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<p class='flavour'>""I do not. Understand. Your ways. Fellow human. Show me. The dirt. Where the holy. Lay. Sleeping. I too. Must sleep. Soon."</p>
<p class='flavour'>"You truly have been kind welcoming me into your beautiful home. I am so sorry I accidentally scratched you. A little thing. No matter. But please, take this golden toothpick as a humble token of my regret."</p>
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
"Each night*, if no-one died today, choose a player: they die. The 1st time you die, you live but register as dead."
"Each night, choose a player: they are poisoned. The previously poisoned player dies then becomes healthy."


The Zombuul secretly remains alive while in the grave.
The Pukka poisons its victims, who die at a later time.
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The Zombuul is executed and appears to die. They cannot attack tonight. A few days later, only two players appear alive on the Town Square. The good team is fairly certain that one of the dead players is the Zombuul, and the game continues until one more player dies.
The Pukka poisons the {{Good|Chambermaid}}. The {{Good|Chambermaid}} gets false information. The next night, the {{Good|Chambermaid}} dies.
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Nobody died today. That night, the Zombuul attacks. The next day, the {{Good|Tinker}} dies. That night, the Zombuul does not wake.  
The Pukka poisons the {{Good|Fool}}. The next day, the {{Good|Fool}} is executed and dies because they have no ability. The next night, nobody dies and the Pukka poisons the {{Good|Gossip}}. The next night, the Pukka is drunk and tries to poison the {{Good|Tinker}}, but does not. The next night, the {{Good|Gossip}} dies because the Pukka is sober.
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The Pukka poisons the {{Good|Pacifist}}. The next night, the {{Good|Exorcist}} chooses the Pukka to not wake tonight. The {{Good|Pacifist}} dies, but the Pukka does not wake to attack tonight.
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The {{Good|Moonchild}} is executed, dies, and chooses the {{Good|Courtier}}. That night, the Pukka chooses the {{Good|Moonchild}}. The {{Good|Courtier}} does not die because the {{Good|Moonchild}} is poisoned.
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== Tips & Tricks ==
== Tips & Tricks ==


* The sinister Zombuul is the deadliest Demon in [[Bad Moon Rising]] for its stealth and survivability. The {{Evil|Shabaloth}} and {{Evil|Po}} may kill many and the {{Evil|Pukka}} may strike with their poison, but they are all disappointingly fragile when the town eventually uncovers them. Not so for you - you're hard to find and harder to kill, and your patience is legendary; you're content to lie among the dead and listen peacefully as the town tears themselves apart looking for a Demon among the living, not ever suspecting that one of the rotting corpses in the graveyard still draws breath. The good team should pray you're not the Demon they're facing, because then no player is safe; the dead and the living alike are all equally and terrifyingly suspect.
* The devious Pukka is the deadliest demon in [[Bad Moon Rising]] for its viciousness and cruelty. All the other demons give the town the courtesy of a single night; the Pukka has no such patience, sowing chaos into the town from the first night, selecting their first victim before the townsfolk even get a chance to act. The {{Evil|Zombuul}} may be a little hardier than you, and the {{Evil|Shabaloth}} and {{Evil|Po}} may kill more effectively, but they are vulnerable to the most deadly weapon the good team wields: information. Not only do you kill but you neutralize your victims, forcing them to spend their last days in delirium, their information confused and the danger they once posed reduced to nothing. The good team always hopes you are not in play, lest they have to spend the whole game doubting all of the information that would normally lead them right to your door.
 
* Factor in who you want to poison as well as who you want to kill. An aggressive and talkative {{Good|Chambermaid}} who doesn't realize their last day of information is wrong can do a lot of legwork for you beyond the grave. If you get very lucky, you could catch an {{Good|Exorcist}} or {{Good|Courtier}} out before they catch you, or you can expose an {{Good|Innkeeper}}'s patrons to your {{Evil|Godfather}} or a {{Good|Moonchild}} curse with a little bit of a good timing. You are the only evil player in [[Bad Moon Rising]] who has the ability to befuddle your target's information, so why not take full advantage?
 
