Goryo

Activity

• It roams less than other ghosts and, because of that, interacts more: it’s the ghost with the most interactions at 0% sanity.
• It only does short roams, never long ones, so it can’t change its favorite room on any difficulty. Only the Monkey Paw’s sanity wish can change that.
• D.O.T.S on camera only. It only enters the D.O.T.S state if it’s in its favorite room and there are no players in that room. Its D.O.T.S silhouette can only be seen through a Video Camera, not with the naked eye. During ghost events and hunts it manifests normally.
• From the roaming state, it has a 2/3 chance to enter the D.O.T.S state (1/3 for other ghosts).
• When choosing the favorite room state, it has a 10% chance to enter the D.O.T.S state instead. That makes it the only ghost that can appear in D.O.T.S even when roaming is disabled by The Hermit card or the Monkey Paw’s trap wish.
• In the D.O.T.S state, if anyone is in the investigation area, it moves toward a point within 1 m (2 m for other ghosts), always inside its favorite room.
• Advanced mechanic (not officially verified): if it’s in its favorite room, it can move toward its roam waypoint while still idle and choose other actions along the way. That makes it the only ghost that can return to its favorite room in the middle of a roam.

Evidence

In contracts with only 1 or 2 evidence types, the Goryo always keeps D.O.T.S Projector.

How to identify it

• You need a Video Camera pointed at an active D.O.T.S Projector, or held by a player outside the room. If the silhouette shows up on the camera’s screen but not to the naked eye, it’s probably a Goryo. If you can see it without a camera, it’s not a Goryo.
• Ghost events only need you to be fairly close; the ghost doesn’t have to roam to perform them (at most it teleports). A ghost event somewhat far from its room doesn’t rule it out, but one very far away generally does.
• With 1 or 2 evidence, if D.O.T.S Projector isn’t one of them, it’s not a Goryo.
• If it won’t show up in D.O.T.S, have everyone leave the investigation area: the D.O.T.S state usually lasts longer that way.
• With no evidence (custom difficulty with 0) it’s almost impossible to confirm, because all that’s left is its fixed room and its short roams, and other ghosts can behave that way too. Wait and see if it changes rooms at low sanity, or use Motion Sensors and Salt to see how far it travels in one go. Always hunting from the same room also points to it, especially with a high Roaming frequency.

Trivia

• In Japanese folklore, people feared that the soul of someone who died tragically would become a vengeful spirit (an onryō, like the Onryo) that caused disasters and epidemics. To appease it, it was worshipped as a goryō (御霊, “honorable spirit”). That word can also be read mitama, a respectful way of referring to ancestral spirits.
• In the game it has none of that: it shares ghost models and names with the other ghosts, so it has an American look and name.
• You can take a “D.O.T.S Ghost” photo of its silhouette: the light on the Tier I Photo Camera and the frame on the Tier II and III ones detect it like any other subject. Just like with the Phantom, the ghost doesn’t show up in the photo, but it counts toward the optional objective to capture a photo of the ghost.

Change history

Version	Change
0.3.0	Added the Goryo.
0.8.0	No longer changes its favorite room or does long roams.
0.13.0	Has a higher chance to enter the D.O.T.S state.