Miner Spectre

Miner Spectre is an enemy that can be encountered in Fear & Hunger.

Lore
"'Those ghastly figures are but echoes of the people that dwelled those dungeons before. Many of them saw end when the current reign in the dungeons ended just a brief time ago.' - The New Gods, when asked by the Miner Spectres."The poor souls have died within the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger. Considering that they are mostly found within the Level 6 Mines, they have most likely died from cave ins or from mining accidents, as seen by the Mines being abandoned and there are many ruined mine cart tracks and pathways. Taking into account what the New Gods said about them, there might have been a civilization of humans that lived within the Dungeons. Or perhaps the Miner Spectres are ghosts of cavedwellers that died, since the cavedwellers lived nearby and are humanoid in appearance.

They have never found respite and have many regrets they have yet to come to peace and terms with, and so they wander the Mines, attacking anything living with a mindless attempt to suck away any life essence they have within them.

Location
The Miner Spectre can be found in Level 6 Mines.

One Miner Spectre can be found in the Level 3 Basement, behind a locked door leading to the Level 3 Silent Corridor. If one tries to grab the Bone Shears weapon out of the decapitated corpse at the end of the corridor and leaves, it will appear and start to chase the player, as if the spirit of the corpse is angry at the defilement of their corpse.

Strategy
The Miner Spectre, once having seen you, will float fast towards you. It can outrun a player character, forcing the player to fight it.

Like all ghosts and spectral enemies, like the Assassin Spectre and the Spectre Knight, this Spectre cannot be harmed by physical attacks. Only magical attacks can possibly damage it, or use cursed weapons against it. If one lacks the ability to cast magic and are lacking in cursed weaponry, run. Once having escaped, the player has a few seconds headstart to escape this ghostly enemy.

You can talk to it, but it will not answer and will ignore your feeble attempts at diplomacy.

It can use an ability that will damage the player and give the Ruined status effect on a character it inflicts on the character. Ruined status is not shown by a symbol like other status ailments like anal bleeding is a symbol of a destroyed and bleeding butt. Instead, if the player looks at their characters' portraits, the afflicted ones will look incredibly and unnaturally old. It is mostly a visual look and not a status debuff. However, if the character with the Ruined status gets attacked by the same kind of attack by the Miner Spectre two more times, they will die. Spectres drop nothing upon death.