Rework the faustian bargain traitor item

[Noah Buttes]

I just had a round where the people who signed my contracts pretty much fooled around doing nothing, and one murdered me.  For twelve telecrystals I shouldn't have the equivalent of an emagged borgs with macho man powers suddenly coming after me, doubly so if I forced them to sign.  

Please have a popup that at least tells them they can't murder the person who made them sign or whatever, this is awful

Totally intentional. Only some of the contracts actually turn people into antagonists: washed up macho man, drug-addled wrestler, satanic cluwne, toothless vampire, and rarely the genetic demigod contract. None of the contracts are meant to act as mindslaves. People who sign your contracts can totally kill you and should maybe be encouraged to do so. But you're capable of fighting back since the infernal pen and the briefcase are actually pretty damn robust melee weapons, with the pen causing pretty severe bleeding and the case inflicting very heavy stamina damage.


All that having been said, I'm totally open to feedback regarding a mindslave sort of protection mechanic if it turns out that it just results in boring deaths rather than genie-like word twisting and trickery.

Aren't the contracts meant to backfire on both the signee and the contract offerer?

With a few exceptions, yeah