How to get a haunter to cast multiple continuous powers at the same time

By design, a ghost can only cast one continuous (no cooldown) power at the same time. However, due to a coding flaw you can have a ghost casting multiple continuous powers concurrently.

Every ghost has its own counter of current active continuous powers. This counter is signed meaning it can be negative. A ghost can cast a continuous power if the counter is less than 1. The counter simply gets incremented and decremented by 1 each time a power is activated and deactivated. Here's where the bug comes in. If you cancel a specific continuous power while the ghost is beginning to cast that power, the counter will get decremented by 2 instead of 1. This means that you can spam cancel the power to get the counter way below 0 and later have the ghost casting multiple continuous powers.

11 out of 18 continuous powers can be exploited to reduce the counter's value. Here's a list of them that it works on:

All temperature powers:

- Bitter Cold
- Ice Breath
- Frostbite
- Sweat
- Roast
- Inferno

All continuous wind powers:

- Gusts
- Tempest
- Typhoon

And also:

- Hidden Maze
- Rain

You should spam cancel the amount of times based on how many continuous powers a ghost has. Once the counter is negative enough the ghost will be able to cast all continuous powers at the same time - even those that aren't on the list.

How to make the filmmakers run to the house - Blair wisp project level

This little guide will explain how to make the filmmakers run to the house and this way finish the level faster.

It can be usefull for the Any% run since we don't need to unlock the Blair Wisp for the rest of the run (I think so, no?)

The good thing to know is the thunder in the game makes mortals run from outside to a place who is not considered as outside : house, basement,... so basically any place where a ghost with inside fetter can be summoned. Since the house is the only place in the level considered as inside, using thunder might be something intersting.

For this level our most important ghost is Weatherwitch with Thunderclap : it will make run the mortals somewhere inside. But (because there is a but), mortals will run only if there is an existing path to one of the inside places. At the beginning of the level, mortals can't go to the house yet since they are not on the other side of the river/lake and the tree didn't fall yet. So before using Thunderclap of Weathwitch, we have to do those tasks first like in the classic run of the level to create a path for the mortals to make them run to the house.
Once the mortals arrive in the house, Obsession of the Darkling will make them go down to the basement and the mission will be accomplished.

To sum up, you need at least :
	- Weatherwitch with Thunderclap
	- Two ghosts with cold powers like Ice Breath/Bitter Cold (Terroreyes, Knuckles, Ghastly for example)
	- Stonewall/Banzai with Quake

In this order :
	- Freeze the river with Ice Breath of Terroreyes and Bitter Cold Knuckles (or someone else/other spells, it's up to you it doesn't matter)
	- Quake the tree near the house with Stonewall or Banzai
	- Then ONLY after that use Thunderclap of Weatherwitch
	- In the end use Obsession of Darkling when mortals will arrive inside the house (they won't be affected by Obsession during their run so wait when at least one of them will stop running inside the house).

And that's it, not that much things to do and a pretty easy level accomplished.

Hope this little guide will help newcomers to understand more things and help them for the future runs :)

How to perform Early Kevin

Note: this guide is a little outdated, since the method illustrated is working but not exactly optimal. I'm going to update it as soon as I get the time to test Kevin's AI behavior better.

This guide should teach you how to performe "Early Kevin".

What is Early Kevin? Early Kevin is a trick used to reduce the rng required to free Harriet in "the Phantom of the Operating Room".

Why should I learn and use Early Kevin? There are several good reason:
	1) Freeing Harriet is either very difficult or very slow without Early Kevin
	2) Harriet is very usefull for the run, giving you access to a very versatile gift as well as being almost the 						 
            only way to get access to sparkle later on
	3) Early Kevin gives you a great deal of plasma early on (no pun intended) in a fairly long level, taking 
            advantage of a crouded starting room.

What do I need to perform Early Kevin? you need access to  4specific ghosts with 4 specific powers, the list is:
	1) Hogwash or Cogjammer with surge
	2) Clatterclaws with legion
	3) Firetail with great balls of fire
	4) Boo with kinesis

How do I perform Early Kevin? As son as you get into "the Phantom of the Operating Room" you want to click on Kevin (the lower of the two kids in the frames on the right) and press on go to, this will bring you to the big room in the top right of the ospital. 
At this point, in rapid succession, you want to: 
-bind Hogwash to the TV and use surge
-wait for surge to start
-bind Clatterclaws near Kevin and use leigon
-bench Hogwash mid surge (I generally wait for when the lights go off as a visual queue)
-bind Firetail and use great balls of fire

This series of powers will ensure that Kevin will drop the bear in the same room Harriet is, will give you enough plasma to use great balls of fire and will scare Kevin off for good right away. Kinesis is necessary to prevent Kevin from running back and picking the bear up again before running away.
You will know if the trick failed if Kevin manages to pic the teddy bear up before running away.

To free Harriet you might need to use a second kinesis and/or wait for a mortal to hand the teddy bear to Jimmy; you might want to avoid scaring mortal in that room for the first few minutes.

Ending notes: the trick isn't very hard, but I suggest you practice it a few times before running the game, just ot get use to the timing. That being said this is probably the hardest trick, timing wise, of the whole run, so don't feel bad if you need to reset the level a few times to get it right.

 I hope this guide might help new runners picking up this game.

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How to get a haunter to cast multiple continuous powers at the same time	Leotachy 11 months ago
How to make the filmmakers run to the house - Blair wisp project level	iancdp9 4 years ago
How to perform Early Kevin	wowarlok 4 years ago