Guide: Something Truly Evil

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## Something Truly Evil

[I'VE FINALLY FOUND YOU]

> *In the distance, the bell tolls and everything gets dark...*
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> [YOUR
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> DEMISE
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> IS HERE]
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**Something Truly Evil** is a special Enemy encounter.

## Encounter Conditions

Something Truly Evil can be encountered by investigating locations after its attraction indicator reaches 4.

It must then be sated to conclude the encounter.

## Combat

Something Truly Evil disables the usage of offensive actions. In order to escape it, you must sate it.

You can sacrifice your Stamina or Reason 2 at a time through the "Suffer for me" and "Cry for me" actions. These will enable the actions "Bleed for me" and "Give up for me" which set your Stamina and Reason each to 3. You may give your life to Something Truly Evil by choosing "Die for me", but this is inadvisable as it will kill the player character.

Once Something Truly Evil is sated, an action will appear allowing you to escape. Doing so will end the encounter and unlock the Achievement.

## Strategies

### Attracting Something Truly Evil

#### OmenEnigma's Method

1. Investigate Apartments until you encounter Struggling Artist. Selecting "'w-what's that picture?..'" is guaranteed to attract Something Truly Evil. (Mail Day can also begin this process, but Struggling Artist is consistent.) Your attraction indicator should be at 1.
2. Continue investigating Apartments until you encounter Unfinished Painting and Mail Day. Your attraction indicator should be at 3.
3. Investigate Downtown until you encounter Oddly Shaped Package. Your attraction indicator should be at 4 - the minimum required to encounter Something Truly Evil.
4. Continue investigating locations until you encounter Something Truly Evil. Your attraction indicator may go above 4, this is okay.

#### Zen's Method

1. The Apartments have the most events that advance the attraction counter: Struggling Artist, Mail Day and Unfinished Painting. Downtown only has one, Oddly Shaped Package, which in turn only advances the counter when the counter is already at 1, and only randomly. Therefore, you should investigate the Apartments until you get two of the above three events, until your attraction counter is at 2.
2. Once the counter is at 2, go home and rest twice. Something Truly Evil now knows where you live! This will raise the attraction counter to 4, which is the minimum to trigger the encounter.
3. Continue to investigate the mystery that you are on, and you'll encounter Something Truly Evil randomly.

### Fighting Something Truly Evil

#### Ithotu Flame Method

* Due to either a bug or some coding problems, Something Truly Evil can be affected by offensive spells. The popular choice would be the Ithotu Flame, due to having high damage at the cost of 1 Reason and Stamina.
* Be warned that, upon using this method, it is very likely that the run will end quicker than it intends to do so, as using the spell will increase DOOM by 3%. Because of this, using this method is not recommended in the long run.
* In latest versions Something Truly Evil instantly restores its health once it drops below half, making this method useless.

#### New Version method

* Once you enter a fight, you must select "Suffer for Me" and "Cry for Me" twice each. That would unlock a new option in between both, called "Something Evil is Sated", which will end the encounter.
* As long as you're above 9 in each stat, you will survive the encounter.