WORLD OF HORROR: Perks, Allies, Spells, and Status Guide

[dog]
higher chance of finding items after combat
woof

If that’s what you were trying to squint at

A list of all the other side things I wrote down while working on the codex and bestiary. Hopefully they’ll be of use to someone. This is not a walkthrough. Just more list of things that can maybe help you decide how to plan your playthrough.

This guide contains a list of perks, allies, spells, status, and town status things. I didn’t do a thorough testing of spells, so if you are looking for game breaking advantages you won’t find them here. I’ll just say Expel Evil is kind of busted right now.

Kirie the Transfer Student: Arcane Grasp, Art Knowledge, Folklore Studies, Leadership, Ghost Connection, Quick Thinking, Second Sight, Self Therapy

Aiko the Swimming Team Captain: Art Knowledge, Discipline, Fast Swimmer, Folklore Studies, Hot Bath, Leadership, Quick Thinking, Running Shoes

Haru the Yakuza Driver: Art Knowledge, Core Strength, CQC Training, Folklore Studies, Irezumi, Leadership, Quick Thinking, Yakuza Card

Mizuki the Idol: Art Knowledge, Fame, Folklore Studies, Leadership, Occult Signs, Parting Gift, Quick Thinking, Signed Contract

Kouji the Photographer: Art Knowledge, Deduction, Fast Hands, Folklore Studies, Improvise, Leadership, Reporter’s Bag, Quick Thinking

Mimi the Med Student: Anatomy Class, Art Knowledge, Fast Learner, First Aid, Folklore Studies, Leadership, Quick Thinking

Miki the Rioter: Adrenaline, Art Knowledge, Doomed Already, Folklore Studies, Leadership, Looting, Pickpocket, Quick Thinking

Faster combat actions
Characters: Mimi, Miki

Extra damage against HUMAN enemies
Characters: Mimi
Event: Gym Doll, but currently not working

+2 additional SPELL slots available
Characters: Kirie

+1 PERCEPTION
[you’ve got an eye for art and details]
Characters: [EVERYBODY] Aiko, Haru, Kirie, Kouji, Mimi, Miki, Mizuki
Event: Art Class for +1 FUND

All combat moves deal an extra point damage
Characters: Haru

Using firearms as melee weapons deals more damage
Characters: Haru

Extra EXP bonus for completing a mystery
Characters: Kouji

Regain 1 STAMINA for all passed event skill checks
Characters: Aiko

Regain 1 REASON for all failed event skill checks
Characters: Miki

Faster combat actions for each ally you have
Characters: Mizuki

Allows switching equipment during combat encounters
Characters: Kouji

Getting damaged in combat grants a small experience bonus
Characters: Mimi
Event: Cliffside Ritual event for -5% DOOM

Faster offensive actions
Characters: Aiko

Defeating an enemy regains 2 REASON
Characters: Mimi
Event: Sleeping Nurse, too bad it doesn’t work

+1 KNOWLEDGE [knowledge of various rituals and regional myths]
Characters: [EVERYBODY] Aiko, Haru, Kirie, Kouoji, Mimi, Miki, Mizuki

Completing a mystery grants a random SPELL
Characters: Kirie

Improved resting at home
Characters: Aiko
Event: Exhausted and Bath events for +2 STAMINA +2 REASON.

Throwing items during combat encounter is more effective
Characters: Kouji

Items in the shops are cheaper by 1
[minimum 1]
Your character portrait also gets a wicked shoulder tattoo
Characters: Haru

+1 CHARISMA [nautral ability to guide others]
Characters: [EVERYBODY] Aiko, Haru, Kirie, Kouji, Mimi, Miki, Mizuki

Gain 1 FUNDS for each defeated enemy
Characters: Miki

Small EXP bonus for casting spells
Characters: Mizuki
Event: Professor Takeuchi for random Occult items

Letting ALLIES go grants a permanent bonus to one of your stats
Characters: Mizuki

