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FirePyre wrote: If it's in a word, or if it's in a book

You can't get rid of the Babadook

Alignment: Neutral Chaos

Ability: The Babadook haunts anyone who learns his identity. This happens one of four ways:

1. If any role with investigative capability visits the Babadook and receives his results, then they are haunted. These roles are:

The Sheriff, the Investigator, the Consigliere, the Witch, the Coven Leader,

2. The Babadook can send his poem book to someone. If that person stays home with the book in their possesion for any reason, IE being role-blocked or transported with your target, then they will read the book. Reading the book will cause the Babadook to haunt you. If you visit someone and you haven't read the book, you will pass the book to them. You will not know if you have received the book, but you will know when you have read it.

3. Once you have discovered the existence of the Babadook, you are permanently silenced (blackmailed) unless you choose someone at day to whisper the knowledge of the Babadook too. Doing this will mean that they have learnt of the Babadook. You will still be haunted, but you will no longer be perma silenced. The person you have whispered to will themself be permanently silenced.

4. If you die, all people that have possessed the book but did not read it will be haunted. This can exceed the cap on maximum possible haunted people. After this, no one new may be haunted, as you are dead.

Mechanics: Each odd night, the Babadook can give a new book to someone new, although that book may still be passed off as with the older one. Alternately, he can frighten any of his haunted victims (he can do this any night, but he can only pass the book off on an odd night). The Babadook's goal is to frighten at least three of his victims two times. The Babadook can frighten a victim once, which role-blocks them, and if he frightens them a second time they kill themself. If the Babadook dies, he can still frighten people and work towards attaining his goal, but it is not possible for anyone new to be haunted, and people cannot visit him to be frightened.

You are aware if you have been haunted. You are not aware of possessing the book unless you read the book. Any role that stays home, even if it has an ability that it would use at home IE the veteran, will read the book if it is in their possession.

The whisper-hauntings do not function like an actual whisper. They function more like an ability that you can choose who to use on at day. Upon using it on someone, the messages will be along the lines of:

You were whispered by Vertroyer about the existence of the Babadook! You are haunted!

You whispered to Vertroyer about the existence of the Babadook! You have haunted them, but you are no longer silenced!

To other people, it would look like a regular whisper: Vertroyer is whispering to Vertroyer

Ability 2: The Babadook can visit someone who is haunted to frighten them. The mechanics of Frightening were explained above, but we'll go a bit more in depth here. Being frightened can happen one of three ways:

1. Being visited by the Babadook whilst haunted.

2. Visiting the Babadook whilst haunted.

3. Visiting the person the Babadook is frightening whilst haunted.

Any of these three ways will result in that person being frightened. In the second and third way, if it is their first frighten, they will not be role-blocked.

Attributes:

-The Babadook is unique.

-The Babadook has basic defense.

-The Babadook is role-block immune.

-The Babadook is control immune.

-The Babadook can only haunt five people at any given time, unless they have previously possessed the book and the Babadook has died.

-Anyone haunted person who visits the Babadook is frightened. If they have been frightened for the first time, they are not role-blocked whilst visiting the Babadook or whilst visiting the person who is being frightened by the Babadook.

Investigative results:

Sheriff: Your target is the Babadook! Now that you know who they are, they will haunt you till your dying day.

Investigator: Your target is the Babadook! Now that you know who they are, they will haunt you till your dying day.

Consigliere: Your target is the Babadook! Now that you know who they are, they will haunt you till your dying day.

Goal: Frighten 3 people to death

Notes:

-If someone with possession of the book visits the Babadook, the book is returned to the Babadook's possession. You cannot read the book as the Babadook.

-If the Framer frames the Babadook, it has no effect on the Investigation results received.

-The Babadook's ability to frighten people to death, similarly to a Jester's guilt, is an unstoppable attack that can only be blocked by a Pestilence's defense.

-The Babadook's basic defense applies for frightening and passing the book to victims. If he visits a Veteran on alert, he will die. However, once dead, the Babadook (obviously) cannot be killed again, so any visits will bypass any other kind of situation is going on.

-The Babadook can't pass the book off whilst dead.

-The Babadook can only pass off the book every odd night, but they can frighten someone any night. Jester + Pest,Bold textREJECTED