The Snow Queen

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**This Abnormality is Capable of Instadeath**

**This Abnormality is Capable of Employee Alteration**

**This Abnormality can Benefit the Facility**

## Probabilities

> *"The snow is steadily melting... Perhaps because spring is coming, or it might be the palace collapsing."*
> - The Snow Queen
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**The** **Snow Queen (F-01-37)** is a humanoid Abnormality, taking the appearance of a woman whose skin appears to be frozen, with a disembodied head and no neck. A long, ornamented crown of blue and white plates, with a snowflake pattern adorning the center, along with a pair of black antlers. She is wearing a long white robe with a dark dress. She has large icicle shoulder pads, resembling snowflakes. Her gray hands are holding an upside down sword with a light blue blade, with a gray handle and blue gem.

It is constantly snowing in her containment room, with the floor enveloped in white mist. There is a sound of cold wind in a snowstorm.

## Ability

The ability of The Snow Queen might trigger when getting a  Normal result or very likely to happen when getting a  Bad result. When the condition is met, The Snow Queen will hit the ground with the tip of her sword, throwing a piece of ice to the employee's torso. The glass shard will disappear at the end of the day.

If an employee with an ice shard triggers her ability again, she will freeze the employee in a block of ice, putting them 'Out of Control'. The next work will be a duel against The Snow Queen and the employee assigned to work with her will be the duelist. The Duel's success is dependent on the agents Fortitude level. With high levels of  Fortitude, they will have higher chances of winning (level 1 = 10%; level 2 = 30%; level 3 = 50%; level 4 = 80%; level 5 = 100%). When the employee enters the containment room, the combat will start. After some time, the duel will end with a sword being taken off by the other. Depending on who the winner is, a celebration theme or dark music plays and one of the following will occur:

* If the Employee wins: The rescuer and the frozen employee are released, going out of the containment room without any other troubles. Both employees will get a frozen mark near their face, neck and body, which will increase their  Fortitude/ Max HP and  Prudence/ Max SP by 6 points (Acts as an E.G.O. Gift in the Cheek slot. Can be replaced by other Cheek slot E.G.O. Gift if is not locked).
* If The Snow Queen wins: Both the rescuer and frozen employee are killed by her.

If the day ends without rescuing the frozen employee, they will die.

An employee wearing the EGO Suit from The Firebird will instantly be killed upon entering The Snow Queen's containment unit.

## Origin

It is assumed that the story follows the same or similar events from the original tale: The Snow Queen.

The story starts with Kai and Gerda. When a fairy broke a magic mirror, causing the pieces of the mirror to be scattered into everyone's hearts, Kai saw things that he didn't need or want to see. He then left the village he stayed in his entire life. During a blizzard, he met the Snow Queen. From him wanting to know the world, more than what he already knew, he was led to her Snow Palace, where she froze his heart so he wouldn't feel the cold.

Gerda, the girl who hadn't gotten a shard of the mirror in her heart, went after Kai to rescue him from the Snow Queen. After suffering through an "agonizing" journey, she reached the palace and rescued Kai. The warmth from the season shifting to Spring started melting the palace. The mirror shard in Kai's heart was melted by the heat as well. They left where the palace once was, leaving The Snow Queen all alone.

Later on, A tried to 'revive' her in the form of Angela, but the desired result of a machine that perfectly replicated her was not achieved. Despite how he detests the machine, he now needs it, only later realizing that his attempt to revive Carmen was a mistake.

## Details

The Snow Queen responds to the four works in order of best to worst:  Insight,  Attachment,  Instinct, and  Repression.

Like all Abnormalities, her energy output is determined by the number of PE Boxes (Positive Enkephalin boxes) at the end of the interaction.

The Snow Queen's emotional state is divided into 3 sections:  Bad,  Normal, and  Good. Completing 0-7 E Boxes will cause her to feel  Distressed, completing 8-13 will cause her to feel  Normal, and 14-18 will make her  Happy. Her usual cooldown timer after a task is around 10 seconds.

### Unlockable Information/Upgrades

**Basic Information** (Cost:  16 PE Boxes)

Unlocks and shows the name of the Abnormality, subject classification, Risk Level ( HE), portrait, Damage Type ( **W**hite 4 - 5), the amount of  E-Boxes (18), and her emotional states.

**Instinct/Insight/Attachment/Repression Work Favor** (Cost:  5 PE Boxes)

Unlocks the percentage level list to the respective work.

**Managerial Works 1/2/3/4/5** (Cost:  4 PE Boxes)

* "Managerial Tips 1"
	+ "When the work result was Normal, the employee was kissed by The Snow Queen with a normal probability."
* "Managerial Tips 2"
	+ "When the work result was Bad, the employee was kissed by The Snow Queen with a high probability."
* "Managerial Tips 3"
	+ "The employee who received The Snow Queen’s second kiss forgot everything and was trapped inside the Containment Unit."
* "Managerial Tips 4"
	+ "To avoid The Snow Queen’s deadly third kiss, and to rescue the trapped employee, a duel with The Snow Queen must be commenced."
* "Managerial Tips 5"
	+ "Only those with a high Fortitude will be able to rescue the employee. Let’s make sure to rescue them before the day is over."

