The Skull Merchant
Power — Eyes in the Sky
SPECIAL ABILITY: EYES IN THE SKY
The Skull Merchant starts the Trial with 6 Drones in her inventory.
When a Survivor is tracked by a Drone within 5 seconds of it being deployed or having its rotation direction changed, The Skull Merchant is granted a #haste Haste
Status Effect for 8 seconds.
This effect is entirely passive and does not require her to inspect her Radar.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: INSPECTING RADAR
Press the Secondary Power button to bring up her Radar.
The Radar displays the location of all Trackable Survivors and reveals the Auras
of Drone Scan Lines within 32 metres:
- The Survivor was detected by a Drone in the last 12 seconds.
- The Survivor is wearing a Claw Trap.
The Radar represents Trackable Survivors with symbols that indicate their relative elevation compared to The Skull Merchant:
- ■ = same elevation
- ▲ = above her
- ▼ = below her
SPECIAL INTERACTION: RECALLING DRONES
While inspecting the Radar and aiming at a specific Drone, press the Power button to recall it into your inventory.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: CHANGING ROTATIONAL DIRECTION
While inspecting the Radar and aiming at a specific Drone, press the Attack button to change the Rotational direction of its Scan Lines.
SPECIAL ABILITY: DEPLOYING DRONES
Press the Power button to deploy a Drone:
- Conducts an sweeping scan inside its Area of Effect at a Rotational speed of 95 °/s.
- Grants the Undetectable
Status Effect for 8 seconds. - Its Aura is revealed to The Skull Merchant in yellow at all times.
Once a Survivor is detected inside the Area of Effect:
- Fills the Lock On Meter by +1 Stack.
This effects repeats each time a Survivor is detected, unless the detection occurs within 2.5 seconds of the previous one.
All Drones have an Area of Effect with a radius of 10 metres.
Drone Scan Lines are only visible within 16 metres.
Survivors who are crouching, standing still or performing a Fast Vault inside the Area of Effect cannot be detected by the Scan Lines.
SPECIAL AFFLICTION: LOCK ON
Once the Lock-On Meter is full at 3 Stacks, the Survivor becomes Locked On and suffers from the following effects:
- Healthy Survivors receive damage and become injured.
- Injured Survivors suffer from the Deep Wound Status Effect.
- Suffer from the Broken Status Effect regardless of their Health State.
- Receive a Claw Trap.
If a Survivor stands below an elevated Drone for longer than 1 second, they are instantly scanned and become Locked On.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: HACKING DRONES
Survivors can approach a Drone in either of its two states and hack it through a unique mini-game:
- Succeeding disables the Drone for 45 seconds.
- Failing fills the Lock On Meter by +1 Stack.
SPECIAL AFFLICTION: CLAW TRAP
The Claw Trap attached to a Survivor's arm has a Battery life of 45 seconds and continuously broadcasts their location to the Radar of The Skull Merchant until it runs out, automatically destroying it.
Claw-Trapped Survivors who are scanned by a Drone suffer from the following effects:
- Applies a -8 % Hindered Status Effect for 6 seconds.
- Triggers Killer Instinct for 3 seconds.
Unique perks — 3
Teachable on any killer once unlocked
Whenever you hit the Survivor with currently the highest cumulative Chase time with a Basic Attack, Game Afoot triggers its primary effect:
- Causes the Obsession Status to transfer to that Survivor.
While chasing the Obsession, performing the Break or Damage action causes Game Afoot to trigger its secondary effect:
- Grants a +10 % Haste Status Effect for 8/9/10 seconds.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
"This one might actually be a challenge..." — Sonhadores Sombrios, Issue #3
Whenever a Survivor performs an Unhook action, they suffer from the following effect for 60 seconds:
- Reduces their Healing speeds by 20/25/30 %.
"Good. Now we can move in for the kill." — Adriana Imai
Start the Trial with 3 Tokens.
Whenever you break a Breakable Wall or a dropped Pallet, THWACK! consumes -1 Token and applies the following effect:
- Causes all Survivors within 36 metres of your location to scream and reveal their Aura for 4/5/6 seconds.
Whenever you hook a Survivor, THWACK! is granted +1 Token.
"All those who stood in her path feared her mighty THWACK!" — Sonhadores Sombrios, Issue #3
Release & tier
- Introduced
- Tools of Torment2023 · $11.99
- Tier
- B
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The Skull Merchant — common questions
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