Vacillator

Vacillator
Achievement/Trophy
Game(s)	Amnesia: Justine Amnesia: Collection
Type(s)	PlayStation Network trophy Steam achievement Xbox Live achievement
Description	Some victims died, some lived in Amnesia: Justine.
Unlock requirements	Sparing and killing at least one victim, respectively, in the Cabinet of Perturbation.
Gamerscore	40
Trophy	Silver
Secret?	Yes
Missable?	Yes

Vacillator is an achievement in the Steam version of the Amnesia: Justine expansion, and in the Xbox and Playstation versions as part of the Amnesia: Collection. In the Playstation version, it exists as a silver Trophy. Vacillator is a missable campaign achievement, gained by performing unusual actions that result in a particular ending state (in this case, some prisoners surviving and some dying).

Overview

Vacillator is achieved by both failing to save at least one of the three hostages and successfully saving at least one of the three hostages throughout the Cabinet of Perturbation. Since there are three hostages, and two different ways to meet this requirement (two survive and one dies, OR one survives and two die), it is a relatively easy ending achievement to get, even though the requirements to save prisoners increase in challenge throughout the Cabinet of Perturbation.

Appearance

The achievement icon depicts Justine Florbelle in shadows, with cool, dim overhead light shining through bars on a window or grate, illuminating her worried expression. It expresses a neutral, ambiguous, and potentially "trapped" feeling on the part of a Justine who is so unsure of herself (representing her choices in-game which are neither especially merciful, nor especially merciless).

Trivia

• A "Vacillator" is one who fails to make a strong or decisive decision or action, through weakness or uncertainty. It comes from a metaphorical description of people as "wavering," since to "vacillate" in its literal sense means "to sway," "to waver," "to swing back and forth." The word is derived from Latin "vacillātum," with the same literal meaning.