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mightyjor t1_j6rs4tp wrote

Ok, let’s think about this. Small toddler looking guy, doesn’t appear to have any special movement abilities and you can see his location on your phone if you click yes. You’ve pretty much got the advantage over him if you can see his location. Assuming he can’t teleport (maybe he can, so this might not work), you really just need to find a place he can’t walk to.

Couple of proposed ideas:

  1. Get a job on a cruise ship or airplane. It might trick the monster if you’re moving long distances frequently. Not only that, but both these have tight security when it comes to getting in, so maybe there’s a chance the little toddler guy can’t get in. Seems he’s only been spotted in public spaces so far. Airplanes and Cruise ships also wouldn’t have phone reception or Wi-Fi (usually) so maybe that could trick him as well.
  2. Be a truck driver, you’re constantly moving and it doesn’t seem like he’ll be able to get you in your car even if he makes creaky noises.
  3. Install cameras and sound equipment around places you frequent. See if there’s any issues recording him or hearing him using the technology. If not, you have something to turn into police or a news station, or at the very least you have proof when people ask about this on the internet.
  4. It might be important to ask how he’s finding you. Is it through your phone? Wi-Fi? GPS? Can it find you in airplane mode or with the data disabled? Your technology? It seems that the phone was connected to your car and maybe that’s why it popped up with the notification.
  5. And finally, maybe you can jailbreak your phone, install some kind of virus. Brick the thing (don’t destroy it). Maybe you can trap it behind some kind of code error so it can’t make its way to you. At the very least it seems to start there, so it’s got to have some connection to the phone.

Good luck OP

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Westonard t1_j6sbfzf wrote

"Doesn't appear to have any special movement abilities"

Except where it appeared in the friend's attic and house to begin with. He said they pulled the ladder hatch up into the attic.

The cruise ship or airplane would be an even worse option because if the Creaker can teleport, and we have to assume it can to get into the house or attic, then a confined place like that is an even worse option.

We have to assume if it sees you once it's effectively game over because it will apparently more aggressively go after you. At that point sitting still and hiding is a death (or worse) sentence. Really the only option is to either destroy the phone or gamble on "No". Because simply being around someone who is playing and is found means bad news for you, as Tracy found out

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mightyjor t1_j6sgu47 wrote

Yeah, I wasn’t sure about the teleportation. I think some more experimentation would be necessary, since you obviously wouldn’t want to be trapped in a place like a plane if it could get in there with you. The fact that you can track it on the phone location though means you should be able to know if it’s teleporting. I also would still want to look into how it interacts with the phone reception/Wi-Fi. It doesn’t seem like OP tested that from what I could see. That might be part of the trick since destroying the phone didn’t seem to help at least with hearing the creaker.

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akarakitari t1_j6szqrl wrote

Sounds to me like it can appear within x distance of wherever you are at the start of the game and has the ability to shift through objects, so I don't think it appearing on an airplane is out of the question.

Also, remember only the boyfriend was playing but it killed the girlfriend too. Which means it likely either considers everyone with the player to be playing too, or doesn't leave witnesses, but either way seems to not leave anyone alive if they find the hider. Lot of lives in jeopardy if it can get on the plane.

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mightyjor t1_j6t128j wrote

Although an airplane is fairly small, maybe a personal sized airplane could work? I doubt he’d be able to start the game within 10 feet of you, so maybe him teleporting to his X distance away while you’re in a personal plane could result in him just falling out of the sky. It also seems like people (so far) have been safe while in cars, so movement seems to be a better solution than just hiding or staying put.

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akarakitari t1_j6t2grw wrote

This is very true. I have a feeling though, considering this is a mobile game, that every day will become harder and harder. It will speed up a little more, move a little closer, and become more varied in it's timing as we have already seen.

Just like something like candy crush, they hook you with easy levels then turn on p2w mode, except this game, payment is dinner

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Orange__Moon t1_j72i6ml wrote

Maybe airplane mode would help? If it's using a real world device to find you then you couldn't be located by phone then. However I have a feeling it's not bound by real world physics unfortunately.

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akarakitari t1_j72izym wrote

It does seem that it's bound to those with cell phones, using them as a way to communicate.

Maybe dropping off the grid completely? But it would have to be done FAST and completely on the fly. Finish that days game, dump phone in trash, jet to a public PC, look up countries that have large areas where cell phones aren't the norm, then straight to airport and book a flight anywhere else that you can get to that country from.

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