The Plague
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The Plague (Adiris) – Lore Overview
Adiris was once a devoted priestess in ancient Babylon, chosen at a young age to serve the gods and lead rituals of purification. As disease spread across the city, she took it upon herself to care for the sick, believing that unwavering faith and ritual could stave off the plague. Though her body became ravaged by illness, she continued to perform sacred rites, her coughs hidden beneath hymns and her sores beneath ceremonial robes.
When the temples fell and the dead outnumbered the living, Adiris remained, conducting her rituals in isolation as the bodies piled around her. In the end, abandoned and mortally ill, she clutched her censer and prayed not for her own life, but for deliverance. Something answered—not a god, but The Entity. It offered her a place beyond death, where she could eternally spread her corrupt devotion.
Now, as The Plague, Adiris roams the realms of The Entity, her devotion twisted into infection. She vomits bile upon Survivors and corrupts totems, spreading sickness in the name of a divine force long since distorted.
The cries of the unfaithful make your heart leap.
Whenever a Survivor is put into the Dying State by any means, all other Survivors within your Terror Radius will scream and reveal their current location to you for 4/5/6 seconds.
“Horror overcomes the heart of infidels who cry at the feet of the fallen.” — (Hymn of Praise, 11.4)
Infectious Fright
Corrupt Intervention
Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors’ chances of survival.
- At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.
“It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful.” — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)
The display of your Powers creates a whirlwind of panic that spreads throughout the land. Whenever the Obsession loses a Health State by any means and thus enters the Injured State, Dark Devotion activates:
- Your Terror Radius transfers to the Obsession for 20/25/30 seconds, and its radius is set to 32 metres.
- Grants the Undetectable Status Effect for the same duration.
The Obsession with your transferred Terror Radius is also considered to be ‘inside the Terror Radius’ for other purposes.
Dark Devotion
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
“And terror shall take hold of a defiant non-believer, who shall falsely announce my arrival.” — (The Tablet of Adiris, 48.9)
Builds
Cursed Endurance
Thanatophobia
Nurse Perk
Their courage fades in the face of their undeniable mortality.
- Each injured, dying, or hooked Survivor afflicts Survivors with a stack-able 1/1.5/2 % Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Sabotaging, and Cleansing, up to a maximum of 4/6/8 %.
- Increases the Action Speed penalty by a further 12 %, if there are 4 Survivors, who are either injured, dying, or hooked at the same time.
“She plays with us and revels in our pain.”
Dying Light
Shape Perk
Each time you hook a Survivor other than your Obsession, you gain +1 Token:
- For as long as the Obsession is alive, all other Survivors suffer from a stack-able 2/2.5/3 % per Token Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Healing, and Sabotaging, up to a maximum of 22/27.5/33 % or 11 Tokens.
- The Obsession is unaffected by this penalty and instead granted a permanent +33 % Action Speed bonus to Unhooking and Healing other Survivors.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
“This isn’t a man…” — Dr Sam Loomis
Hex: Pentimento
Artist Perk
You reveal the true power of the Totems, hidden within their remains.
- You see the Auras of cleansed Totems
You can perform a ritual on a cleansed Totem to resurrect it as a Rekindled Totem. For each Rekindled Totem active at the same time, Hex: Pentimento gains an additional effect:
- 1 Totem: reduces all Survivors’ Repair speed by 20/25/30 %.
- 2 Totems: reduces all Survivors’ Healing speed by 20/25/30 %.
- 3 Totems: reduces all Survivors’ Recovery speed from being downed by 20/25/30 %.
- 4 Totems: reduces all Survivors’ Gate-Opening speed by 20/25/30 %.
- 5 Totems: all Totems are permanently blocked by The Entity.
When a Rekindled Totem is cleansed, its remains are consumed by The Entity and it cannot be rekindled.
“Though a pentimento is an inherently concealed piece of art, there is something to be said of the desire to discover that which is beyond.” — A Guide to Art & Process (1961)
Hex: Wretched Fate
Dark Lord Perk
You see your victim from afar and resolve to prolong their suffering.
After a Generator is completed, Hex: Wretched Fate activates and lights a random Dull Totem, cursing the Obsession:
- Reduces their Repair speed by 27/30/33 %.
- The Aura of the Hex Totem is revealed to them within 12 metres.
“So toil, mortal, toil! Your effort will be for naught!” — Dracula
OR
Corrupted Time
Thanatophobia
Nurse Perk
Their courage fades in the face of their undeniable mortality.
- Each injured, dying, or hooked Survivor afflicts Survivors with a stack-able 1/1.5/2 % Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Sabotaging, and Cleansing, up to a maximum of 4/6/8 %.
- Increases the Action Speed penalty by a further 12 %, if there are 4 Survivors, who are either injured, dying, or hooked at the same time.
“She plays with us and revels in our pain.”
Dying Light
Shape Perk
Each time you hook a Survivor other than your Obsession, you gain +1 Token:
- For as long as the Obsession is alive, all other Survivors suffer from a stack-able 2/2.5/3 % per Token Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Healing, and Sabotaging, up to a maximum of 22/27.5/33 % or 11 Tokens.
- The Obsession is unaffected by this penalty and instead granted a permanent +33 % Action Speed bonus to Unhooking and Healing other Survivors.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
“This isn’t a man…” — Dr Sam Loomis
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance
Artist Perk
Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards.
At the start of the Trial, 4 random Hooks are changed into Scourge Hooks:
- The Auras of Scourge Hooks are revealed to you in white.
You start the Trial with 4 Tokens on Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance. Each time a Survivor is hooked on a Scourge Hook for the first time, 1 Token is consumed and the following effects apply:
- The Generator with the most Progression explodes and instantly regresses by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
- Normal Generator Regression applies afterwards.
- All Survivors repairing that Generator will scream, but not reveal their location.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once all Tokens are consumed.
“The pain spills beyond flesh/darkness staining the horizon.” — Girl in the Shadow by Carmina Mora
Corrupt Intervention
Plague Perk
Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors’ chances of survival.
- At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.
“It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful.” — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)