**Escape Information** (Cost:  16 PE Boxes)

Information if the Abnormality can escape or not. "Non Escaped Object"

### Observation Level

**Level 1** (1 Section unlocked):  Success Rate +4%

**Level 2** (2 Sections unlocked):  Speed Rate +4

**Level 3** (3 Sections unlocked):  Success Rate +4%

Unlocks the E.G.O. **Suit** 'Frost Splinter'.

**Level 4** (All details unlocked):  Speed Rate +4

Unlocks the E.G.O. **Weapon** 'Frost Splinter'.

Its E.G.O. **Gift** is only obtainable by winning a duel against the Abnormality.

### E.G.O. Equipment

* Weapon
* Suit
* Gift

**E.G.O. Weapon Frost Splinter**

 **Requirements:** None

The edge of the spear is both straight and icy. Anyone damaged by it will lose themselves for a moment. As the equipment was forged from snow, it shall disappear without a trace someday.
Someday, when the weather warms enough to melt the snow, it may thaw the heart as well; if you truly believe so."

**E.G.O. Suit Frost Splinter**

As the cloak is forged from snow, it shall disappear without a trace someday.
Once the weather warms enough to melt the snow, it may thaw the heart as well; if you truly believe so."

**E.G.O. Gift Frost Splinter**

 **Effects**:  HP +6,  SP +6The roses blossom and the Snow Palace falls. Not a single soul remembered the woman sleeping there.

**Observation Level:** X

## Story

* "A queen lives alone in the frosty winter forest."

* "Like how every story starts, Kai was a child with a kind heart. When the shards of a mirror made by an evil fairy were scattered on everyone's heart, Kai began to see things he didn't want to see, or need to see.
* He left the small village he grew up in. In an unforgiving blizzard, Kai met the Snow Queen. He became curious of the world beyond his knowledge. He felt as though everything he knew amounted to so little."
* "The Snow Palace he reached was so cold, but the Snow Queen's kiss froze his heart, and he couldn't feel the cold anymore. There was no joy in the palace, only the long winter night. Gerda was strong enough to remain unpierced by the mirror, and brave enough to go on a journey to rescue Kai. So she set off towards the Snow Palace.
* The journey was agonizing. Gerda was hurt and pained, sometimes she cried. However, eventually, Gerda met Kai. Spring arrived with blossoming roses. Its warmth melted the Snow Queen's palace, and the piece of mirror in Kai's heart evaporated without a trace. Then, left all alone, the Snow Queen... (Omitted)"

* "*I remember the day we put her in the cryo-coffin with our own hands. At some point, her joyous laughter was gone. She just cycled through laughing and crying, and eventually she was found in a bathtub soaked in red with her wrists cut.*
* *We did not believe in death. I will have her reconstructed from the "machines" I have detested for my entire life, but have become the only answer. She would have been disgusted by me for this, dying in that bathtub. However, we were too far down the road filled with remorse and regret to feel any sort of guilt.
……
One day, "it" spoke to me.
'I remember you. You were a kindhearted person.'
The moment I heard it, I was seized by the urge to destroy what I had created with my own hands.*"

## Flavour Text

* "The Snow Queen’s Containment Unit is storming with a frosty blizzard."
* "The Snow Queen’s Containment Unit glims with ice and frost."
* "Kai would have been gifted with the world if he had failed to complete the sculpture of “eternity” with splinters of ice."
* "The Snow Queen’s palace is cold and lonesome. <name> wants to leave this place as soon as they can."

#### About to duel with The Snow Queen

* "As long as Kai is trapped in the Snow Palace, Gerda will eventually have to engage in the inevitable duel with The Snow Queen."

#### Dueling with The Snow Queen

* "Gerda was brave and stronger than anyone else, she’ll fight for Kai, who’s trapped in the Snow Palace."

#### Winning the duel

* "Spring arrived with blossoming roses. Gerda and Kai held hands, and they walked home."

#### Losing the duel

* "Gerda and Kai couldn’t defeat The Snow Queen. They became shards of ice in her hands and shall never leave the Snow Palace."

## Trivia

* This Abnormality is based off of "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Anderson
* The Agent who will challenge The Snow Queen will always wield a sword instead of their usual equipment to fight her.
* Her appearance was changed in June, before the official release. She previously took the appearance of a pale woman with long, light blue to mint colored hair wearing a long blue dress, a tiara, icicles for shoulder coverings, and a short blue shirt.

## Bugs

* If an employee has the E.G.O. gift "Those who know the Cruelty of Winter and the Aroma of Roses" and has it hidden, they will still die at the end of the day if they're saved via a duel.
* The first duel will work normally. However on the second duel after this the trapped employee will be freed immediately and the fighting sounds will persist after the work. Afterwards the next employee you send to work will attempt to initiate a duel even when there is nobody trapped in ice and will become stuck as soon as they enter the room.
	+ This bug is actually triggered during the first duel even though it seems to be perfectly fine.
	+ The way to avoid this bug is to keep the game speed at max while the ending animations are playing. *(this was verified on a modified version of the game so it would be appreciated if someone else would verify that this actually stops the bug from happening) -Steam player here with no mods so far because i'm too lazy to download them; keeping it on max game speed does appear to fix the soft-lock bug*

## Gallery

Snow Queen's containment roomGlass Shard on an employeeIce Prison with an employeeThe employee who will fight The Snow QueenThe cell where Snow Queen and an agent will fightWhen the employee winsThe Snow Queen Details unlockedThe Snow Queen's New ArtworkThe Snow Queen's Previous ArtworkAnother Previous Artwork

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