Pirate

Mechanics

 * You have a day Ability to select your target to plunder during the night.
 * At the start of the next night, both you and your target will get a special popup interface to select your actions for the duel.
 * Your options are Scimitar, Rapier, and Pistol.
 * The victim's options are Sidestep, Chain-mail, and Backpedal.
 * Scimitar beats Sidestep, Rapier beats Chain-mail, and Pistol beats Backpedal.
 * Anything else results in the defender winning.
 * If you win the duel, you will deal a Powerful attack against your target.
 * Winning the duel will also plunder your target, earning you one of the two plunders you need to win the game. If your target is protected by a or, the plunder will still count.
 * Dueling a trapped player will trigger the trap without killing you if you lose, but if you win, the trap will kill you and your target will survive.
 * Dueling a player guarded by a will not cause them to counter-attack if you lose, but if you win, the  will counter-attack and you will both die.
 * Dueling a will cause them to attack you, and  on a Full Moon to stay home, both situations will result in your death. If you win the duel, however, you live and they die instead, unless you dueled the  on a full moon, you will always die regardless of victory status.
 * You don't need to be alive in order to win. If you successfully plunder 2 players before you die, you will still win at the end of the game, even if you died the same night you got your second plunder.
 * You cannot attempt to plunder the same player twice in a row. However, if they were jailed, you can attempt to plunder them.
 * Your target will be role-blocked the night they are plundered, unless they have role-block immunity, like an . Roles that can not visit also will not be role-blocked.
 * You will not roleblock your target if you did not choose an attack.
 * If you are infected, you will infect your target at the end of the day, and not at the beginning of the night.
 * Your duelling will fail if you plunder someone who was hauled off to jail, as the 's day ability has priority to yours, and you will be informed at the beginning of the night.

Depending on the selected attack or defense method, the outcome of plundering will vary:

Probabilities

 * The probability to win depending on the number of plundering (n) is defined as follow (for n>1) :

$$ 1-\left(\frac{2}{3}\right)^{n-1}\left(\frac23+\frac{n}{3}\right) $$ Demonstration $$ P(X>=2)=1-\left(\binom{0}{n}\times\left(\frac23\right)^{n}+\binom{1}{n}\times\left(\frac23\right)^{n-1}\times\frac13\right) $$ $$ =1-\left(\left(\frac23\right)^{n}+n\times\frac13\times\frac23^{n-1}\right) $$ $$ =1-\left(\frac23^{n-1}\left(\frac23+\frac{n}{3}\right)\right) $$ This is therefore recommended to plunder every night because you may die at any moment.

