Characters / Lethal Company

The Company

In General

The titular company the Player Characters work for. A massive MegaCorp specializing in the retrieval and commercial auctioning of antiques found in decrepit facilities set up on dangerous planets.

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• Bad Boss: The Company sends workers to dangerous places to collect scrap, issues little to no equipment to the workers and has them PAY for better equipment. They also prioritize the ship's integrity over the workers' lives and outright kill those who don't meet the quota by expelling them into deep space.
• Blatant Lies: Company materials lie to you frequently. In addition to the bit below about your "company issued phones":
  Company Briefing Clipboard: "While your lengthy contract period may be luxurious, it is not a vacation."
• No OSHA Compliance: Subverted. The actual company building is fairly safe and structurally sound, with actual railings on the ledges, but the ship and hazmat suits supplied to the workers are clearly unsafe.
  • The ship has no airlock (only a single hydraulic door keeping out the vacuum of space) and doesn't come by default with half the facilities you would logically need to lodge human workers full-time (such as a toilet and shower). The ship also lacks manual controls and the only method for workers with a malfunctioning autopilot to regain control of the ship is to call a service number with their "company provided cell phone" (which doesn't exist). Also, while it can't harm the player in-game, the equipment charging station is a very unsafe-looking, unshielded electrical coil.
  • The hazmat suits, meanwhile, are held together with leather straps, aren't watertight (you can drown in them), and actually contain hazardous radiological sources- a pair of them in the helmet are used to power the scanning device. A disclaimer on the tutorial clipboard in the ship states that the company is required to ''inform'' the workers about this latter hazard due to health regulations.
• Stupid Evil: When a team of workers fails to meet quota, they are summarily vented into space, along with all of the company equipment and scrap present in the ship.
• We Have Reserves: The Company treats their employees like disposable and easily replaceable Red Shirts.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Fail to meet the quota in the allotted days? Out into the vast darkness of space you go!

Workers

You're going to see this guy die a lot.

The Player Characters. Poor, hapless wage slaves who joined the Company in hopes of making ends meet, with little knowledge of the sheer horror they have just gotten themselves into.

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• Action Survivor: Company employees are scavengers, not fighters, meaning that surviving a day on a hostile moon means a lot more running, hiding and sneaking around than actually fighting the local wildlife. Any weapons they can equip themselves with are more incidental than standard issue, like shovels bought as a bludgeon rather than as an actual spade, valuable signposts which make for something handy to swing in an emergency, and double-barreled shotguns just as prized for their value as well as their killing power, provided there are shells to spare. Other weapons they can buy are flash grenades or zap guns, which stun enemies for a quick escape rather than killing them.
• All Webbed Up: Their fate if they are killed by Bunker Spiders - their corpses will be wrapped in webbing and guarded by the spiders, and cannot be picked up by their teammates. Only the Teleporter can bring them to the ship.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: If they're attacked and killed by a Masked, they'll turn into another Masked that will hunt down their former allies.
• Batman Gambit: A smart employee can lure vicious enemies onto landmines to save the rest of their team. Especially worth doing with Masked, getting rid of two potential threats for the price of one.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Actively helpful if you've been cornered by a Masked and have no way out - they have to kill you themselves to turn you into another Masked, and dying by other means (such as a pit, landmine, turret or other monster) denies them the chance.
• Blinded by the Light: Stun grenades will briefly incapacitate enemies, but it will also temporarily whiten the player's screen for a few seconds, so it's recommended you know where to run before triggering it.
• Bloodless Carnage: Downplayed. While they are shown to be bleeding when stepping on a landmine, their bodies surprisingly stays in one piece. Otherwise, any other damage inflicted by monsters will cause workers to bleed profusely before the final hit that can kill them.
• Bridal Carry: Workers carry teammates corpses this way.
• Butt-Monkey: Effectively slaves for a company that forces them into debt to even stay alive, and can die in all sorts of ways during their scrap-hauling missions for the sake of making quota. They can't catch a break.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Some of their potential demises are brutal and just border on Black Comedy. Getting their limbs and head removed near-instantaneously by Coil-Heads, being Eaten Alive by multiple species, getting their head blown up by the Ghost Girl...
• Death By Falling: There's plenty of deadly drops in most facilities, which are thankfully blocked off by guard rails - but jumping over them and/or across gaps is required to traverse some areas, with this being the result if you can see where to land or blow the timing.
• The Dog Bites Back: Organized or wily workers can use the few real weapons available, up to and including a Nutcracker's shotgun, to turn the tables on the monstrosities out for their blood.
• Doomed Protagonist: By virtue of the gameplay. Workers can avoid getting eaten, shot to death, falling down a bottomless pit, having their necks broken by ungodly abominations, or pissing off the Company Monster, but they will inevitably be saddled with a quota they can't meet, earning them a one-way ticket to the vacuum of space.
• Eaten Alive: Happens if they are caught by Eyeless Dogs, Thumpers, Forest Keepers, or Earth Leviathans. The latter two will actually consume the body whole, along with any items the worker had on them at the time. Their bodies can also be assimilated by Hygroderes, leaving only their items and clothing behind.
• Emote Command: Workers can emote with two actions: one silently points in the direction they’re facing, typically meant to communicate with co-workers whenever everyone needs to be quiet. The second command is simply a goofy little dance.
• Endearingly Dorky: Workers can use the dancing emote in the most unfitting situations.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: Can be the end result of a mission where all players die or else fail to return to a leaving ship in time, and the run ends this way if they fail to meet their quota in the allotted time.
• Featureless Protagonist: Anonymous workers with no defining or differentiating characteristics and identical hazmat suits.
• Forgot I Couldn't Swim: Workers that enter deep water sink to the bottom immediately, moving as they would on land with the caveat of drowning if they run out of oxygen.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: One of their main emotes, which can be useful for silent communication.
• Hazmat Suit: They all wear these. A couple of purchases for the ship can spruce their uniforms up from the standard orange suit for green and yellow radiation suits instead, with an extraordinarily expensive option being a baby blue hazmat suit with yellow dot decals that look like pajamas.
• High-Voltage Death: On Stormy moons, lightning strikes will kill them instantly. There's also a downplayed example with the Circuit Bees, whose electric stings are painful but not immediately lethal.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: This can happen if a shotgun's safety is off while it's being carried by another worker or even left on the ground.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Baboon Hawks can stab workers to death with their tusks.
• Interface Screw:
  • The screen flashes red whenever the player loses health, and dying causes the words "Life Support: Offline" to appear on the screen before their POV is switched to that of a still-living teammate.
  • Witnessing a teammate's death or finding a corpse will darken and blur the screen while an eerie ambiance starts playing, emulating a fight-or-flight response.
  • Activating a stun grenade briefly fills the screen with a bright white flash that temporarily blinds players and monsters alike for a few seconds.
  • The gimmick of the Snare Flea, who will wrap itself around a worker's face, blinding them and muffling any sounds they make or hear.
• Land Mine Goes "Click!": Happens when a worker steps on a landmine - stepping off causes them to detonate, invariably killing that worker. If someone on the ship is watching you, they can remotely deactivate the landmine, or even manually detonate it with an upgrade.
• Left for Dead: Anyone who’s not on the ship when it’s taking off will be left behind, counting as a death for gameplay purposes. Dead players can vote to have a ship leave early, and the ship automatically leaves once the in-game clock reaches midnight - live players can also fall off the ship if they're on the outer portions and not paying attention.
• Light 'em Up: Stun Grenades blind enemies and workers alike with a bright flash, which players can use to escape threats. The Radar Booster's "flash" function provides a slightly less effective version that can be used an infinite number of times as long as someone's on the terminal to activate it.
• The Many Deaths of You: And how. From being attacked and/or eaten by monsters and falling to their deaths, to being shot by turrets, walking on landmines, drowning, or falling into quicksand... all so they can make quota and not be Thrown Out the Airlock by the company.
• Mission Control: One of the most effective strategies is to have a worker stay at the ship with a walkie-talkie in hand and guide the scavenging group via the monitor. The monitor can temporarily deactivate turrets and landmines (or detonate them with upgrades), open and close hydraulic doors, message them to warn of nearby threats, activate the radar booster's flash to stun monsters, and use the Teleporter to save the rest of the crew from death (or more frequently recover the corpses).
• Multiple Gunshot Death: Workers in the trajectory of a Turret when it starts firing will be subjected to this.
• Never Found the Body: If a player dies by falling into quicksand or gets Eaten Alive by a Forest Keeper or Earth Leviathan, their body will become unrecoverable. This is hinted at by looking at the monitor: as long as you see the blue dot representing the player, the body can be recovered via the teleporter (even if they fell to their death or were taken by a Bracken or Bunker Spider).
• Nobody Poops: Their spaceship lacks any form of toilet - you can purchase one from the store, but it's purely ornamental and can only be flushed.
• No-Respect Guy: The employee who acts as the Mission Control. They can deactivate turrets, control certain doors (and potentially lock enemies into rooms), and warn teammates about upcoming threats, but will almost always be referred as the "laziest employee" in the end-of-day report.
• Off with His Head!: Workers killed by Coil-Heads will leave headless corpses with a metal spring lodged in their neck. The Ghost Girl will also decapitate her victim when she's done stalking them.
• Quicksand Sucks: Patches of quicksand can occur on rainy moons, and it's fairly easy for careless players to sink and suffocate.
• Red Shirt: The Company's scrap haulers are completely expendable and replaceable assets.
• Shovel Strike: One of the few means of offense available to a worker to defend against the horrors lurking within the abandoned facilities.
• Sole Survivor: At least one player must make it back to the ship alive and leave a moon in order to successfully keep all the collected scrap - and circumstances can easily lead to only one of them making it.
• Spacesuits Are SCUBA Gear: Their "space suit" consists of an orange Hazmat Suit, a black oxygen mask with exposed tubes, and tanks strapped to their backs with what appears to be duct tape. And they're not even effective SCUBA gear: workers can still drown in them.
• Static Stun Gun: Workers can use a Zap Gun to stun enemies, either to escape them or pin them down for teammates to kill with other weapons.
• Steel Eardrums: Averted. Firing the Nutcracker's gun causes a temporary period of hearing loss and tinnitus.
• Swallowed Whole: A potential fate if they are in the bullseye of an Earth Leviathan.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Several possible deaths can occur ridiculously quick. Coil-Heads and Brackens can Neck Snap workers with ease; they can be Swallowed Whole by an Earth Leviathan in mere seconds (first-time players may think it's an unexpected earthquake); or they can simply notice that land mine they stepped on way too late.
• Teleportation: The ship can be equipped with a teleporter, which can teleport workers or their corpses back to the ship, though this leaves behind any inventory that live workers were carrying. The "Inverse Teleporter" can teleport workers to a random location in the facility. Including right on top of a landmine.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Dead workers are revived at the end of each day cycle, and starting a new game after being thrown into space by the company presents players with a fresh set of workers ready to meet quota again.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: The fate of all teams that fail to meet their quotas is to have the ship's single door opened remotely, sucking them into the vacuum of space.
• Trick Bomb: Workers can find improvised as a scrap item, which work similarly to bought stun grenades but will immediately explode in their hands when armed.
• Undignified Death: Some of the possible deaths are easily avoidable and quite ridiculous: being crushed by the delivery system or a company ladder, falling into an inescapable body of water, being bludgeoned with a shovel by their own teammates or pissing off the Company Monster by ringing its bell nonstop.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Workers can clown around and hit each other with shovels and various other items or get their pals killed with reckless stunts (which can be especially common with friend groups).
  • Video Game Cruelty Punishment: ...but needlessly getting fellow workers killed will cost the team a chunk of their money, especially if they can't recover the bodies.
• We Need a Distraction: Typically required to collect Circuit Bee Hives. One worker lures the bees away from the hive, while another one brings it to the ship. A worker can also lure an Eyeless Dog or Forest Keeper away from the ship, though they can still be rescued with a Teleporter.
• Your Head Asplode: Their fate if they get caught by the Ghost Girl.

