Official Traitor Items Discussion Thread (Wonk)

[Dabir]

so I had an idea and it's honestly dumb as hell but I think it would also be hilarious so I'll just throw it out there


Chaplain only
9 crystals
Obsidian Knife

Basically it's a nasty looking black knife. Pick it up and it sticks to your hand permanently, even if you fall down or are disarmed it's stuck. If the person holding it dies, it vanishes forever. Stab someone with it and they die instantly. They're dead as soon as it touches them, no matter what. They're also incapable of leaving the station z-level.

Anyone killed by it becomes a wraith with the sole objective of killing the person who holds the knife. They also get an extra power that allows them to teleport straight to that person instantly, and can be killed in physical form any number of times without being destroyed permanently. The knife does nothing to wraiths, doesn't hurt them at all. All wraiths nearby when the knife-holder dies are returned to life, and the rest are destroyed(to encourage them to take their terrible vengeance from the beyond the grave instead of fucking off to bother other people).


I think it being so powerful that it just kills anyone it touches would entice plenty of chaplains to choose it and ignore the fact that it inevitably dooms them to die at the hands of a horde of really pissed off ghosts, and also that the chaplain trying to go on a murder spree while constantly having to dodge flying bins is funny. It does the thing the old artbox did except that instead of everyone sitting around whining in deadchat they are instead murderghosts driven by the promise that if they succeed they'll come back to life and can continue doing whatever they originally planned to do. Rather than ending everyone's rounds, it just gives them a fun little intermission where they're a really pissed off ghost.

*stab* Come, my wraith army! Let us wreak havoc! *wraith consumes its old body, follows chaplain*

*repeat ad shuttleum*