* Target players who you don't think are going to be executed the next day. If the good team executes your poisoned victim, then there'll be no death that night from you... which wily good players might use to detect that you are in play. A badly timed execution will leave you scrambling to play catch up for the rest of the game!


* You only have the ability to kill at night if nobody has died during the day. This can be difficult, since even though players are dying, it is primarily the good team that is killing them, meaning that a troublesome {{Good|Exorcist}} or {{Good|Courtier}} hovering around may continue to survive when you badly need them gone. One way to work around this limitation is to speak up for no executions, but the good team may find that suspicious and start questioning your allegiance if you push for that too often. A more reasonable strategy is to encourage executions that you don't think will cause death - for example, a {{Good|Sailor}} claim, or the neighbours of a {{Good|Tea Lady}}. This gives the good team information, but will also grant you your precious kill... providing the {{Good|Tinker}} doesn't drop dead in the middle of the day, anyway. You could also (probably only once) argue for a {{Evil|Mastermind}}, leveraging the good team's paranoia about whether or not they killed the Demon to have them hold off for a night rather than risking losing the game.
* Target players who the good team suspects are bluffing being immune to execution, like the {{Good|Sailor}}, or a {{Good|Tea Lady}} and her neighbour. Even with the lack of death the following night, it will look like they faked their ability using a {{Evil|Devil's Advocate}}, and can even lead the good team to believe they are in fact a {{Evil|Zombuul}}. (And any day the good team spends executing dead players is a good day for you!)


* Kill yourself, and hide in plain sight as a dead player! This can be especially effective if the good team thinks a different Demon is in play, since they will ignore the dead as suspects and focus on the living. Even if they ''do'' suspect you, choosing to die at the right moment can throw them off your trail - for example, get yourself executed early to "test" your {{Good|Sailor}} immunity, and blame a {{Evil|Pukka}} for your death. Alternatively and more simply, you can just choose yourself and die at night - players who die at night tend to be good and considered trustworthy. Finally, you can coordinate with your {{Evil|Godfather}} to take you out at an opportune time, making it look like there isn't a Zombuul in play ''and'' that you are an innocent victim of circumstance. Then, you can use your death as a platform to spread misinformation and confuse the good team... or simply sit back and watch the game unfold.
* Your poison cannot be blocked by anything but the wily {{Good|Goon}}, but characters can still be protected from death at night by characters like the {{Good|Tea Lady}} or {{Good|Innkeeper}}. You have nothing to fear from a {{Good|Fool}} or a {{Good|Sailor}}, but choose carefully nonetheless - it won't do to miss a kill, especially since you're competing with the {{Evil|Shabaloth}} or {{Evil|Po}}. Reliable and methodical should be your goal.


* Rather than dying early, you can instead decide to be a sophisticated undead who lives among the people and lives as long as possible! Surviving this way has several advantages - for one, you can keep bluffing and giving out new information, helping mislead the good team. You're guaranteed to survive death at least once, so you have a backup in the event that suspicion turns on you. Finally, if the good team starts to suspect that you are the Demon in play, you can direct their suspicions to the dead - if they spend an execution or two on your victims, that's an execution or two they can't use on you!
* Try to mask the fact that there is a Pukka in play for as long as possible. Once the good team know you are in play, they can start backtracking your poisoned information, undoing all your hard work! While it might seem like bluffing a {{Evil|Zombuul}} would be the obvious choice, in can in fact be easier to mimic a {{Evil|Po}} or even a {{Evil|Shabaloth}} with the help of an {{Evil|Assassin}} or a {{Evil|Godfather}}... or just some risk taking townsfolk. For example, if you know a {{Good|Gossip}} statement will produce a death that night, that can be the time to have your minions act, creating multiple deaths that mimic a charged up {{Evil|Po}} attack. While they may track you down eventually, the goal is that by the time they do... it's too late for them to stop you.
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== Fighting the Zombuul ==
== Fighting the Pukka ==


* Pay attention to when and why death happens. If there are deaths at night, but not after a player died by execution, you almost certainly have a Zombuul in your midst. Once you know this, you can do the following...
* The first step to fighting the Pukka is figuring out the Pukka is in play. Look for suspicious deaths of a night time, such as the {{Good|Fool}} dying early, or {{Good|Sailor}} dying at all. Or, consider that when nobody dies at night time, that it was due to a the Pukka target being executed that day instead. If a pattern forms around these two signals, you almost certainly have a Pukka in the game.


