Each night, choose one living player. That player receives 5 permanent penalty votes.
These penalty votes remain on the player until they are banished or eliminated.
Penalty votes are cumulative and persist from day to day.
If the same player is chosen again on a later night, they gain an additional 5 penalty votes.
The penalty votes are not revealed immediately.
Once nominations are closed, The Architect reveals all active penalty votes.
Threshold Rule: Any player with 7 or more total votes is immediately banished.
Multiple players may be banished during the same day if several players cross the threshold after the reveal.
If no banishment occurs for 3 consecutive days, the Ravagers automatically win.
Hidden pressure mechanic: Players may unknowingly sit near elimination thresholds for multiple days.
Explosive reveals: Closing nominations becomes a moment of panic, as hidden penalty votes can suddenly trigger chain banishments.
Punishes indecision: Citizens cannot safely stall discussions or avoid eliminations for too long.
Long-term corruption: Persistent penalty votes slowly poison the voting system itself, turning even trusted players into liabilities.
The Bureaucrat once managed judicial ledgers for the merchant councils of Amber Plains. Publicly, they preached order and fairness. Privately, they buried lives beneath endless revisions, hidden penalties, and impossible quotas. Entire families disappeared because of signatures no one knew existed until it was too late. When the Ravagers arrived, the Bureaucrat finally found a system worthy of their talents: one where guilt could be manufactured, and judgment could arrive all at once.
Cold, procedural, and unnervingly patient.
Believes systems are most powerful when people do not fully understand them.
Rarely raises their voice, yet controls every room they enter.
Treats fear and confusion as tools of governance.
Each night, choose one living player. That player receives 5 permanent penalty votes.
These penalty votes remain on the player until they are banished or eliminated.
Penalty votes are cumulative and persist from day to day.
If the same player is chosen again on a later night, they gain an additional 5 penalty votes.
The penalty votes are not revealed immediately.
Once nominations are closed, The Architect reveals all active penalty votes.
Threshold Rule: Any player with 7 or more total votes is immediately banished.
Multiple players may be banished during the same day if several players cross the threshold after the reveal.
If no banishment occurs for 3 consecutive days, the Ravagers automatically win.
Hidden pressure mechanic: Players may unknowingly sit near elimination thresholds for multiple days.
Explosive reveals: Closing nominations becomes a moment of panic, as hidden penalty votes can suddenly trigger chain banishments.
Punishes indecision: Citizens cannot safely stall discussions or avoid eliminations for too long.
Long-term corruption: Persistent penalty votes slowly poison the voting system itself, turning even trusted players into liabilities.
The Bureaucrat once managed judicial ledgers for the merchant councils of Amber Plains. Publicly, they preached order and fairness. Privately, they buried lives beneath endless revisions, hidden penalties, and impossible quotas. Entire families disappeared because of signatures no one knew existed until it was too late. When the Ravagers arrived, the Bureaucrat finally found a system worthy of their talents: one where guilt could be manufactured, and judgment could arrive all at once.
Cold, procedural, and unnervingly patient.
Believes systems are most powerful when people do not fully understand them.
Rarely raises their voice, yet controls every room they enter.
Treats fear and confusion as tools of governance.
