Template:Story Poisoner
Mechanics
- Your poison will deal a Basic attack the day after you poison your target. Anyone with Basic or higher defense will survive.
- A Doctor, Guardian Angel, or Potion Master can purge your poison if they heal your target.
- Poisoned players will know they were poisoned.
- With the Necronomicon, your poison is not curable by a Doctor. However, your poison can still be cured by a Guardian Angel's purge. Your attack will not become more powerful.
- If you poison someone with the Necronomicon, it will show the message "You were poisoned. You will die tomorrow!" instead of "You were poisoned. You will die tomorrow unless you are cured!"
- You cannot poison a player who has left the game.
- With the Necronomicon, If someone has been poisoned and they gain basic defense the next night, like a Bodyguard or Survivor self vesting, they will still die to the poison the next night.
Strategy
- Your delayed kill means that Lookouts will sometimes have a harder time finding you. You can use this to "prove" your innocence in the latter part of the game. However, smarter Lookouts will notice you visiting your target, so when they die a day later, they will be suspicious of you or even call you out if their target claims they were poisoned.
- Doctors are a high-priority target; with them in play, you are virtually useless until you have the Necronomicon, the reason being that anyone poisoned can simply claim so and the Doctor will heal them.
- The revealed Mayor is very vulnerable to poison as he can't be saved by a Doctor.
- Claiming to be poisoned has its benefits - it means the Doctor will heal you that night, protecting you from harm. Even if the Town notices you haven't died, you can simply claim to have been healed. Of course, this will not work once the Coven gets the Necronomicon, as healing no longer prevents death by poison.
- Coordinate with your fellow Coven members on who you should poison. Before night 3, you might be the only Coven member who can actually kill, with the other early game killer of the Coven being the Potion Master.
- If you play with a Medusa, you can ask her to claim poisoned while you don't poison anyone and ask her to stone visitors the following night. This might allow you to kill the Doctor and make your poison incurable; however, a Guardian Angel may still remove your poison through purging. Be warned that smarter players will notice if someone says they will visit the Medusa and dies from stoning the day after.
- The Poisoner is very much like a Mafioso, except with a higher chance that your target will get Purged and/or Healed. The Necronomicon is like a Mafioso becoming a Godfather, and thus the role should be treated as a Mafioso.
Dealing with Poisoners
- As a Lookout, if you see someone visit your target and your target claims they were poisoned, you may have found the Poisoner. If your target dies of poison the next day, the player you saw is most likely the Poisoner.
- As a Doctor, make sure to heal anyone claiming to be poisoned. Not only will it remove poison from them, it will protect them from any killers. On the other hand, if you believe the Poisoner has the Necronomicon, then healing poisoned people is a waste of a night.
- As a killing role, targeting people who are poisoned is a bad idea. Not only will they likely be protected by Doctors or Guardian Angels, even if they are defenseless, they will die from poison anyway, wasting a kill. However, if you have a Rampage attack, targeting a player that claims to be poisoned may help you eliminate a Doctor.
- As a Tracker, you can call out a Poisoner if you see them visiting someone who claims to be poisoned the next day. Beware that the player you tracked is not necessarily the Poisoner, they may have happened to visit the same target as the Poisoner.
- As a Mayor, you have the largest risk of revealing yourself if a Poisoner is known as a Doctor can't heal you. Always request protection and safety of any kind, such as a Bodyguard or even a Crusader if you feel there are no more protectives around. Lookouts can cover you and identify the Poisoner, and Trappers can be a good bet.
- If a known Doctor visits a role that has claimed to be poisoned and dies to a Medusa, there is a good chance the person who claimed they were poisoned is the Medusa.
Trivia
- During playtesting on the Public Test Realm, the Poisoner would come up as Psychic, Ambusher, Poisoner or Medusa to the Investigator.
- The Poisoner is one of the few roles able to directly kill after death.
- Note, however, that if you change your Death Note after you die, those changes will not be reflected.
