Shifts 2–5. It slams the side check-in window and disables your shutter.
Shooing it away without giving it coffee first triggers a −20 sanity jumpscare.
Hand it a coffee — drink two sips yourself first and you net +10 sanity overall from the interaction. Alternatively, just let it smash the glass; the process takes about a minute and the damage is purely cosmetic, no sanity cost either way.
Shifts 2–5. It slams the side check-in window and disables your shutter.
The Head Banger is one of the few threats in the game where the "safe" option (giving it coffee) actually profits you sanity instead of just avoiding a loss. Letting it break the glass is a valid zero-cost alternative if you don't have coffee available — the only actively wrong move is shooing it away empty-handed.
Shooing the Head Banger is an automatic −20 sanity jumpscare. Give it coffee (sip twice first for a free +10), or just let it break the glass — the damage is cosmetic.
Shooing it away without giving it coffee first triggers a −20 sanity jumpscare.
Hand it a coffee — drink two sips yourself first and you net +10 sanity overall from the interaction. Alternatively, just let it smash the glass; the process takes about a minute and the damage is purely cosmetic, no sanity cost either way.
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