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Role- Knife Juggler (Unique Role)

Story- Day in and day out of appeasing fools who find throwing pointy objects up and down amusing is something that shouldn't be done by someone who is so skilled at the art of knife throwing that he can hit a target fifty paces away without so much as trying. Thus, the Knife Juggler left this act of amusing people behind to perhaps fulfill a more important role in his life. He set out to prove just how deadly with knives he can be, and his first proving ground would be Salem.

Alignment- Neutral Killing

Summary- A murderer who is highly skilled with knives.

Goal- Kill everyone who would oppose you.

Abilities- Kill someone each night.

Special Ability-(Single Use Ability) Throw a knife to kill one person without having to visit them (lookout won't be able to detect who killed them) and this attack goes through night immunity, however you lose night immunity after using this attack. If you are attacked on the night when you use this ability, your night immunity still applies.

Attributes- You are immune to roleblocks.

You cannot be killed at night until after the use of your special ability (see notes 6 for an exception).

Special Attributes- Roleblock Immunity, Night Immunity

Sheriff- Not Suspicious

Investigator- Your target works with knives. They must be a Doctor, Serial Killer, or a Knife Juggler.

Consigliere- Your target is skillful with knives, they must be a Knife Juggler.

Win Conditions- Must kill the Town

Must kill the Mafia

Must kill the Arsonists

Must kill the Werewolves

Must kill the Serial Killers

Must kill the Witches

Must kill the  Survivors

Notes- 1. There will be 2 boxes next to everyones name (like with the Witch), to normally attack a target you click the box on the left side and to use your special ability, you click the box on the right side. Afterwards all boxes on the right side will disappear.

2. If a Knife Juggler uses his special ability to kill a Werewolf or a Veteran during a full moon or while the Veteran is on alert, it kills them and the Knife Juggler lives.

3. If a Knife Juggler uses his special ability on someone who is being guarded by a Bodyguard, it kills the Bodyguard and the Knife Juggler lives.

4. If a Knife Juggler uses his special ability on someone who is healed by a Doctor, it still kills the target, but will display the following message to the Doctor, "You were unable to save your target."

5. If a Knife Juggler uses his special ability on a Bodyguard that vests, a Doctor that self heals, or a Survivor that vests, it still kills the target.

6. The Knife Jugglers special ability does not affect town members who are jailed. However if this happens the Knife Juggler still loses his special ability, but instead retains Night Immunity for the remainder of the match and is turned into a Serial Killer.

7. Transporters are one of the only ways to protect certain targets against the Knife Jugglers special ability.

8. If a Witch controls a Knife Juggler, they can only make him use his normal attack on other Town members, they cannot make him use his special ability.

9. A Witch can cause a Knife Juggler to kill themself by controlling and targeting them after they lose their Night Immunity.

Strategy and additional notes on the Knife Juggler-

The idea of the Knife Juggler is that he functions similarily to a Serial Killer, but is both better and worse in some aspects. For example if you discover a high profile target that you need elimated (such as an Investigator or Mayor) you can use your special ability to either kill them or kill the Bodyguard protecting them making it easier to kill these targets, giving Neutral Killing roles more of a chance in ranked play. This does however come at the cost of losing night immunity so this special ability must be used strategically. Additionally, this incentiivizes Jailors to protect Mayor by jailing him, but at the same time gives killing roles more of a chance so it is not an easy decision to make as Jailor. However, Town members won't know when the Knife Juggler used his special ability until a Lookout watches someone that died but no one visited, or the Knife Juggler kills a role that had night immunity. This makes the special ability a high risk, high reward move, or if you're one of the two town members left in the game, and you know the other is a Veteran, this allows you to guarantee victory. Also since the Knife Jugglers special move is so powerful offensively, I've decided that it would be better if this was a Unique Role, that way you don't ever have to deal with your Doctors crying themselves to sleep because they could never successfully heal anyone. Yes I know that this role seems far too similar to Serial Killer, but I feel it is diverse enough. For example, instead of killing people who roleblock you (easily proving that you are a Serial Killer), you are instead  just not affected by it. And also, losing night immunity for the cost of instantly deleting someone without getting detected (unless they are jailed) will allow for different strategies on when to give up night immunity (if they choose to give it up at all and just play this role like a Serial Killer). So you can consider this as an entirely different role from Serial Killer (as I have), or perhaps a modification they should make to Serial Killer, since most of the time in ranked play a good town can very easily discern which roles are evil and which are good. I just believe it'll help to balance play a bit more, and force important roles to think twice before revealing their role and getting protected by a meat shield of people. Also, as stated in the story, the Knife Juggler wants to prove his deadliness with knives so unlike any other killing role, he must kill ALL other roles in order to win the game. No Survivors, no Witches, no one may be left alive, which is why I believe he shouldn't be detected by Sheriffs. It's already going to be a pain enough to eliminate everyone (at least most of the time) as long as there is a Witch or Survivor involved in the mix who also want to take you down.

I'd appreciate to know what you think of this role and how (or if) you would like to see it implemented in the game. Also please rate 1-10 to show you much you like this role, or how much you'd like to see me get lynched by the town.