Shaman

### Description

Each night that you have a voodoo doll, you can link it to another player, causing any effects on you to instead transfer to that player.

## Basic Info

* Shaman can only be found in custom games of Hitman and Mini-Boss donators at the time of this writing.
* Shaman is a neutral role.

### Description

The mafias outside continues to bang on the door. The Shaman inside pulls out a blank voodoo doll. If they're coming with intent of harm, the Shaman won't be going down without a fight...

## Ability

The Shaman starts the game with a voodoo doll.

* Each night as long as Shaman has their voodoo doll, they can place it on any player in the party. On that night, all active attacks on the Shaman will be redirected to the player on whom the Shaman has placed the voodoo doll.
* If Shaman is actively attacked on the night which they use their voodoo doll (any visit aside from the passive visiting roles), they will regain their doll at the start of the next night. If no one actively attacks Shaman on the night which they use their voodoo doll, it will vanish for the rest of the game.
	+ If an active visiting role visits the Shaman on the night that they use their doll, the visitor will be given this message: You tried to perform your action on {user}, but some mysterious force transferred all the effects of your action to another player! If you don't know what this means it means you visited the Shaman lol.
	+ The visitor will not be told who they were redirected to, i.e. they will not know who the Shaman placed the doll on.
	+ Once the voodoo doll has disappeared, Shaman has no abilities.

The Shaman's goal is to survive until the end of the game.

## Useful Interactions to Know

* As Shaman's visit type is passive, they will not die when placing their doll on the Baiter.
* It is possible to redirect attacks towards the attacker themselves. For example, placing your voodoo doll on the Hoarder on the night that they attack you will result in them duelling themselves.
* PI is the only active visiting role that will not be affected regardless of whether the Shaman uses their doll. The PI will receive results as if the Shaman was a normal neutral role, and the PI will not be notified that they have visited the Shaman.
* The Shaman can only redirect active attacks to the player on whom the voodoo doll was placed. This means that passive visiting roles like Hacker will not be redirected and will perform their action as usual on Shaman.
* There is no limit to the amount of redirections you can perform on the night when you use your voodoo doll.

## Strategy

### As the Shaman

* Since your only goal is to survive, one tactic is to remain passive for as long as possible to avoid provoking others to view you as a threat.
* Another strategy involves pledging support to one side to gain their protection and help, like helping mafias to tie votes or helping town to vote out mafias.
* A high risk, high reward plan is to work with the Baiter, where you provoke both town and mafia players, then plant your voodoo doll on the Baiter immediately. If many players are redirected to the Baiter because of you, the uncertainty of whether you still possess your doll may be all that is needed to deter the remaining players from attempting to remove you.

### Against the Shaman

* Since Shaman's threat is mostly limited to the fact that they can help the opposing side vote against your team, Shaman can mostly be ignored unless they are helping the other side to vote, in which case you could attempt to vote out Shaman. Sending a killing role to kill Shaman could work too, but keep in mind that they may be redirected if Shaman uses their doll.
* Once you have discovered who the Shaman is, share that knowledge with trusted teammates to avoid them visiting the Shaman and potentially performing a self-sabotage.

## Patch History

* 2/7/2021 (Patch 2.6.5): Shaman was added exclusively for Hitman and Mini-Boss donators to add to their custom games.

## Trivia

* The former art for Shaman was drawn by linkboi himself. The current art is from the same artist who designed the current Mafiabot icon.