Silver Watchman

> *"I feel I have to express concern with how the Silver Watchman is treating the pupils that misbehave. It is important that he dissuades sinful desires and attempts at escape, but his violent way of doing so could probably encourage rebellious tendencies rather than prevent them!" - Report 3232325*
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The **Silver Watchman**, or Swordsman Silver as Royal calls him, is a transcendent and a boss character. His origins and motives are widely a mystery, but he is known to guard The Tower. He is speechless and stoic, dressed and acting almost like a ninja.

# Abilities

As with many transcendents, the Silver Watchman has purple prosthesis. He appears to have some sort of purple device on his head, though it is unclear exactly what it is. Whatever it is, his prosthesis allows him to travel at breakneck speeds and seemingly teleport short distances. He also carries a long, purple katana.

# Story

### Escaping the Tower

The Silver Watchman's origin and intent are quite mysterious. He never speaks during the entire game. Logs in The Tower indicate that he has been assigned there to guard and help watch over the Pupils. The Watchman attacks Robin three times while she infiltrates The Tower *(See: #Boss Fight)* but unlike other Agents, he does not heal himself to continue fighting, instead fleeing after being hurt.

### Looking for Samba

Robin eventually makes it to the top and into Agent Black's interrogation room, where she has Samba held hostage. As Robin and company storm the room, Black attempts to execute Robin with her handgun. Before she can pull the trigger, Silver Watchman blinks in and dashes into Robin, Samba, and Mina, knocking them out of the way and through a wall. It is unclear whether he was trying to attack Robin or save her.

### Lost

The result of his intervention in the interrogation room ends up with Mina and Samba knocked into an elevator shaft where they escape, while Robin and the Silver Swordsman himself end up falling down the elevator shaft into the Dark Cave below. This may have been an accident, as the Silver Watchman appears very uneasy about being in this place, which is very hazardous to those with Ivory blood. Robin and the Watchman are separated in the caves. When she chances upon him again, he is attacked by the Eyes in the cave. He teleports away.

Robin finds him again stunned in an abandoned Church. She leaves to turn the lights back on and finds him possessed by Eyes controlled by a Possessed Thunk. *(See: Possessed Thunk#Boss Fight)* It forces him to attack her. When Robin defeats it, the Watchman is left stunned on the floor. He reappears a short time later, trying catch up to Robin. He kneels in front of her and places his sword in the ground. Before anything else can happen, Royal appears and drops a giant rock on top of him, knocking him under the bridge he is standing on and trapping him under the water. Royal says he is there to save Robin and to prove his loyalty to her over the One Concern by eliminating a contemporary, as well as noting that the Watchman's prosthesis do not work in water. The Silver Watchman struggles before he sinks into the dark depths, never to be seen again.

# Boss Fight

*See also: Possessed Thunk*

Unlike most bosses, the Silver Watchman's three fight phases are split up at different points around the Tower, rather than fighting all three phases in a row.

### Phase 1

After picking up the key on floor 01B and backtracking to floor 02B or 03B, Robin encounters the Silver Watchman for the first time. She will have to defeat him to return to the west side of the Tower. He avoids all attacks as long as he is holding his sword. He has 2 attacks that can be parried with the Electric Wrench, one that is instant where he teleports behind you, and one with a delay. If the watchman starts his attack with a delay, then teleports, he will instantly attack your back which can be parried. If the watchman instantly teleports without a warning, and tries to attack you, his attack will have a small delay after the teleport, giving you more time to react and parry. Parrying either of these attacks will cause him to drop his sword and let Robin wrench or stomp him once. Once Robin has drained his health bar, he will teleport away and flee rather than healing himself or fighting further.

### Phase 2

On floor 6 of the east side of The Tower, Robin meets the Silver Watchman for the second time. In addition to their attacks from the first phase, the watchman can stab the floor to create shock waves, and Robin has her gun. He is vulnerable to Roller Bomb Shots that hit his back. After defeating him, Robin can pick up the Tower Cell Key.

### Phase 3: 2 Hearts

While Robin, Mina, and Elro head towards the roof of The Tower in the west side elevator, it gets stuck between the 5th and 6th floors. The Silver Watchman attacks the elevator from above. Robin and company have to dodge his sword as he attacks through the ceiling by moving to the left, right, or ducking depending on if the Watchman attacks the left, right, or center of the elevator. All the while, she has to shoot up or swing her Galvanization Wrench through the roof to attack him back. After being defeated, he teleports away again.

### Strategy

To defeat phase 1, the player must patiently wait for him to attack and parry at every chance.

In the second phase, the player can lob Roller Bomb Shots at his back, damaging him outright without the need for parrying. This is done by either luring him to the small slope and having a bomb roll down the slope onto his back, or with frame perfect overhead shots that are able to explode on his back hitbox. The overhead lob shots are able to end the fight within a few seconds.

The elevator fight involves the Watchman stabbing the roof of the elevator to create an impact that damages the player. Move sideways or crouch to avoid these attacks and use the Watchman's downtime as a chance to attack him with your Stun-Gun.