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A '''holoparasite''', also known by its magic variant as a '''guardian spirit''', is a special being that is bound to the single person that summoned it. It is summoned through either a deck of tarot cards for the magic version, or a parasitic nanomachine injector for the machine version. The nanomachine injector can be purchased by traitors.

A holoparasite is a special ghost-like being that lives inside of its master. It can communicate with its master telepathically (and the master can communicate back), as well as emerge from and retreat back into its master at will. If the Holoparasite tries to escape its master and moves too far away, it will automatically be moved back to them. The Holoparasite itself is technically invincible on its own, but upon taking damage, the damage is transferred to its master, albeit at a lower amount. If the master dies, the spirit dies, as well. When the user dies, their body is instantly consumed and dusted by the Holoparasite's need for their life energy, preventing cloning.<br>

The guardian can be set to "Ranged" for 3 points, giving it a ranged projectile attack.

Attack: Increases the guardian's damage by 5 per rank, at A rank the guardian can smash walls. If the guardian is ranged, it will instead increase their projectile damage by 2.5 per rank.

Defense: Decreases the guardian's damage transfer by 20% per rank, down to 25%.

Speed: Increases the guardian's attack speed.

Potential: Increases the power or length of the guardian's major ability, or decreases its cooldown.

Range: Increases the guardian's range by 2 tiles per rank. At F rank the guardian cannot move on its own and will stay "behind" its summoner.

===Assassin - 3 points===

The guardian can enter stealth by switching modes while manifested, causing it to become nearly invisible, and making its next attack to do massive damage and ignore armor. However, it becomes briefly unable to recall after attacking from stealth. Cooldown is decreased by the potential stat.

The guardian has a medium power attack that may explosively teleport targets. Can turn any object, including objects too large to pick up, into a bomb by alt-clicking them, dealing explosive damage to the next person to touch it. The object will return to normal after the trap is triggered or after a delay. The guardian can also manually activate traps to create a single tile heavy explosion on the trapped item's tile. Bomb lifespan is increased by potential stat.

The guardian passively increases its and its summoner's movement speed slightly, and it can charge at people by attacking them directly while they are within its range. It also gets an ability that allows it to teleport behind and immediately attack anyone within its range. Requires a C rank in the range stat or above.

Attacks will apply a field of heavy gravity on the target, slowing them and making them drop held items. Can alt-click ground to manually place heavy gravity fields. Moving over twice the guardian's potential stat in tiles away from the fields will remove them.

The guardian has a second mode that causes its punches to heal whatever they hit by 1.5 times the guardian's potential stat. This ability is exclusive to ''Mysterious Arrows'', and cannot be purchased in the Holoparasite Injector/Wizard Deck.

The guardian turns near invisible and incorporeal, capable of moving anywhere on the current Z-level, but it cannot interact with its environment.

*The Hand is quite possibly one of the best abilities if you were to have no skill in Holoparasites. It has quite a simple ability, and anyone can use it. It is the easiest ability to accomplish a [[Traitor#Hijacking|hijack objective]]. Do not rely on just this ability though! Experiment!