The Sanity System

Sanity and maintaining it is an integral part of the game.

Sanity can be lost by taking damage from a creature that can inflict sanity damage (The Thousand Young), a failed minievent and by the Great Old Ones themselves if you do not have 100% information before facing them.

Sanity can be gained by eating chocolate, succeeding in a minievent as well as select discoverable items like Sign of Nodens.

Every time you lose Sanity, the picture of your character will start to get covered by veins and thin tentacles. The more there are, the lower the sanity of the character. When your character starts to speak random phrases it is a cue that they are on the brink of madness and about to commit suicide.