Version 1.1
Sometimes the evil in souls stretches so far that a person’s birth is corrupted from the beginning. Before the twins ever knew love, they knew loss, and through some blasphemous miracle they managed to live. Not much is known about the serial murderers except that the only thing that outmatches their bloodlust is their loyalty to each other. Town to town, kingdom to kingdom, the two wandered; eliminating townsfolk with their depraved tactics and innocent smiles. It wasn’t until they heard whispers of a cult in the Kingdom of Adiart that they had any particular goals. Mithras, Corax. Those two names resonated with them, why? As they sat in the barn of a now dead farming family, they understood. That could be them. Why settle with farmers and peasants when they could become a king and queen in their own right? Gods even? Who would deny them love and blood then? Without a word to each other, they knew, and made their way to the castle to ensure that their dreams could become a reality. Together.
The Twins are 2 Neutral Killers who’s goal is to be the last two standing in the game. Unlike most Neutral Killers the Twins have allies in themselves and must rely on their wits and each other to stay alive. The Twins always spawn together.
Disclaimer: I know it isn’t a unique idea, but it is an interesting design space to toy with and I wanted to try my hand at a common game trope.
Class Card Name : The Twins
Class Card Faction : Neutral
Class Card Type : KillerWin Condition: Eliminate all factions that don’t need to survive, or win with a Psycho King.
Passives:
A Bond Forged in Blood: The Twins share a night chat as long as one isn’t Jailed. If one Twin dies, the other one commits suicide that same phase. The Twins can never be forced to kill each other.
This passive transfers over even when becoming King.Sadistic Glee: If someone is executed during the day with no Pardons, reset the cool down of Killing Spree.
Day Abilities
Sense Motive (Day, 2/Game)
Allows you to send Private Whispers today to and from the other Twin.
Disables if used by the other Twin that day.False Innocence (Day, 2/Game)
Target a player. Their abilities have no effects on you or your Twin tonight.Night Abilities
Killing Spree (Night, Unlimited)
Kill a target tonight. If your Twin kills the same target, the effect is not preventable. This has a 1 Night cool down.We Have Each Other (Night, Unlimited)
Protects your Twin from harmful effects and night kills tonight and Heals them from Bleeding and Poison. Does not protect yourself.
Design Decisions
When designing the Twins, I was wondering what kind of design space could be filled. I was having a conversation with people about why NK’s have such low win rates and I made the comment about them having 15 enemies; so I wondered to myself what would happen if they only had 14? Of course having twin Neutral Killers presented problems and asked questions: How could you balance two night kills a night at minimum with a potential extra one? How much is an ally actually worth for a NK? How could we make them interesting? What was missing in ToL? I had always been infatuated with a Serial Killer who had an unsuspecting Lover attached to them, thinking it was a great (albeit) dangerous dynamic so I started with that.
While the Twins have massive killing strength (if they get resets with Sadistic Glee) they also have issues where if one dies, so does the other, making you extremely reliant on another player to stay alive and make it to the end. To remedy this I gave them two protective abilities, False Innocence and We Have Each Other which allows them to control the pace of the game for them, while avoiding detection and kills from dangerous roles such as the Drunk and Assassin. Of course this requires some coordination, as you’re limited to how many you have and while they aren’t shared you don’t want to waste the uses of False Innocence on low priority targets, making changing information and pre-planning crucial to success.
In terms of their killing power, they have the ability to break through night defenses by doubling up on Killing Spree, though they still must watch for stray Knights (and hopefully neuter their power with False Innocence). Alternatively they can attack multiple targets to make the game seem Cultish in nature or to just speed up the death clock. As a final option, they can even just alternate night kills, always having one cover the other’s back for a safer and slower game. Either use does put the ability on cool down, whether it succeeds or fails. In order to have it revert quickly, they need to hope for a hard execution to trigger Sadistic Glee so they can continue their spree. Having Sadistic Glee opens up more bluffing for people “I only voted Pardon in case of Twins!” and makes the voting game an interesting little sub game of chicken.
If a Twin seems to be under fire that night by various effects they can always choose to not kill and lay low, protecting their other twin with We Have Each Other, biding time until Killing Spree comes off of cool down.
A unique aspect of the Twins is that their A Bond Forged in Blood passive carries over if one of them becomes King, allowing them to nearly secure the game as long as they still trust each other and manage to avoid daytime executions and detection. While this may seem incredibly strong, Psycho Kings are extremely rare already and this ultimately is a win-more situation.
With their protective abilities, I decided to not give them a blanket death immunity, as they can do it them self at the expense of killing. Their lack of redirection and occupation immunity also makes them less suspect, though they can toggle it somewhat with We Have Each Other. I’ll be thinking about how dangerous it is to have two targets linked together, but for now they won’t have any immunity.
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Change Log
1.1 Added a Poison/Bleed Heal to We Have Each Other
