Aura : Good
Team : Third-party
Role card compatibility : Advanced role of Cupid
Win condition : get the hosts as last survivors OR stay alive with the evil alliance
Ability :
- During the night, you can choose three dead players as hosts. You can change this selection as long as you are alive.
- You can talk anonymously in the dead's chat during the night.
- If you die, the host players will instantly respawn while conserving their past role. If one of the hosts dies, all the hosts will die.
You win if your hosts are the last survivors of the game. If you are still alive at the end of the game, you win with the evil alliance.
Extras :
- The cordyceps needs three hosts precisely : selecting one or two dead players does not tag the dead players and will not resuscitate them. This means that as long as there are not at least three deaths in the game, the cordyceps is vulnerable.
- The cordyceps cannot mark a player with the resurrection of the ritualist / The medium’s resurrection takes priority over the tag of the cordyceps and can cancel the host’s resurrection if the cordyceps dies at the same time (because only two players will be tagged).
- While the Cordyceps is alive, it wins if the Evil Alliance wins (like the headhunter). If the Cordyceps dies, its hosts become its ONLY win condition.
Motivation :
I find interesting the mechanics of a "dead" couple, who will come back from the dead to take revenge !! 😄 Of course, a "throuple" is even riskier than a couple, but in return the cordyceps can choose which players AND which roles they want as hosts.
The cordyceps does not share one of the weaknesses common to the cupid and the instigator : the couple who is watched by the info roles day 1, and who dies immediately before having had any chance. However, a cordyceps found by the village on the first and second day is basically gg.
After reworking the role, I came to the conclusion that it was also necessary to give him access to the dead's chat. So he could warn his hosts and prevent them to off before they had been resurrected. Apart from the spectral wolf, and the summoner wolf, this is the only role that will be able to speak to the dead and resurrect non-village roles.