Flavour text: Spoiler:You are an evil spirit of a dead mafia member who has possessed the body of your last victim. However you can't abide a physical form for long and want to "die" as soon as you can. Choose a time to leave this mortal coil and then your real powers start.
Abilities: Spoiler:Can choose to “die” and possess a non Mafia at night to then control them during the day.
Attributes: Spoiler:- Cannot possess Mafia members. - Controls chat and voting of target the next day. - Ability only lasts one day. - Can only possess 3 times*. Goal: Spoiler:Kill anyone that doesn’t submit to Mafia Wins with: Spoiler:Mafia/Survivor/Witch/Guardian Angel/Pirate
Special Attributes: Spoiler:- MafiaChat** - Graveyard Chat (once “dead”) - Becomes Mafioso when Mafia Killing are dead - Unique Role.
Investigative Results:
Spoiler:Sheriff: Your target is a member of the Mafia. Investigator: Your target could be a Medium, Janitor, Possessor or Retributionist. Consig: Your target is a vengeful spirit, loyal to the mafia. They must be a Possessor.
Possessed target's investigative Results:
Sheriff: Your target is (whatever the target’s true role is) Investigator: Your target could be a Medium, Janitor, Possessor or Retributionist. Consig: Your target is (whatever their true role is)
Additional Information: Spoiler:Possessor
-You cannot interact with either the MafiaChat or the Graveyard Chat - If you are killed before you decide to leave your initial host, you will not be able to use your abilities and will join the dead proper. - When you leave your initial host you will appear in the graveyard as cleaned. Your cause of death will be "Killed by the Mafia" so you'll have to co-ordinate with your fellow Mafia when you choose to die. - The Retributionist will not be able to revive you at any point. - The spy would see your visit to your target - Like the Blackmailer, the Possessor can choose to possess the same person consecutive nights, but you don't have to possess someone every night. - Once the Possessor has used up all their possessions they officially join the dead and can participate in the Graveyard Chat. the Town will not get notified when this happens, but the Mafia will.
The target
- Your target will get a notification that they have been possessed at the end of the night phase (“You feel a cold presence fill you. You have been possessed!) and they are roleblocked***. - The possessed Town member will be able to perform their night activities as normal the night following their being possessed, but they will have the investigative results of the Possessor. However they wont show up as Mafia to the Sheriff. The Consig would see the Possessor's target as their actual role. - If the possessed Town member is killed the same night they are possessed (this includes from the player leaving) then the Possessor has effectively wasted a possession****. - If the possessed player leaves in the middle of the day then the Possessor will not be able to continue that day and must wait for the night phase to begin again.
* Or maybe 4 times? idk lol ** Idk whether the surviving mafia would be able to see who the Possessor has targeted every night, or if maybe on N1 they establish a code word or something? If the mafia don't know who's possessed then a notification could show for the consig after their targets role ala "Your target is possessed!" *** When you successfully possess someone you could be notified of their role? Or not, might make it more fun/tricky lol **** If you target dies the same night you possess them, then maybe you could control their dead chat for the night? Just so it's not a completely wasted possession!
Would obviously work best with a Janitor too, but i imagine it being something like, they possess a confirmed Sheriff or Invest and use it to say they found someone suspicious etc and get that person lynched or to act suspicious themselves in the hopes of convincing people that they are an exe or jester. The person playing as the possessor would have to be careful to mimick the writing style of their target or something. Also Evil roles might claim that they were possessed if they're caught voting "wrong" or messing up a role call or something.
Anyway, this is not only my first time presenting a role idea, but also my first ever post! Feedback/critique/questions welcome
(Edited to fix the format lol) Edit: Some suggested changes:
- Limit number of possessions to 2 - Make possessor control either chat or vote but not both - Cannot decide when to "die" must be killed or lynched - Original host would show up in graveyard as Possessor/mafia (to limit false reports if the possessor decides to spam or break the rules while possessing)
Last edited by Mermylermy on Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:26 am, edited 5 times in total.
I’m relatively new so idk what the disguiser was like before? Do you have a thread to link about that? I’d like to have a look ☺️
Also I had a read of the jinn thread and I can’t say I agree lol I feel like giving the option for both killing and controlling someone is too op. That’s why I decided to make this role non lethal more of a mischievous mafia instead of my first thought of NE or NK.
As for the trial system, like I said before I wasn’t aware that there was isssues surrounding that especially as there’s no mention of it in the role idea guidelines (at least not that I saw?) but if it is an issue then it’s simple enough to just say you can’t vote while possessing?
Thanks again and if you have any constructive feedback please let me know! ☺️
I don't believe there is a thread pertaining to the specifics of the old disguiser. But when the Possessor possesses someone they can, lets say, spam in that persons body which will lead to a misleading report.
Okay. Lets say Player A is Possessor, Player B is Town. Player A possesses Player B. (signified with Player B[A]) Player B[A] spams in chat causing people to report Player B, who did nothing wrong. Player B gets banned/suspended instead of Player A.
MafiaMenace wrote:I don't believe there is a thread pertaining to the specifics of the old disguiser. But when the Possessor possesses someone they can, lets say, spam in that persons body which will lead to a misleading report.
Okay. Lets say Player A is Possessor, Player B is Town. Player A possesses Player B. (signified with Player B[A]) Player B[A] spams in chat causing people to report Player B, who did nothing wrong. Player B gets banned/suspended instead of Player A.
But surely the team reviewing the report would be able to see that Player B has been possessed? After all they are notified at the end of the night. But also, if the possessor was a suspected role, then surely people would figure out that the spamming was the result of the possessor? especially if that Player B hadn't been spamming before. Then at the end of the game, once they know who the possessor was, they can report person A instead.
