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What is the chance?

IlliterateGenocide
IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,183
in Lore

What is the chance that survivors would actually face the same killer more than once?

We see hear of multiple unseen killers in the lore.

A fluffle of bunnies

a giant multihead machine monster

a village lady who feeds men to pigs.

giant spiders ect.

and multiple survivors mentioned in the lore and flavor text

Wouldnt every trial be something different? there must be thousands of survivors and killers and maps in the actual trials.

the entity has taken whole worlds of people! (We see this in frank stone)

Maybe the lyra twins never saw each other again after entering the fog

Comments

  • icemancat
    icemancat Member Posts: 155

    Realistically, pretty small if we consider the point you mentioned with there canonically being thousands of killers in the Entity's realm.

    However, there is one good example of survivors encountering the same killer again. Dwight, Claudette, and Meg all have faced against the Trapper at least twice.

    1. In the new trailer that starts with Claudette and Jake walking together towards a generator, they encounter the Trapper.
    2. In the Nicolas Cage trailer, we see Dwight, Claudette, and Meg all against the Trapper once more. However, instead of Jake being on their team, it's Cage.

    There's a bunch of unseen killers mentioned in the lore like the ones you mentioned. Only time will tell if they will ever be playable killers in the future.

  • Mooks
    Mooks Member Posts: 15,126

    it depends if they are just thrown in random trials or if they are selected.

    I could see the Entity putting a survivor with arachnophobia against a spider Killer multiple times. Also putting people that know each other (either liking/loving like the Lyra twins or even hating/averse like Elodie and Felix) for additional emotions to feed upon. Also Killer-Survivor pairings like Lee Yun-Jin and Trickster, or Oni and his father.

    Also maybe setting up a survivor multiple times so they expect them again to then break the pattern.


    All depending on how much emotion to leach without draining the last hope too quickly.

  • Mikeadatrix
    Mikeadatrix Member Posts: 927

    Based on voicelines on both sides, we can assume most Survivors and Killers that are paired with each other sorta orbit each others Trials for the extra drama/emotion that the Entity can feast on.

  • CatManThree
    CatManThree Member Posts: 113

    I'm pretty confident that it is just purely random. It works just as it does in-game with killers and survivors being sort of randomly paired with one another and then for the trial being placed on a random realm that is used for them.

    The end of Frank Stone was not the Entity taking an entire world, but devouring it. The Entity devours fallen worlds, be it worlds that have done so on their own or through the entity's direct meddling.

    Also at least some of what you mentioned are not killers. The Entity's realms are shaped by the collective unconscious and contain monsters beyond just the killers. The Creatures from the Fog harassing the Observer as another example are not killers, and are presumably monsters sent by the Entity. Stuff like the spiders or rabbits are examples of the entity meddling with worlds for its own amusement and to speed up their demises before being devoured. They aren't killers but they are creatures that were created by the entity. Tryks has also been described as and shown having created monsters of her own, immediate example coming to mind being the monsters she sent to the Observer to as a joke. There are also monsters from The Void, which itself is largely a mystery but is still presumably effected by the collective unconscious So whether or not some beings are even Entity specific creations can be up for debate.