Keep the Door Locked Spasming Limbs Visitor

What the spasming limbs visitor is

The spasming limbs visitor is a confirmed Keep the Door Locked visitor anomaly. A visitor with limbs flailing back and forth arrives at the door. The flailing is the only tell you need. The visitor is hostile. Lock the door.

The spasming limbs tell is visible without the camera. The visitor’s arms and legs move in unnatural patterns that ordinary visitors do not display. The motion is rhythmic but irregular, with both arms and legs swinging well past the range of a tired guest shifting weight or someone brushing snow off a coat.

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How to respond

1. Notice the flailing limbs on the visitor at the door.
2. Lock the door.
3. Continue the run.

The spasming limbs visitor is one of the few anomalies whose tell is visible at the door without the laptop camera. Combine the camera with the door frame view to confirm only if you are unsure. With a calm mind, the door frame alone is enough to refuse.

Common mistakes

• Opening the door because the visitor is moving around. Movement is not the same as safety.
• Waiting for the visitor to calm down. The flailing is the anomaly.
• Confusing the spasming limbs with a normal fidget. Spasming is far more violent and persistent.
• Trying to use the camera to identify every visitor when the door frame already shows the tell. Wasting time on an obvious refusal costs you a window check.
• Giving the visitor a second chance because the figure looks tired. Spasming limbs does not pause to become safe.

Why the camera is optional

The spasming limbs visitor’s tell is so obvious that the laptop camera is just confirmation. The door frame view alone is enough to refuse. Save camera time for visitors whose silhouette looks ordinary — translucent guests, doppelgangers, dead doppelgangers, and long limbs — because those require the laptop feed.

Sample encounter

A knock interrupts a quiet camera sweep. You switch to the door and see a figure with both arms swinging past their knees and a leg jerking sideways. The motion does not slow down. There is no shivering cold visitor, no drunk friend leaning on the door frame, and no small child playing with their hands. You lock the door. The figure leaves after a short pause. You return to the camera sweep and check the window because that is where the next signal might be hiding.

Combine with other signals

Body-distortion visitors are all door-frame tells. They reward the same habit: a calm second look at the silhouette in the door peephole before pulling up the camera. Build the habit once and you cover spasming limbs, neck craner, headbanger, knife killer, and silent lady in the same glance. The camera becomes the tool for a different category entirely — the hallway visitors whose anomalies are invisible from the door.

Related anomalies

• Long limbs: visitor with extremely long arms, identified through the camera.
• Neck craner: visitor whose neck is craned back, staring at the ceiling.
• Headbanger: visitor that smashes their head against the door.
• Silent lady: tall, motionless visitor — never use the camera on her.

The threat ranking groups body-distortion visitors together because they share the same door-frame tells. The camera and door decisions guide explains when to skip the camera entirely.