Short-Haired Woman

Biodata

Background and History

Before the crematorium instance, the Short-Haired Woman had completed two instances. She habitually warns new arrivals that the Horror World has no logout button and that failing a mission means death 14.

She arrived at Building 27 with Yellow Hair and JK. Their shared mission was to obtain the deceased’s ashes and arrange a burial and gravestone. After her Talent warned against letting Xu Kai drive, she paid him to give up the wheel and directed JK to drive instead 14.

Across Xu Kai’s repeated rollbacks, the group faced deadly attacks on the road and at the crematorium. In one attempt, the Stone Statue Weird killed her after petrifying and crushing her left hand; that outcome was undone by a rollback 15 17 19.

In the successful attempt, Xu Kai prevented an attack on the road, and the group reached Feng Town Crematorium. After surviving the vigil and an assault by a spellbound crowd, the Short-Haired Woman and JK escaped once Xu Kai buried the ashes under the names “Yellow-Haired Brother Dog” and “Evil” 18 20 21 22 23.

Appearance

The Short-Haired Woman is very small, with short hair, a youthful face and fair skin. Her fierce manner is described as cute rather than intimidating 14 18.

Personality

She is cautious and practical, taking the Horror World’s dangers seriously even when other players do not. The group comes to rely on her judgment, and she readily changes her assessment when presented with new evidence 14 16.

Although suspicious of Xu Kai, she bandages him after his apparent fall and argues that the group needs his help arranging transport. She also protects and looks after her fellow players, pulling Yellow Hair to cover during an attack and covering him and JK while they sleep 15 16 20.

Abilities and Skills

Suggestion Talent

Her unnamed Talent provides guidance on how to respond to dangers in an instance 14 15.

• It gives her three suggestions per instance; she tries to conserve them for crises 14 21.
• One suggestion led her to put JK behind the wheel rather than Xu Kai 14.
• In one rollback, it advised her to flee after the figure in the coffin emerged; an invisible wall prevented her escape 19.
• At the farewell ceremony, she used her final suggestion to direct the group behind the coffin and have them hold on to a pillar 22.

Combat and survival

• She is physically strong despite her size and could fight the skinny Evil on roughly even terms in one attempt 15.
• She knew to rack a handgun’s slide and shot the burly Evil in the head, although the shot did not stop him 15.
• She recognized disrupted phone calls as a warning that hostile forces were approaching 17.

Equipment

• Dagger — Carried for defense; Yellow Hair briefly took it with his Talent before returning it 14.
• Handgun — Used a gun Yellow Hair seized from an Evil during one rollback 15.

Relationships

• Xu Kai — Initially treated him as the group’s driver, though she suspected he might be a Weird. She later recognized that he had protected the players and kept her suspicions about him private. After clearing the instance, she expressed sympathy and suggested they would be enemies if they met again 16 18 23.
• JK — A newcomer whose Gui Resistance made him resistant to low-level Weird Energy. She chose him to drive and relied on him during the vigil; the two escaped the instance together 14 20 21 23.
• Yellow Hair — Initially clashed with him, but they cooperated after testing each other’s abilities. She saved him from approaching gunmen in one rollback, and he used his Talent to send the coffin into the cremation machine during the successful attempt 14 15 22.
• Stone Statue Weird — The crematorium’s hostile Weird, responsible for several fatal attacks during Xu Kai’s rollbacks 19 20 21.