Mind Reader
This design document is currently completely unimplemented in Ephemeral Space.
You should not expect to find anything listed here in-game just yet.
Tracking issue:
Name: Mind Reader
Troupe: Crew
Archetypes: Oracle
Description: Use your telepathic abilities to read peoples' minds, plunge the depths of their psyche, and reveal their secrets.
Objectives: Read the minds of X (low) people, read the mind of target player.
They called me the can opener back in the day. And buddy, you're looking like Soup. wait. i read it wrong. it actually says you like soup. Do you like soup?
Concept
The mind reader is a mask who is able to learn hidden information about a character through the use of their mind-reading ability. Unlike a mask like the empath, the mind reader cannot learn information about masks, but rather only information about a given character. This includes their name, original shift-start appearance, and hidden details about themselves.
Abilities
The mind reader has an ability similar to the connoisseur and enthraller which can target any living player in order to learn information about their true identity. Each successive DoAfter reveals more and more useful clues about the player.
If the mind reader is interrupted during this process, the mind reading will cancel, stunning them and applying a cooldown to the ability. If uninterrupted, once all the information has been read, the mind reader will exit the ability with no downsides.
Gameplay
The mind reader's primary purpose is similar masks like the connoisseur or to role like the bartender in that they collect clues about people that can be used by other roles for deductive reasons. Additionally, the ability to see through an identity disguise and learn someone's name makes them a counter against what can otherwise be powerful disguise masks.
In terms of their interactions with others, the mind reader is subtly threatening in that they are likely to stalk their target and wait for inactivity in order to start learning information about them. However, their forced inaction while mind-reading also makes them vulnerable to others. While it's technically possible to placate a mind reader by willingly allowing them to access your mind, this creates a tradeoff where you have to willingly give up potentially private information.
Variants
Professional mind reader - A single mind reading can reveal multiple pieces of information about a person. The process of reading a mind can also be quicker.