The monk is a unique BD social class, he turns into the False Monk (Unseen) and the Apostle (Cult).
Passive ability
Martyr: If you are executed on trial, illuminate the target who first accused you, revealing their class and faction (doesn’t work on the king, if the king is the first person to accuse him, then the next person will be illuminated instead).
Passive ability 2
Vow of Silence: You are unable to whisper and your messages are hidden from the public. You are also unable to write a log.
Day ability 1
Mute: Target one player, for the rest of the day he can read your messages but his messages will be hidden from anyone but yourself, and he will be unable to whisper. The other player will not know who is sending the messages. You cannot target the king. Infinite uses.
Note: No one will get notified when you use this ability, so it is easy to fake being muted and hard to prove it.
Day ability 2
Focused senses: Hear all whispers for the rest of the day. Infinite uses.
Night ability 1
Third eye: Read a player’s log. Infinite uses.
Night ability 2
Nirvana: You cannot die or be converted tonight. If someone tries to attack or convert you, everyone will receive a message saying “(Player) tried to attack/convert the monk last night!” 3 uses.
The False monk (Converted monk, unseen social)
Passive ability
Martyr: If you are executed on trial your class will appear as a BD monk (they will not know you were converted unless you are killed at night) and darken the target who first accused you, “revealing” them as their opposite class, BD classes will appear as a random unseen class, and Unseen classes will appear as a random BD class. Neutral roles will appear as their actual classes. (doesn’t work on the king, if the king is the first person to accuse him, then the next person will be darkened instead).
Passive ability 2
Fake Vow: You are unable to whisper and your messages are hidden from the public. You can write a “fake” log that will NOT be shown when you die (check his night ability 1 for more info about this). You can talk normally at night with the unseen.
Day ability 1
Mute: Target one player, for the rest of the day he can read your messages but his messages will be hidden from anyone but yourself, and he will be unable to whisper. The other player will not know who is sending the messages. You cannot target the king. Infinite uses.
Night ability 1
If your target dies tonight, your fake log will appear instead of theirs. 1 use.
Night ability 2
Fake Nirvana: Select a player, send everyone a message saying that “(Player) tried to attack/convert the monk last night!”. 1 use.
Description
The monk is a really powerful class that can gather a lot of information by reading whispers and logs, but this is countered by the fact that the monk can only talk to one person every day and there is no way to know who the monk talked to, which can make people wary of people claiming “the monk told me that X player is suspicious”. Also, it is easy for evil roles to pretend they are the monk by not talking all game and also to stay silent one day and claim the next day they were talking to the monk and give false info. However, pretending to be the monk can be risky since it will be sometimes useful for BD to hang the monk in order to use the “Martyr” ability. The monk’s most reliable ability to accuse someone is to use “Nirvana”, however if the monk was converted this can be used to accuse an innocent person.
Overall, the Monk is a very powerful class with access to important information but its main weakness is the fact that it is hard to trust him and his information. The false monk can easily manipulate information to deceive the bd and help the unseen win, but it is risky to try and convert the monk since “Nirvana” can reveal the Mastermind.
