalkles will appear on an empty chalkboard in one of the classrooms or rarely in faculty rooms, slowly becoming solid as the player stays in the room. The player has 20 seconds to leave the room before Chalkles pops out. While the player is not in a room, Chalkles will cool down a fourth as quickly as he becomes solid (meaning that he will cool down for 80 seconds at maximum), but once they enter one of the rooms with him, he will start to become solid based on time that the player leaves a room. After said time in the room when Chalkles becomes completely solid, he will pop out of the chalkboard and then rotate around the room while making a creepy laugh-like sound, attracting Baldi and Dr. Reflex to Chalkles' location and locking all doors for 15 seconds. Chalkles will force close all the open door(s) when he becomes solid.
Chalkles will stay active for at least 25 seconds. After 15 seconds, he ascends to the ceiling, distorting and clipping through. At that time, the player will now be able to open the door. He will finally leave after 10 seconds.
=== Other appearances ===
* In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, Chalkles is one of the three characters who exclusively appears in Demo Style, along with Beans and Cloudy Copter. He only spawns in classrooms.
* In Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo, prior to V0.4 Pre-release, Chalkles would only spawn in classrooms, and if Chalkles was close enough to an elevator, he could trigger it to close.
== Tips & Tricks ==
=== Neutral ===
* The player can escape the room when Chalkles become solid, by:
** Using the Principal's Keys to unlock the door(s).
** Getting sent to detention by Principal of the Thing.
** Using the Dangerous Teleporter item to teleport out of the room.
** Being teleported by Arts and Crafters.
** Going out of the room or heading into a whirlpool during the flood event.
** Using the Portal Poster to go through the walls.
** Getting off the room after school faculty members, such as Dr. Reflex or Mrs. Pomp, open the locked door when they enter or exit the room.
*** However, if Principal of the Thing tries to enter the faculty room with Chalkles, the player will be scolded and sent to detention by the Principal. This can be prevented by using the Faculty Nametag or hiding in the Dirty Chalk Eraser's dust cloud, only when the sound of the Principal knocking on the door is heard.
* If the player wears the Faculty Nametag, Chalkles will disappear. Even if the item's effect expires, he will not spawn until they enter the room without the Nametag. However, when using this item after Chalkles spawns, the player cannot open any door right away and they have to wait for 15 seconds, in case the item is used right after he spawns.
=== Disadvantages ===
* Before reaching Mrs. Pomp's classroom in time, allowing Chalkles to spawn can be time consuming.
* Along with It's a Bully, Beans' bubble gum and using the BSODA to try slowing down or pushing Chalkles will not work.
* He is the only character not to be squished by Dr. Reflex's hammer.
* The player has to get out of the room quickly when Chalkles is about to be completely solid, especially there are no useful items to escape from this room.
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Chalkles's design was originated from a drawing image by mystman12 and his sister in PictoChat. The image was combined with random images and the centered part resembles a creepy face, giving mystman12 an idea to turn it into a Baldi's Basics character."Chalkles' design actually comes from this time where I was using PictoChat with my sister several years ago. We combined a whole bunch of random images we had drawn and somehow it formed a creepy face in the middle, which I took a picture of and kept on hand to possibly use in Baldi's Basics. Glad I ended up coming up with a character idea for it!" - mystman12. February 19, 2023. Instagram
** This image was later featured on one of the chalkboards in Full Game Early Demo, presumably as a teaser for his incoming appearance. Chalkles later made his first physical debut in Kickstarter Exclusive Demo but has a redesigned sprite.
* Although the Principal's Office description refers Chalkles as an "it", mystman12 confirms Chalkles as male."Thanks for the kind words! Chalkles locks the doors to whatever room he spawns in and also gets Baldi's attention, so if you linger in a room with him too long, you might be in trouble!" - mystman12's Kickstarter comment
** However, the Baldi's Basics Plus V0.4 changelog also refers Chalkles as an "it".
* Chalkles' name is likely a pun by the two words "chalk" and "chuckles" mixed together, hence his appearance and laughter.
* mystman12 did not remember what software he used to create Chalkles' sound effects, but seems to recall using some unknown music software as well."I don't remember exactly what tools I used to create Chalkles sound effects, but I think it was also using some sort of music software." - Gmail
* Chalkles is currently the only character to not have any benefits in any way for helping the player against Baldi, as his primary function is to lure Baldi towards the classroom where the player is contained in.
=== Baldi's Basics Plus ===
* Chalkles is one of the five characters that can attract Baldi, with the other four being 1st Prize, Arts and Crafters, Principal of the Thing, and Mrs. Pomp.
* The audio files of Chalkles have same prefix () as the chalkboards' file name, except that it is capitalized.
* The way Chalkles spins extremely rapidly and distorts through the ceiling is similar to the way Arts and Crafters does when he is about to teleport the player to a random location.
* He is the smallest character in the game.
* This is the only character to only appear inside the rooms but not around the hallways.
* So far, It's a Bully, The Test and Chalkles are the only characters not to visit the party event.
* Prior to V0.4, Chalkles spawned only in classrooms and he would immediately cool down after the player exited a classroom.
* In V0.4, Chalkles did not spin rapidly as he traveled through the ceiling.
* Prior to V0.5.1, Chalkles did not force close all the door(s) when he became solid.
* Using mods, the player can find that Chalkles puts swinging door locks that only last 15 seconds on all swinging doors in/to the classroom too. NPCs cannot unlock them.
=== Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered ===
* In Demo Style, Chalkles can spawn on the wall connected to the entrance of Baldi's Basement. In that case, Portal Poster cannot be used on this wall, so the player has to restart the game to make Chalkles spawning elsewhere.
== Glitches ==
=== Baldi's Basics Plus ===
* Prior to V0.1.4, there was no fade-in effect when Chalkles is trying to pop out from the chalkboard, though there was in Kickstarter Exclusive Demo.
* In V0.1.5, Chalkles' sprite on the chalkboard could only be seen if the player was on any sides of the chalkboard due to a rendering error. It could also seem cropped when the player was on almost front by the sides.
* Prior to V0.4, if the player went into a room from another room, Chalkles would not spawn in the room the player went into.
* From V0.4 to V0.5.2, Chalkle's audio would sometimes cut out due to it being propagated.
== Audio ==
Audio 	Caption 	Description
File:Chk_Spawn.wav	*WARBLING* 	The sound when Chalkles is about to spawn.
File:Chk_Laugh.wav	*ANNOYING LAUGHTER*	Chalkles' laughter.
== Gallery ==
<tabber>Image files=
ChalkFace.png|Chalkles' face sprite.
pri_chalk.png|Chalkles' poster in the Principal's office.
pri_chalk Plus V0.3.4.png|Ditto, but prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.3.5.
chk_name.png|Chalkes' old appearance in Full Game Early Demo.
|-|Merchandise=
=== T-shirts ===
Sweepin' Time Classic Tee.jpg|Chalkles in the "Sweepin' Time" classic T-shirt.
Sweepin' Time Premium Tee.jpg|Ditto, but premium version.
=== Hoodies ===
Sweepin' Time Pullover Hoodie.jpg|Chalkles in the "Sweepin' Time" pullover hoodie.
|-|Screenshots=
Alphascreen12-193.png|Chalkles from the Baldi's Basics Plus alpha screenshot.
BBP10.jpg|Chalkles from Baldi's Basics Plus early access screenshot.
|-|Others=
Chalkles origin.jpeg|Chalkles' origin from PictoChat.
</tabber>
== References ==
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