Company Monster

Other names: Tentacles, Jeb

This is all you'll see of it.

A mysterious entity residing on Gordion that acts as the Company's representative, taking the scrap collected by the workers and giving them money in exchange. It is mostly passive, but can become lethally angered should its handful of Berserk Buttons be pushed.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It pays workers for their scrap, but it doesn't communicate with them outside of a few canned lines from its speaker afterwards, leaving it unclear if this thing is your boss, a shift supervisor or just a middleman who can get away with killing employees. Or, given that one intercom message and Sigurd's logs about the company building, a very plausible possibility is that the creature is trapped in the building and delivering scrap to it somehow placates it from trying to break free.
• Ax-Crazy: Pushing its Berserk Button one too many times will cause it to snap and violently murder the nearest worker.
• Bad Boss: At minimum, it has enough leverage to eat workers who make a ruckus around its counter and get away with it.
• Berserk Button: Ringing the bell too many times in quick succession, or else playing a clown horn or air horn repeatedly, will cause it to lash out and mangle the nearest worker before pulling their corpse in. This can also happen if it's already in a bad mood and you ring its bell for a pile of loot that has an average value of 3 or lower. And your team is still charged for worker casualties.
• Delayed Reaction: Sometimes it needs a few moments to respond to the bell, even when the counter is full - rush it at your peril.
• Eldritch Abomination: It's unknown what it is beyond a... thing with giant red tentacles. According to it, "THIS WALL CANNOT CONTAIN ME".
• Hair-Trigger Temper: If workers return to Gordion too early, the company monster may be more aggressive and more likely to attack those too close to the counter. Pestering it with useless noises or ringing the bell too much is guaranteed to piss it off.
• Intercom Villainy: After large transactions, it normally sends a message through its intercom thanking the players for their service - on occasion, you'll get a lower-quality response that simply tells them to keep working, Sometimes you'll just get an irate "What?". And sometimes...
  "THIS WALL CANNOT CONTAIN ME"
• The Misophonic: Its Berserk Button is too much player noise next to its counter, which can lead particularly talkative or horn-prone players to an unfortunate demise even if they hadn't intentionally antagonized it.
• No Name Given: The fandom calls it "Jeb", but "company monster" is the closest thing to a title it has.
• Press X to Die: Its other main purpose aside from collecting your scrap is to kill workers that make too much noise near its counter.
• Red Is Violent: Its tentacles are red, and this monster does not mess around.
• Tentacled Terror: A monster with giant red tentacles covered in tendrils that'll gladly use them on anyone stupid enough to disturb its peace.
• Unseen Evil: Said tentacles are the most workers ever see of the creature.

Sigurd

Sigurd

One of the previous employees of the company and the source of the various logs around the moons you visit, which can be read from the ship's terminal.

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• Ambiguous Situation: In one of the logs, he notes with some alarm that he can only recall a few vague memories from his life prior working for the Company. It's deliberately unclear whether this is intentionally done by the company, standard Sanity Slippage or some other influence altogether.
• Amnesiac Hero: Sigurd states in one of his logs that he forgot most of his life before working for The Company. As stated above, it's unknown if The Company brainwashes their employees or it's an effect of Sanity Slippage messing with his past memories.
• Apocalyptic Log: His logs are treated this way, and it's likely that Sigurd bit the dust some time ago.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sigurd seems... eccentric to say the least. After a statement in the initial log about maintaining a professional tone, subsequent logs include frequent digressions, use of profanities and repeated complaints about how bad one of his coworkers smells. That said, he was more than competent as an employee, providing vital information about the various hostile lifeforms workers encounter, and discovers several goings-on behind the scenes at the Company.
• The Ghost: He's never seen in-game, and the only way the player gets to know him is through his logs.
• Lemony Narrator: Sigurd's logs contain frequent sarcasm and foul language.
• Meaningful Name: Sigurd can mean "guardian", and his logs can aid in the survival of its readers.
• Mr. Exposition: His logs reveal a lot about the lore of the company, and he's also the author of the various scientific records from the bestiary, which details the creatures encountered and how to survive them.
• Posthumous Character: Most likely, considering working for the Company doesn't always end well for anyone. Plus, his logs are dated some four centuries before the game's present date.
• Uncertain Doom: While the logs never make it clear whether they died or not, their belief that they won't be going home leans towards the former, especially considering the dangers the workers face on the moons and from their own employer. Not helping is the log written by Desmond, his brother and coworker, which doesn't mention Sigurd in any way.

Wildlife & Other Creatures

In General

• Blinded by the Light: With the exception of blind species such as the Eyeless Dog, most species can be countered with a stun grenade. Coil-Heads in particular will reboot to a passive mode afterwards.
• Bludgeoned to Death: Most aggressive species can be taken care of with three hits from a shovel (or a stop/yield sign).
• Expy: A small number of them take very obvious inspiration from other horror media such as The SCP Foundation and the Aliens franchise.
• Meaningful Name: Most of the creatures have scientific names befitting their appearance and/or apparent species.
• Monster Compendium: Typing "Bestiary" on the Terminal computer allows players to read scientific records (courtesy of Sigurd) about the creatures they have scanned.
• More Predators Than Prey: The majority of life encountered on the moons are the predators of their ecosystem, and most of them will pursue you relentlessly, especially oonce sufficiently angered. Even decidedly unnatural beings like Jesters, Coil Heads and Masked will instinctively hunt and kill any workers that they discover.
• My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Creatures encountered indoors cannot trigger landmines or be tracked by sentry guns, giving you all the more pressure when you’re being chased into a kill zone that won’t directly harm whatever is behind you. As a trade-off, only a couple of monsters can actually pursue workers in or out of the facility, although those that can are bound to be a nasty surprise. Creatures can be killed by landmine explosions, but require a player to activate it themselves and either give themselves up or else put together a very skilled Teleportation Rescue.
• Swallowed Whole: Anything caught in the path of an Earth Leviathan is Eaten Alive.

Daytime

Roaming Locusts

Scientific Name: Anacridium-vega

Other names: Locust Bees, Flies

Sigurd's Danger Level: 0%

A passive species of grasshopers. They can be found outdoors, moving as a group taking a spherical formation, and running through it or flashing a flashlight at them will cause them to disperse.

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• Insectoid Aliens: They resemble normal Earth grasshoppers.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name is Anacridium-vega. "Anacridium" is a genus of tree locusts or bird grasshoppers, while "vega" can refer to a meadow or grassy valley.
• Synchronized Swarming: These locusts gather together in a ball, but are otherwise harmless and will disperse if the players run through them.
• Virtuous Bees: They're referred to as "Locust Bees" and are harmless to workers.

Manticoils

Scientific Name: Quadrupes-manta

Other Names: Double Wings

Sigurd's Danger Level: 0%

Characterized by their set of four wings, Manticoils are harmless species commonly found flying through the air, or as groups on the ground. They will disperse into the sky when approached or otherwise frightened by a player.

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• All There in the Manual: According to the bestiary, Manticoil are from the Corvidae family, making it related to crows and ravens despite being from an entire different galaxy.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: They look like normal birds, except for their double pair of wings, that can range from 55 to 64 inches. They also lack a tail, and are stated to be corvids, despite looking more similar to canaries in color and design.
• Deathbringer the Adorable: Their name is almost similar to Manticore, a deadly, mythical scorpion-tailed lion. Despite this fearsome-sounding name, Manticoils are adorable and harmless birds that pose zero threat to workers.
• Disturbed Doves: Will fly off if approached by workers.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name Quadrupes-manta roughly translates to "four-legged blanket", in reference to their large wings. Manta can also stand for a manta ray.
• Noble Bird of Prey: Their bestiary entry states that they prey on insects and small rodents, but are otherwise harmless and passive when it comes to humans.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Despite posing no threat, they can be killed with the shovel or a stop sign.

Circuit Bees

Scientific Name: Crabro-coruscus

Other Names: Red Bees

Sigurd's Danger Level: 90%

A species of bees that build their hives on the ground. Uniquely, they conduct electricity between members of the hive, which they use as a weapon against potential predators.

