Mask

## Description

If a character dies tonight, a random character is also attacked with the same attack.

The trial is announced as two murderers and starts with a random body.

The Mask user is secretly also given the Monokuma File results.

One random player using information abilities or items will detect his/her target as visiting the body or attacking.

## Notes

* One of the two players is randomly revived after the trial.
* Attacks from the effects of Mask bypass reactive attacks and killing the puppet master does not show up on the Monokuma File. The puppet master is always the player revived.
* The game master tells the dead players that one of them is being revived after the trial but not which one.
* The random player using information abilities or items will detect corresponding information to make the target look like the murderer. For example, if a person using a Camera is randomly selected by the last effect of a Mask, he/she would detect his/her target performing the same action as the blackened.
* When using a Mask, you cannot cause a suicide. Attacks that would cause an unintentional suicide fail.
* Using a Mask does not change who the murderer is.
* The use of a Mask does not cause death if 2 murders are already happening in the same night or if a murder in the same night involves a revive mechanic.

## Strategy

### **Hope**

Although Mask is not a blackened only item, it quite often is more harmful than helpful to the side of hope. Most of the effects only serve to confuse players during the trial even if the user admits to using Mask.

### **Blackened**

For a blackened working by himself/herself, a Mask is a reasonably good tool to get away with an elimination. This one item does a lot of the work for telling the blackened what he/she should know, throwing those on the side of hope off the scent, and making it difficult to determine exactly what happened during a trial. As Mask is a free use item, using it would still allow the blackened to use a weapon or perform the eliminate action in the same night. Although, one could make a case for holding onto a Mask being just as suspicious as holding onto a weapon.

### **Game Masters**

The first thing for a game master to watch out for when this item is being used is the last line in the notes section: The first effect of Mask is omitted if there are already 2 characters performing an elimination in the same night. The other 3 effects of Mask may still occur, but no more than 2 murders may ever occur and it's much simpler to ignore the first effect of Mask rather than speed rolling to see if it takes effect before the other murder. The game master can select a random character to be killed and a random victim to be revived using the random number generator on the bottom game master's panel. It's also important to note if any investigation abilities (such as Kyoko Kirigiri's Track) or any investigation items (such as Tracking Device) are being used, as one of them will be randomly selected to show *different* results than the truth to reflect what the killer would have done (as per the last effect of Mask). If there is a killing phase on the same night as a Mask is successfully used, tell both the targeted victim and the randomly selected victim that they have been eliminated but have the chance to be revived at the end of the trial. Finally, the game master shouldn't forget to give the results of the Monokuma File in private to the player who used Mask; this should preferably be done during the killing phase or otherwise before the trial so that players can't unfairly discover that Mask was used once all living players are on the trial grounds to notice the game master pulling a specific player away.