Higher chance of finding items after combat
Characters: Miki

+1 DEXTERITY
[there’s always a way out from seemingly hopeless situations]
Characters: [EVERYBODY] Aiko, Haru, Kirie, Kouji, Mimi, Miki, Mizuki
Event: Tower Window +2 REASON +5 EXP, World of Darkness +10 EXP

Additional inventory slot
Characters: Kouji

Small DOOM penalty from running from combat
Characters: Aiko

Additional damage against GHOST and ELDRITCH enemies
Characters: Kirie

Forgetting spells regains extra REASON
Characters: Kirie

Extra FUNDS for completing a mystery
Characters: Mizuki

Additional ITEM slot is available in the shops
Characters: Haru
Event: Curious Bookstore +4 FUNDS -2 REASON

Some allies are currently not recruitable so they won’t be listed. Students will be listed separately because they are completely random in terms of stats or effect and they aren’t always the same STUDENT A-F. I’ll only be listing students in name only, in the off chance they are necessary for some events down the line… All the students can be recruited at School.

There are 3 human potential recruiting areas, so there’s a chance that the None Student allies will show up here: Hospital event Paranoid Patient, Village event Masked Figures, and Seaside event City Docks. However I’m not sure if all 3 locations will have all the characters available.

Asato
[witch]
(let go): gain 2 spells
‘Follow me’
Recruit: Hospital event Paranoid Patient, Masked Figures
Actually does give you 2 spells when let go

Camp Dog:
[dog]
+1 additional inventory slot
‘Woof woof’
Recruit: Forest event Trapped Dog

Dog
[dog]
Higher chance of finding items after combat
‘Woof’
Recruit: Forest event Trapped Dog

Fujiko:
[sukeban girl]
Your KICK action deals additional 1 damage
‘hrmph..’
Recruit: Masked Figures

Hermit
[haunted]
(let go): -5 REASON -10% DOOM
‘Y-you don’t ww-anat’
Talk: HERMIT looks at you and blushes. ‘Good thing we’re together in this… right?’
Recruit: Masked Figures

Iwa
[chef]
+2 STRENGTH
‘I’m the best’
Recruit: Seaside event City Docks, Hospital event Paranoid Patient

Kana
[friendly neighbor] [IMPORTANT]
-1 DAMAGE received during combat
‘Ready for adventure’
Recruit: Automatically joins you at the start of the Eel case. Cannot be gotten elsewhere?

Kazumi
[Nurse]
Cheaper TREATMENT and SURGERY actions
‘I can patch that up’
Recruit: Hospital event Paranoid Patient, Masked Figures
Treatment and surgery cost isn’t actually cheaper…

Masafumi
[ghost hunter]
+1 damage against GHOST enemies
‘I detect something’
Recruit: Hospital event Paranoid Patient, Masked Figures

Ryoko
[park ranger]
+1 to weapon’s damage
‘I know a faster way’
Recruit: Seaside event City Docks
Has a habit of crashing the game in any event involving her

Yoichi
[salaryman]
(let go): double available FUNDS (skill doesn’t actually work, what a scammer)
‘I know all the loopholes’
Recruit: Hospital event Paranoid Patient, Masked Figures

Students

Akito
Chiharu
Doi
Hachi
Harue
Hikaru
Kaede
Kairi
Kohaku
Michi
Reiko
Taru

Can be acquired from Library, random events, and item Library Notes.

