Enemy
Shadow Figure
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A dark, vague humanoid that appears on CCTV or briefly inside a room — recognition is the whole counter.
- Appearance
- An indistinct, dark humanoid silhouette. No fine detail; rendered more like a smear than a sculpted shape.
- Behavior
- Appears briefly through the CCTV feed or in person, then disappears. Doesn't actively pursue.
- Sanity damage
- low
- How to counter
- Recognize, log the sighting, and keep moving with your tasks. There's nothing to fight or interact with.
- Where it appears
- cctv / rooms
A recognition cue, nothing more
Shadow Figure is documented as a brief CCTV or in-room appearance — a dark humanoid silhouette that holds for a beat, then disappears. Unlike Camera Figure, it doesn't drift toward the camera and doesn't drain sanity progressively. The encounter is essentially a sighting, not a fight.
Why this matters anyway
Sightings aren't free. The reason to document Shadow Figure separately from "nothing happened" is the correlation — a Shadow Figure sighting often precedes a more dangerous encounter elsewhere in the shift. Treat it as a signal to verify the rest of your defences: are you keeping the camera angled down? Have you finished CCTV cross-checks on the current queue? Is your inventory ready for the next hostile spawn?
What not to do
- Don't try to engage it with a weapon. There's no target.
- Don't chase it visually — Shadow Figure isn't a threat to stare at, but neither is it useful intel.
- Don't waste a Photo Camera charge on it.
Sources: community-reported via existing wiki documentation.