“A shadow with forty health, say the reports, fine. I’ve seen plenty of shadows and none of them moved on its own.”
The Shadow is the third of the legacy records: forty health points, between the Lurker (fifty) and the Crawler (thirty). From the name, it is assumed to be a creature of the dark.
What survives
- A name and a health figure, forty.
- It doesn’t hurt, and it has no visible body or recorded sound.
Darkness and sanity
Survivors believe that being in the dark weighs on sanity. If it were ever confirmed that something lives in the dark, the Shadow would be the natural candidate. Until then, the dark remains just dark.
How to survive
No advice of its own. Carry the hand-crank flashlight, keep light on the long stretches and don’t walk into a dead corridor without need. A dark corridor holds the danger of what you can’t see, since nothing is known about what might be inside.
What is said
One of the shadows in Level 0 “lingers” longer than it should when the light moves. Others put it down to the flicker of the fluorescents (fluorescent hum). Everyone places it in a different corridor.
See also
Shared entry: Legacy Records. Its siblings: Lurker and Crawler.