Witness

> Sees self as Villager
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> Upon being condemned, may choose to privately reveal the role of a player to another player of their choice
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> If the vote is altered (e.g. overturned by Governor), Witness will learn their identity and retain their power
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## Witness

### Role Tags

On-Condemn Power, Revealing, Single-Use, Villager

**Witness** is a role that sees itself as Villager. When a Witness is condemned, they can reveal a player's role to another player.

## Mechanics

Upon being condemned, Witness receives a post-vote action to privately reveal one player's role to another. This role reveal can be fooled by Bozoman, Impostor, Soloman, and suits.

Witness can neither be revealed nor receive the revealed role. They can, however, reveal another player to themself. This has potential use with different cop sanities.

If the vote is overturned, Witness will not use their power, similar to other on-condemn villagers. However, they will still learn that they are the Witness since they learn their identity at the start of the post-vote period, before any overturning roles make their choice.

Interestingly, if Witness receives a suit, they will be revealed to themself as the role of the suit. They still know they are Witness because of their action, however.

## Interactions

Vanilla Cop finds Witness as guilty, but Witness can reveal a player's role to the Vanilla Cop when they get condemned.

If Witness and Martyr both exist within a setup, Witness can pretend to be Martyr and announce who they plan to kill in hopes that it might give them extra info before they choose who to reveal.

## In Setups

Like most other sees self as Villager roles, Witness can feel unfun and swingy because of its random nature: any Villager could potentially be a Witness. However, some players enjoy the possibility of being a "less boring" role, and enjoy the presence of Witness in a setup for these reason.

Overall, Witness does not usually benefit a setup, but does not necessarily detriment it either. A single Witness can often be added to any setup with little impact. However, replacing all Villagers with Witnesses is more extreme.

## Gameplay

The Witness doesn't really have any gameplay unique from a normal Villager before learning their true role, since they see themself as a normal Villager. Once the Witness finds out that they are Witness, they optimally want to reveal their scumread to their townread or to a confirm. The Witness does not want to say who they are revealing this information too as the Mafia can just night kill them. Make good judgement calls. For example, you *could* reveal a player to a Dog, but if there is no protective role alive, the Dog is probably going to die, so you should consider revealing to someone else.

There is little reason to choose not to use your power since it is unlikely that you will reveal town to mafia if you have at least one player you can trust.

* If a Town-aligned player gets revealed a Town-aligned player, they should give the information that the revealed player is Town-aligned whenever they want. If you reveal the information right away, the Mafia might just night kill the confirmed player though.
* If a Town-aligned player gets revealed a Mafia-aligned player, they should give the information ASAP. There is literally no other reason to tell everyone that the Witness told you who a Mafia was.
* If a Mafia-aligned player gets revealed a Town-aligned player, they likely should not give out information, as that gives Town a confirmed. This does not work if the Witness announced who they were revealing information too in Post-vote. If that player is a power role, the Mafia will likely just night kill them.
* If a Mafia-aligned player gets revealed a Mafia-aligned player, they should never announce that they got revealed a Mafia-aligned player. You can say that they're Town-aligned if the Witness announced who they were revealing information too in Post-vote. However, if that player ever dies later in the game, unless they flip as Town on death, you should expect to get condemned as well.

## Trivia

* This role was suggested by wangalang, and was introduced on February 19, 2021 during the "Mafia.gg celebrates two years!" update.
* Witness is the only role that can reveal another player's role to a single player.
	+ It and Paparazzo are the only roles that can privately reveal another player's role in general.