The Specter cannot fully resolve under normal observation. It is most visible at close range or while the flashlight is off, and it stalks more aggressively through darkness. Direct flashlight illumination within effective range collapses its local waveform and displaces it to a distant coordinate.
The protocol is to sweep dark corridors deliberately, hold the light on it until displacement is confirmed, and move before it finds another route into the lattice.
As a guardian
In the armed response the Specter guards a Transmit Node. Everything else that steps out of the rifts resolves in time. The Specter never does, until light finds it, and it takes half of every wound until then. Lit long enough, it is displaced across its hall to coordinates the T-Link cannot read, and comes back by another route. Its hall loses its lamps while it stands. Its record line reads: direct light collapses its waveform; it has always come back.
Not related to
The Specter is not a variant of Red Static.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, section 3, EXT-05
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES