Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-2605:A000:1315:95A3:582A:FC7D:8993:C2D2-20200121034712

Name: Archivist

Alignment: Town Investigative

Attack: None

Defense: None

Unique Role: No

Abilities:

You may choose to examine a role on your rolelist at night.

At any time, you can click on graveyard roles and have the option to add them to your rolelist. [Even if they were a Disguiser, be careful!]

Attributes:

-Examine a role on your rolelist at night. This doesn't visit any players. For example, you choose to examine Town Killing. This will now show it as Vigilante/Veteran, depending on which is the primary TK in that game. You cannot select Random Town until your other unconfirmed town roles are filled out. You can select the Random Mafia slots as well, or the Neutral Evil/Neutral KIlling.

-The Archivist has a keen attention to detail, and is highly organized. Seeing a Serial Killer death in the announcements will prompt him to update Neutral Killing to Serial Killer. Pressing a button next to a dead players name in the graveyard at any time will update the list assuming you don't already have that information [A dead veteran when you've already examined TK won't have the button prompt, but if a vigilante then dies you can fill out Random Town 1]. A disguiser can mess up your results. If you examine an RT after a disguiser has infiltrated your Rolelist as a Medium, RT1 will show up as the correct role that would've went in the TS slot. You can remove any graveyard information you've gathered from your rolelist in case you suspect you've added a disguiser. Once you've filled out your rolelist completely, you will automatically publish your ARCHIVE to the town with priority, even if you die that night. This will fill everyones elses rolelist with your findings, even if a disguiser messed them up. RMs might be worth confirming first to ensure this doesn't happen.

-Investigative Results-

Sheriff: Innocent

Investigator: Your target is a Spy, Blackmailer, Jailor, Archivist or Guardian Angel!

Consigliere/Witch: Your target meticulously archives his findings, they must be an Archivist!

Goal: Lynch all evildoers.

Wins With: Town, Survivor, Amnesiac

Must Kill: Mafia, Coven, Neutral Evil, Neutral Killing, Neutral Chaos

Anything Else: Archivist starts his Rolelist with the first TI slot filled out as him. In other modes, if all TI slots are just Town, one of those is filled out. In Any, the top Any slot is filled out. An invisible priority determines what Any slot corresponds with what role also determined by your own graveyard filling out. I

Purpose/Reason: To make a more interesting TI. Though right now TI doesn't necessarily need another role, it's also rather fakeable as an Archivist will be hard to insta-confirm until you get a completed rolelist. [Relying on 14 other players roles, it would probably be at minimum N6 in a standard ranked, and in Any it's highly unlikely to happen unless you're in the final 2 in which case you're almost certainly dead now.] That being said, it's a dangerous role for evils by that token, as once he has the full role list with only a few living players left, fakeclaims are nearly impossible unless he messes up. Archivist is great at getting info for a town of course, as he reduces claimspace for evils and can outright figure out what evil roles are in the game should he desire. I think it's pretty balanced, except maybe minor details such as investigation results which admittedly I struggled with. He doesn't fit well in certain categories and I didn't want to shoehorn him into somewhere unfitting just because Spy BM Jailor has a TI already. This would definitely not be ToS' next role since it doesn't need a new TI yet, but I think this is definitely the TI we should get one day on the unlikely occasion that day ever comes. 