u/Aliveinlights86

You lot were so helpful wording my previous ability and i've come seeking your aid a 2nd time.

I have a Demon idea that I know how it needs to work but i'm struggling to figure out how to keep the ability short. So here is the premise.

The Demon is called the Prophet. They think they are a good character but they are not. Each night*, a player dies. (So far so good). At the start of the game, the Minions learn X number of false Prophets and the real Prophet, but they don't who is the real Prophet. X is the starting number of Minions. If a Minion dies, that night they learn a false Prophet.

So, the above is a mixture of ability text and me explaining how the last bit works.

The premise is simple enough: The Minions are told "one of these players is the Prophet" and the Storyteller points to a number of players equal to the starting number of Minions +1. So in a 10 player game with 2 Minions, they will learn 3 players, and one of those will be the real Prophet. (Ive called the others False Prophets because thematically it works well).

So the Minions can try to keep all 3 alive just in case... OR a Minion can get themselves executed and the following night they will learn 1 player that is a false prophet (not the Demon). So its a balance of "how many Minions can we afford to lose to narrow down who the real Prophet is?"

ST wise, you want to choose the false prophets carefully, often one player who wants to stay alive and/or players that want to stay alive long enough to use their ability and then advocate for their own execution. It also means the Minions will want to seek info about all the potential Prophets to figure out who is likely to be the real Prophet. This is all just fluff though incase anyone was curious how I intend it to work.

Any help would be great as im not sure if it can be shortened enough to be usable.

Hi everyone!

So I'm trying to create a custom Demon and its unique Minions for a special single Demon fun script for my group.

The premise is this:

The Demon is called Ruin and it acts like a plague, infecting players close to it or other infected players. It is able to move around between its Minions (kinda like how the Lil Monsta Demon moves between Minions.

Each night, Ruin must make a choice. They can either...

Infect: Infect an alive player adjacent to you or an alive player next to an already Infected player.

OR they can cause an Outbreak!

Outbreak: Point at one of your Minions; They become Ruin and you become a Fallen, then all Infected players die.

Players are not informed that they are infected, so Ruin creates some tension where, for example, players know that 3 nights have gone by and no-one has died so if there's an Outbreak tonight, 3 might die!

The players will quickly become suspicious of any alive players on each end of a line of dead players because one of those players is probably Ruin... which is where the Minions come in!

Ruin only has one type of Minion but there can be multiple of these Characters. Ruin's Minions are the Fallen.

Fallen: All Fallen wake together each night. Once per game, each Fallen may move an Infection from an Infected player to a non-Infected player.

This means the Minions can disrupt the chain of dead players, helping evil players stay out of suspicion, but they can each only do this once per game.

The setup of this Demon is similar to Kazali in the sense that the Demon chooses which players will be their Fallen and obv those players will have starting bluffs. This choice was made to prevent an accidental game where all evil are next to each other.

Basically, I need help writing out the ability text for the Demon Ruin and their Fallen Minions and I'm struggling to get the text short while being concise and on-theme for botc formatting, even though its a bit more complex to explain than most other Demons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)