Mind-Control Cultist
A mind-controlled civilian driven by implanted command, love, and unnamed fear; swarms teammates while repeating planted phrases and denying reality. Mechanics emphasize that fight...
A civilian reprogrammed by a Mind-Controller — witness, hostage, and weapon in the same body. This one will fight the team. This one cannot consent to fighting the team. Every encounter puts the genre's hardest question right on the table: what do you owe somebody who isn't in control of their own hands?
Signature moves: swarm a teammate, repeat the phrase the Mind-Controller planted, deny the truth outright, lash out at whoever names it.
Defeated by: the team breaking the chain without violence, or finding the Mind-Controller and cutting them out of the network.
Appearance: Plain civilian clothes with a glassy, unfocused stare and a repeated, mechanical set to the jaw; movements a half-beat too synchronized to be natural.
Tier Minion Compromised · Scale Human · Labels Danger +1 · Freak 0 · Mundane 0
Common drives
- the implanted command
- the implanted love
- fear they cannot name
Narrative hooks
- The Cultist is a teammate's school friend
- Snaps out for a moment and asks for help
- Has a shred of the original self the team can find