Gallu

Ability: three states

The Gallu has three states: normal, enraged and weakened. It starts in the normal state, where it behaves like a standard ghost. It goes from normal to enraged, or from weakened to normal, in these cases:

• Instantly, when it burns a Crucifix.
• Instantly, when the Incense blinding effect wears off during a hunt.
• If it’s affected by Incense outside of a hunt, after a time equal to the last Incense blinding effect it went through:
  • instantly, if it was never smudged during a hunt;
  • 4 s, if it was enraged the last time;
  • 5 s, if it was normal;
  • 6 s, if it was weakened.
• 2 s after stepping in Salt, if it’s normal.
• 3 s after stepping in Salt, if it’s weakened.

The changes don’t stack. For example, if it’s weakened and steps in a second Salt pile 1 s after the first, it won’t become enraged 1 s after going back to normal.

Activity

• It can’t disturb Salt while it’s enraged.
• If it steps in Salt while weakened, it can leave footprints for up to 3 s: 6 footprints instead of the 4 other ghosts leave.

Hunt

If a hunt ends with the Gallu enraged, it instantly becomes weakened (this is what counts toward the “Abilities used” statistic).

Behavior	Normal	Enraged	Weakened
Hunt sanity threshold	50%	60%	40%
Crucifix range	Standard	2 m less	1 m more
Base speed	1.7 m/s	1.955 m/s	1.36 m/s
Incense blinding effect	5 s	4 s	6 s
Tier III Salt slowing effect	2 s	none	3 s

Strategy

• Be very careful, especially while gathering evidence. Since it has Ultraviolet, you may want to confirm it or get extra photos with Salt, and if it steps in the Salt it becomes enraged. The Salt’s tier doesn’t matter: even Tier I Salt enrages it, even though it doesn’t affect its hunt.
• For identifying it, this works in your favor: while enraged it can’t step in Salt, so if it only stepped in one pile and no others (even though it walked over them), it’s probably a Gallu. Don’t confuse it with the Wraith, which doesn’t step in Salt either and shares Spirit Box and EMF Level 5 with the Gallu. If you used Incense nearby or a Crucifix was used up shortly before you tested the Salt, and the Salt is untouched, consider the Gallu.
• When escaping during a hunt, slowing it with Incense or Tier III Salt will make it speed up afterwards. If you don’t reach safety before the effect runs out, it’ll cost you. Tier III Sanity Medication is a better option: it gives you speed without enraging it.
• If you know you can survive a hunt, enraging it on purpose pays off: when the hunt ends it’s weakened and the following hunts are easier.

Trivia

• In Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythology, the gallu (or galla) is an underworld demon that dragged people down there until it was appeased with animal sacrifices. It appears most notably in the story of Inanna’s descent to the underworld.
• A Tier I Crucifix placed on the floor never prevents hunts from an enraged Gallu: the ghost’s head is 1.5 m above the floor and the Crucifix would only have 1 m of range.

Change history

Version	Change
0.15.1.0	Added the Gallu.