Spectres (OFF)

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“	I'm asking you, what would the appeal of a video game in which it isn't possible to die be, eh? On his path, the Batter will encounter a large number of adversaries, each one having at their disposal specific attacks and characteristics. Purify them without any distinction whatsoever to gather new items and increase your skills. Other than that, little is known concerning the spectres, they appeared progressively, spreading fear and confusion among the inhabitants.	„
	~ The "Spectres" section in the "others 02" image (translated), located in the "Sketches" folder on the official OFF website.

Background

Spectres are the primary enemy of OFF. They are hostile towards entities who are not also spectres, and terrorize the residents of each Zone. They come in many shapes and sizes, although they share similarities in their appearances. One of The Batter's main objectives is to eradicate the spectres from each Zone.

It is implied by The Judge that The Queen is the only one who has control over the spectres. Japhet, at one point, also insists that he can control them, although he is shown to fail. The Judge also asserts that Japhet cannot control them, despite Japhet's claims. Not only can the Queen control the Spectres, but according to a book in the library, she may even have the ability to create them and may also be the one sending out the Spectres to destroy the land that she created, however, the book ends by saying that "those rumors are nothing but speculations". A piece of evidence that supports this is the fact that Japhet (possessing Valerie's body) states that "they are my arms, sent to me by the Queen to restore justice to this zone".

Powers and Stats

Tier: 8-C

Name: Spectres

Origin: OFF

Gender: Varies

Age: Unknown

Classification: Phantoms, Spirits, Impurities, Abstract Beings

Attack Potency: Building level (Noted by Dedan that no one is capable of fighting phantoms asides from The Queen’s royal officers. Which would scale them above Elsen, who can reach the size of buildings at their largest)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Human level

Combat Speed: Subsonic (Can tag and kill Elsen who can tag a train, which moves at 39.227777777781 m/s at top speeds)

Reaction Speed: Subsonic

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Striking Strength: Building Class

Durability: Building Class

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee Range, likely higher with Competences

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses (Can still attack enemies while under the blinded status effect), Undead Physiology, Non-Corporeal (The phantoms are souls of dead people), Abstract Existence (Type 2. There exists naturally abstract Spectres who are described as “imprecise”), Non-Physical Interaction & Soul Manipulation (Type 7. Can interact with The Batter and his Add-Ons), Conceptual Manipulation (Can imbue their attacks with abstract ideas, can summon speech bubbles to attack ), Summoning (With “Ah, ah”, can summon “Ah, ah”, Who inflict the blindness status effect), Power Absorption (With “Square Game”, drains competence from the user), Duplication (Porter Spectre can split themself into 8 sets of 3 smaller spectres), Healing (With “Aspirating Suzerain”, can heal themself and allies), Status Effect Inducement, Sense Manipulation (With “Chronic Migrain”, induces the blindness status effect. Along with “Magical Amnesia”), Statistics Reduction (With “Paradise Smile”, drops one’s defense), Paralysis Inducement (With “Fallen Angel”, inflicts the palsy status effect), Madness Manipulation (Type 2. With “Immediate Forfeiture”, inflicts the madness status effect), Poison Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (With “Love Game”, inflicts the furious status effect), Power Nullification (With “Heavy Silence”, inflicts the mute status effect. This is also done with “Heavy Silence” and ”Murmur of the flies”), Sleep Manipulation (With “Dance of the Nails”, inflicts the sleep status effect), Resistance to Smoke Manipulation (Has a light resistance to the smoke element), Paralysis Inducement (Has a light immunity to palsy), Soul Manipulation (Has a strong resistance to Batter’s Add-On’s, who are described as spiritual entities), Metal Manipulation (Has a light resistance to the metal element)

Standard Equipment: Nothing notable.

Intelligence: Mindless

Standard Tactics: Spectres will use different competences or attacks as they see fit.

Weaknesses: Some Spectres possess elemental weaknesses. Mainly in metal and plastic.

Notable Attacks/Techniques: Common Spectres

Attack: A standard attack, deals 7-10 damage.

Magnolia

Attack: A standard attack, deals 18-24 damage.
Chronic Migrain: An attack that deals the blindness status effect, making one’s accuracy greatly reduced as they are unable to see.

January

Regular attack: A standard attack, deals 12-16 damage.
Classical Talking: Deals around 30 damage.

Fat Spectre

Regular attack: A standard attack.
Classical Talking: Deals around 30 damage.
Ah, ah: Summons the Ah, ah, which can inflict the blindness status effect, making one’s accuracy greatly reduced as they are unable to see.

One-eyed Spectre

Regular attack: A standard attack.
Swing: A special competence attack that deals low damage.

Tiburce

Regular attack: A standard attack.
Square Game: A special attack that drains competence from the opponent.

Troquantary

Regular attack: A standard attack.
Paradise Smile: A special attack that drops one’s defense.

Arpagon

Regular attack: A standard attack.
Swing: A special competence attack that deals low damage.
Classical Talking: Deals massive damage.

Upside-Down Spectre

Heavy Silence: A special competence attack that inflicts the mute status effect, disabling the opponent from using their competences.

Massu

Heavy Silence: A special competence attack that inflicts the mute status effect, disabling the opponent from using their competences.

Whale

Murmur of the Flies: A special competence attack that inflicts the mute status effect, disabling the opponent from using their competences.

Porter Spectre

Unnamed Separation Competence: An unnamed competence that allows the Porter Spectre to split into 8 sets of 3 smaller spectres.

Blind Spectre

Forejudgement: Unknown.

Mute Spectre

Heavy Silence: A special competence attack that inflicts the mute status effect, disabling the opponent from using their competences.

Crown of the Dead

Aspirating Suzerain: Heals themself and their allies.

Von Gacy

Fallen Angel: A special competence attack that inflicts the palsy status effect, which halts the opponents and their competence in their tracks, leaving them vulnerable.

Bear

Magical Amnesia: A special competence attack that inflicts the blindness status effect, making one’s accuracy greatly reduced as they are unable to see.

Abstract Spectre

Immediate Forfeiture: A special competence attack that inflicts the madness status effect, causing the opponent to go insane and start attacking themself.

Infernal Spectre

Love Game: A special competence attack that inflicts the furious status effect, which causes the opponent to abandon all strategy and reason and continuously attack.

Obese Spectre

Dance of the Nails: A special competence attack that inflicts the sleep status effect, which causes the target to fall asleep.

Note: A lot of OFF’s explanations and concepts are very limited and require many different interpretations, thus making it difficult to completely ascertain what certain elements mean, thus using what one can piece together in game along with Mortis’ statements, we have supplied the following profile.

Note 2: It’s assumed naturally that Spectres attack in groups in vs threads.

Gallery

Gallery
Common Spectre January Magnolia Fat Spectre One-eyed Spectre Tiburce Troquantary Arpagon Upside-down Spectre Gilles de Rais Massu Porter Spectre Blind Spectre Mute Spectre Crown of the Dead Von Gacy Abstract Spectre Abstract Spectre (2) Infernal Spectre Obese Spectre