Restorer

**Restorer** is a character appearing in the 2022 test build of *IMSCARED: A Pixelated Nightmare* and in the 2022 update of the game after the true ending has been obtained. She's a fan of the game who intends to recreate it and port it to consoles and phones.

## Appearance

The Restorer appears as a pale white humanoid wearing a black suit and pants. On the right side of her collar, she also wears a White Face pin. She has short black hair. Her style appears sort of cartoonish. She constantly has a big smile on her face, although her eyes, nose, and eyebrows disappear when she is trying to scare the player. She is about as tall as HER.

## Personality

Since she is a big fan of IMSCARED, she loves to change aspects of the game, such as going out of bounds, and creating new files on the user's device, similarly to White Face. Restorer also likes to scare the player every now and then. While she does like scaring the player, her intention is never to harm them. Essentially, she is just a friendlier version of White Face. If the player takes a few wrong turns when following Restorer through the Parking Lot, she will become slowly impatient until sliding in front of the player from behind the corner with her faceless grin.

## History

Within the IMSCARED 2022 Test Build, upon turning off all the lights in the Archive and entering the room with the pipes, White Face seemingly speaks to the player, proclaiming that it has missed them, and offers to play a game. Here, the player is prompted to say the speaker's name:

* Entering "White Face" will cause an imitation of its laughter to play, followed up by the Restorer's laughter.
* Entering "Restorer" will result in her own laughter to play.

Regardless of the two name choices picked, the Restorer will then appear in front of the player, asking them to return back to playing through the Test Build.

Back in the Steam Version of the game, upon deleting White Face's heart and returning back to the Street, a new text file will appear in the game's folder with the following text:

**Have you met me? Prove it!**

**If you don't know what I'm talking about, search for me in here:** https://mymadnessworks.itch.io/imscared2022test

After meeting the Restorer in the test build, the player is given a "drift" file, which will cause the Restorer to appear in the distance on the left side of the Street. Using the drift file to clip out of bounds, the player may approach Restorer, where upon getting close enough, she will suddenly turn around and scare the player with a faceless grin, before reverting back to her friendly smile. She will then prompt the player to press the Escape key and read "shore.txt", greeting the player and telling them that it has been a long time since White Face's death in 2016, and properly introducing herself as a fan of IMSCARED and how she intends to breach the canon by digging through the game's files and code - she then informs the player to communicate with her via the pause menu.

Upon returning back to the game window, Restorer will begin talking to the player using the pause menu's text, as she talks to them about the potential of IMSCARED's unseen future. Restorer will then lead the player to the Car Park, where she gives the player directions when following her. If the player takes various wrong turns, Restorer will become impatient with them and appear in front of them with a faceless grin.

Regardless, the player will be lead to Restorer's archive. Here, Restorer will ask the player if they've wanted to scare or be scared - Restorer's dialogue here will change depending on choice:

* To scare - "**Great! I knew it! You've earned this beauty.**"
* To be scared - "**Oh.** **Such a shame. Thought I had found an ally! Bah, no matter. I don't mind some company."**

Regardless of the player's choice, Restorer will give them a new file that is necessary for accessing a backstage area when the time comes. Restorer will then explain her three-phase plan to the player:

1. Develop a perfect copy of IMSCARED, with the potential of porting the game to consoles and smartphones and bringing more popularity to the game.
2. The attraction: with the aid of the player, Restorer will populate IMSCARED with new players, educating them about the game's secrets and the history of the curse that once was. Restorer proclaims that becoming the game's tour guide was her original idea for breaching the story's canon.
3. Currently, there is no information on phase 3, but Restorer suggests that the player should visit her every time the game gets an update on Steam.

Before Restorer departs, she tells the player that there is a way to turn an entity into data, and that she has found the solution, proclaiming that she will give players the sequel that they have waited for. She then bids the player goodbye, then enters the Well, disappearing.

The Restorer will likely return in the future when the game receives a major update.

## Trivia

* Restorer’s Pin: revealed in the first digital art of Restorer there is that Ivan shared during an interview, restorer has a pin of White Face, which just goes to show how much of an IMSCARED fan she is.
* Restorer’s TikTok Account: while not commonly known, a TikTok account for restorer was found shortly after an interview that Ivan Zanotti had with the YouTuber Random-1NC on Discord, he mentioned, upon being asked “Do you have any hints or clues about what’s next for IMSCARED other than the Ports, in as vague a way to not spoil anything or even as a riddle people can ponder over while they wait?” That he responded to with, “🤔 I think you should all start searching for a specific TikTok account” which was then found a few hours later by Awful Twine on the IMSCARED Discord server, the TikTok being an account “made by restorer” a bit before the 2022 update was announced, as of writing she only has 4 videos up there, all related to IMSCARED, the name of the account is “restorer26” it is currently unknown if the 26 means anything.
* Faceless Restorer: hidden outside the Labyrinth, across from the mirror, a strange faceless Restorer can be found, interacting with her reveals she acts exactly the same as the statues in the hedge maze, however if you access the map through Loneliness and White.ini, then interacting with her turns your screen fully black, due to the lack of Fog in Loneliness. It is unknown what purpose she serves we do know however, she is intended to be there, as Ivan has confirmed she was intentionally added. Linked with the texture used for this hidden Restorer is another unused Restorer texture that seems to be a WIP version of her eyeless alternative look, it is notably less clean and with a visible shirt collar (much like her test build appearance), it’s unknown if there’s a way to see this texture in-game. This version of her can also be found in the proper Loneliness version of the labyrinth too, however instead of outside the maze, she is inside of it, and cannot be interacted with.

## Gallery

Restorer's idle sprite.Restorer's faceless sprite.Ditto, but with her right hand by her side.Restorer telling the player to press the Escape key.Ditto, but without text.The faceless Restorer sprite seen out of bounds in the Labyrinth Maze.Ditto, seen in game.Screenshot of Restorer's TikTok account.