impure phone

How it works

When the phone rings, an Impure Mouse image appears on the screen and a sound cue plays. The wiki gives a three-second response window: equip the phone and activate it to answer. There is a short equip animation during which activation is unavailable. Because calls can arrive while the phone is stowed, the item’s risk remains relevant during melee exchanges, movement and other inventory actions.

A successful answer restores thirty-five health and grants temporary attack power and defense for five seconds. A failed answer instead applies hitstun and a Photo-Negative Mickey jumpscare before killing the owner. The damage entry refers to that self-inflicted failure, not an attack that deals the owner’s full health to another player. Reading it as enemy damage would reverse the item’s purpose.

The reference is Five Nights at Treasure Island, while the call uses an excerpt of pick up the phone. Those are separate visual and audio references. The practical tradeoff is straightforward: healing and a short advantage are available only if the player notices and answers the incoming call. The wiki’s advice emphasizes reaction time in chaotic fights; it does not supply a fixed schedule for every call, so no repeat interval is assumed here.

Stats and conditions

Recorded changes

• last breath
• ultra instinct
• Item directory

• Update log and version disagreements