Something Truly Evil

[FOUND YOU]

> *"In the distance, the bell tolls and everything gets dark...*
>
>

> [YOUR
> DEMISE
> IS HERE]"
>
>

"**Something Truly Evil**" is the designation given to an entity whose real name is unknown, a special Enemy encounter in *World of Horror*.

## Description

Something Truly Evil is a bare humanoid figure with cracked and chapped skin, with facial features that are either obscured or missing altogether, except for a few small dots in about the place where a human's eyes would be. There are also small gashes on the right side of its neck and its left shoulder, with what might be small flakes of skin floating above the abrasions.

The creature is seen throughout various events, and is most commonly depicted in images such as polaroid pictures and paintings where its appearance is in reminiscent of a human woman with long black hair.

## Location

There is no fixed location where Something Truly Evil can be seen, and it can be encountered in any location. However, it will only be able engage in combat with the player once the attraction counter reaches 4 over the course of multiple events. The following events can trigger or increase the attraction indicator for the entity:

* Struggling Artist (Triggers STE counter)
* Mail Day (Triggers STE counter)
* Unfinished Painting
* Oddly Shaped Package
* Resting with Something Truly Evil attraction at 2 or above

## Combat Lines

### When choosing one of the new options

* *"[SOMETHING TRULY EVIL REQUIRES MORE]"*

### Attacking

* *"[SOMETHING TRULY EVIL WILL END YOU]!"*

## Guide

* Abandon your strength and sanity.
* Suffer for it.
* Cry for it.

You may only hope Something Truly Evil can be sated before you die for it.

## Effects

Once you have attracted Something Truly Evil, there will be notable changes in the game both prior to and during combat:

* From the indicator value of 3 and onwards, whenever the player investigates an area, the player character's walking sprite in the transition screen will be replaced with a sprite depicting Something Truly Evil.
* During battle, the calendar features the words [FOUND YOU] instead of the year. This is sometimes present with any or all names of items in the player's inventory.
* Taking a look at your items or spells in a fight against it will feature an image of Something Truly Evil's decapitated head staring at you instead of the correct item image.
* Some interference icons in combat will feature Something Truly Evil's face, both in actions exclusive to the battle or otherwise.
* Visual "Glitches" will randomly appear across the game screen while in combat with Something Truly Evil.

Something Truly Evil's travel spriteSomething Truly Evil's item image
## Trivia

* Something Truly Evil can receive throwing damage and magical damage.
	+ However, managing to 'kill' Something Truly Evil by reducing its Health to 0 will not reset its attraction to the player.
* The Achievement for defeating Something Truly Evil and the attraction indicator was implemented before the encounter.

## Gallery

Something Truly Evil in Unfinished PaintingSomething Truly Evil in Oddly Shaped PackageSomething Truly Evil in Struggling ArtistSomething Truly Evil in Mail DaySomething Truly Evil's Attraction Counter set at 1?from the developer's twitter (Nov. 2022)Something Truly Evil in the REST screen when the counter is at 2 or higher
## History

* 0.9.11shf:
	+ Something Truly Evil will now stop pursuing the player once the encounter is complete.
	+ The "Fire" action no longer appears in the battle against Something Truly Evil when the player has a gun equipped.

## See Also

* Guide: Something Truly Evil - Full guide in defeating Something Truly Evil.

* 0.9.11s: Introduced.