Talk:Blackmailer/@comment-26543530-20150629090815

If you are ever called out by an investigator that you are Spy/Blackmailer, there is one strategy you can use to stall your death.

It's quite simple: pretend to be blackmailed (maybe even a blackmailed spy). What this does is that it gives you a reasonable excuse to fail any spy tests people will try to use. Just make sure that you don't blackmail anyone else at night, as you may become suspected if two people are supposedly blackmailed when there's only 1 blackmailer. And of course, remember to not talk and to random vote to suggest being blackmailed, and to say "I am blackmailed" if you are voted up (or whatever blackmailed people say). I did this strategy once after an investigator's will revealed me as spy/blackmailer. I pretended to be blackmailed for 3 days and no one bothered me for those nights, although I suspect some of that was due to luck, since nobody even called me out immediately after the investigator died.

Of course, this strategy can easily be seen through if there is an actual spy in the game. They simply have to see that no mafia members visited you at night to figure out that you are only pretending to be blackmailed, which leaves you with little hope of avoiding death once they call you out (unless mafia has majority).