The Echo Wraith
The third floor plays it most nights: a scream, same length every time, cut at the same syllable. A recording — still running.
specter · Challenge rating 4
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
The third floor plays it most nights: a scream, same length every time, cut at the same syllable. A recording — the worst minutes of whatever ended there, still running. Stay in range and it stops being audio: smoke you cannot find, the door that would not open, a stranger's last minutes you were never told. Some who stayed too long answer to the wrong name.
Appearance
A translucent figure like light through warped glass, always slightly out of phase with the hall around it. The face is fixed mid-expression — not fear exactly; the expression before fear finishes arriving. The scream reaches you before the figure is visible, and it is always exactly as far away as it was.
Physical description
Human-sized translucent outline, edges rippling like heat-shimmer, surface flickering between clear and faint grey. The face is smeared as if double-exposed, mouth open on a syllable that never completes. It does not walk; it re-occurs, each position a frame closer. Up close, the air it occupies is cold enough to ache in the teeth.
Weaknesses
- total silence — the recording cannot play to no audience
- direct address by its living name
Resistances
- physical weapons
- fire
Hunt it
The Echo Wraith is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.