I mean, this is presuming people spam. The goal surely is to create a role that people will play correctly lol.
If you're in the trial system you can easily tell if somebody disguised as you I didn't read the role bc the formatting needs fixing and I'm not skimming through that
Cirque wrote:If you're in the trial system you can easily tell if somebody disguised as you I didn't read the role bc the formatting needs fixing and I'm not skimming through that
What is the trial system? at first I thought it was like the lynching vote part but now i think it's not haha
also how can I improve the format? I'd like it to be as easily read as possible
Edited to fix the format! (I was on mobile when looking at the rules/guidelines so must have missed the one that says how to format it haha) no more walls of text lol
If you're in the trial system you can easily tell if somebody disguised as you I didn't read the role bc the formatting needs fixing and I'm not skimming through that
Yeah you can ask for an appeal, but after you are banned/suspended
If you're in the trial system you can easily tell if somebody disguised as you I didn't read the role bc the formatting needs fixing and I'm not skimming through that
Yeah you can ask for an appeal, but after you are banned/suspended. Or when disguiser still did that was it changed?
If you're in the trial system you can easily tell if somebody disguised as you I didn't read the role bc the formatting needs fixing and I'm not skimming through that
Yeah you can ask for an appeal, but after you are banned/suspended. Or when disguiser still did that was it changed?
No lol what I mean is you wouldn’t get banned in the first place because the reports aren’t done automatically? Someone looks at them and they’d see that you were possessed and so not to blame
the use it while dead part means this ability is always useful and its uncounterable
its a swing vote of 1 3 times it being able to talk it just icing on the cake
controlling a vote is much more powerful then just stopping a vote yours controls a vote
being able to control their speech also very abusive with reporting system waay to strong
you can argue this role isn't useful while alive but it is it's a vote for mafia and it can be the sacrificial lamb and draw attention to itself
this is a jack of all trades role i don't like it
you have to make it so the ability isn't guaranteed make it like jester so it only gets the ability if hanged, otherwise its a garenteened use of an OP mechanic 3 times
Mystoc wrote:the thing is this role is very strong
the use it while dead part means this ability is always useful and its uncounterable
its a swing vote of 1 3 times it being able to talk it just icing on the cake
controlling a vote is much more powerful then just stopping a vote yours controls a vote
being able to control their speech also very abusive with reporting system waay to strong
you can argue this role isn't useful while alive but it is it's a vote for mafia and it can be the sacrificial lamb and draw attention to itself
this is a jack of all trades role i don't like it
you have to make it so the ability isn't guaranteed make it like jester so it only gets the ability if hanged, otherwise its a garenteened use of an OP mechanic 3 times
Thanks for the feedback ☺️
so, do you think this would be a more viable role if it wasn’t a voluntary death (but instead had to be lynched or killed) and if they weren’t able to vote?
And like I said before, being wrongly reported would be easy to fix because the people presiding over the report would be able to see that they were possessed surely
Also just had an idea to make it somewhat counterable lol. How about if the target is visited, then the possession won’t work? The Possessor won’t lose a possession but it just won’t work. Lore wise it could be that they need their target to be alone or something lol.
Mermylermy wrote:Also just had an idea to make it somewhat counterable lol. How about if the target is visited, then the possession won’t work? The Possessor won’t lose a possession but it just won’t work. Lore wise it could be that they need their target to be alone or something lol.
its the whole part that evil role needs to die part that is unfair its gartneed use of it ability you cant not kill them your best hope is too kill other mafia first and get this role promoted out of its role but thats pretty hard to do , i would focus on nerfing the guaranteed use of 3 possession on death have a way it is denied it otherwise its unfair , the ability itself is way to strong as well but that's a separate issue
if u insist on keeping it how it is
nerf uses too 2 uses and let the person possessed still be able to speak (this allows townies to say hey im possessed help i cant vote who i want) but this also allows evils to fake being possessed and be like i cant vote sorry
also does spy see you visit the person you posses i forgot to ask that
Mermylermy wrote:Also just had an idea to make it somewhat counterable lol. How about if the target is visited, then the possession won’t work? The Possessor won’t lose a possession but it just won’t work. Lore wise it could be that they need their target to be alone or something lol.
its the whole part that evil role needs to die part that is unfair its gartneed use of it ability you cant not kill them your best hope is too kill other mafia first and get this role promoted out of its role but thats pretty hard to do , i would focus on nerfing the guaranteed use of 3 possession on death have a way it is denied it otherwise its unfair , the ability itself is way to strong as well but that's a separate issue
if u insist on keeping it how it is
nerf uses too 2 uses and let the person possessed still be able to speak (this allows townies to say hey im possessed help i cant vote who i want) but this also allows evils to fake being possessed and be like i cant vote sorry
also does spy see you visit the person you posses i forgot to ask that
I did mention that if the possessed target is killed then the possessor loses a possession? I take it you mean more than that tho lol
But two uses could work yeah! And so are you saying that the possessor can’t use the chat, but CAN vote, or that the possessor merely prevents the target from voting but nothing else?
Idea: what if the possessor has control of chat, but the target has control of voting? Or would that get a bit muddy :/ I suppose you’d just end up with the whole blackmailed vote/unvote thing huh (lol don’t mind me just stream-of-consciousness-ing here lol)
And lol I hadn’t really thought about that tbh! That would be interesting! I guess for fairness sake they’d have to lol it’d just come up as a mafia visit tho right?
So to recap based on some of your feedback, planned nerfs would be:
Reduce possessions to two, Can no longer use the vote while possessing Must be killed/lynched to use powers
Feedback/critique/questions welcome 
Lol I think we may have been crossing wires?