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• Bee Afraid: Electric bees that become aggressive and can lethally zap you to death if you disturb them or their hive.
• Berserk Button: While approaching them is enough to make them hostile, they become absolutely FURIOUS if you steal their hive.
• Bug Buzz: If you hear buzzing, it means they're nearby, so beware unless you want to get stung...
• Hurricane of Puns: Sigurd's entry writes a lot about their "BEEhavior" and how it's "BEEst" to keep your distance thanks to their unique "aBEElity".
• Insectoid Aliens: Red-colored bees found on various moons with the ability to generate their own electricity.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name, Crabro-coruscus, roughly translates to "twinkling hornet" in Latin, referring to their electric properties.
• Metal Slime: Wherever you see bees, there’s going to be a hive worth looting, with the caveat that you’d better be ready to run when you snatch it.
• Pummeling the Corpse: They will keep stinging a worker long after the victim's death until someone else picks up their hive.
• Pun: Their bestiary entry continuously uses bee-related puns.
• Red Is Violent: They are red-colored bees, and sure enough they're not friendly.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: They can be found gathered around their hive, and chase anyone that disturbs them or steal it, often until the victim(s) are good and dead.
• Schmuck Bait: Bee hives are worth a ridiculous amount of money for a ridiculous amount of risk. A common situation that worker teams find themselves in is someone managing to bring the hive to the ship, turning their home base into a death trap when the bees inevitably get inside and attack any returning workers. It's a generally wiser idea to save beehives for last on expeditions—which also means dodging the outdoor predators, navigating the darkness and accounting for weather hazards while trying to flee the swarm, ideally with the rest of the team ready to jet so they aren’t killed before takeoff. Alternatively, a worker can drop the beehive on the outer railing of the ship far from the entrance, and only pick it up during takeoff once the bees get left behind.
• Shock and Awe: They're bees with electric stings.
• Stealth Pun: Their electrical properties mean these insects can buzz in more ways than one.
• Stock Beehive: Their hives resemble traditional beehives, but are light grey and covered in holes. They are also worth a lot of money, possibly from the honey they produce.

Baboon Hawks

Scientific Name: Papio-volturius

Sigurd's Danger Level: 75%

Generally timid when alone, but more aggressive when in packs, these creatures have both primate and avian features. They hop around on their legs and ends of their wings, and will try to take objects from the workers.

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• Accidental Hero: Their on-sight beef with the Eyeless Dog enables workers to quietly sneak away while the two are busy fighting. It goes to another level when a group of Baboon Hawks gang up on an Eyeless Dog and tear it apart.
• Animal Jingoism: Is a natural enemy of the Eyeless Dog, and vice-versa.
• Bandit Mook: The Bestiary indicates that these things have a fondness for shiny objects and use them to mark their territory, up to stealing the writer's pickle jar at some point.
• Cowardly Mooks: Lone Baboon Hawks are easily scared off by just running at them, making the beast backpedal anxiously away. They become braver if their numbers are equal to or larger than yours, but can still be warded off or avoided. If enough members of the pack appear to outnumber a worker or group, though, they'll surround them and peck them to death unless the workers can get clear.
• Dirty Coward: Baboon Hawks are timid and likely to run away on their own, requiring backup in order to get aggressive.
• Fragile Speedster: They hit for relatively low-to-moderate damage and take four hits from a shovel or signpost to kill. One is manageable, but they're almost never alone, and dealing with groups is enough of a hassle that you’re better off trying to sneak around them all or else hope Eyeless Dogs distract them.
• Horns of Villainy: Have tusks on each side of their beak that they use to impale prey.
• Maniac Monkeys: Zig-zagged. Lone Baboon Hawks are fearful of workers and try to stay as far away as possible, but groups that outnumber workers will become more aggressive and gang up on them.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Baboon Hawks have the body and posture of an ape with the beak and wings of a humongous bird or bat.
• Nerf: Zig-Zagged with version 50 - while their damage was lowered from 30 to 20 and they have 4 health instead of 6, they also appear in greater numbers.
• Nice Day, Deadly Night: They appears in small packs of 1-3 during the day, but their numbers start increasing as night falls. Since their aggressiveness depends on outnumbering their opponents, this makes a large troop at night a much greater threat.
• Non-Indicative Name: Downplayed. Though they are referred to as "baboon hawks", their scientific name is Papio-volturius, or "baboon vulture". The "baboon" part is correct, but it's not made clear if they are scavengers.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Zig-zagged. They have large red eyes, but run away from workers unless they can group up against them.
• Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: Grouds of Baboon Hawks will try to intimidate Eyeless Dogs and even attack if they have the numbers advantage, alowing workers to slip by.
• Stalker without a Crush: Baboon Hawks stalk workers that they plan to prey on but lack the confidence to actually attack, and will continue to until more of their kind show up, or else they are scared off or provoked.
• Sticky Fingers: Like Hoarding Bugs, they can steal items from workers and will fight back against players trying to recover them.
• Toothy Bird: A part-bird creature with small pointy teeth inside its beak.
• Wings Do Nothing: According to the Bestiary, they cannot fly due to their weight, instead using their large wings for intimidation and protection against their environment.
• Zerg Rush: A single Baboon Hawk or trio of Hawks can become a pack of a dozen or more as time passes on a moon from evening into night - if a large pack is allowed to assemble, they become impossible to scare off and will actively try to swarm workers.

Tulip Snakes

Scientific Name: Draco Tulipa

Sigurd's Danger Level: 1%

First introduced in the V50 update along with the Butlers and Old Birds, these reptilian creatures resemble Earth's flying lizards of the genus Draco, but have additional flaps around their necks that resemble flower petals. They spawn in forests at daytime, and their mating rituals involve lifting heavy, large objects into the air, with several males often latching onto the same object. Unfortunately for employees, this often causes multiple Tulip Snakes to get a bit carried away with them, dropping them from a dangerous height.

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• Difficult, but Awesome: Most newer players will find Tulip Snakes an annoyance, especially since they can cause Falling Damage - but players who know how to control the jetpack can control their forced flying in a similar manner.
• Fragile Speedster: They move relatively quickly on the ground, and the leap they use to latch onto employees is a fast non-damaging "attack". They also die in one hit, and need the help of several other Tulip Snakes to even lift a worker off the ground.
• Head Pet: The first Tulip Snake that latches onto an employee will always be on top of their head.
• Helpful Mook: While initially an annoyance, workers dragged into the air by Tulip Snakes can actually control their movement to use them as a makeshift jetpack.
• Non-Malicious Monster: Tulip Snakes aren't actively hostile to workers and simply seeing them as a large and heavy object to impress females of their species with - but their mating ritual causes Falling Damage all the same.
• Personal Space Invader: Tulip Snakes latch onto employees en masse, though thankfully this doesn't do any damage.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're small flying lizards with little vacant beady eyes, and the first one to latch onto a worker's head will sometimes peer down at them with a large, goofy smile.

Nighttime/Eclipse

Eyeless Dogs

Scientific Name: Leo caecus

Other Names: Blind Dogs, Breathing Lions

Though blind, these large canine entities possess powerful hearing and can kill players in a single hit. This, alongside the possibility of multiple spawning at once and their ability to enter the ship, makes them very dangerous.

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• Animal Jingoism: Is a natural enemy of the Baboon Hawk, and vice-versa.
• Beware of Vicious Dog: Not that it looks that much like your average dog, but it will tear you to shreds if you're in its path.
• Blind Mistake: As the name implies, they lack eyes and mostly rely on their hearing. This can be exploited by players by luring it away with other noises, such as the Boombox.
• Devoured by the Horde: A pack of Baboon Hawks can tear an Eyeless Dog to shreds.
• Eaten Alive: If they hear workers moving around, they will charge them In a Single Bound and tear them apart, though they at least leave the body behind. They can also be Swallowed Whole by an Earth Leviathan, and even torn apart by Baboon Hawks if a pack of them manages to isolate one.
• Expy: Eyeless Dogs look and behave very similarly to SCP-939 from The SCP Foundation, being red and fleshy quadrupedal creatures with a mouth full of sharp teeth that have no eyes and detect prey via sound, though they lack the ability to mimic noises and resemble canines rather than lizards.
• Eyeless Face: Not called Eyeless Dogs for nothing.
• Hellhound: An alien version of this trope with humongous jaws full of sharp teeth.
• High-Voltage Death: Eyeless Dogs can suffer this if lured close enough to a metallic object on a Stormy moon.
• In a Single Bound: They will leap massive distances towards any source of sound, enabling them to catch workers in a single leap and kill them instantly.
• Instakill Mook: Any unlucky worker that gets caught in their mouth dies instantly.
• Lamprey Mouth: Its main characteristic is a large jaw resembling a fly trap, filled with long pointy teeth.
• Lightning Bruiser: Eyeless Dogs are extremely fast and easily outrun workers, requiring players to either evade detection or use the environment against them.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name is Leo caecus, meaning "Blind Lion" in Latin. They have EyelessFaces and make fairly leonine roars, with a similarly lion-like tail.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: They look like a mix between a carnivorous plant and a dog with the tail of a lion.
• Non-Indicative Name: Aside from being growling and biting quadrupeds, Eyeless Dogs barely resemble dogs. Downplayed with their scientific name Leo caecus ("blind lion'') - they at least have a lion-like tail and make similar roars.
• Roar Before Beating: Eyeless Dogs let out a growl upon detecting noise, and you’ll know they’ve pinpointed someone when they let out a howling screech.
• Scary Teeth: They possess large gaping mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth.
• Sense-Impaired Monster: Being blind, they rely on detecting noise to find prey - just walking too fast or speaking into your mic will make you a dead man walking. Their behavior also makes them vulnerable to distractions and lures, whether by a brave soul trying to redirect them away from the ship or through more expensive means like deploying a boombox, or even making an order so the Company delivery probe can provide an opening.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Whoopie cushions, of all things. Enemies can step on them just like players can, and the noise of the whoopie cushion sets the Eyeless Dog off on the source of the sound. Baiting them into a pile of whoopie cushions is a good way to neutralize them (provided the pile isn't on the ship).
• You Will Not Evade Me: Yeah, you're not safe on the ship. Eyeless Dogs can get into it just fine, even with the door closed, and since you don't exactly have room to dodge in a tiny flying box, your death is basically guaranteed at that point.

Forest Keepers

Scientific Name: Satyrid-proceritas

Other Names: Forest Giants (or simply "Giants")

Sigurd's Danger Level: 50%

Colossal and fast tree creatures that will eat any employee they can get their hands on. They have great eyesight, but are incapable of hearing.

