Syndicate Sympathizer

Name: Syndicate Sympathizer

Troupe: Traitor

Archetypes: Dud

Description: Aid the Syndicate as a passive bystander.

Objectives: None

Masquerade notes: Can be optionally interspersed into traitor-based masquerades for additional deniability.

Modifier notes: N/A

Why am I bolting open the doors to the bridge? I just think everyone should be able to see the lovely terminals.

Concept

The Syndicate Sympathizer is a member of the traitor troupe who is isolated and unable to directly cooperate with other traitors. They do not appear as traitors to other traitors nor are the able to see the troupe icon on others.

Sympathizers cannot see which objectives the traitors have, although they have an objective that tracks the completion of the traitor troupe objectives. Consequently, they cannot actively complete traitor objectives and can themselves be the target of traitors.

Roles which are usually unable to be traitors are able to be sympathizers.

Abilities

None.

Gameplay

The Syndicate Sympathizer is a mask which introduces potential malice in what might otherwise be assumed to be incompetence. Since they are unable to see the traitors' objectives, they're unable to directly advance them. However, they can make it easier for traitors by weakening security, overlooking activity, and compromising areas.

This is obviously much less impactful than the actions of a literal traitor, but most importantly, it's indistinguishable from incompetence. This creates an incentive against incompetence, as it can logically be connected to being a traitor. Did someone not try hard enough to stop a traitor from killing someone? Maybe they're a sympathizer, and should be killed themselves. Maybe they're just an innocent fool.

The goal is the paranoia. Even if someone doesn't have gear or isn't doing evil, they could be subtly enabling it through their actions, encouraging a baseline level of effort at risk of being perceived as working against the whole.