If a public action is only available to a secret subgroup, the outgroup can (although it’s a bit cheap) insist that everyone take the action in the GNDT and wait for the Expedition Leader to revert illegal moves.

We could do this without the Health stat, as well - just define “Healthy” to mean “has a Sanity below 10 and has never SEEN THE TRUTH”, and “Abomination” to mean “has SEEN THE TRUTH”.

That’s a good point, and probably a better way of doing this. Let me see if I can revise this a bit quickly.

Ah, SEEING THE TRUTH is actually already in the ruleset, it’s a Cultist background ability.

This game is hard.

So the Expedition Leader certifies that person who declares they are HIDEOUSLY TRANSFORMED is a cultist, however that rule never makes the author of that post HIDEOUSLY TRANSFORMED.
Also I can’t seem to see what word the Expedition Leader is supposed to post for confirmation.

I fnord think that this fnord version fixes that.

No, the fnord is just stating that the HIDEOUSLY TRANSFORMED player “is, in fact, a cultist”. It reads as if anyone can become HIDEOUSLY TRANSFORMED by declaring it.

HIDEOUSLY TRANSFORMED is pretty much doing the same thing as SEEING THE TRUTH, only as a public blog post instead of a private message. (And you seem to have dropped the Insanity zeroing you had in here earlier.) I don’t think you need to define it at all, it’d work just as well as “If an explorer is the only explorer who is not insane and has never SEEN THE TRUTH…”

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Even if “declaring they are hideously transformed” does make an explorer Hideously transformed, if all explorers are insane, all cultists could become hideously transformed. Who should win, then?

My understanding is that in that case a cultist could make a Declaration of Ascendance.