[COMBAT] [DEFENSIVE]
Lower ELDRITCH enemy DAMAGE by 1
[COST: 3 STAMINA]

[COMBAT] [OFFENSIVE]
Deals 2 damage, gain 2 STAMINA
[COST: 4 REASON]

[RITUAL]
+1 DAMAGE
[COST: 4 REASON]

[SUPPORT] [HEALING]
+2 STAMINA, one time only

[SUPPORT] [INVESTIGATION]
Gain an additional follower
[discard on use]
[COST: 4 REASON]
Can be used to bypass the Cursed Family backstory limit
Sometimes doesn’t work or has a follower limit? Or maybe it tried to recruit someone I already have?
Recruit: Hermit, Kazumi, Masafumi

[SUPPORT]
-6% DOOM
[one time use only]
[COST: 2 STAMINA]
Currently bugged, the item screen won’t disappear after casting spell

[SUPPORT] [HEALING]
+3 STAMINA
-2 Max STAMINA

[SUPPORT]
Adds a new combat action [BITE] until the end of this mystery
[COST: 2 STAMINA]

[SUPPORT]
Until the end of the current mystery, there is no DOOM penalty for escaping from combat
[COST: 4 REASON]

[COMBAT][OFFENSIVE]
Deals 8 Damage
+2% DOOM
[COST: 1 REASON, 1 STAMINA]

[RITUAL]
When your allies die, a random stats gets raised by 1.

[SUPPORT] [HEALING]
+2 REASON
[COST: 10 EXP]
Not one time use. So you can keep using it.

[SUPPORT] [HEALING]
+1 FUNDS
[COST: 2 STAMINA]

[COMBAT] [OFFENSIVE]
Deals 3 damage
[COST: 2 REASON]

[COMBAT] [OFFENSIVE]
Deals damage to the enemy, which increases the lower your STAMINA is
[COST: 2 STAMINA]

[SUPPORT] [HEALING]
Gain 2 STAMINA
[COST: 2 REASON]

[SEAL]
+1 KNOWLEDGE
[discard on use]
[COST: 4 REASON]

[SEAL]
+1 STRENGTH
[discard on use]
[COST: 4 REASON]

[SUPPORT][INVESTIGATION]
For the duration of this mystery, ignore location’s THREAT level
[COST: 3 REASON]
Ignore as in 0 enemy encounter? The spell remains in inventory when I tried to use it. I still run into plenty of enemies.

[COMBAT][OFFENSIVE]
Deals 5 damage
[COST: 3 REASON]

[SUPPORT][INVESTIGATION]
+1 KNOWLEDGE and PERCEPTION until the end of the mystery
[effect doesn’t stack]
[COST: 3 REASON]

[COMBAT] [OFFENSIVE]
defeat target HUMAN enemy
[discard on use]
[COST: 4 REASON]
Worked on human boss Horrible Uncle. Might work on the others.

[SUPPORT] [INVESTIGATION]
Ignore the current event and instantly investigate a random OTHERWORLD location
[COST: 3 REASON]
Unsure if actually working

Everything that shows up under the Status slots.

Mayhem
[raising DOOM will increase your stats]
Only Miki starts with this status

Mimi’s Obsession
-20% max REASON
Mimi starts out with it

The power of science and magic can’t help you.

Brain Damage
Curse (Mental): -2 Knowledge +10% Max REASON

Branded
Curse (Mutation): chance of raising DOOM each investigation

Cursed Signs
Curse
Casting spells rasies doom

Holes
Curse (Mutation): each day, more holes appear
It changes your appearance, not sure if it affects anything else.

Hunger
Curse (Mental)
-1 CHARISMA
[they look tasty]
Can be acquired by eating the Long Pig Steak

Insmasu Look
Curse (Mutation): ocean is calling.
Allows you get ending D on the Mermaid case.
Entirely random, I’ve gotten this even while at Village or Downtown from Hidden Cults event

Nicotine Rush
Curse (Mental)
[1 CIGARETTE each investigation]
All combat actions are faster
[0.9x combat multiplier]
Gained by using Cigarettes

Nicotine Withdrawal
Curse (Mental)
All combat actions are slower
[1.2x combat multiplier]
When you are out of Cigarettes and still have Nicotine Rush status. Haru also starts with this status.

