Ghostwriter (Polarities Mod)

Ghostwriter

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Statistics

Type	NPC
Environment	Valid house
AI Type	Passive AI
Damage	0
Max Life	250
Defense	0
KB Resist	50%

“

A friendly specter, she prefers spending her endless time reading and writing her very own literature. She's rather sociable, as being able to slip through walls opens up many avenues for gossip.

— Bestiary (Ghostwriter)

The Ghostwriter is an NPC vendor that will spawn once the following criteria has been met:

• There is an empty House.
• Any boss from vanilla Terraria or the Polarities Mod has been defeated.

She sells Books, a new class of tools that provide mutually exclusive boss-themed buffs after each associated boss is defeated, and miscellaneous items related to them. She cannot defend herself against enemies, but also does not take any damage from any enemies other than ghosts, wraiths, reapers, poltergeists and dungeon spirits in exchange, simply passing through harmlessly.

Items sold

Item	Cost	Availability
Strange Obituary	5	When in a Graveyard.
Book	375	Always available.
Reading Glasses	1	In Hardmode.
The Sliming	5	After King Slime is defeated.
Maws	5	After Storm Cloudfish is defeated.
A Throng of Eyes and Fliers	5	After Eye of Cthulhu is defeated.
The Construct out of Space	5	After Star Construct is defeated.
The Very Hungry Worm	5	After Eater of Worlds is defeated.
A Terrible Mind	5	After Brain of Cthulhu is defeated.
Batula	5	After Gigabat is defeated.
Queen of the Bees	5	After Queen Bee is defeated.
Skulduggery Unpleasant	5	After Skeletron is defeated.
Theoretical Horticulture	5	After Deerclops is defeated.
The Perks of Being a Wall Tower	5	After Wall of Flesh is defeated.
Doctor Slime	5	After Queen Slime is defeated.
Eye Robots	5	After The Twins are defeated.
A Fight to Remember	5	After The Destroyer is defeated.
Skeletron 2: Electric Boogaloo	5	After Skeletron Prime is defeated.
The Wings on Our Star	5	After Sun Pixie is defeated.
The Phage Runner	5	After Esophage is defeated.
The Grape's Wrath	5	After Plantera is defeated.
Wander To The Center Of The Earth	5	After Convective Wanderer is defeated.
Rocky With Lasers	5	After Golem is defeated.
Moby Duke	5	After Duke Fishron is defeated.
Fire And More Fire	5	After Betsy is defeated.
A Midsummer Nightmare	5	After Empress of Light is defeated.
The Haunter of the Stars	5	After Lunatic Cultist is defeated.
The Call of the Moon Lord	5	After Moon Lord is defeated.

Living preference

	Biome	Neighbor
Loves	n/a	Mechanic
Likes	Desert	​Guide ​Clothier
Dislikes	The Hallow	Angler
Hates	n/a	Dryad

For more information, see NPC happiness.

• Unlike all other NPCs, the Ghostwriter does not like the Princess and is instead neutral to her. The Princess still loves her in turn, however.

Names

The Ghostwriter may have any of the following names:

• Anne
• Harper
• Jane
• Mary
• Shelley
• Terry
• Ursula

Quotes

Interaction quotes

Condition	Quote
When homeless	"I wanna go home."
Always available	"My ability to touch things is very inconsistent."
	"Do you have any book recommendations? I'm always looking for new things to read."
	"I'm here to chronicle your adventures!"
	"I enjoy exploring and can float through any barrier. You could say I'm a free spirit."
Angler is present	"<name of Angler> is such a jerk!"
Stylist is present	"<name of Stylist> likes me. I think it's because I can eavesdrop on everyone."
Arms Dealer is present	"Yippee ki-yay, mother-"
Tavernkeep is present	"<name of Tavernkeep> is from another dimension? Sounds like a crossover to me."
Clothier is present	"Give <name of Clothier> a hug for me, okay?"
Mechanic is present	"<name of Mechanic> is officially my mom until my real mom gets back."
Guide is present and the world is in Hardmode	"<name of Guide> and I are a lot alike. Except for the part where I'm a ghost. That's a pretty significant difference."
Dryad is present and the world is in Hardmode	"<name of Dryad> says the Hallow is good and only exists to cleanse imperfection. For someone so old, she's quite naive."
Wizard is present	"I tried to borrow a book from <name of Wizard> once. It did nothing. I was quite disappointed."
Princess is present	"Am I the only one who doesn't like <name of Princess>?"
Santa Claus is present	"I told Santa Claus that I don't celebrate Christmas. He was very understanding."
Eye of Cthulhu has been defeated	"I see everything... muahaha..."
Skeletron has been defeated	"The books in the dungeon were mine once, but they've fallen apart in the damp environment."
Rift Denizen has been defeated	"I don't know much about what's beyond that rift, so I'll be filling my books on it with wild, unsubstantiated speculation."
The Twins have been defeated	"My Retinazer/Spazmatism fic is coming along well. Thanks for asking. Why are you turning green?"
The Destroyer has been defeated	"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Oh, it's from something I read."
During the Blood Moon	"Everyone seems really on edge. I don't see what the big deal is."
During the Pumpkin Moon	"Go on, turn all those pumpkins into pie!"
During the Frost Moon	"What in the world is all this?"
During Halloween	"Boo!"
During Christmas	"I don't celebrate Christmas, but it's nice to see everyone so happy."
In a Graveyard	"*spooky noises*"
During Rain	"I hope I didn't leave any of my books outside."
During a Windy Day	"This weather we're having is quite incredible, you could even say it's blowing me away!"

Happiness quotes

Condition	Quote
When homeless	"I need a place to store my books."
When far from home	"I seem to have wandered off again, I might have a problem."
When in a sparse area	"Without much hustle and bustle around it's much easier to focus on my writing."
When overcrowded	"All the noise around here makes it hard to write."
	"With so many people around I feel almost invisible."
When in the Desert	"The dry conditions in the Desert are great for my books."
When in The Hallow	"I feel as if something is judging me in the Hallow."
When in an Evil Biome or the Dungeon	"I'm normally all for spooky situations, but the <Corruption/Crimson/Dungeon> is genuinely unsettling."
When near the Mechanic	"I love how many haywire contraptions <name of Mechanic> makes for me to write about."
When near the Guide or Clothier	"I'd like to think I get <name of NPC>."
When near the Princess	"I'm not sold on <name of Princess>, monarchies are cliche, but they're really hard to hate."
When near the Angler	"<name of Angler> smells like fish, and I didn't even know I had a sense of smell."
When near the Dryad	"I don't have a place in <name of Dryad>'s world, not a fan of that."
When neutral	"I'm happy, I guess."

Trivia

• A ghostwriter is a writer hired to write something credited to another person.
• Several of her lines suggest she is actually a child, which may explain her near inability to die, similarly to the Angler; ironically, as a ghost, she is technically already dead.