Alignment Watcher

Alignment Watcher Alias: Faction Watcher Alignment: Town Mafia Role type: Investigative Choice: Night Status: Untested

An Alignment Watcher is an investigative role that can target a player and learn what alignments targeted that player. For example, if a Town Doctor targets the Alignment Watcher's target, the Alignment Watcher will see that a Townie targeted the Alignment Watcher's target, but will not know what action they were targeted with.

Standard version

An Alignment Watcher learns what alignments a player was targeted by during the night. If an Alignment Watcher is somehow blocked from their action (by Roleblocker, Jailkeeper, Rolestopper, Ascetic, or Commuter), they should receive a "No Result" pm, rather than a "did not see anything" pm. An Alignment Watcher would not see a Ninja performing a kill and would not see Stealthy actions, however, and would receive a "did not see anything" pm in that case.

An Alignment Watcher's action can fail due to, e.g., a Roleblocker targeting them or an attempt to watch an Ascetic target; in these cases, the Alignment Watcher will be aware that their action has failed, and will receive a no result PM. This result should be clearly distinct from the result obtained when successfully role watching a player, but with no other actions on that player to alignment watch; a "no result" result leaves it unclear who if anyone targeted the Alignment Watcher's target, whereas a "no actions" result guarantees that nobody else (other than a possible Ninja) targeted the Alignment Watcher's target.

Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Alignment Watcher" describes the action as follows:

• As a targeted action: you will learn which other alignments targeted that player that Night. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Alignment Watcher.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will learn which other alignments targeted that player that Night.

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.

Example (with modifiers)

Welcome to game! You are a Town 1-shot Loud Alignment Watcher.

You have the following active ability:

• Once in the game at Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will learn which other alignments targeted that player that Night. Your target will learn that you targeted them (but not what action you targeted them with).

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.