#ghost help

Hello! Dr. W.D. Gaster's ACT menu is dynamic and changes as you progress based on how you interact with him.

Taking a peek into his code, it looks like for the "sing" option to appear you will need to never punch him, and also perform enough positive actions towards him.

If you've ever punched him, then you'll need to reset him through his menu in order to reset your punch count. You can check if you've punched him in the "check your stats" menu.

With your punches at 0, just keep performing positive actions (or petting him) until the option appears!

Last night I was dead tired. Exhausted. I fell asleep hard and I made sure all my lights were out and doors were locked before I crawled into bed. Everything was fine and dandy.

I was rudely awoken about 2 am in extreme pain. It felt like someone had whipped me twice on my ass. I could lay on my back. I was in tears it hurt so bad. I eventually (medicated sleep actually. Thank you meds) fall back asleep.

Well this morning my hall light was on (cue anxiety). I go through each damn room in my house with my gun. Nobody (thankfully) human. Doors still locked.

This is a tricky one! This ghost in particular has very unique code, and as I am not terribly familiar with it it is hard for me to spot errors in it. I took a look, but didn't find anything yet. We haven't seen anyone else with this issue before either, so there isn't a known fix.

Does this issue happen upon restarting the ghost/SSP? Or does something specific trigger it? That information would be a good place to start.

Additionally, it would be helpful if you can bring up SSP's script log, and show the log when the issue occurs, whether that be on boot or otherwise.

To open SSP's script log, you'll need to be in developer mode. You can toggle developer mode in the SSP preferences, on the General page.

Once you've done this, you should be able to click on a ghost and then press Ctrl + L to open script log. This will display a log of all the scripts that your open ghosts have run recently.

A screenshot of the log would be useful, although if the script is longer than the window itself, it would be more helpful if you could copy out the script(s) in question! You can do this by highlighting an entry, then clicking the Copy button.

There is no Sans and Papyrus ghost for handplates that we know of!

Are you referring to the brothers within the Dr. W.D. Gaster ghost?

Or are you referring to the Sans and Paps ghost, which is not handplates related, but is a combination of the original sans ghost and Papyrus ghost?

Or, something else entirely?

Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with this ghost and couldn't say for sure! It's entirely possible that he's simply written to be a fairly grumpy character no matter what you do. Every character is different, and for ones with the premise that you're summoning them, it's understandable that some of them would never be happy about it even if you try to treat them kindly. (I certainly wouldn't be happy about it if it were me!)