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• Always a Bigger Fish:
  • Leviathans are more than large enough to gulp them down, which may save a worker caught in their grasp.
  • Large and powerful as they are, Forest Keepers will usually lose a fight against an Old Bird, which can set it alight with a flamethrower or spam rockets to put dents in its health.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They're the second largest creatures in the game after the Earth Leviathan.
• Bad Vibrations: They make a very distinctive thud with every step, which is your first warning to start sneaking if you're outside and too far from the ship.
• Cephalothorax: Their eyes and mouth can be found in the middle of their chest.
• Curious as a Monkey: They are stated to be curious by nature, and said curiosity involves putting anything they find interesting in their mouths, despite not needing a mouth to eat in the first place.
• Eaten Alive: The fate of any workers grabbed by a Forest Keeper, as well as the fate of any Forest Keeper caught in the path of an Earth Leviathan.
• Extreme Omnivore: They eat anything they can get their hands on, which especially includes workers.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Played with - the multiple large and creepy eyes on their torso are just natural eyespots meant to intimidate its predators (whatever ''those'' are).
• Faster Than They Look: Don't let their size fool you - the Forest Keepers can and will catch up to you if you're spotted.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Forest Keepers have a pair of these.
• Giant Equals Invincible: Downplayed. Forest Keepers can be stunned with a grenade or the Zap-Gun, but take a massive number of shovel strikes to go down, and are better off avoided otherwise.
• Horns of Villainy: Subverted - their horns are said to be signs of age, but they are more curious beings rather than actively malevolent. Unfortunately, their curiosity includes placing anything that moves into their mouth...
• Instakill Mook: Any unlucky worker that gets caught and eaten will be instantly killed and devoured along with their loot.
• Manchild: According to their bestiary entry, they have the same curious behaviors as children of 5-6 years old, putting everything they find fascinating in their mouths... including live beings like the workers.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name Satyrid-proceritas translates roughly to “a satirical prodigy” in Latin. "Satyrid" may refer to a subfamily of the Nymphalidae family of butterflies; many butterfly species have eyespot markings which are primarily defensive in nature.
  • Additionally, "Satyrid" literally means "Satyr-like" in scientific Latin, referring to satyrs, a group of forest dwelling deities in Greek mythology that are part-man and part-goat (the Forest Keeper also possesses horns like goats). "Proceritas" means "height" or "tallness", referencing the entity's massive size.
• Nerf: Update 50 made them no longer invulnerable to damage, instead giving them a whopping 20 shovel strikes' worth of health. This was likely to make them vulnerable to the new biggest outdoor threat, the Old Bird.
• Obliviously Evil: They put things in their mouth out of curiosity, not really noticing that they're also devouring your worker buddies and all the scrap they're hauling.
• Sense-Impaired Monster: They are deaf and rely on sight to navigate, requiring workers to stay out of sight to avoid it.
• Treants: They resemble gigantic humanoid trees, and are stated to feed via photosynthesis not unlike actual plant life, though it's unknown if their skin is actually bark.
• You Are Already Dead: If you are spotted by one and too far away from the ship or a facility entrance, better hope you have your will in order or that there's an Old Bird around - though the latter means you'll have an even worse problem on your hands.

Earth Leviathans

Scientific Name: Hemibdella-gigantis

Other Names: Sandworms

Sigurd's Danger Level: 2% "cause they can't hide from the ship cameras!!"

Titanic worm-like creatures that roam underground, searching for prey, and surface in order to leap through the air and devour it. Though avoidable on its own, having Eyeless Dogs nearby makes running away a lot harder...

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• Accidental Hero: If the player is chased by a Forest Keeper, it's possible for the Earth Leviathan to unknowingly save them by devouring the Keeper instead.
• Always a Bigger Fish: The Earth Leviathans are the Bigger Fish, capable of devouring other creatures in their path, including supposedly invulnerable ones like the Forest Keepers and Old Birds.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They're the largest creatures in the game, dwarfing entire mountains with the sheer length of their bodies.
• Bad Vibrations: If the ground starts to shake and dust clouds up wherever you're standing, get the hell out of there.
• Extreme Omnivore: It's not picky about prey, and reacts to any vibrations on the surface by springing out of the ground to devour the source.
• Giant Equals Invincible: Earth Leviathans are the biggest entity in the game, and cannot be attacked or killed in any way.
• Helpful Mook: They can be baited into eating Old Birds, including inactive ones, to dispose of them and make it safer for workers to traverse the planet at night and/or remove the Apparatus from the facility.
• Instakill Mook: As with Forest Keepers, any workers swallowed by one are lost along with any loot they have on them.
• "Instant Death" Radius: A worker's only hope of survival is to either react fast enough to warnings from a worker manning the ship radar, or else sprint the hell out of dodge once they see the ground rumbling. If someone's caught in the center, they're good as dead.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name Hemibdella-gigantis roughly translates to "giant half-leech" in Latin, and they are absolutely massive sandworms with leech-like mouths.
  • Leviathan is a Biblical term for a gigantic sea monster (mostly used for sea serpents), and these similarly-sized monsters "swim" through the earth they inhabit.
• Mistaken for Quake: Inexperienced workers will mistake the worm's presence for a literal earthquake right up until it suddenly devours them.
• Mole Monster: It dwells underground, sensing the vibrations of prey before it strikes. Earthquakes and rising dust signal its approach.
• Nerf: Version 50 increases the minimum time they take to pop out of the ground from 0.3 seconds to 1 second, preventing cheap deaths from occurring.
• Sand Worm: They're titanic ones that live underground and emerge to devour prey, causing earthquakes.
• Swallowed Whole: The fate of anything caught in its path.

Old Birds

Other Names: Al (A16-L31), "Walking Ransom Letter"

First introduced in the V50 update along with the Butlers and Tulip Snakes, these are huge robots that lie eerily dormant in the morning, but activate one by one as the day passes, patrolling and searching for anything that moves. Anything and everything caught in their searchlights are greeted with dissonant cacophonies, welcomed by salvos of rockets, pursued by rocket-boosting legs, and stomped on. Workers unfortunate enough to be grabbed will be barbecued by a point-blank flamethrower.

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• Absolute Xenophobe: Old Birds are hostile to everything that isn't another Old Bird, attacking both employees and other entities on sight.
• Accidental Hero: Old Birds are indiscriminate in whoever or whatever they attack, and careful players can use them get rid of Baboon Hawks, Eyeless Dogs and even Forest Keepers.
• Achilles' Heel: Old Birds cannot hear, and unlike Forest Keepers, their vision is much more limited down to their searchlight cone. As long as a player can keep away from the searchlight, they won't be spotted.
• Airborne Mook: Currently the only hostile entities that are capable of high-altitude flight, allowing them to jetpack around at fast speeds and even perform a Dynamic Entry attack.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Old Birds can effortlessly take down Baboon Hawks and Eyeless Dogs with a few rockets and even defeat Forest Keepers in a one-on-one fight, but are no match for an Earth Leviathan, which devours them instantly if they happen to be in range.
• Anti-Escape Mechanism: They have rocket boosters that allow them to jump long distances and close in on a target, or even fly into the air and reposition themselves - once spotted, escaping from one becomes exceptionally difficult unless there's a place to hide.
• Berserk Button: All Old Birds on the planet will immediately activate as soon as the Apparatus is taken.
• Dynamic Entry: If they spot a target at a long distance, they will close the gap using their rocket boosters, leaping at the target and dealing huge damage to whoever they land on.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Old Birds are equipped with a flamethrower that's used to fry captured workers at point-blank range.
• Giant Equals Invincible: Old Birds are immune to damage from players and most entities, with the only way to kill one being an Earth Leviathan. They can be also be stunned by Stun Grenades.
• Hell Is That Noise: Once they activate and begin attacking, you'll hear the distorted sounds of a baby crying and screaming, police siren, and a loud distorted electronic voice saying "A Robot!" on repeat. Sigurd calls their speakers "sound cannons", and the internal file names for these sounds are "LradBrainwashingSignal", heavily hinting that they are a form of psychological attack.
• Humongous Mecha: Old Birds tower over most other creatures, being comparable in size to Forest Keepers.
• Infinite Supplies: Their headlamp never burns out, they can shoot grenades and flames indefinitely, and their jets are stated to be capable of flying between planets.
• Killer Robot: They will mercilessly attack everything in their vision that isn't another Old Bird, and often make very quick work of the victims.
• Lightning Bruiser: They attack rapidly with missile launchers, can pick up and kill employees by torching them, and fly and leap surprisingly quickly to reach targets out of range, all while being invulnerable to everything but Earth Leviathans.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Their rocket launchers can fire missiles in rapid succession.
• Nature vs. Technology: In terms of threats the workers must avoid, the Old Birds are a mechanical "answer" to the Forest Keepers — giant, hostile humanoid entities that hunt by sight, are hard or even impossible to kill, and can grab and instantly kill workers that aren't teleported away in time.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Any employee caught by an old bird will be subjected to death by point-blank flamethrower.
• Out of the Frying Pan: The good news is that Old Birds will attack and take down Eyeless Dogs, Forest Keepers, and Baboon Hawks - the bad news is that you're likely to be next unless you can avoid detection.

Indoors

Brackens

Scientific Name: Rapax-folium

Other Names: Flower Men

Sigurd's Danger Level: 70%

Humanoid creatures with what appears to be leaves growing out of their bodies. They quietly stalk employees in an attempt to snap their neck and drag away their corpses, usually to the room farthest away from the main entrance. Brief eye contact can dissuade them, but prolonged eye contact will irritate them into attacking.