* Suspect the dead. Execute the dead you suspect the most. Talk to the dead to find out whose story is not making sense, and focus on those players. You don't know for certain that the Zombuul is among the dead players, but that is a good place to start. If you can confirm early on that certain dead players are not the Zombuul, you'll have the advantage later in the game.
* Once you have figured out that a Pukka is in play, you'll need to do some informational backtracking. Each player that died last night, was poisoned the day and night beforehand. Dead {{Good|Tea Lady}}s have a reason that their ability did not work while alive. Dead {{Good|Gambler}}s have a reason that they did not die when they picked a player the night before. Dead {{Good|Chambermaid}}s got false information the night before last. Dead {{Good|Exorcist}}s might have actually chosen the Demon on a night where players died. Backtracking can be complicated, since what happened the night before last is more difficult to remember than what happened last night, but will grant enormous information if you can do it.


* Execute every single day. Even if you kill good players, at least that is better than executing nobody and having the Demon choose who dies instead.
* If Pukka is in play, nobody is safe. The {{Good|Fool}} and the {{Good|Sailor}} can not be protected by their character ability etc. Also, since the Pukka chooses who to kill a full night earlier than normal, it is beneficial for all good players to reveal their characters and information to the group publicly as soon as possible. Sometimes, with other Demons, it can be beneficial for some good players to not reveal who they are, so that the Demon attacks certain players and leaves others alone - but with the Pukka, this is not the case. Reveal everything, and work as a team to bring that pesky poisoner to justice!


* On the final day, it is unlikely that the Zombuul is among the living is. By this point, most Zombuuls will have killed themself at night, or simply been unlucky enough to be executed. Since the Zombuul kills much less frequently than other Demons, the chance that it is already dead when the final day dawns is high. If you have no other information, make sure that the final execution of the game is the execution of a dead player.
* If you have no idea which players are evil, execute players who you think are poisoned. All things being equal, it is best to execute a good player who is poisoned by the Pukka than a good player that is not, because when you execute a Pukka victim, nobody dies due to the Demon that night. Obviously, it is better to execute evil players, but if you have no information about who is good or evil, err on the side of voting to execute players that seem to be poisoned.


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Icon pukka.png Information

Type Demon
Artist Aiden Roberts

"You truly have been kind welcoming me into your beautiful home. I am so sorry I accidentally scratched you. A little thing. No matter. But please, take this golden toothpick as a humble token of my regret."

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Cult of the Clocktower Episode by Andrew Nathenson

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Summary

"Each night, choose a player: they are poisoned. The previously poisoned player dies then becomes healthy."

The Pukka poisons its victims, who die at a later time.

How to Run

Examples

The Pukka poisons the Chambermaid. The Chambermaid gets false information. The next night, the Chambermaid dies.

The Pukka poisons the Fool. The next day, the Fool is executed and dies because they have no ability. The next night, nobody dies and the Pukka poisons the Gossip. The next night, the Pukka is drunk and tries to poison the Tinker, but does not. The next night, the Gossip dies because the Pukka is sober.

The Pukka poisons the Pacifist. The next night, the Exorcist chooses the Pukka to not wake tonight. The Pacifist dies, but the Pukka does not wake to attack tonight.

The Moonchild is executed, dies, and chooses the Courtier. That night, the Pukka chooses the Moonchild. The Courtier does not die because the Moonchild is poisoned.

