
Once the victim has taken a deal, sometimes even at the expense of others, as it is suspected in Simulacra 2. The Rippleman tethers to a victim through TRM, a Kimera boosting service (Described in the In-Game section of this wiki). In Mina's ending, The Rippleman will say that "only the self can submit to them", thus revealing it was Maya herself that took the deal. If you reshape reality by convincing Murilo one of them did it, his team will apprehend the rest of the alive friends and interrogate them. The Rippleman can ask the player to be their new host after reshaping reality. They will give the player a chance to reshape reality to Detective Murilo, and the player can tell him that the person who took the deal killed Maya or tell him the truth that Maya herself took the deal and that was the reason she died. They will take on that person's personality. The Rippleman will begin to chat with the player after one of the three takes the deal. This leads to them leaving the chat and the video of them showing up with them panicking and having their face torn open. The others may agree on this, and that person will, out of spite for the others, take the deal, killing themselves. Before your conversation with the Rippleman, you can accuse one of the three (Arya, Mina or Rex) that they took the deal.

It refers to itself as " We", hinting to the fact the victims it kills become a part of it.

After this, The Rippleman will offer a deal at the expense of a life, be it the person's or another one's. When an influencer loses a lot of followers, it offers them a "card", this also happens with the player when they finish reading Arya's post about Maya's death. It acts through Kimera, mostly on influencers.
