cult gamemode idea

[ferriswheel1]

I had a idea related to cults called Mythos, where the main antagonist was the God itself but they can't directly interact with the station. Just do things like make people lose their sanity with hallucinations and temporary loss of control Rajaijah style. They'd have a few minions in the form of cultists that they could issue commands to, who'd be tasked with completing a ritual open a portal between the God's dimension and theirs.

So like a combo of Rev and Wraith, cranked to 11

That sounds....very similar to Wraith. With such similarities, why not simply use the existing wraith, but give it a small cohort of hard-mode traitor cultists/minions? They don't know each other's identities, and the wraith's whisper is their main medium of group communication. It neatly turns wraith into a more viable primary antagonist capable of having a larger effect on the station, and ensures we'll see more wraith rounds.

People have said in the past that there's not enough high level abilities for the Wraith, so I can see that working. Making people go nuts and trip out also goes more into the kind of illusion tactics that I'd like to see wraiths rely on more rather than item possession, animation, and flinging stuff at you that they currently have.

And having minions means you got people to clean up all that salt people keep leaving around

The current wraith's Poltergeist ability actually has some trippy, atmospheric stuff like you describe. It can, as far as I remember, trip light switches, blow out lights, send scary PDA messages and spawn a ton of ectoplasm. It's rarely used, however, which is a darned shame. I could see various hallucination and freak-out effects being added to it, though.

A limited mind-control/freak out power would be pretty cool. I've also said in the past, though, that any addition of higher-level powers to wraith should come after the crew gets more ways to actively fight off wraiths. Wraith does have some very nasty powers in revenant mode, as well.