Psychopomps, Parasites, and Death

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Djinn

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Characters

Townsfolk

Balloonist
Each night, you learn 1 player of each character type, until there are no more types to learn. [+1 Outsider]
Village Idiot
Each night, choose a player: you learn their alignment. [+0 to +2 Village Idiots. 1 of the extras is drunk]
Mathematician
Each night, you learn how many players' abilities worked abnormally (since dawn) due to another character's ability.
King
Each night, if the dead outnumber the living, you learn 1 alive character. The Demon knows who you are.
Fortune Teller
Each night, choose 2 players: you learn if either is a Demon. There is a good player that registers as a Demon to you.
Flowergirl
Each night*, you learn if a Demon voted today.
Acrobat
Each night*, if either good living neighbour is drunk or poisoned, you die.
Gossip
Each day, you may make a public statement. Tonight, if it was true, a player dies.
Savant
Each day, you may visit the Storyteller to learn 2 things in private: 1 is true & 1 is false.
Alsaahir
Each day, if you publicly guess which players are Minion(s) and which are Demon(s), good wins.
Engineer
Once per game, at night, choose which Minions or which Demon is in play.
Philosopher
Once per game, at night, choose a good character: gain that ability. If this character is in play, they are drunk.
Ravenkeeper
If you die at night, you are woken to choose a player: you learn their character.
Choirboy
If the Demon kills the King, you learn which player is the Demon. [+ the King]

Outsider

Drunk
You do not know you are the Drunk. You think you are a Townsfolk character, but you are not.
Sweetheart
When you die, 1 player is drunk from now on.
Saint
If you die by execution, your team loses.
Puzzlemaster
1 player is drunk, even if you die. If you guess (once) who it is, learn the Demon player, but guess wrong & get false info.

Minion

Fearmonger
Each night, choose a player. If you nominate & execute them, their team loses. All players know if you choose a new player.
Goblin
If you publicly claim to be the Goblin when nominated & are executed that day, your team wins.
Boomdandy
If you are executed, all but 3 players die. 1 minute later, the player with the most players pointing at them dies.
Boffin
The Demon (even if drunk or poisoned) has a not-in-play good character’s ability. You both know which.

Demon

Yaggababble
You start knowing a secret phrase. For each time you said it publicly today, a player might die.
Zombuul
Each night*, if no-one died today, choose a player: they die. The 1st time you die, you live but register as dead.
Lleech
Each night*, choose a player: they die. You start by choosing an alive player: they are poisoned - you die if & only if they die.

Fabled & Loric

Djinn
Use the Djinn's special rule. All players know what it is.

Night order

First night

1
D
Dusk
Start the Night Phase.
2
M
Minion Info
If there are 7 or more players, wake all Minions: Show the THIS IS THE DEMON token. Point to the Demon. Show THESE ARE YOUR MINIONS token. Point to the other Minions.
3
D
Demon Info
If there are 7 or more players, wake the Demon. Show the Demon token. Show all Minions. Show the THESE CHARACTERS ARE NOT IN PLAY token. Show 3 not-in-play good character tokens.
4
Philosopher
The Philosopher either shows a 'no' head signal, or points to a good character on their sheet. If they chose a character: Swap the out-of-play character token with the Philosopher token and add the 'Is the Philosopher' reminder. If the character is in play, place the drunk marker by that player.
5
King
Wake the Demon, show them the 'This character selected you' card, show the King token and point to the King player.
6
Engineer
The Engineer shows a 'no' head signal, or points to a Demon or points to the relevant number of Minions. If the Engineer chose characters, replace the Demon or Minions with the choices, then wake the relevant players and show them the You are card and the relevant character tokens.
7
Lleech
The Lleech points to a player. Place the Poisoned reminder token.
8
Fearmonger
The Fearmonger points to a player. Place the Fear token next to that player and announce that a new player has been selected with the Fearmonger ability.
9
Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller points to two players. Give the head signal (nod yes, shake no) for whether one of those players is the Demon.
10
Balloonist
Choose a character type. Point to a player whose character is of that type. Place the Balloonist's Seen reminder next to that character.
11
Mathematician
Show the hand signal for the number (0, 1, 2, etc.) of players whose ability malfunctioned due to other abilities.
12
D
Dawn
Wait for a few seconds. End the Night Phase.

Other nights

1
D
Dusk
Start the Night Phase.
2
Philosopher
If the Philosopher has not used their ability: the Philosopher either shows a 'no' head signal, or points to a good character on their sheet. If they chose a character: Swap the out-of-play character token with the Philosopher token and add the 'Is the Philosopher' reminder. If the character is in play, place the drunk marker by that player.
3
Engineer
The Engineer shows a 'no' head signal, or points to a Demon or points to the relevant number of Minions. If the Engineer chose characters, replace the Demon or Minions with the choices, then wake the relevant players and show them the 'You are' card and the relevant character tokens.
4
Fearmonger
The Fearmonger points to a player. If different from the previous night, place the Fear token next to that player and announce that a new player has been selected with the Fearmonger ability.
5
Zombuul
If no-one died during the day: The Zombuul points to a player. That player dies.
6
Lleech
The Lleech points to a player. That player dies.
7
Gossip
If the Gossip’s public statement was true: Choose a player not protected from dying tonight. That player dies.
8
Acrobat
If a good living neighbour is drunk or poisoned, the Acrobat player dies.
9
Sweetheart
Choose a player that is drunk.
10
Choirboy
If the King was killed by the Demon, wake the Choirboy and point to the Demon player.
11
Ravenkeeper
If the Ravenkeeper died tonight: The Ravenkeeper points to a player. Show that player’s character token.
12
Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller points to two players. Show the head signal (nod 'yes', shake 'no') for whether one of those players is the Demon.
13
Flowergirl
Nod 'yes' or shake head 'no' for whether the Demon voted today. Place the 'Demon not voted' marker (remove 'Demon voted', if any).
14
Balloonist
Choose a character type that does not yet have a Seen reminder next to a character of that type. Point to a player whose character is of that type, if there are any. Place the Balloonist's Seen reminder next to that character.
15
King
If there are more dead than living, show the King a character token of a living player.
16
Mathematician
Show the hand signal for the number (0, 1, 2, etc.) of players whose ability malfunctioned due to other abilities.
17
D
Dawn
Wait for a few seconds. End the Night Phase.

Village Idiot, Alsaahir, Boffin, Yaggababble, Djinn don't have night-order data in BOTChub yet — check the printed script or Script Tool for exact placement.

Jinxes

Boffin & Village Idiot
If there is a spare token, the Boffin can give the Demon the Village Idiot ability.
Mathematician & Drunk
The Mathematician learns if the Drunk's ability yielded false info or failed to work properly.
Boffin & Drunk
The Demon cannot have the Drunk ability.