Mime

Mime Alias: none Alignment: Third Party Role type: Manipulative Choice: Night Status: Historical

A Mime is a member of a third-party faction that wins only if all of its members are voted out, or eliminated. The Mime faction also has a factional Roleblock that can be used at Night to hopefully stop the Mafia's kill. If the Mime faction wins, the game usually ends.

A single Mime is nearly equivalent to a Jester-Roleblocker, the difference being that Jesters tend to not end games when they win.

This role is used in the Open setup Paris Mafia.

Standard version

The Mimes are an informed minority. They have two factional abilities:

• they know each other identities, and may communicate privately;
• each Night, one Mime may perform a roleblock.

All Mimes win if all of them are eliminated; when that happens, the game ends, and the Mimes are the sole winners. Whenever a Mime dies in any other way, all Mimes leave the game in a loss.

Use & Balance

Mimes are generally not used outside the aforementioned Open setup because if a single one of them gets killed (i.e. not eliminated), all of them lose. That's not particularly fair. That said, see The Game of the Year, where Mimes were successfully used to deter shoot-from-the-hip eliminating (and unfortunately lost day 1 due to Angels).

Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Mime" describes the faction as follows:

• As a win condition: You win if all members of your group are eliminated by the Day vote.

Example (vanilla)

Welcome to game! You are a Mime.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

• Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player's active abilities will be blocked that night.

You win if all members of your group are eliminated by the Day vote.

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

Example (power role)

Welcome to game! You are an Ascetic Mime Rolecop.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

Actions that target you, other than kills, will fail as if roleblocked.

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

• Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player's active abilities will be blocked that night.
• Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will learn that player's role (but not their alignment).

You win if all members of your group are eliminated by the Day vote.

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