Role Name: Life Trader
Role Alignment: Mafia Support
Special Attributes:
- Unique
Defense: None
Abilities: Resurrect a dead Town-aligned player, and kill another player in exchange.
Attributes:
- You may only perform 2 life trades.
- If there are no kill-capable Mafia roles left you will become a Mafioso.
- You can talk with the other Mafia at night.
Goal: Kill anyone that will not submit to the Mafia.
Additional Info:
The resurrection works exactly like the old Retributionist.
The kill works like a Jester haunt (astral, unstoppable, and can't be redirected by a Transporter).
Controlling the Life Trader roleblocks him.
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I had this crazy idea, and just decided to throw it out there.
It's probably not very useful for the Mafia overall, but it does have the following upsides:
- It wrecks the Jailor meta, by reliably exchanging the Jailor for whichever townie died N1. Is it worth it to confirm a random townie plus any Mediums in exchange for having the Jailor dead? Not sure!
- It can punch through the defense of competing evil roles in All Any, provided the Mafia can find a few townies to resurrect in exchange.
- It can tear down TP chains, by exchanging the TPs for roles that can't protect.
It also has thematic problems (raising the dead feels more like a Coven thing than a Mafia thing), but oh well.
Arguably it should be in Mafia Killing because it can technically kill, but on the other hand it can never produce a net gain in KPN (only move kills from one target to another), hence the Mafia Support designation.