Tips & Tricks

  • The devious Pukka is the deadliest demon in Bad Moon Rising for its viciousness and cruelty. All the other demons give the town the courtesy of a single night; the Pukka has no such patience, sowing chaos into the town from the first night, selecting their first victim before the townsfolk even get a chance to act. The Zombuul may be a little hardier than you, and the Shabaloth and Po may kill more effectively, but they are vulnerable to the most deadly weapon the good team wields: information. Not only do you kill but you neutralize your victims, forcing them to spend their last days in delirium, their information confused and the danger they once posed reduced to nothing. The good team always hopes you are not in play, lest they have to spend the whole game doubting all of the information that would normally lead them right to your door.
  • Factor in who you want to poison as well as who you want to kill. An aggressive and talkative Chambermaid who doesn't realize their last day of information is wrong can do a lot of legwork for you beyond the grave. If you get very lucky, you could catch an Exorcist or Courtier out before they catch you, or you can expose an Innkeeper's patrons to your Godfather or a Moonchild curse with a little bit of a good timing. You are the only evil player in Bad Moon Rising who has the ability to befuddle your target's information, so why not take full advantage?
  • Target players who you don't think are going to be executed the next day. If the good team executes your poisoned victim, then there'll be no death that night from you... which wily good players might use to detect that you are in play. A badly timed execution will leave you scrambling to play catch up for the rest of the game!
  • Target players who the good team suspects are bluffing being immune to execution, like the Sailor, or a Tea Lady and her neighbour. Even with the lack of death the following night, it will look like they faked their ability using a Devil's Advocate, and can even lead the good team to believe they are in fact a Zombuul. (And any day the good team spends executing dead players is a good day for you!)
  • Your poison cannot be blocked by anything but the wily Goon, but characters can still be protected from death at night by characters like the Tea Lady or Innkeeper. You have nothing to fear from a Fool or a Sailor, but choose carefully nonetheless - it won't do to miss a kill, especially since you're competing with the Shabaloth or Po. Reliable and methodical should be your goal.
  • Try to mask the fact that there is a Pukka in play for as long as possible. Once the good team know you are in play, they can start backtracking your poisoned information, undoing all your hard work! While it might seem like bluffing a Zombuul would be the obvious choice, in can in fact be easier to mimic a Po or even a Shabaloth with the help of an Assassin or a Godfather... or just some risk taking townsfolk. For example, if you know a Gossip statement will produce a death that night, that can be the time to have your minions act, creating multiple deaths that mimic a charged up Po attack. While they may track you down eventually, the goal is that by the time they do... it's too late for them to stop you.

Fighting the Pukka

  • The first step to fighting the Pukka is figuring out the Pukka is in play. Look for suspicious deaths of a night time, such as the Fool dying early, or Sailor dying at all. Or, consider that when nobody dies at night time, that it was due to a the Pukka target being executed that day instead. If a pattern forms around these two signals, you almost certainly have a Pukka in the game.
  • Once you have figured out that a Pukka is in play, you'll need to do some informational backtracking. Each player that died last night, was poisoned the day and night beforehand. Dead Tea Ladys have a reason that their ability did not work while alive. Dead Gamblers have a reason that they did not die when they picked a player the night before. Dead Chambermaids got false information the night before last. Dead Exorcists might have actually chosen the Demon on a night where players died. Backtracking can be complicated, since what happened the night before last is more difficult to remember than what happened last night, but will grant enormous information if you can do it.
  • If Pukka is in play, nobody is safe. The Fool and the Sailor can not be protected by their character ability etc. Also, since the Pukka chooses who to kill a full night earlier than normal, it is beneficial for all good players to reveal their characters and information to the group publicly as soon as possible. Sometimes, with other Demons, it can be beneficial for some good players to not reveal who they are, so that the Demon attacks certain players and leaves others alone - but with the Pukka, this is not the case. Reveal everything, and work as a team to bring that pesky poisoner to justice!
  • If you have no idea which players are evil, execute players who you think are poisoned. All things being equal, it is best to execute a good player who is poisoned by the Pukka than a good player that is not, because when you execute a Pukka victim, nobody dies due to the Demon that night. Obviously, it is better to execute evil players, but if you have no information about who is good or evil, err on the side of voting to execute players that seem to be poisoned.