Board Thread:Role Ideas (Custom Game Modes (Setups))/@comment-24.0.94.153-20180504231306

The Alien is a Neutral Killing role, meaning it must kill all town, all mafia, and all other neutral killing roles (including vampires and excluding other aliens). I suggest, however, that the Alien should be a unique role.

The Alien has a powerful attack and powerful defense.

Similar to the alien from 'The Thing,' once killing the alien imitates the body. This is how it works:

The alien can only attack on non-full moon nights- it is sensitive to the light of the moon and cannot handle too much of it.

After successfully killing someone, the Alien brings them to THEIR OWN HOME to imitate them, before moving over to the house of the person they just killed to properly imitate them.

The morning after the Alien kills someone, the dead body of the player killed will be found at the ALIENS HOME, not their own home. Because of the Alien's killing methods, the role of the dead person will be revealed, but not their name/identity. All character features of the body will be blacked out (perhaps he is only a pile of ash or goo).

Also, in this way the Alien is some kind of backwards Janitor.

Once the Alien has successfully imitated someone, they become that person! This means that they look exactly like them, when they chat they are shown as the person they imitated, and completely identical.

In this way, everyone can see who the Alien WAS after they killed someone, but not who they are after. In this way the Alien is very elusive and almost taunting.

However, the Alien can be detected by the Sheriff and Investigator. To the Sheriff, the Alien can only be spotted on non-full moon nights, as during the other times the Alien is imitating someone. However, the investigator is not fooled by this and sees a list of roles with the Alien among them, NOT the person the alien imitated (actual role list not decided). This means that the Alien can still be detected. To every role, however, the identity of the Alien will still show up as the person they imitate, no matter what.

If the alien gets killed, their role will be 'Alien,' not the role of who they imitate (in this way they are a backwards disguiser)

The alien will know the role of the person they imitate the night that they imitate them.

Note: if the Sheriff or Investigator interrogates/investigates someone who on THAT NIGHT gets killed by the Alien, they will appear as the standard set of roles/the regular person's result, NOT the Aliens.

Once an Alien has imitated someone, they cannot complete that role's requirements (ex. imitating the medium does not let you talk to the dead), but can still claim to do so.

After imitating someone, the Alien has access to the person's unchanged will or deathnote, if they have one.

If the Alien is used by the Necromancer, they will not imitate them (they would be brought back to life), but the person's identity who the Alien killed will not be revealed.

If the Alien kills a Mafia or Coven member, THEY WILL STILL IMITATE THEM. If this occurs, the Alien can still not complete that role's requirements, but still has the option to 'do' so so the fellow mafia members will be under the impression that they are still doing their job. If the Alien imitates one of these people, the fellow mafia/coven will NOT be able to target the Alien.

Once (or maybe twice, I don't know), the Alien has the option to not only disguise the player's identity, but also their role. This prevents the town from seeing who the Alien killed at all, and can be very useful in a situation above, where the Alien kills a mafia or coven member, in which the fellow members will immediately know who the Alien is. This can also be useful in killing a confirmed townie, as normally the town would immediately know who to lynch after the dead player's role is revealed.

The Alien will NOT kill the jailor or escort if they use their ability on him.

The Alien's disguise, however, cannot last forever, and only lasts three days. This means that if the Alien fails to kill and imitate someone twice in a row, their role will be immediately revealed in the chat log the next morning, and will continue to do so until the Alien imitates again. This means that if you fail to imitate someone both on night 1 and night 3, you will be revealed as the Alien on the beginning of day 4.  