(Ok, wow, my past few posts from years ago were horrible. Thank god I'm older.)
Anyways so I had an actual idea that I wanted to share with people. Just to see what people thought about it. Sorry if this mirrors anything too closely.
Basically an Alien role, your goal is to record data from your mothership, and so you have been sent to earth with the hopes of finding intelligent life or perhaps another planet to use as a resource or something.
I have two ways on how the alien could work, one of them being Neutral Benign or Neutral Chaos. The way they change is based on their endgame.
For Neutral Benign route your job could be tasked by the mother ship to record everyone's role correctly in your alien tablet, which replaces your will. Getting one or a few attempts to get them all right. If you die or run out of attempts, you lose and die on the spot because your tablet kills you. You are unable to talk to the dead or a medium, but you can still listen though. If you get them all right however, your mothership comes to pick you up in a cinematic that everyone can see at night. With the announment that "The Alien has completed their mission!" and the alien will no longer be in the game, and cannot speak to the dead or medium. Not even able to see their messages.
Or... if you want it to be neutral chaos the aliens could decide to take over earth. Which does not go well for any involved, except the alien. This leads to an "Alien Win!" which ends the game instantly.
Dead bodies are automatically recorded UNLESS they were cleaned or stoned.
Now the alien would have no attack or defense, but would how immunity to roleblocking and being controlled, but can still be jailed. They also have an ability like the consig to visit a person every night and find out their roll. Bypassing anything that might make them show up differently. The alien visits in person, so is affected by so and so.
However, the alien can also go to the graveyard to sample a body that has been cleaned or stoned. Recording it to the tablet. This can also do different things depending on whatever you think is better. It can either reveal the role to the alien. Or it allows the alien to record it as cleaned or stoned. Either way the tracker still can see them going into the graveyard.
There can only be one Alien per game and an Alien cannot be remembered by Amnesiacs.
This role is really meant to spice the game up and make it more fun, or perhaps could be designed to punish those who reveal their role too swiftly.
I personally prefer the fun direction, with this character being Neutral Benign. It's like a hidden agenda for the player that isn't harmful (AKA not the Pirate, stop stealing my gold).
What do you all think? Should the alien be nerfed or buffed in anyway? Perhaps reworked so he has to take "samples" from every house instead?
This will probably never get added, but fire way.