User blog comment:Buyingstars/Town of Salem - Role Ideas/@comment-28595360-20160610211958

Role: Surdus (Mafia: Support)

Summary: Named after the Latin word for "deaf", Surdus can make people temporarily deaf. Combine with a Blackmailer to make your target useless during the day!

Abilities: 

– During the night, choose a person to deafen.

– Deafened people will be unable to hear anything the next day, whispers, voting, and Town chat included.

- Deafened people won't know they're being whispered to.

- Deafened people will know they were deafened at night

- Deafened people will still be able to talk

Attributes:

– If there are no other mafia killing roles left, you will be promoted to a mafioso.

Goal: Help the mafia to victory.

Sheriff: Your target is a member of the mafia!

Investigator: Your target is good at working with secret information. They could be a Spy, a Blackmailer, or a Surdus.

Consigliere: Your target deafens people, they must be a Surdus!

Wins with:

Mafia

Neutral evil roles

Survivors

Must kill:

Town roles

Neutral killing roles

Vampires