Strategy

 * You can not duel a player if they are jailed, or if you are jailed yourself.
 * Even though a  duel is considered a role-block,, , , , , the , the , and the can still perform their night ability due to their role block immunity.
 * Like a who failed to execute, a  dies if they visit a  and lose the duel. On the other hand, if you win the duel, the  won't kill you and you will kill them with your Powerful attack instead.
 * If a duels a, they will know they're being visited by the  due to the GUI and will be able to go on alert, killing the . Avoid dueling a confirmed  unless you are certain they are out of alerts.
 * A 's target cannot be changed by a, but a transporter can bring protectives or even the to the 's target. This can cause odd effects like a / killing the  despite clicking someone else, a  shadow-healing the 's target, or the  killing the Pirate with their will being wrong. A  who does this is "stealing a heal".
 * If the doesn't choose an attack, the  will automatically lose and both  and their victim will see no message. Therefore, you should try to avoid going afk at night.
 * If the target doesn't choose a defense, their automatic choice depends on whether or not they have been dueled since launching the game:
 * If they have been dueled since launching the game, they will automatically choose the same defense as last time. If you recognize an AFK player from last game, or someone goes AFK and you dueled them already, they will make the same choice.
 * If they never chose a defense since launching the game, it defaults to Sidestep. This is especially worth keeping in mind on the first night, where it's common for default names to be AFK.
 * Your target does not have to die for it to count as a successful plunder. If you want to avoid killing people (which can be helpful in that it prolongs the game and makes you less likely to be targeted yourself), you can focus on targets you think are likely to be healed by a or.
 * You can, in theory, side with anyone and win with them. In practice this rarely works out; won't trust you because they know you have to kill constantly even in the absence of identified evils, while other evil teams are unlikely to reveal their entire side to you and therefore will see you as a threat. You can more easily side with  roles, who will generally be eager for an ally.
 * Remember that, and  (on full moons) will automatically attack you if you lose the duel ( will attack you regardless of who won).
 * Remember, unlike most killers, you lack even a basic defense. Since your attack is a roleblock, you can sometimes make up for this by identifying killing roles and targeting them repeatedly to avoid the chance of them attacking you, locking them down until you win a duel. Follow the advice for when doing this.
 * In particular, if you target someone, they survive, and there's no kill by an existing or  killing role the next morning, you may want to target the same person again the next time you're allowed to do so.
 * Conversely, if there is a kill, you may want to move on to someone else in hopes of finding and neutralizing rival killers.
 * You should also generally skip over anyone else you know for certain is not a rival killer, such as confirmed, anyone who has been role-blocked previously (unless the  killer has changed), or anyone whose revealed investigative results doesn't include any killers.
 * However, remember that you can't target the same person twice in a row, so you're not able to lock someone down completely.
 * Another advantage to identifying a killing role by role-blocking them is that you can use them in a variety of ways even if you lose your duels:
 * You can use them to claim some role (such as an  who discovered them or an  blocking them.) Be warned that they will likely attempt to out you as a ; but they can't do this without confessing themselves, and if you get them lynched, the  will often believe your word over theirs.
 * If you claim an Investigative role, such as a, , , or , and use that to accuse them of being the killer, they may not realize you were the who roleblocked them; however, you risk being outed as evil if they aren't the role you thought they were and the kill was skipped for other reasons. If they get lynched and turn out to be , you can try to turn this mistake to your advantage by claiming to be a victorious.
 * You can expose them to distract a from lynching you; a,  or  killing role is generally higher priority for the  than a , so this can buy you another night.
 * In a pinch, if you've been unsuccessfully dueling a killing role repeatedly, you can claim when pressed and tell the  you'll keep locking them down until you kill them. Avoid revealing as a  in this fashion unless it seems absolutely necessary, since it's unpredictable how  members will react, and you lack even the Basic defense needed to keep a  with an itchy trigger finger or some other random killer from killing you regardless of how the rest of the  feels.
 * As a, you want the game to last as long as possible (since that gives you more chances to loot people successfully) unless you have already won. Therefore, you should usually try to slow down voting, voting innocent whenever it's justifiable.
 * You do usually want to find and lynch roles, since they're both a threat to you and will end the game faster if unchecked, but they can also be an ally later in the game.
 * This is another reason why it's a good idea for you to try and role-block rival killers when you can; saving the life of the prevents the game from ending and gives you more time to loot.

Trivia

 * The is the only  role that is able to win with any faction, assuming they manage to successfully plunder 2 players at some point in the game.
 * The 's role-block does not seem to impact certain astral attacks/visits (Such as ), so a will still know who was visited by the  and .
 * The achievement for losing 10 duels is called "But You Have Heard of Me". This is most likely a reference to The Pirates of the Caribbean. Jack Sparrow says this line to James Norrington.
 * If your plundering fails, you will receive one of the following messages:
 * Avast! Yer scimitar's slash be stopped by chainmail. Ye lost th' duel! (Scimitar vs Chainmail)
 * Arr! Yer scimitar's slash be belayed by th' bilge rat's backpedal. Ye lost! (Scimitar vs Backpedal)
 * Shiver me timbers! Th' scallywag sidestepped yer rapier. Ye lost th' duel! (Rapier vs Sidestep)
 * Blimey! Th' rapscallion backpedaled away from yer rapier. Ye lost th' duel! (Rapier vs Backpedal)
 * Sink Me! Th' bilge swiller dodged yer shot. Ye lost th' duel! (Pistol vs Sidestep)
 * Blow me down! The sorry sea dogs chain mail stopped yer shot. Ye lost th' duel! (Pistol vs Chainmail)
 * Avast! Th' scurvy dog had a gun. Ye lost th' duel! ( Alerting)


 * If your plundering succeeds, you will receive one of the following messages instead:
 * Yo ho ho! Th' sluggard's backpedal be nah enough to stop yer shot. Ye won! (Pistol vs Backpedal)
 * Yer scimitar's slash could nah be sidestepped by the landlubber. Ye won th' duel! (Scimitar vs Sidestep)
 * Ahoy! Yer rapier skewered th' scurvy seadogs chainmail. Ye won! (Rapier vs Chainmail)

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