Crewmember
This design document has been completely implemented into Ephemeral Space. All information here should be present in-game.
Name: Crewmember
Troupe: Crew
Archetypes: Dud
Description: Serve as the platonic ideal of the crew.
Objectives: None.
Masquerade notes: Should be assigned with increasing frequency as player population goes up.
I'm the crewmember. What do you mean I'm "fake claiming?" What does that even mean??
Concept
The crewmember is the baseline member of the crew troupe and serves as a default mask for the game.
Abilities
The crewmember has no special abilities.
Gameplay
As a baseline role, the crewmember is the most "safe" to other players but is simultaneously the easiest mask to pretend to be. Since there is almost certainly a crewmember at any population level, pretending to be one is almost certainly a safe claim that cannot be immediately disproven.
As a game piece, the mask highlights the best element of the crew troupe: ambiguity. There's no clear way to sus out what a crewmember really is, so they become a constant question mark. Are they really who they say they are, or are they just a traitor lying low?