Nemesis

Your nemesis is the game's secondary antagonist and one of the President of Shadows' three primary officers. Their sudden appearance and weird hat are your first clue (other than, y'know, the name of the whole game) as to the kind of power your main adversary wields.

Nemeses

Your nemesis is a different character depending on your class:

• Pig Skinners face off in a match of brute force against General Bruise, commander of the President's military.
• Cheese Wizards face off in a duel of wits against Dark Noël, the President's chief magical officer.
• Jazz Agents face off against the calculating Terrence Poindexter, the President's head accountant.

You encounter your nemesis several times throughout the game:

• At the Refrigerator Factory in chapter 1, they appear from nowhere and transform Oliver Gluck into a shadow monster.
• After leaving Valley Hardware in chapter 2, you can either fight them or peacefully drive them away. (The stat test is fake; you can always pass it, even if your stats are negative somehow.)
• While traveling in The Big Moist in chapter 4, you're forced into a fight with them. If you refuse (perhaps as a pacifist choice) or lose the fight, you are branded with Bruise's Mark, Noël's Dark Sigil, or Terrence's Accounting, reducing all your stats by 1 until you confront them again...
• in chapter 6. The showdown in Government Valley occurs when you jump into a disgusting maw portal in:
  • Charlestown State Pen as a Pig Skinner (after being captured at Army Recruitment Office).
  • The Shadow D. M. V. as a Cheese Wizard.
  • The Shadow I. R. S. as a Jazz Agent.

The nemesis also appears in A Fitful Dream and each night's dream after that.