Official Message from The Pandemonium Institute
Hello all,
As many of you are aware, one of our employees Ben Burns is leaving our organisation. Ben Burns was our official in-house Storyteller as well as our main Community Manager. Ben was the effective face of Blood on the Clocktower, and whenever one is mentioned, you’ll be hard pressed to not think of the other. Saying all this, there is something we have regrettably neglected to mention that Ben wasn’t just one the most influential people to Blood on the Clocktower, he was the *only* influence. Daddy Ben is the sole creator of Blood on the Clocktower.
You may be wondering “Hey, if Ben is the only creator of BoTC, then what is the other 13 odd employees on TPI doing?”, and you would be right to ask. While some of us are budgeters and costume designers and secondary community managers, the remainder of us have been hard at work trying to prepare for the very eventuality we find ourselves in. For the past 2-3 years, me and my colleagues have anonymously been sending every single “Homebrew” character you have seen in an attempt to even come close to matching Ben’s Brilliance.
Our operation started in poor beginnings, with characters such as “John Clocktower” (a Demon who chooses 5 players to play Blood on the Clocktower to determine who dies) and the “Fool” (a Townsfolk who doesn’t die the first time it would), but despite these seemingly excellent ideas to put more Blood in each Clock that’s Towered, it never even came close to being functional, let alone good.
Not giving up hope, we continued to create more of these characters in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle. We made an Outsider that turns evil when executed, we made a Demon that doesn’t kill but somehow makes executions a little funky, we even begun randomly replacing the word “choose” with “pick” in every single ability for some ungodly reason. We tried everything. And at one moment it even looked close. We made 25 seemingly *playable* characters people *actually* enjoyed called Fall of Rome, but then the employee who designed that ripped off his mustache and fake nose to reveal himself to be Ben Burns.
We have now given up hope. Clocktower is cancelled. TPI is cancelled. The Lucky Country is cancelled. The Hindu is cancelled. That is all.
Sincerely, Bun Berns, TPI’s most esteemed Janitor