Zombuul

Identity: Zombuul
Alignment: Evil
Category: Demon
Ability: Each night (except for the first), if no-one died today, choose a player: they die. The 1st time you die, you live but register as dead.

Explanation: Every night except for the first, you choose a player to kill. However, you can only kill on the condition that nobody died during the previous day. In return, you have to power to survive death… once. The first time you die, through whatever means, you survive. To all other players, you will seem dead. Your decomposing corpse counts as a dead player in almost every way. You can only vote once more during the game, you cannot nominate, you’re not an alive neighbor for the Tea Lady, and so on. The only differences are that the game continues, you still attack, and the game continues if just two other players are alive.

Tips for playing as the Zombuul: You only can kill at night if nobody has died during the day. This can be difficult, since even though players are dying, it is primarily the good team that is killing them, meaning that a troublesome Exorcist or Courtier hovering around may continue to survive when you badly need them gone. One way to work around this limitation is to speak up for no executions, but the good team may find that suspicious and start questioning your allegiance if you push for that too often. A more reasonable strategy is to encourage executions that you don’t think will cause death – for example, a Sailor claim, or the neighbors of a Tea Lady. This gives the good team information, but will also grant you your precious kill… providing the Tinker doesn’t drop dead in the middle of the day, anyway. You could also (probably only once) argue for a Mastermind, leveraging the good team’s paranoia about whether or not they killed the Demon to have them hold off for a night rather than risk losing the game.

Tips for fighting the Zombuul:

Pay attention to when and why death happens. If there are deaths at night, but not after a player died by execution, you almost certainly have a Zombuul in your midst. Once you know this, you can do the following… Execute every single day. Even if you kill good players, at least that is better than executing nobody and having the Demon choose who dies instead. Suspect the dead. Execute the dead you suspect the most. Talk to the dead to find out whose story is not making sense, and focus on those players. You don’t know for certain that the Zombuul is among the dead players, but that is a good place to start. If you can confirm early on that certain dead players are not the Zombuul, you’ll have the advantage later in the game.