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Finally finished the interloper's masks :D added two more based on two people who unfortunately didnt return to the spire (or maybe fortunately? i don't know.)

This would probably be best explained OOC, and I was planning on making a post rambling abt this, so this is pretty convenient! Granted, I'm not the greatest at balancing mechanics, I'm mostly here to have fun, but I like thinking about them and planning theoreticals out.

Technically all of their builds are reliant on their faces because their cards are dependant on what mask is being worn. Without the mask, cards would technically be colorless & useless, but when hovered over, they show what card they would be when the specific mask is worn. Each card would have a random but set mask card within it depending on the rarity, rather than having variants of one card.

They stay with four (although i might change this to three) masks: the Entertainer, the Screenwriter, the Dancer, and the Vocalist, which causes the interloper's cards to be attacks, defends, reflects, or stuns respectively, the latter two being its specialized effects. They start each combat wearing a mask, which can be changed out at the Ancients + rests (maybe Merchant too? idk though) out of combat or changed via cards in combat. It's only classified that the Interloper has a mask if it has the respective mask to go along with it.

Reflect and Stun work similarly in the sense that you have to get a certain number of stacks for it to take effect, specifically in relation to the enemy's intent. When the stacks equate the # on the intent (for multi- attacks it would only be the 1st number) or is double for Stun, the intent will either be reflected to the opposite side at 50% (without canceling the intent however) or stunned completely, and then the effect would go away.

I'm still working on other masks they can wear, I kind of want to do something with the Red Mask and the Jeweled Mask but don't know yet, but I do have the Entrepeneur, which would be a stolen Merchant mask.

The Entrepeneur would probably be something where you can spend money for attacks/defends or gain money when doing xyz. Not fully fleshed out, just an idea.

I'm not sure if I want to have it be locked behind their form or just able to be discovered through rewards/the merchant but I was thinking about having the other Slayers as a mask type, which would coincide with a weaker build than the original. There'd definitely be a coded in limit of like 2 Slayer type masks in the deck at once (so once 2 slayer masks are obtained, no others show up) to prevent anything too crazy. I'm thinking for now Ironclad is Strength, Silent is Dex, Defect is Status, Regent is Card Creation, and Necro is Ethereal.

Cards would also be kind of "divided" between Mask and Actions, the former allowing you to switch masks and the latter dependant on the masks as I previously mentioned. There's probably a rapid-fire Mask switching build in there, I like referring to Reflect+Stun as Spindash, and probably a mini Slayer combo would be a build as well if it stays as a random chance mask rather than the form.

I'm still uncertain about what the form would be mechanically. Changing the starter mask originates from the starter relic, which when upgraded lets you choose what mask to start w/ at the start of combat, so probably not related to that. I wanted to call it Mimic Form, but that seems like it would tie too much into mimicing the slayers, which could work if I lock them behind the form. Another one could be Weaver form, maybe? Where you can choose to wear two masks as a time and then can choose which card plays? I don't really know.

//Hello! I'm @static-in-andante or simply Static! This is honestly my first time doing an rp ask blog (but i do rp pretty consistently) and I had to join in on the sts2 oc shenanigans

//Anyways meet The Interloper (they/it/ve)! Their whole gimmick is based around switching between masks constantly to attack, defend, or use other kinds of cards, akin to a probably more frantic/faster-paced Gremlin from Downfall mixed with the stances of the Watcher? They were also pretty loosely inspired by the Face Trader :3

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