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• Ambushing Enemy: Its entire gimmick. The Bracken stalks players from afar, and the only way to avoid getting your neck snapped out of the blue is to catch sight of them first - but don't stare too long!
• Backing Away Slowly: When looked at for a brief period, they will begin to back away for a while, still keeping their eyes on you. They'll move to attack if you stare at them for too long, however.
• Berserk Button: They have to be looked at, but not stared at. Stare at it too long, and it will become aggressive and charge the worker.
• Dark Is Evil: They have dark coloration and blend well into unlit areas, though proper illumination reveals that their skin is beet red.
• The Darkness Gazes Back: Since Brackens like to stay in the dark and keep their distance, it's very common to turn or round a corner in a dark corridor, only to be met with two dots of light looking right at you. If you're lucky, they'll back off and try to leave your line of sight. If you're not...
• Dirty Coward: A Bracken's instinct is to run away if spotted, and will spend most of its time attempting to stalk its prey before striking or else hiding away unless sufficiently angered.
• Don't Look At Me: They will run away if looked at, and staring at them for too long might anger them.
• Expy: The Bracken borrows a lot from Legs, another horror monster created by Zeekerss. Both start off stealthy, keeping out of sight and occasionally sneaking up from behind victims for a kill, and can be repelled with just a look. Eventually, they'll get tired of stalking you and charge directly, forcing you to navigate quickly without running into any dead ends. To top it all off, they share the same design—dark and mostly concealed by their environment, save for a pair of glowing eyes.
• Glass Cannon: They can swiftly butcher and abduct any person who lets them get too close, but they go down in a few smacks of a signpost if someone can catch them in time. They are also vulnerable to the stun gun, and two shots from the Nutcracker's gun kills it.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Their most notable feature is their piercing white eyes, which are always visible even when the rest of the creature is completely obscured by darkness.
• Instakill Mook: Any unlucky employee that gets caught by it will get killed regardless of health, thanks to Neck Snap.
• Karmic Death: If they drag one of their victims over a landmine, the corpse will trigger it and kill the Bracken on the spot.
• Killed Offscreen: Happens often with Brackens - they strike when no one is looking, and hastily drag their victim's body across the building and into the darkness, leaving nothing behind but a trail of blood and the victim's loot. Retrieving the corpse requires access to a teleporter or someone capable and willing to hunt the Bracken down. Workers who aren't attentive will only notice the Bracken once they hear loot hitting the ground, possibly along with a brief gasp or scream from the victim just before the Neck Snap.
  • Hilariously, this can happen to a Bracken: they won't normally trigger a landmine, but one carrying a player body will, with the explosion killing it instantly.
• Knee Fold Fall of Defeat: Brackens that are killed fall to their knees before disappearing in a cloud of ashes.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientific name Rapax-folium roughly translates to "predatory leaf" in Latin, and "bracken" is also the name for a genus of large, coarse fern.
• Neck Snap: How they kill their prey.
• No Body Left Behind: Brackens disintegrate quickly after death, which their scientific record notes as the reason autopsy is impossible.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Unlike most creatures, very little is known about the specifics of the Brackens due to their violent behavior, and their bodies dissipating upon death means no specimen has been captured alive or dead. It's also unknown why they steal the corpses of those they kill, as they seemingly lack a need or means to consume meat.
• Obviously Evil: A tall, dark figure with Glowing Eyes of Doom that watches you from the shadows and waits until you are distracted to snap your neck? Definitely not friendly.
• One-Hit Kill: Making contact with a Bracken triggers its attack, causing it to snap your neck.
• Paper Tiger: They may look and act incredibly creepy, but Brackens are sheepish enough that merely looking at them (and sometimes bluff charging them) is enough to chase them off. But spook them too badly and they'll retaliate to protect themselves.
• Primal Stance: Once they begin following someone closely, they’ll hunch over close to eye level and practically breathe down their neck until they go for the kill.
• Plant Aliens: They display what appear to be leaves and flowers on their bodies, and are also known as "Flower Men" - their bodies are also a tint of red reminiscent of roots such as red beets. They also most commonly spawn on moons with dense forests, namely Vow and March. With all that in mind, their behavior and mysterious biology make it hard to discern whether they're entirely plants or not.
• Punny Name: The term "Bracken" reads like an anagram to "break neck".
• Red Is Violent: Their skin is a beet-red color that blends in with the dark at a distance. If you get close enough to see it, either you or the Bracken is going to have a very bad time.
• Reduced to Dust: Brackens dissolve into ash upon dying.
• Stalker without a Crush: Brackens can follow unaware workers for several seconds before finally killing them.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: You typically won't hear a Bracken until they've already NeckSnapped someone and dragged them off, usually following a scream from the vicitm and the sound of dropped gear. They move so fast that you can look at their next point of entry, glance away and then notice them upon turning back, which causes them to scurry away - provided they didn't just use the opening to kill you. A worker without a flashlight might see a friend go down a dark corridor, spot the Bracken's Glowing Eyes of Doom for a second, and then both are already gone.

Bunker Spiders

Scientific Name: Theraphosa-ficedula

Sigurd's Danger Level: 30%

Giant arachnids that are aggressive and territorial, wandering the facility and placing webs to trap prey. It will attempt to hunt down any workers that touch one of its webs.

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• All Webbed Up: Bunker Spiders will web up and claim a section of the building as their nest, waiting on a wall for someone to walk into them. The moment they bite someone to death, they'll get to work cocooning their prey and guard their body.
• Ambushing Enemy: Bunker Spiders will make their web and patiently wait until someone walks into it. Walking right underneath a spider clinging on the wall might as well be a death wish.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: They have ten legs as opposed to the traditional eight of real-life spiders, and only have two eyes visible rather than eight.
• Black Bead Eyes: Large ones, too.
• Giant Spider: Human-sized, ten-legged spiders whose bestiary entry describes them as the second largest arachnids ever discovered. What's the first, then...?
• Meaningful Name: Its scientific name is Theraphosa-ficedula - "ficedula" comes from a genus of South American tarantulas known as Goliath bird-eaters.
• Mighty Glacier: They're slow enough that workers can easily outrun them, but a single bite will leave a worker in critical condition, and two will kill them outright. They're also fairly resistant to shovel strikes, making fighting one in direct melee a bad idea unless you have the room and stamina to backpedal between shovel swings.
• Shown Their Work: Once killed, their legs curl up on themselves like real-life spiders.
• Spiders Are Scary: Obviously, look at the size of those things! Their venom is also powerful enough to kill a human in two bites.
• [Trope Name]: If Arachnophobia Mode is turned on, their models will be replaced by red text reading "SPIDER". They're still just as dangerous.
• Turns Red: They get slightly faster when they're nearly dead.
• Wall Crawl: They are spiders. It's strongly recommended to back away slowly if you see one on a wall.

Coil-Heads

Scientific Name: Vir colligerus

Other Names: Spring Men, Mannequins

Sigurd's Danger Level: 80%

Eyeless mannequins with gaping mouths, no forearms and a flexible spring for a neck. Their bodies are punctured with nails that are surrounded by a reddish substance resembling blood. Coil-Heads are difficult to counter when alone, to say nothing of dealing with them alongside other hostile creatures. Though fast and deadly, they can only move and attack when not looked at by Employees.

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• Achilles' Heel: Stun grenades stagger them longer than other creatures. The bestiary speculates that bright flashes of light cause them to enter a sort of reset mode while they recover.
• Ambiguously Human: They look like bleeding mannequins and are noted to be experimental Living Weapons that may be biological in nature or even former humans. Victims of a Coil-Head also lose their forearms and have their head popped off, with a spring emerging from their necks, suggestion some form of reproduction or conversion.
• Armless Biped: They lack forearms, which doesn't keep them from having the dexterity to tear off your forearms if they catch you.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: In spite of looking like metal mannequins covered in bolts, they're apparently biological in nature and are given a scientific name. They also emit constant radiation, can't handle bright lights and burst into flames upon being cut open or turned off.
• Blinded by the Light: Using stun grenades is the best way to deal with them - the flash will cause them to reboot and allow workers to escape in the meanwhile.
• Can't Move While Being Watched: Their entire gimmick, though they can still move if there is a wall between them and their target.
• Expy: A humanoid statue that cannot move while being looked at, and a tendency to target the head when going for the kill - both are traits likely inspired by SCP-173, though unlike 173's most famous outing, Coil Heads don't rely on people blinking and will be completely helpless if two workers have eyes on them. However, they can show up in combination with other hostiles, including the Bracken (which reacts violently to being stared at).
• Eyeless Face: They don't have eyes, and don't need them to track and follow their prey.
• Instakill Mook: Subverted - it's possible to survive contact with a Coilhead, since it deals its damage through very quick multiple hits. A worker that turns around fast enough while being hit can survive at critical health.
• Jump Scare: The most likely of all the monsters to pull this off, even if they don't manage to catch you.
• Lightning Bruiser: These things are fast. Even if you keep track of one and think you outran it, turn away for even a few seconds and there's a chance it'll be right behind you, ready for the kill.
• Living Weapon: The bestiary speculates that these things were originally built as biological weapons, with no clear distinction on how much of them (if anything) is organic.
• Murderous Mannequin: They're living hostile mannequins, with a spring for a neck that makes it resemble a large bobble-head.
• Touch of Death: Turn your back on it and let it reach you, you die. If a player turns around fast enough, they can take some damage, but they'll need a lot of luck on their side.
• The Virus: Players killed by Coil Heads appear to be partially transformed into one: their heads are replaced by springs, and their forearms disappear.

Snare Fleas

Scientific Name: Dolus-scolopendra

Other names: Centipedes

Sigurd's Danger Level: 30%

These nasty bugs hang from ceilings and drop when a player walks near, attempting to attach to the player's head and suffocate them. Fleas will muffle the voice of the player it attaches to, making calling out for help difficult. They will only let go if damaged or when their target dies, after which they will reattach to the ceiling. They are also able to open doors, and can be killed by shovel hits or exposure to sunlight.

