Actors

*Note: Actors is a conjectural name taken from the game files.*

**Actors** are a story element present in Storyteller.

## Purpose

Actors are the characters that are placed in scenes to create a Story. These actors must be manipulated using the scenes to complete the goal of the titled Story.

## General Gameplay

There are two types of actors, stationary actors and placeable actors.

Stationary actors include Magic Mirror, Professor, God, and Snake. These actors cannot be moved from their spots on their respective panels (Mirror (judgment), Professor, Judgment, and Tempt respectively).

All other actors are placeable. These actors can be placed in any free slot on any scene with few restrictions regarding status.

All actors have Lore, a history of important events, that they remember. Lore includes marriages, death, heartbreak, kidnappings, murders to self, and sometimes more specialized aspects.

Some actors act differently than usual when responding with certain situations. For example, Isobel is a spiteful character and is the first actor capable of becoming resentful after being rejected, and Queen and King will prioritize regaining their crowns by any means necessary before marriage.

Dead actors will either become a ghost or a corpse. These characters are not removed from the story and are still placeable, but with new behaviors.

## General Actor Behavior

In general, Actors will follow these rules.

Actors are able to love or marry any actor of their choosing. Characters stay loyal to those they marry and will not marry anyone else. Actors will support those they love. If something were to happen to them, with the perpetrator known, they will gain major resentment towards the perpetrator. Actors are unable to divorce outside of death and revealing of incest. Characters who are in love with each other/have the potential to love each other can kiss.

Actors become heartbroken when they are rejected, when their lover dies, or it is revealed that they are cheating on them. Heartbroken actors have the ability to commit suicide via poison.

Dead actors typically become ghosts when they die, with few exceptions. Ghosts are unable to do much outside of scaring actors who previously killed them and through Seance. Dead actors are able to be revived.

Fighting gives two actors minor resentment towards each other, allowing them to kidnap each other, but not much else, unless one actor is Spiteful.

Actors leave fingerprints when picking up a gun. When witnessing a murder, they will tell Detective what they saw the next chance they get. Actors witnessing Detective talking about their own murder will gain major resentment against Detective.

Kidnapping an actor will cause the kidnappee to gain major resentment towards the kidnapper.

Any actor can become Royalty by picking up a crown from the throne. Being Royalty allows characters to execute characters they have major resentment against. With a throne present, dying in any way or being kidnapped will remove the status, and if that actor was the last Royalty member left, the crown will be returned to Throne for anyone to pick up.

Seeing a monster without dying will cause actors to talk about what they saw when in the Ballroom or to Professor. In the latter's case, Professor will give an item to aid them.

Amnesia completely resets Actor lore, allowing a married person to forget they were married and remarry, resetting all resentment, and other previous events that happened in the story.

## List of Actors

### Stationary Actors/Scenes

* Magic Mirror/Mirror (judgment)
* Snake/Tempt
* God/Judgment
* Professor/Professor

### Placeable Actors (sorted by general theme's earliest appearance)

* Eve
* Friedrich
* Devil
* Lenora
* Bernard
* Isobel
* Dog
* Prince
* Witch
* Froggy
* Duke
* Duchess
* Detective
* Baron
* Queen
* King
* Maid
* Dracula
* Jon
* Mina
* Peachy
* Hatey
* Greeny
* Bluey