Panic
Curse (Mental): -10% chance to all combat cations

Paranoid
Curse (Mental): each time you lose STAMINA you lose REASON as well
There are two events where you can use this: Paranoid Patient and Old Newspapers.

Stalker:
Curse (Mind): someone is following you
So is there someone actually following you or is this just the most benign curse so far?

Suicidal:
Curse (Mental): each time you lose REASON you lose STAMINA as well

Traumatized
Curse (Mental): -10% Max REASON

Treatable at the Hospital, though some doctors are pure quacks. How do I get blood loss from fixing Hangover? Major injury costs 2 FUNDS to fix, Minor only costs 1

Abdominal Cut:
INJURY (MAJOR)
-10% Max STAMINA

Bite
INJURY (MINOR)
[hopefully it will go away on its own]
Gotten from spider god’s Bitten event, will turn into Infected Wound if left untreated

Broken Bone
INJURY (MAJOR)
-1 STRENGTH, -1 DEXTERITY

Broken Nose:
INJURY ( MINOR)
RESTING is less effective

Broken Jaw
INJURY (MINOR)
You can’t cast any SPELLS

Concussion
INJURY (MINOR)
-1 to KNOWLEDGE
‘My head…’

Coughing Blood
INJURY (MINOR)
-2 DEXTERITY
There’s a chance that Smoke Break will trigger this

Cut Arm Sinew:
INJURY (MAJOR)
Deal -1 damage in combat

Cut Artery
INJURY (MAJORJ)
-1 STAMINA each investigation

Fractured Ribs
INJURY (MINOR)
-1 DEXTERITY

Frostbite
INJURY (MINOR)
-2 STRENGTH
Guaranteed to happen everytime you end up at Boreal Expanse

Hangover
INJURY (MINOR)
-1 to all stats until the end of the current mystery
Gotten from drinking Wine Bottle, but not Champagne. The effects stack by the way
Can be treated, though there’s still the random chance of gaining Blood Loss. How?

Infected Wound
INJURY (MAJOR)
-1 DEXTERITY, -1 PERCEPTION
If you leave Bite status untreated for several turns

Mangled Hand
INJURY (MAJOR)
Attacking in combat deals 1 STAMINA damage to you

Tiny Cuts
INJURY (MINOR)
[no effect]
‘More annoying than anything’

Torn Muscle:
INURY (MAJOR)
Deal -1 damage in combat

Should really come in air quotes for some of these…

Badly Bruised:
-1 STRENGTH until the end of the current mystery

Blood Loss:
-10% Max STAMINA
The effect stacks if you have multiple Blood Loss status
The chance of getting Blood Loss from treatment seems a bit high?

Discharge Summary:
(discard): +20 EXPERIENCE

Hasty Aid:
TREATMENT
When receiving a combat STAMINA wound, replace HASTY AID with a new random INJURY

Stable Condition:
(discard): nothing happens

As doomsday draws closer, the town status will change.

The whole town stopped receiving any outside signal. It must be the radio mast failure…
Does this do anything?

There’s something’s wrong with tap water. It is black and oily and glistening, smells like death. You hope it’s just a temporary issue.
‘Your tap water is black and oily, making it useless to wash yourself’
[You can’t regain health in-between mysteries]
The Bottle [Water] is implied to maybe get around this somehow, but currently doesn’t work.

The air feels heavy, making it hard to breathe…
Your REST action is less effective

Dangerous bands of rioters are gathering around downtown area, the police are hopeless…
Dangerous bands of rioters gather around DOWNTOWN area’

Roads leading out of town were closed by the police. You’ll have to find a new way out…
‘Investigating places located outside the city (VILLAGE, MANSION, FOREST) costs 1% DOOM more’

The friendly dog disappeared last night. You will have to find a new place to buy equipment…
Friendly Dog’s shop is gone :'(

A weird epidemic keeps staff at the hospital busy. Skipping the line will cost you more…
Hospital is overcrowded with sick people. TREATMENT and SURGERY actions cost more’