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• Ambushing Enemy: If they don't attack workers upfront, they can choose to cling on the ceiling instead and catch them offguard by falling on their heads.
• Anti-Advice: The television you can buy for the ship has a company cartoon with a short segment on what to do if your co-worker is caught by a Snare Flea - the segment insists that before you smack the bug with a shovel, you should calmly ask them if they’ve been caught by something and if they need help before actually trying to remove it.
• Anti-Frustration Feature: For solo players, Snare Fleas will let go once your health reaches critical, since you don't have anyone else to help get them off you.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Insect-like creatures the size of a dog that latch onto a victim's face until they suffocate.
• Ceiling Cling: When they aren't actively attacking, they latch on to the ceiling to drop down on any unsuspecting worker that walks under them.
• Creepy Centipedes: They are called "fleas", but are actually closer related to centipedes, and this one is humongous enough to wrap around your face until you die.
• Face Hugger: They attack by latching onto a worker's head, and can only be removed if they are hit with a shovel or the worker manages to find an exit door.
• Glass Cannon: If caught without another armed player nearby to remove them or far away from an exit, death is guaranteed. However, they're so fragile that simply being outside will cause them to instantly die from exposure, and it only takes a few solid hits to put them down.
• Interface Screw: Anyone who gets snared by these bugs will have their vision obscured by its pulsating mouth while slowly sustaining damage. Their voices also become muffled, partially silencing any calls for help.
• Meaningful Name: Their scientic term Dolus-scolopendra roughly translates to "trick centipede" in Latin.
• Non-Indicative Name: While the "Snare" in their names refer to their means of predation, they are centipedes rather than actual fleas.
• Sinister Suffocation: If they latch on someone's head, they will strangle them to death if no else is there to smack them with a shovel.
• Weakened by the Light: The bestiary notes that they have incredibly thin exoskeletons and can only stand dark and evenly warm environments. If a worker with a Snare Flea attached makes it to an exit, the bug will die from exposure to the elements.

Hoarding Bugs

Scientific Name: Linepithema-crassus

Other Names: Loot Bugs

Sigurd's Danger Level: 0%

Large insects that collect whatever scrap they may find and add to a loot pile they will consider their nest. While generally passive, stealing from their pile or antagonizing them can turn them aggressive.

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• Airborne Mook: They crawl on their hind legs in their passive mode, but if provoked they will fly at the player and attack them.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: It's fairly easy to distract a bug by leaving them less valuable loot to pick up, while you take some of their scrap in the meanwhile.
• Bandit Mook: They tend to wander indoors, seeking loot to add to their treasure pile. They're not picky about what to take, either, anything that can be picked up is fair game to them, they've even been known to steal dead bodies if given the opportunity.
• Berserk Button: Stealing from their loot pile drives them into a frenzy, which usually results in them adding a few corpses to their pile.
• Beware the Silly Ones: They look rather comical and somewhat ugly-cute, but if you steal from them they can and will kill you.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Fat-bodied, large-eyed bugs reaching up to your hips with glowing red compound eyes capable of flight.
• Bug Buzz: Angered loot bugs stand up and fly while buzzing angrily.
• Cash Gate: A common tactic for appeasing them is to hand over inexpensive loot to keep them from attacking you.
• Collector of the Strange: These bugs pile up anything and everything they can find that interests them. Keys, toy robots, sheets of metal, player corpses...
• Cuteness Proximity: Due to their relative passivity and relatively less intimidating appearance, they can invoke this reaction in players, and Sigurd even leaves a note in the bestiary gushing over how much "we love the stupid cuddle bugs".
• Dragon Hoard: They have a tendency to make nests with whatever scrap they can get their hands on. Players can steal from this nest, but not without potentially lethal consequences.
• Friendly Enemy: If their loot pile remains untouched and the workers don't actively pester them, they are rather endearing creatures. They don't seek confrontation with workers unless they want something in their possession, and dropping loot for them to pick up will make them leave contently, rendering them a much lesser threat to workers (compared to the other monstruosities that can be find in the facilities). Even Sigurd can't help but admit they love these "stupid cuddle bugs".
• Imminent Danger Clue: If workers approach a bug's loot pile, it will freeze and raise its front legs in the air as a warning.
• Insectoid Aliens: They are three-foot tall, four-legged creatures that vaguely resemble crickets, with wings and bulbous red eyes.
• Killer Rabbit: Don't let their appearance fool you - if you steal any of their stuff or have something they want, they can and will kill you, especially if there is a horde of them.
• Meaningful Name: Its scientific name, Linepithema-crassus, roughly translates to "gross thing" in Latin. "Linepithema" is the name of a genus of small ants in the real world, and "crassus" This term may be a reference to Marcus Licinius Crassus, "the richest man in Rome," alluding to their greedy behavior.
• Primal Stance: Once it becomes aggressive, it will stand up at full height and fly at the player that pissed them off.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their distinct red compound eyes, which are all a worker will see if they aggravate it into attacking them.
• Ridiculously Small Wings: Their wings are smaller than most might expect, due to their bodies being lightweight.
• Sticky Fingers: A daring Hoarding Bug might try to steal directly from a worker, usually trying to make a corpse of them in the process.
• Video Game Caring Potential: Some players willingly leave loot for Hoarding Bugs to pick up to keep them from attacking, or else just because they can.
• Wild Card: Whether or not they become a problem depends entirely on what they want and whether or not the workers want it - or in some cases, already have it.

Hygrodere

Scientific Name: Hygrodere

Other Names: Blob, Slime, Ooze

Sigurd's Danger Level: 0% "if you're faster than a snail!"

Large, amorphous beings resembling giant amoebas which slowly but surely chase after anything radiating heat, oxygen or sound. They move very slowly around the facility, dealing damage to players caught inside them.

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• The Assimilator: If the Hygrodere kills someone, it'll absorb their body and convert it into goop, growing bigger and leaving behind nothing but an empty suit.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: The Hygrodere is made out of microscopic organisms that can multiply into millions. While it's hinted to be able to split apart, it rarely does so, and absorbs anything that crosses paths with its mass.
• Blob Monster: They're essentially slime monsters.
• Bright Is Not Good: The Hygrodere's bright purple and green hues hint at its toxicity.
• Complete Immortality: Sigurd's log states that no poison is able to kill it, and their mass multiplies by contact with others of its kind, as well as ingesting anything unfortunate enough to walk into it. Also according to that log, it's capable of regenerating for thousand of years, and rarely splits apart, though when it does the resulting "offspring" are likely very capable of surviving.
• Draw Aggro: The hygrodere is attracted to noise, and workers can use objects (such as horns or the boombox) to lure it away.
• Eaten Alive: Anyone that makes contact is slowly and painfully absorbed.
• Hollywood Acid: Being exposed to it for too long can kill a human and disintegrate their body, though it doesn't dissolve any metal rails it moves on and leaves the clothes of their victims behind.
• Meaningful Name: "Hygrodere" is latin for "to get wet", befitting a Blob Monster.
• Mega-Microbes: The Hygrodere is stated to be a giant mass of living organisms from the same group as algae and bacteria - it multiplies rapidly and assimilates anything it comes in contact with.
• Mighty Glacier: These massive things are invincible and about as fast as an actual glacier, but don’t be fooled - brief contact with one will inflict grievous amounts of damage, and it only takes a couple of seconds to kill a worker.
• NPC Roadblock: They're very sluggish but also very wide, to the point that workers often have to route around it or try to jump over if they're in a hurry. In some cases when evading another hostile creature, it may be preferable to risk brief contact with a Hygrodere blocking your path to make it to safety.
• Slower Than a Snail: They are extremely slow and rather easy to avoid unless you're cornered or dealing with other creatures. Bringing a boombox and playing it near one only makes it slightly faster.
• Touch of Death: Whatever it's made of, it's toxic and too much exposure to it will kill any unlucky worker.

Thumpers

Scientific Name: Pistris-saevus

Other Names: Halves, Crawlers

Sigurd's Danger Level: 70%

Two-legged, highly aggressive creatures who lack hearing, but have incredible eyesight and move extremely fast (though they struggle to maneuver around corners). Thumpers are normally found patrolling the buildings and are one of the most aggressive entities that can be encountered indoors.

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• Autocannibalism: The bestiary notes that at birth, Thumpers have useless legs that they need to eat in order to escape their egg shell.
• Bad Vibrations: Their movements make a distinct and heavy thud, usually followed by a roar once they spot prey.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: According to the Bestiary, Thumpers have generally useless legs at birth that they must auto-cannibalize to escape from their eggs; their bodies are deceptively rubbery and flexible which allows them to fit into comparatively small spaces like doorframes or vents; and they're classified as Chondrichthyes, effectively making them land-sharks. Of particular note are their heads, which has a flap of skin full of small and sharp teeth that can peel open, exposing their actual shark-like head full of larger teeth used when feeding. Moreover, they're born completely deaf and can lose track of their targets easily, with the caveat being that they’re utterly relentless until they do.
• Eaten Alive: A Thumper that catches a target will gnaw on their body and shake it around for a few moments before moving on.
• Faster Than They Look: Despite being legless, Thumpers move frighteningly fast and are capable of tremendous bursts of speed on top of that, though they can be stymied by sharp turns - your best bet to evade one is to try losing them in mazes or catwalks that have plenty of turns as you book it for the exit, since otherwise they'll remain in pursuit until you lose enough stamina to lag behind and die. For anyone brave and/or foolish enough to take it head on, striking a Thumper with a melee weapon will cause it to stagger and lose speed, making it easy pickings after the first blow.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The bestiary states Thumpers are born with legs that they need to auto-cannibalise in order to get the nutrients required to break their egg shells. They get the nickname of "Halves" due to this.
• Land Shark: Thumpers are close relatives of sharks and are portrayed as aggressive and restless predators.
• Lightning Bruiser: They're amazingly fast and can kill workers in two hits.
• Meaningful Name: The scientific name, Pistris-saevus, translates to "Fish Savage" from Latin. Thumpers are noted to be from Chondrichthyes, which is a real-life family of sharks and rays, and similarly have cartilaginous skeletons.
  • Their common name both refers to their stomping movements and means of attack.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Thumpers are close relatives to land sharks, but have arms instead of fins and skin similar to human flesh.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Both their nested mouth and the growths around their head have many pointy teeth.
• Roar Before Beating: They roar pretty loudly when spotting prey, which is the clearest sign that whoever they spotted is in trouble.
• Sense-Impaired Monster: Thumpers are deaf.
• Terrestrial Sea Life: Its scientific record state that they are related to aquatic sharks, though they live on land and have grown arms instead of fins.

Spore Lizards

Scientific Name: Lacerta-glomerorum

Other names: Puffers, Spore Dogs

Sigurd's Danger Level: "I don't know probably 5% i just hate this pudgy legged little shit"

Giant reptiles able to shoot spores from their mouths. They are timid and generally harmless, but will attack if it feels threatened.

