¶ Werewolf
Difficulty: Hard
Duties: Hunt the island's inhabitants and spread chaos.
Features: Transformation into a monster by moonlight.
A cursed creature that turns into a monster by moonlight and spreads chaos among the island's inhabitants.
Werewolves are antagonists whose rules and permitted actions change depending on their form.
¶ Curse of the Moon
An ancient curse created to carry the power of the beast. In the dark hours of the night, your true nature awakens, granting incredible strength and abilities that ordinary people can only dream of. In return, however, it awakens an immense thirst for blood that you cannot control.
Werewolves are servants of the Goddess Zaigo, the Goddess of deception and treachery, who sent her servants as punishment for the inhabitants newly arrived on the sacred island. Anyone who encounters a werewolf will either flee without looking back or attack without a moment's hesitation. If that werewolf is discovered among the islanders, they will immediately be sent to the stake.
At night, the character has an uncontrollable chance to turn into a werewolf.
¶ Blood Moon
When the number of cursed people on the island reaches its peak, the moon turns crimson, and every werewolf without exception transforms and begins to wreak havoc.
¶ Fur Covering
Although the curse cannot be controlled or cured, it grants major advantages unavailable to ordinary people.
Rage points are earned by killing people in werewolf form or when the night ends. The upgrade menu is available only in human form.
¶ Evolution
The evolution menu contains many different abilities, both active and passive, and all of them are upgraded with rage points. The more developed a branch becomes, the stronger its abilities grow.
Ability
Required abilities
Description
Heal Allies (4 points)Start of all ability branches
Grants the ability to heal all other nearby werewolves
Thick Fur (4 points)"Heal Allies"
Increases maximum health
Regeneration (7 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Thick Fur"
Grants the ability to partially restore your health
Long Dash (4 points)"Heal Allies"
Makes dashes longer
Hot Blood (4 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Long Dash"
Temporarily increases movement speed when activated
Shadow Dash (5 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Long Dash" —> "Hot Blood"
Allows a dash to stun a selected target
Scent of Blood (4 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Long Dash" —> "Hot Blood"
"Heal Allies" —> "Thick Fur" —> "Regeneration"
Grants the ability to track victims by scent
Transformation (8 points)"Shadow Dash"
"Scent of Blood"
Grants the ability to transform into a werewolf and back at any time
Stone-Cutting Claws (3 points)"Heal Allies"
Grants the ability to break obstacles with your claws while in werewolf form
Steel Claws (6 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Stone-Cutting Claws"
Makes claws deal more damage while in werewolf form
Blood Hunt (5 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Stone-Cutting Claws" —> "Steel Claws"
"Heal Allies" —> "Thick Fur" —> "Regeneration"
Grants the ability to enter hunting mode while in werewolf form. In this mode, dashes do not consume stamina, in exchange for taking a small amount of damage
Lunar Fury (6 points)"Heal Allies" —> "Stone-Cutting Claws" —> "Steel Claws"
Grants the ability to ignore stamina attacks and gain a speed boost for several seconds
Rending Maw (9 points)"Blood Hunt"
"Lunar Fury"
Grants the ability to deal heavy damage with your jaws
¶ Hunting Prey
Under the full moon, the thirst for blood intensifies until self-control becomes impossible, and the hunt for prey begins. The curse may be powerful, but it does not make werewolves omnipotent: killing a lone traveler should pose little difficulty, while a werewolf may not even be able to escape from an entire group. The hunt should therefore take place in secluded areas, preferably in a dense forest or wherever travelers rarely go.
Night is the best time to hunt. At some point in your evolution, you gain the ability to transform at will at any time, but even then, other people can help a screaming, fleeing adventurer more easily in daylight than after dark. Always track your victim and consider whether anyone can come to their aid. The ideal plan is to befriend your target and travel with them until sunset while leading them to a remote place, where they will be unable to call for help or escape.
A lone wolf is capable of much, but not everything. Hunting alongside one of your kin is far easier, yet although the curse binds you together, you should not trust everyone.
After infection, an icon appears above the player to show that they are a werewolf. This mark is visible only to those who are infected.
¶ Vulnerabilities
Every living creature has weaknesses, whether human or monster. Werewolves trade protection for impressive strength and great speed, allowing a single skilled warrior to fend off a young werewolf. More experienced specimens, however, offer no such leniency. Even a youngster can fight back, and a battle with one will result in severe wounds, if not death.
One of nature's earliest gifts comes to the rescue against these creatures: Fire. Mages who study fire spells are extremely useful in battle against them, while archers can provide support with fire arrows crafted from carnelian by blacksmiths. Ordinary people with neither magic nor a bow can only defend themselves with torches.
¶ Roleplaying Tips
- You are free to make your own decisions about your way of life and how you hunt. Whether to follow the path of a lone wolf or act together with others is entirely your choice. No one forces you to cooperate with or help other werewolves;
- Once you have been infected, you gain the following roleplaying options:
- Retain all memories from before the bite and continue on your path while remembering your former life;
- Roleplay memory loss and begin a new story.
Both options are acceptable and impose no restrictions on the character's subsequent development. The choice is entirely yours.
- If the danger posed by werewolves is known on the island, every player has grounds to suspect other people. For example, if, after the night has passed, you see another player in the forest with no possessions or clothing, you have a logical reason to suspect that person of being a werewolf.
This is not a reason to attack another player—only grounds for suspicion!
¶ Rules That Change
"Transformation" is the process of fully changing into a beast after infection.
Permitted:
- Killing werewolves, whether in human or transformed form, regardless of faction.
Prohibited:
- Killing or putting uninfected people into critical condition in order to infect them afterward.
Permitted:
- Being a peaceful werewolf.
Prohibited:
- Outside faction wars, unjustifiably killing either werewolves (in human or transformed form) or people not infected with lycanthropy.
A werewolf in human form is an antagonist who may, but is not required to, pursue the infection of the island's entire population with lycanthropy.
A werewolf in transformed form is an antagonist who primarily seeks to infect the island's entire population with lycanthropy.