Scoundrel (Mafia Support)
Abilities:
1: The Scoundrel may visit any player at night (including other mafia members and himself)
2: The Scoundrel's visited target becomes "Slandered" making them take 2 extra votes by the Scoundrel and innoed twice or guiltied twice depending on your choice (For Example when you vote up your target they take 3 votes and then when they are on the stand they also take 3 votes from the Scoundrel)
3: Only the Scoundrel gets those marked votes and their votes will be shown to the town meaning if you vote up your marked target early town can figure you out
4: Your ability only stays on for the night and is not permanent
5: The Scoundrel can choose to visit a target or stay at home
Attributes:
Attack: None
Defense: None
Roleblock immune
Role is unique
Witch Immune
Bodyguard and Trapper Immune, but still dies to Crusader (even if it doesn't make sense just for gameplay balance.)
Spy will be able to see the Scoundrel's visits
Sherrif: Your target seems suspicious!
Investigator: Your target is Investigator Consig Mayor Scoundrel!
Consigliere: Your target is a slanderer of the town they must be a scoundrel!
Gameplay examples of the Scoundrel
- Obviously the main thing about him is his late game potential once all town killing roles and Neutral killings are eliminated from the game since if he uses his ability and votes he pretty much outs himself as the Scoundrel
- A strategy that can be used if there is a spy in the game is to visit your own Mafia members making the spy think that they are non-mafia. This also indirectly nerfs spy a lot.
- If mafia and Neutral killings are siding with each other and Mafia will just lose, finding the Neutral killing and Slandering him will give you a huge edge in those situations indirectly nerfing the new strong Neutral killings by buffing mafia
- Another really cheesy way is taking a huge risk by Slandering the Jailor and telling all the Neutrals to gang up on the jailor, this is a very risky strategy that completely gets countered by Vigilante since you are pretty much outing all of the mafia on d2. But this would be a fantastic nerf to the Jailor meta since the Scoundrel threat is looming anytime he reveals himself. Same thing for Mayor.
- If the town knows a Scoundrel exists they will usually focus on getting him out first rather than focusing on the other Mafia, just like how mafia and mayor interact
Backstory:
You were a mayor back in your old days. You were great, you were powerful and most importantly you were a dictator. Because of your tyranny the town decided to banish you away collectively; starving with no place to go to the Mafia took you in and nurtured you back to your glory days. You have sworn to take vengeance on the town that left you to die; thus becoming the Scoundrel.