Yurei

Activity

• Incense. Besides preventing hunts and raising activity for a while, for 90 s it replaces every roam with the favorite room state. That also keeps it from entering its D.O.T.S state.
• Doors. It moves them with more force than other ghosts:

Door type	Yurei’s force	Other ghosts’ force
Hinged	0.6 N	0.01 to 0.05 N
Sliding	26 N	1 to 2 N
Tent	10 N	0.5 to 0.7 N
With a creaking sound (hinged or sliding)	amplitude 1	amplitude 0.2 to 1

• In practice, the Yurei can’t move a door slightly: it only closes it or opens it completely. (A bug keeps it from fully opening or closing locker doors.) During hunts this doesn’t apply and it moves doors like any other ghost.
• Outside of its ability, it doesn’t touch doors any more than other ghosts do.

Ability: shutting a door and draining sanity

First it checks whether its room has an open door. Mostly room doors count, along with exit doors, the large tent doors on the campsites, the Dining Room cabinet doors and the fireplace doors (Living Room and Games Room) on Point Hope, and the washing machine doors and Morgue doors on Sunny Meadows. Hiding spot doors do not count.

If there is one:

• Every player within 7.5 m loses 15% sanity. Players outside the investigation area aren’t affected.
• It picks a random open door in the room and closes it completely, smoothly (not with a slam) and with no creaking sound. This leaves an EMF 2 interaction on the door. Large tent doors don’t close all the way.

How to identify it

• By the doors. Leave doors open at 45° near the ghost to see how it moves them. Outside of hunts, if the ghost opens or closes a door without going all the way, it’s not a Yurei. Keep in mind: any ghost can open or close a door completely and smoothly, so seeing a door close all the way doesn’t confirm its ability.
• By the Incense. If it isn’t using its ability, test its weakness once you know its favorite room: smudge it and place Motion Sensors in the room’s doorways. If within the next 90 s it crosses the sensors and leaves (other than because of a ghost event) or shows up in D.O.T.S, it’s not a Yurei. If it does a ghost event outside its room and then roams away, that rules it out too.

Trivia

• Yūrei (“dim spirit” or “faint spirit”) is the general Japanese term for ghosts or spirits. They’re driven by very different emotions tied to their death (or to their last thought): they can be benevolent (caring for children, handing out sweets) or malevolent (getting revenge, making others suffer). The term includes subcategories like the onryō and the goryō (Onryo and Goryo in the game). Their appearance varies as much as their purpose: some look like normal people and others like horrific monsters.
• Although the journal says it has a stronger effect on sanity, it doesn’t increase passive sanity drain or drain sanity when you look at it, like the Phantom does. And the Jinn drains 25% at once (versus the Yurei’s 15%) and has other abilities on top of that, so by comparison the Yurei comes off as pretty weak.
• Its ability also drains sanity from dead players, who can come back with less sanity than they had if they’re revived.

Change history

Version	Change
Alpha, 5 August 2020	Added the Yurei.
0.2.11.0	Gained the ability to drain sanity from nearby players.
0.3.0	Before this version, its evidence was Ghost Orb, Ghost Writing and Freezing Temperatures.
0.5.0	Now closes nearby doors when it uses its ability.
0.5.1.0	Now closes a single door instead of several.
0.6.2.0	Its ability no longer affects players outside the investigation area.
0.8.0	Can no longer use its ability in a room without a door.