Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-39067078-20190612223416/@comment-33975012-20190622162049

NAME

Instigator '''Why this name? An instigator is someone who provokes fights.'''

Summary

A reckless investigator rummaging through people's transcripts.

Win Condition -

Win with Town.

Alignment -

Town Investigative

Attack -

None

Defense -

None

Unique -

No

Attributes -

Have unique seperate Journal which may be typed in independantly of your last will and will be displayed on death.

Mechanics -

During the Day and Night, a button will appear next to your last will. That is your journal. It is displayed like a will on death.

It is numbered with Nights and will look something like this:

'''Forcing it to be numbered by nights might be confusing to new players. Also, will this appear if you are cleaned by a Janitor or killed by Medusa? It shouldn't, otherwise this would be a dead giveaway of your role. '''​​​​​​

TRANSCRIPT JOURNAL

N1

N2

N3

N4

etc...

During the day, choose someone to Probe.

A list will appear in front of you as three closed files.

If you choose to open one file, the other three will disappear.

The three are

1: Whispers

2: Conversation

3: Gossip

You cannot select the same person twice in a row.

If you select whispers, you will gain knowledge to one whisper they've sent. The whisper itself will be from any day.

If you select Conversation, you will gain knowledge of one whisper they've been sent. It will be random and the person's name who sent it will be obscured.

If you select Gossip, you will know if one thing they said or received from an Evil role. This can be during Night chat, whispers, or if they've jailed an Evil. Does this mean that during night chat it will just be a random message, since you can't speak to specific people in Mafia/Coven chat?

Your results can be copy and pasted into the transcript journal.

If your target is framed, you will read something the Framer/Hex Master said in their respective night chats last night. Good way to integrate these into your role.

Your Journal does not take the hit if your will is forged. '''This means that the player would have no incentive to use their will at all, as the journal is forger-proof. Maybe giving forging immunity could solve this?'''

Notifications -

"You've decided to Probe (Name) tonight"

"You changed your mind"

(In quotations in the system message):

"(Whisper they've sent from any day) to (Recipient of whisper)" "(Whisper they've recieved) was sent to (Name)!"

"(Conversation they've sent/recieved from Evil) was connected with an evil role!"

"They have not spoken to an Evil Role!"

"They have not whispered!" "They have not recieved whispers!"

-Investigate Results-

Sheriff - Innocent

Investigator -  Precise - Your target reads papers and files. They must be the Instigator!
 * Spy, Blackmailer, Instigator, or Jailor. This is similar to the spy, but it does also make this investigative result very biased in favour of the Town.

-Achievements-

Hearing Voices - Listen in to a Medium

Hey, that's my filing cabinet - Probe yourself* Incriminating - Find a Mafia/Coven transcript through Gossip. That's a bit basic of a thing to be worth an achievement, I think.
 * Only possible through Witch or Coven Leader or Transporter

'''Overall, this is a good idea, possibly a bit underpowered since it recieves only one message, which can either be very incriminating or reveal almost nothing. There are also a few minor issues which could be resolved by tweaking.'''