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• All There in the Manual: The bestiary log reveals they are relatives of Earth alligators.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Subverted. A Spore Lizard's tail creates pink-colored fumes as a mean of self-defense, but is not lethal to predators and only reduces their field of vision while the lizard escapes.
• Cartoony Tail: They have a rather realistic alligator tail with a large purple spherical growth at the end.
• Cowardly Mooks: Spore Lizards are the only enemy that will willingly avoid the players, and only attack if they feel threatened.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: They normally avoid the workers if encountered, but if cornered they will obscure their vision with a burst of spores and bite at them.
• Eyeless Face: They have a similar facial structure to Eyeless Dogs, having mandibles filled with teeth (although Spore Lizard have far less teeth than the former), but otherwise lacking eyes.
• Fantastic Livestock: Spore Lizards are theorized to have been domesticated previously, with the only records that hint at the purpose of this stating they were targeted and harvested for their spore-laced and medicinal tails.
• Lamprey Mouth: Spore Lizards have one, and use it to to shoot spores stored in its tail.
• Meaningful Name: The scientific name Lacerta-glomerorum translates to "lizard groups", or "lizard of groups". Since Spore Lizards do not naturally spawn in groups, it could be referring to the spores the creature grows.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: They’re crocodilian with lamprey-like mouths and a fungus-covered tail, and use their tail in a manner similar to rattlesnakes.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Downplayed - they're part-alligator, but are timid and fearful, avoiding confrontation unless they are cornered and in danger.
• Non-Malicious Monster: They'll make all manner of unpleasant sounds to try and drive off workers and look rather menacing, but will always flee from workers, only dealing low damage with their bites while trying to scramble away.
• No-Sell: Their skin is resistant to shovel strikes.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Downplayed. While Spore Lizards may look intimidating, they don't actively try to harm workers and prefer to run away from them, biting or using their spores to obscure a worker's vision if they get too close.
• Scratch Damage: Their bites barely do any damage, even to a critically-injured player.
• Smoke Out: When threatened, they use the purple growth at the end of their tail to produce bright pink sight-obscuring fumes and try to escape.
• Unique Enemy: Spore Lizards are rare sights, having a low chance to inhabit any moon - the highest chance of spawn rate is only at 12.33% on 41-Experimentation. Appreciate any moment where one appears, as that means they generated in the place of something nastier.

Nutcrackers

Nutcrackers

As the name implies, they are large nutcracker soldier figurines that are typically on the move. When they stop to scan their surroundings, the head lifts to reveal a single eye on a stalk. They are highly sensitive to motion, attacking players within range with a shotgun and kicking those who get too near. They are invincible during their patrol state, and can only be damaged when their eye is exposed.

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• Achilles' Heel: Their eye allows them to scan the area and track down players, and hitting it is the only way to kill the Nutcracker.
• Artificial Stupidity: While perilous, it is possible to manipulate Nutcrackers while avoiding their eye or their line of fire - even a solo player that is capable enough can then make quick work of them with a shovel.
• Blown Across the Room: Get too close and Nutcrackers will quickly wind up a highly telegraphed and vicious kick that sending the victim's body flying. And of course, there's the kick of the shotgun they're carrying.
• Bottomless Magazines: Nutcrackers take a moment to reload when their shotgun is empty, but they never run out of ammunition. However, they only drop two shells for players to make use of, and the shotgun will contain any shells that weren't fired by the Nutcracker after reloading - this means you can only acquire a maximum of four shells, and one shell takes up an entire inventory slot.
• Carrying the Weakness: Nutcrackers drop their shotgun and 2-4 shells when killed, which can be used to take out other Nutcrackers instantly with a well-placed shotgun blast to their eye.
• Cyber Cyclops: They have a rather distinctly organic eye right below their head that pops up when they detect nearby workers. When the Nutcracker is killed, the eye falls into the torso and sprays out a big burst of blood.
• Do Not Drop Your Weapon: Averted - they will keep a hold of their shotgun even after falling over dead, though workers can still take it off the body.
• Eye Scream: Attacking its eye will kill the Nutcracker and cause the eye to burst in a plume of blood.
• Go for the Eye: The Nutcracker will occasionally scan the surrounding area by revealing an eye from its head, which is its only weak spot.
• Groin Attack: May occur with particularly unlucky workers, though the kick is always lethal regardless.
• Instakill Mook: Workers that make contact with one are one-shot regardless of health.
• Item-Drop Mechanic: The Nutcracker is the only enemy in the game that drops an item when killed.
• Living Motion Detector: Nutcrackers can only detect players if they move while its eye is directly looking at them, as Sigurd's log explicitly spells out - once it spots someone moving, the Nutcracker will chase them until they die.
• Machine Blood: They are robots with an organic eye nested inside their head that explodes bloodily once it dies.
• Punny Name: Get too close to them and they might show you another meaning for the word "nutcracker".
• Short-Range Shotgun: The shotgun they carry has damage falloff at a distance, making its shots survivable at long range and almost invariably lethal at point-closer range.

Jesters

Scientific Name: Insaneus Thingus

Other Names: Music Boxes, Jack-In-The-Boxes

Sigurd's Danger Level: 90% "Get out o fthere before it goes APE!! You cant hide from it, just evacuate. i think it goes back in its box if everyone stays outside long enough"

Mysterious and extremely dangerous entities that resemble literal Jack-in-the-Box toys on legs. They look somewhat adorable at first glance due to their short size and bright-colored box, but beware: these creatures are ticking time bombs. It follows around certain players and, after some time has passed, starts winding itself up into a far more lethal state. Only one Jester can spawn at a time.

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• Ax-Crazy: Winding up its music box is a warning - once the music is done, the Jester will know where everyone is in the building, and will restlessly hunt them all down.
• Binomium ridiculus: They're given the scientific name of Insaneus Thingus.
• Bright Is Not Good: It's as colorful as you'd expect a jack-in-the-box to be, and seeing one is a sign to get out ASAP.
• Creepy Asymmetry: This monster has two legs and only a single arm, whose sole purpose is to crank up its music box.
• The Dreaded: Sigurd's logs make it clear that he's reasonably too afraid to study or try to make sense of the Jester.
• Eaten Alive: Once a wound-up Jester catches up to a worker, their head pops out and snatches their prey up to throttle them.
• Gathering Steam: A Jester that's fully wound up begins gaining speed fast until it can easily run across the entire building to catch its prey, with the only solace being that others players besides its current target have precious seconds to leave the building before it starts after them next.
• Increasingly Lethal Enemy: The Jester is initially harmless, following players around without acting - but after a certain amount of time passes or it is attacked, it starts winding itself up, and once that finishes, it becomes a lethally persistent foe that will beeline for any and all players in the facility, one-shotting any that it finds and becoming faster the more time it spends in its chasing mode.
• Instakill Mook: A Jester in chase mode one-shots any unlucky employee they catch.
• Leitmotif: The only monster to have one, and naturally it's "Pop Goes The Weasel".
• Lightning Bruiser: The instant the Jester becomes aggressive, it's impossible to outrun, and the only option is to leave the building posthaste.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Nothing is known about these things, and the bestiary entry says as much, with the only information being a warning to run away the second you spot one.
• Run or Die: If it starts cranking itself up, stop what you're doing and make for an exit immediately. You don't want to be anywhere inside that facility when this particular weasel pops.
• Scary Jack-in-the-Box: They are living Jack-in-the-Boxes with a pair of legs, a single arm, and a skull-like head that it uses to mangle victims.
• Skull for a Head: Inside their box is a giant skull mounted on a large fleshy stalk.
• The Spook: Barring the Ghost Girl, every creature in the game is merely an incredibly dangerous animal or organism operating on its hunger and instincts, and even the Coil Heads have some theories as to their origin. Meanwhile, the Jester is a complete anomaly with the only information on them being a direct warning to stay away.
  "Get out of there before it goes APE!! You cant hide from it, just evacuate (…) THERE'S NO FREAKING SCIENTIFIC RECORD! good luck, you know as much as us. we just call it the jester"
• Stalked by the Bell: While seemingly non-hostile when it gets close to you, encountering one of these is a sign for experienced players to pack up and leave the facility as soon as they start winding themselves up. If you take too long and they aggro, they will hunt you down and swallow you alive. Leaving the building is also the only way for to reset the Jester to its docile state, though it'll start winding up again if it finds a new target.
• Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A walking jack-in-the-box that's an invulnerable ticking time bomb, waiting to hunt down anyone unlucky enough to be around when it goes off.
• You Are Already Dead: After it winds up and enters its chase mode, anyone that hasn't left the building already upon hearing "Pop Goes The Weasel" is likely good as dead.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Once it aggros, it immediately knows the location of every player foolish enough to still be in the building, and will phase through any and all obstacles to catch them.

Butlers/Masked Hornets

Sigurd's Danger Level: 70%

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First introduced in the V50 update along with the Old Birds and Tulip Snakes, these large, bloated humanoid creatures are primarily found within mansion interiors. They're named after their sharp suits and their tendency to sweep the floor of rooms with their brooms. This belies their murderous intent: when a Butler is alone with a worker or is attacked unprovoked, they suddenly whip out a kitchen knife and chase the closest worker down with the intent to kill. Upon death, they explode into a swarm of hornets that roam the complex, behaving similarly to Circuit Bees.

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• Alone with the Psycho: One of the Butler's biggest weaknesses is the buddy system, as they normally only target workers who are seperated from the group - they won't try to kill anyone openly if there's witnesses around, unless they're attacked.
• Ambiguously Human: Even before you realize the creature is just a mobile hive of sentient and predatory hornets, their human disguises aren't that convincing, and their faces resemble a blobfish pulled to the surface more than anything recognizably human.
• The Butler Did It: The Butler's modus operandi. It wanders around the complex, sweeping floors and looking for lone players - when it finds a loner, it'll keep up the act and make sure there are no witnesses before pulling out a kitchen knife and rushing towards the target to murder them.
• Carrying the Weakness: Butlers drop their knives upon defeat, which can be wielded by workers and kills Butlers in one stab.
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: The knifes they drop make up for their low damage values with their quick stabbing speed, landing hits much faster than a shovel would.
• Glass Cannon: They can ruthlessly and quickly stab a worker to death, but die to 1-2 shovel swings.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: The knives Butlers drop are the best means of killing them.
• Not Worth Killing: Butlers are best left avoided but alive until the end of a run, as killing them releases an invulnerable hornet swarm that continuously chases down employees in the facility, pretty much ending the day's scrap run.
• "Pop!" Goes the Human: Humanoid in this case. When killed, a Butler will expand and then pop, releasing a swarm of hornets.
• Scare Chord: A Psycho-style chord plays whenever they enter their "murderer mode".
• Scary Stinging Swarm: Killing a Butler causes it to pop into a swarm of murderous hornets that roam the facility, acting in a manner similar to Circuit Bees.
• Underground Monkey: The Masked Hornets are functionally identical to Circuit Bees when their mobile hive is destroyed.
• The Worm That Walks: They may actually be a synchronized, sentient hornet swarm in a person-shaped suit.

