Merchant (BD Support) - Converts to Dealer (Support) if Unseen or Ritualist if Cult
Day Ability 1: Open Trade (Merchant/Dealer)
Select 2 players. At the beginning of the night they will get an icon that tells them that a trade was offered with another player whose name and number will be included in the icon. Each player may accept or reject the trade. If both players accept the trade, they will each be informed of whether the other’s night ability resulted in a successful visit, if they stayed home (did nothing or visits do not count such as mystic and prince), if they were occupied, or if their visit was prevented. If one or both players reject the deal, a message will be displayed to both players stating that a deal could not be made. If one of the players making the deal is jailed, it will tell the other player they were prevented. If a player’s night ability fails (such as a failed convert), the other player will be told it was a success, since the player must only successfully visit, not successfully perform their action. Effective only that night. Jailed targets can make deals normally. Cannot target self or king. 3 charges.
Shortened text: Allow 2 players the opportunity to share whether they are successful in visiting another player tonight.
Night Ability 1: Empowered Merchandise (Merchant/Dealer)
Select 1 player. That player’s night action will be successful. The player can ignore occupy immunity and will be able to visit targets even if the visit should be prevented. Does not allow the empowered player to ignore death immunity. The mastermind’s occupy immunity will not be stripped, but the player attempting the action on the mastermind will think their action was successful (like butler and drunk currently). Grants the empowered player occupy immunity for the night. Empowered players can kill jailed players. The player will not know they are being empowered but will instead get their usual success message. Cannot target self or king. Infinite charges.
Shortened text: Ensure a player’s night action is successful.
Night Ability 2: Pay Off (Merchant)
Select 1 player. That player becomes immune to conversion that night. The player will not receive a message. You will know if a conversion was prevented. Cannot target self or king. 3 charges.
Night Ability 2: Make Disappear (Dealer)
Select 1 player. That player’s logs will not be found by the court if they die tonight.(They will not be blank; there will be nothing at all.) 2 charges.
Lore:
I’m sure someone will come up with better lore than I can.
Comments:
I wanted to make a fun double-edged sword for the BD. Empowering other players could be very rewarding or very costly if used unwisely. In the early game, a merchant should pay off random targets before he knows other players’ classes. When the game gets rolling, the merchant can choose to empower BD players who have come out if he believes they need it. If the player the merchant empowers gets converted, however, the merchant will only cause more trouble for the BD so he must be careful. Open Trade is an interesting way to get players to trust or mistrust each other as well as reveal small amounts of information that can only be useful when combined with other factors. The dealer can use Open Trade on his assassin and mastermind to ease communication and merchants/dealers can use the ability to prove their existence at night. It should be fairly easy to claim merchant since the only real confirm-able ability is Open Trade, but since this confirm-ability exists they shouldn’t suffer the fate of court wizards and knights. Merchant is a pretty good possessor claim since the possessor can say he’ll prove himself that night and then simply jump to another player. Make Disappear is a strong tool that the Unseen should use carefully on investigative classes to hide as much information as possible. Use of this ability will alert the court to the existence of a Dealer since the logs of the victim will not be found. If a Merchant/Dealer turns into assassin, he may be found for not using his day ability or may successfully convince the court he ran out of charges. Furthermore, I wanted to poke holes in logs and in jail, which currently have no weaknesses with Empowered Merchandise and Make Disappear.
I’m open to changing the names of any abilities.
