Presence
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| Type | Creature |
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| Location | Archives |
| Health | 2400 |
| Scrap | 1000 |
| Music | 'Apparition' |
| Bestiary Entry | "Report breached sections immediately.
Do not investigate breached areas on your own. Under no circumstances should yo-" |
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"Yeah, I won't lie. There is definitely some kind of dark Presence further down the floors. Of course you're not scared, eh? Right?" |
Presence is one of four bosses that can appear within the Archives. There is also a basic enemy called an Insubstantial, which looks exactly like Presence but is much less powerful. It can spawn and attack the player at random as an effect of a Curse of Paranoia, and appears in some rooms on floor 6 and below.
Attack Patterns
| Description | Video |
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| Presence shoots six pairs of bursts of medium-sized bullets from its center outward. The bullets fired from the first burst are misaligned, while each subsequent burst has the paired bullets fired in alignment. Each of the subsequent bursts also fires at a slightly different angle clockwise of the previous.
As it fires off its bursts, large blue bullets will appear from offscreen and drift in the direction of the player. This happens twice for each attack. By default, there are 5 of these at a time, but every time Presence loses a third of its HP, another bullet is added. |
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| Between each attack, Presence blinks around the arena between one and five times. | 
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| Once the player has depleted 33% of Presence's health, it will immediately disappear in a burst of blood, destroying all bullets on screen and spawning six Lost Souls in its wake. | 
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| When the player has depleted 66% of Presence's health, it will immediately disappear in a burst of blood, destroying all bullets on screen and spawning two Beasts in its wake. | 
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Hard Mode
Presence features two unique attacks in its hard mode variant. It will still start the fight with the same attack as before, but after that it can use any of its attacks. The initial burst of offset rings will happen before every attack, but on hard mode, there are 4 rings instead of 2.
| Description | Video |
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| Presence spews six legs of bullets in chaotic, swinging patterns. | 
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| Presence slings six tightly spaced lines of five bullets outward from its center, repeating the attack at different angles seven times total. | 
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Notes
- At the beginning of the fight, there is a short period of time where Presence cannot change phases. If its health is below 33% when this period ends, both enemy waves will spawn at the same time. If its health reaches 0 during this period (usually achieved through Quickening), the entire fight can be skipped.
- Skipping the boss and all of the sub phases entirely is rare and requires specific timing and damage percentage.
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