I had this idea while watching a TF2 video on youtube last night. I'm stuck however, and I was hoping that some of you fancy peoples would like to spitball ideas with me.

The Spy's Black Book is a disguise kit replacement that holds the names of the Spy's conquered enemies, (With Scouts mom at the top of the book.). What this means is that every time the spy backstabs somebody on the other team, their name is added to his black book, and the spy can then disguise as that person.

Here is where I got stuck, I really like the idea of the spy being able to collect names, but I couldn't decide on what the pro's and con's should be.

Possible pro's
While disguised as someone in the black book, the spy does more damage to that person(or takes less damage from them.)

While disguised as someone in the black book, the spy can see their location on the map. (IE through a sillouette like you currently can with the payload/intel)

While disguised as someone in the black book, the spy experiences all effects on that person, except death. (IE if a medic heals the 'infected' person, then the spy enjoys a healing effect as well.) This could work as a con as well because the spy may get randomly stunned, or be spotted with an overheal for no reason.

The health on the overlay is directly mirrored from the person the Spy disguises as.

There is no period where the spy is shrouded in smoke, all disguises are instant.

Possible Cons
Spy cannot select disguises that are not in the black book.

Spy cannot select disguises while cloaked.(I'm not too attached to this one.)

All disguises must be 'Collected'.


That's all I got, I know that's a lot, but I honestly wouldn't expect all of these ideas to go into one item. My question is, how do you guys think this item should work?