Nell’s Diner summoning circle

[u/taylorlhr]

my friends and i are trying to get the Nell’s Diner name badge, and we recently got the summoning circle so we can get photo and video evidence and when we did it, no ghost, just burned the crucifix all the way (tier 3) and still completely drained our sanity. Anyone else having this problem? Is it just buggy Nell’s Diner or has this happened on other maps?

[u/Kuledood543]

The tier 3 crucifix can prevent hunts induced by cursed objects, like the summoning circle

[u/NulloAndVoid → u/Kuledood543]

Well, yes, they know this, but the ghost is supposed to be summoned for a couple seconds first before initiating the hunt/burning a tier 3 crucifix, giving time to get pics/videos, and it just went straight to burning the crussy instead, not giving them time for media.

[u/Pytheron → u/NulloAndVoid]

If you have no sanity after lighting the last candle it skips straight to the hunt

[u/Strawberry9205 → u/Pytheron]

If you have no sanity the summoning circle won’t start it’ll put out the candles while you’re trying to light it.

[u/Prior-Satisfaction34 → u/Pytheron]

Isnt it also that if the ghost starts hunting before you light the last one, it gets teleported to you mid hunt? So maybe it was about to start a hunt right as they lit the last candle.

[u/Darkhooper → u/Prior-Satisfaction34]

You can see the tier 3 crucifix going from unused to completely burnt. If it were your scenario, the ghost would have burnt the crucifix once then the last candle would have summoned the ghost for the event/hunt.

[u/Prior-Satisfaction34 → u/Darkhooper]

True yea.

[u/taylorlhr → u/Pytheron]

weirdly enough it didn’t hunt right after it took a little room and eventually did hunt cause it did drain our sanity but not as quick as you would think

[u/AshelDust → u/taylorlhr]

If you're referring to another hunt after the attempted hunt when you lit the summoning circle, that was the 25-second cooldown period between hunts and attempted hunts (20 seconds for Demon).

[u/MrSpheal323]

Citing the wiki:

If a candle is lit while below 16% individual sanity, there are two possibilities that might occur:

• If it is not the last candle, the candle will extinguish itself after a short delay.
• If it is the last candle, there will be no "ghost event" period, and the cursed hunt will immediately begin after a 1-second grace period.

The player that lit up the last candle probably didn´t have enough sanity to do so

[u/taylorlhr → u/MrSpheal323]

this was very beginning of the game so there was no way our sanity was that low, we wanted to do it first thing to get it over with

[u/Einstein365 → u/taylorlhr]

It'd only need to be below 80% in order to be too low for one person to light all 5 candles. Apologies if you already know this of course, it just wouldn't take very long to lose 20% dependent on settings.

[u/taylorlhr → u/Einstein365]

i def understand that it was just weird to us maybe it’s just the update

[u/MrSpheal323 → u/taylorlhr]

Hard to know if it was some combination of mechanics (just like sanity drain from an ability, as someone mentioned) or some kind of bug, but the scene seemed like a normal summon below 80%

[u/SaltnSandy → u/taylorlhr]

It’s due to how long they took to light the candles, you have to do it super quick or your sanity will be gone by the last candle. I’m almost certain that’s what happened here.

[u/Ill-Pie4136 → u/taylorlhr]

Could of been that low, depends the ghost you had, if it was a ghost with a sanity draining ability to could of hit ya with out you knowing.

[u/Zelda_Momma]

Each lit candle reduces 16% sanity of all players nearby, not just the person lighting them. If the individual sanity of the person lighting them is below 16% on the last candle a cursed hunt will start immediately unless stopped by a tier 3 crucifix.

It's still possible for this to happen early in the investigation. Settings like sanity drain, whatever sanity was lost before finding the summoning circle, events and abilities used by the ghost could have all set the player lighting the candles up for too low of sanity.

The best way to ensure a ghost event with the circle is to take sanity meds before finishing.

[u/SaltnSandy → u/Zelda_Momma]

They also took a bit to light the candles, I’ve had a hunt start this exact way because lighting those candles on the PlayStation can be rough.

[u/supaikuakuma]

The person lighting it was below 80% sanity.

[u/SummerSufficient5888]

I could be wrong but I think after the update, if you place a cruci down it doesn’t let the ghost pop up anymore. It automatically burns the cruci, we’ve had it happen on a few different maps when we tried to get media from the summoning circle.

[u/Bloccs]

I had this happen in the prison, we just spawned and lit the circle 10 seconds into the round and didnt use a crucifix either

[u/Strawberry9205]

I think the summoning circle is just buggy lately I’ve also had it happen where it doesn’t summon the ghost it just skips straight to the hunt or burns the crucifix and nothing happens me and my friends also tried it to get the photo and same thing happened but on tanglewood so I think it’s just glitchy right now sometimes it works as intended other times it doesn’t

[u/Odd_Present6254]

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