Others

The Ghost Girl

Other Names: The Little Girl

An ethereal entity resembling a little human girl in a red polka-dot dress. She will haunt one employee at a time and be invisible to everyone else but the employee they're haunting, first appearing at a distance before eventually approaching and killing them by making their head explode. She cannot be scanned, can go indoors and outdoors and the ship doors won't be able to lock her out...

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• Ambiguous Situation: Her whole existence sparks many questions. Who is she? Why is her ghost haunting moons, and how did a girl her age get out here in the first place? Why does she want to kill employees working for the company? Is she even real, or a result of severe madness given lethal ability?
• Ax-Crazy: She's a malevolent and possibly hallucinated entity that enjoys stalking, tormenting, and toying with the workers before killing them one by one, all while giggling.
• Creepy Child: A pale little girl that stalks a player of her choice, and can kill them if they come in contact with her.
• Electromagnetic Ghosts: Her presence can be sensed by the flickering of facility lights or the terminal's computer.
• Enfant Terrible: The spirit of a young child who kills any adult worker that works for The Company after stalking and terrorizing them.
• Evil Redhead: A malevolent spirit of a red-haired child.
• Forehead of Doom: One of her most noticeable and notable features is her large forehead.
• Ghastly Ghost: She's a pale, redheaded little girl with a Forehead of Doom who taunts her victims with her giggling and heavy breathing, and will make their head explode if she catches up to them.
• Giggling Villain: She giggles when she finds a target, which is the cue to run the hell away.
• Hallucinations: Possibly. Only one player at a time can see the Ghost Girl, which can cause confusion among teammates. However, she will explode the head of anyone she touches, so it's more likely she's an actual spirit.
• Instakill Mook: It's not impossible to evade the Ghost Girl, but if her prey is cornered and she reaches them, their head will explode.
• Invincible Villain: Weapons don't work on her, she cannot be scanned, and she can leave the facility - hiding inside the ship with the door locked won't stop her from trying to kill you.
• Invisible to Normals: Only those she targets can see her, and they will usually be players who are considered the most paranoid by the game. This can lead to plenty of confusion in groups whenever someone starts losing their head out of nowhere, only for the turn of phrase to become very literal shortly afterwards.
• Just Ignore It: The best way to avoid her pursuit is to not turn around when you hear her behind you.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: So far, the Ghost Girl is the only foe that is supernatural in nature and cannot be scanned (while the Masked can't be scanned either, they are real to everyone). Whether she's an actual ghost or the effect of severe delirium taking over a player is yet to be confirmed.
• Mighty Glacier: The Ghost Girl's only weakness is that she is rather slow - as long as you aren't cornered, stuck on a tight hallway or have other monsters to worry about, it's somewht simple for a player to kite her.
• No Name Given: Whilst many players nickname her "Ghost Girl", her official name remains unknown - she also cannot be scanned and lacks a bestiary log.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Brackens and Coil Heads are elusive but can be strategized against, and even the weird and anomalous Jesters act somewhat predictably. The Ghost Girl, though? You can't even scan or see her, unless she's already after you, and it's likely no one else will notice unless they spot your erratic behavior from trying to avoid her, or else when you're decapitated in front of them.
• Red Is Violent: Has red hair, wears a red dress, and explodes the heads of players they catch.
• Sadist: She starts off stalking, tormenting, and toying with one worker at first, likely terrifying and freaking out the poor unsuspecting soul while they try to tell the others what's happening - she'll happily skip and chase after the poor employee before long, ultimately killing them on contact by blowing up their head, all while giggling and laughing. Once they're dead, she just repeats the entire process until the others are dead or else leave the planet.
• Skip of Innocence: She can be seen skipping happily across the facilities... while she's on her way to kill the employee of her choice.
• The Spook: Similar to Jesters, the Ghost Girl has zero helpful information tied to her and can't even be scanned in the first place. On worlds with monstrous animals, biological weapons and remnants of old security systems gone rogue, it's very telling and confusing that the Ghost Girl is the only explicitly supernatural thing seen in the game.
• Stalker without a Crush: She stalks a specific worker similar to the Bracken, but cannot be seen by others and can follow her victim outside the facility, even reaching them inside the ship!
• Super-Persistent Predator: The Ghost Girl is one of two enemies that can follow her target outside and even into the ship, walking through the locked door.
• Tick Tock Terror: A hint that you're being haunted is hearing the chimes of a grandfather clock.
• Touch of Death: If she touches the player she's haunting, they instantly die via their heads exploding.
• Undead Child: The only thing known for certain about her.
• Vader Breath: Hearing her heavy breathing is a sign that a player is being haunted.
• Your Head Asplode: How she kills her prey.

The Masked

Other Names: Mimics, Zombies

Workers of the Company who have been possessed by a Dramatic Mask. They can spawn like any other enemy indoors, and are created if a Dramatic Mask possesses a player. They attempt to imitate human players non-verbally before moving in to grab their target, regurgitating blood onto them and turning them into another Masked.

The dramatic masks come in two forms: the Tragedy Mask and the Comedy Mask. The Tragedy Mask is the more potent and dangerous of the two - while the Comedy Mask can still be removed if the player is quick, the Tragedy Mask offers no such respite.

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• Artificial Stupidity: While they are intelligent and know how to mimic human behavior in order to trick their prey, they can nonetheless be easily tricked into walking on landmines, which will kill them on the spot.
• Bludgeoned to Death: Shovel strikes are among the more effective ways to get rid of them.
• Body Horror: While the external effects are not readily apparent, a Masked projectile-vomiting blood into the face of other victims does not imply anything healthy.
• Clingy MacGuffin: A Dramatic Mask does not relinquish its host body easily, and only teleportation or the intervention of another teammate has a chance of saving the victim. Once the wearer fully turns, the Dramatic Mask becomes their new face, refusing to budge even if they are finally put down. The Tragedy Mask is especially this, as it cannot be taken off once put on unlike the Comedy Mask.
• Death Glare: Upon spotting a new target from a distance, the Masked will stop dead in their tracks and stare them target down before sprinting after them. If you're in the dark, and there's an orange silhouette in the distance that's ominously quiet and still, take it as your cue to leave.
• Demonic Possession: The Masked are workers who got possessed by the mask on their faces, and can also be created from a player who wears a Dramatic Mask. Masked can also multiply by grabbing a player and forcing another mask on them.
• Evil Mask: Does it need to be spelled out?
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Unless you want to be irreversibly transformed into a hostile, blood-spewing puppet that's in dire need of a Mercy Kill, don't put on a Dramatic Mask.
• Expy: The masks themselves are likely inspired by SCP-035, a sentient comedy mask that can also possess victims and cause them to vomit up blood, but can only take one victim at a time.
• Instakill Mook: Any unlucky employee that gets caught and puked on by a Masked will not only die regardless of health, but be converted into another Masked.
• It Can Think: The Masked are surprisingly cunning - when not engaging a target, they crudely imitate player behaviours in an attempt to draw in potential victims, even attempting to trick Terminal operators by spinning in place (commonly done to signal for a warp back to the ship). They can also open doors and escape to the outside world, something that other enemies barring the Ghost Girl are incapable of doing on their own. They've even been known to team up and use ambush tactics against players, even hiding behind objects to ambush players entering the ship from outside.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Masked are extremely deadly threats, capable of sprinting and jumping to chase after their targets, and they take a decent amount of punishment to put down while being able to easily kill and possess anyone within reach. Taking on even a single converted worker without firearms usually requires a carefully coordinated effort by the rest of the team. A lone Masked can be put down by one or two careful workers with properly timed shovel or stop sign strikes, either while backing away or interrupting their attempts to grab the other worker using melee attacks or the zap gun - two or more Masked are much more challenging to deal with.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Dead former employees of the Company wearing creepy-looking theater masks that multiply themselves by tricking living workers and turning them into more Masked Mimics.
• Mimic Species: They are currently the only enemy that can take on the appearance of players, and use this to their advantage to try and trick players into getting close to them. From a distance, you might mistake them for one of your buddies, but getting any closer for a better look, paying close attention to their movements or maintaining communication with your actual co-workers swiftly breaks the illusion.
• Monster Organ Trafficking: The Company is perfectly fine with accepting Masked bodies as salvage.
• Possessing a Dead Body: Anyone who becomes a Masked is dead for all intents and purposes, forcing them into Spectator mode as with other deaths, while their puppeteered body runs off to attack the other workers.
• Puppeteer Parasite: If they catch a player, they will puke blood on their face to turn them into another Masked, leaving them to watch in Spectator Mode as the turned character tries to kill their teammates.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The eyes of a Dramatic Mask will glow red when it completes its possession of a player.
• Schmuck Bait: The only players who put on Dramatic Masks are either completely uninitiated or [[Griefing trying to be funny]].
• Super-Persistent Predator: Masked will pursue their target relentlessly, jumping over railings and ledges like players can, and even following them outdoors and back to the ship. It's better to kill them than evade them, though it should be done carefully since they will grab players on contact.
• Uncanny Valley: Masked will try to imitate player movements (emphasis on "try"), which come off as strange and unnatural.
• The Virus: The Masked are unique in that they can increase their number by possessing others, as well as catching and killing players to convert them. Even a single one is a deadly threat that can easily take out and turn an entire group of players if not hunted down and killed.
• You Are Already Dead: If you put the Tragedy Mask on, you will not be able to take it back off or even swap items, and only teleportation from the ship will stop the mask killing you and taking over your corpse. The Comedy Mask can at least be removed or swapped out for another item before it possesses you.
• Zombie Puke Attack: The Masked's means of turning living workers is effectively this.

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