The Devil Within

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In this cruel game you play solo as a Corruptor, an evil spirit slowly taking control of My Character as you ruin her character, reputation, and life, step by step, by intervening in her behavior.

Your goal is to reduce her to an evil, humiliated, hateful creature with no morals and who is separated from everyone who loves her.

You have come from some dark immaterial place to feast on the ruination of your victim. She is a very beautiful, mostly innocent, mostly ordinary person with bright-souled good intentions. About you, we know very little, except that you are intelligent, conniving, invisible, and sadistic. You have the power to dictate gradually little choices that your victim makes, the actions she takes, and the feelings she feels. At first you can direct some of the things she says to people and her nonverbal communication. As your successes increase, and you manipulate her into doing more and more despicable things, you gain increasing power over other spheres of her activity, and you can dictate her actions more and more, until, in the end, you rule her life and she is entirely your character, no longer an NPC.

What you don't control is your victim's thoughts. This is the first danger you face. If you work too quickly, and by your manipulations lead her to do too many uncharacteristic things, she may seek help. That could be from a counselor, a dear friend, a spiritual advisor, and, worst of all, an exorcist or other person with the power to defeat you and to banish you to the darkness from whence you came. You must work carefully so that her personality changes gradually, so that you manipulate her to do things that she would not feel are too much out of her own current character. You do not want her to suspect that she is losing herself to you. Your back door is through her weaknesses and faults, the spots of selfishness that are more likely to give in. It is up to you to discover them in order to lay waste to her soul.

Another danger is the possibility of encountering other spirits, good and evil, who are working through other individuals. Your spiritual perception can detect them when they manipulate the actions of those around your target.

All this is set against the backdrop of your victim's life, which has its own unfolding, soap-opera-life drama.