Scratchers

* The Secret in the Forest
* The Secret in the Forest - Part 1

> He keeps scratching his belly, stating amid screams that his skin is itching from the inside.
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> Warning about Patient 71
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The **Scratchers** are a kind of Death creature that could appear on several occasions in The Secret in the Forest as a recurring monster.

Its first appearance was as an "**Electric Scratcher**", a variation of the creature with the complement of Energy and Blood. The Electric Scratcher was one of the patients at the Pequena Carpa Sanatorium, a patient treated by Dr. Verruckt; and one of the first monsters confronted in The Secret in the Forest.

Despite being the original version, the common Aberrado did not appear in the adventure, only being revealed in The Secret in the Forest extra episode along with its Black Ooze's replica.

## Appearance

These creatures have a large, vaguely humanoid appearance, made of a gray, gooey mass with several protuberances that extend throughout their body. This mass consumes its entire body and leaves its immense, with the only recognizable things of a human body being the arms and legs, with the legs being putrid and the arms being stiff.

They are constantly trying to extend and open their own belly, which is open, with their organs exposed and several sharp teeth in the openings.

## Behavior

Little is known about the general of these creatures' behavior, what is known comes from the Electric Scratcher, records say that before taking this form, the patient gradually lost human form, and constantly screamed for help while complaining about an "itching inside".

After gaining the final form, the monster tries to open its belly more, and get close enough so that it can place the person's body inside itself, devouring it. This is only possible due to its immense size, which is in the range of seven feets.

## Skills

* **Gelatinous Body:** The Scratchers have a huge gelatinous skin that grants them resistance to physical blows, but which demonstrates a certain weakness to firearms, as it can be easily pierced by gunfire.

* **Gaping Mouth:** The creature has a huge mouth in its stomach with a row of long and pointed teeth, always opened by its strong arms, being its main form of attack, which it uses to devour its targets. That huge mouth that the creature uses as a weapon is also its greatest weakness, as it exposes most of its internal organs. It was this opening that Elizabeth Webber used to defeat the creature, burning its organs with a flare gun.

## Variations

### Electric Scratcher

The **Electric Scratcher** is a creature resulting from **Patient 71**, a patient at the Sanatorium who constantly underwent intense shock therapy, slowly acquiring a bestial appearance and behavior, and thus gaining electrical powers.

This creature has bluish skin, with small cyan rays coming out of its entire body; apart from that, the creature ends up being very similar to its original version.
It can manipulate and generate electricity around her, flashing lights and managing to turn on even electronic gates.It also has the ability to expel spit with electrical properties.

## Trivia

* This creature could appear in other campaigns because it is recurring like the Blood Zombies.
* Cellbit, in his special stream on the last day of the campaign in the catarse of Enigma of Fear, confirmed that the Electric Scratcher's elements are Blood and Energy, thus also revealing that its common version is Blood.
	+ After the release of the *graphic novel* of The Secret in the Forest - Part 1, Cellbit determined that the creature's main element is Death.
* The Electric Scratcher was even planned to be in the Paranormal Order Playbook, but because Cellbit didn't like the creature so much, it was replaced by another monster similar to Energy and Blood.
* In the *graphic novel* of The Secret in the Forest - Part 1, the Electric Scratcher had its *design* changed from the original.

## Gallery

Warning about Patient 71Procedure Record of Patient 71Conceptual Arts of Scratcher's *redesign*, by KaelMore Conceptual Arts of Scratcher's *redesign*, by Kael
## References

1. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h34m06s)
2. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h28m48s)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Warning about Patient 71 in The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h45m59s)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Twitch. Stream "VOLTEI DO MEXICO CELLBIT AWARDS AMANHÃ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" of Cellbit in December 6, 2023 (watch on Twitch at 1h05m50s)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 First appearance of the Electric Scratcher in The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h56m10s)
6. ↑ Its variations on The Secret in the Forest - Episode 17 (*watch on YouTube* at 19m39s)
7. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h59m54s)
8. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h59m03s)
9. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h15m20s)
10. ↑ Procedure Record of Patient 71 in The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 10m53s)
11. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h00m32s)
12. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h03m42s)
13. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 17 (*watch on YouTube* at 0h20m01s)
14. ↑ Twitch. Stream "Live conversando sobre Ordem Paranormal - ULTIMO DIA DA CAMPANHA DE ENIGMA DO MEDO" of Cellbit in December 16, 2020 (watch on Twitch at 2h56m32s)
15. ↑ Twitch. Stream "RIR = GIRAR A ROLETA // DIA 3 SUBATHON ILIMITADA / cada sub = +40s" of Cellbit in April 25, 2022 (watch on Twitch at 28h40m)
16. ↑ Twitch. Stream "I'M BACK FROM MEXICO CELLBIT AWARDS TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" of Cellbit in December 6, 2023 (watch on Twitch at 1h05m29s)