The Great Divide

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## The Great Divide

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Setup where there are two basic town roles, making claims interesting for the mafia

### Town Roles

Medic, Polygraph, Tapioca ×4, Vanilla Cop, Villager ×4

### Non-Default Settings

Nightstart (No Kill Night 1), Punish Initiators

## Description

A seemingly basic setup with the complicated addition of the vanilla town roles being evenly split in two. Power roles and mafia members alike must make the choice as to which role they should fakeclaim as.

## Optimal play

An optional but worthwhile strategy to coordinate is that everyone claims either Villager or Tapioca at the start of day 1. (The whole reason why the setup is NKN1 is to allow mafia to coordinate what they will claim.)

If this strategy is being used, Vanilla Cop should claim Villager (so they don't appear wrongly to Polygraph) and Polygraph should claim Tapioca (so they don't appear wrongly to Vanilla Cop). It doesn't matter what Medic claims, because they appear wrongly either way. Con Man and basic Mafia are in a weird position where they get checked as one role but appear as the other on death. (Con Man gets checked as if it was a Tapioca, but dies as a Villager, while Mafia gets checked as a Villager, but dies as a Tapioca.) Thus, they must ultimately decide whether it is more worthwhile to claim Villager or Tapioca. Paparazzo and Headhunter should claim whichever roles make the claims even amongst the mafia; two mafia should claim Villager and two should claim Tapioca.

**TL;DR:** Villager claims Villager, Tapioca claims Tapioca, Vanilla Cop claims Villager, Polygraph claims Tapioca, two of the mafia claim Villager, the other two mafia claim Tapioca, Medic claims whatever they want

The benefits of this strategy:

* Buffs Vanilla Cop and Polygraph as investigatives: VC checks Villager claims, while Poly checks Tapioca claims. Anyone who isn't what they claim is most likely mafia.
* Can potentially out mafia if all claimables of one pool are dead. (e.g. if all Tapiocas are dead, any mafia that claimed Tapioca are forced to claim a power role or get voted)

The drawbacks of this strategy:

* Buffs Headhunter: HH no longer has to double check players to make sure that they are both not Villager *and* not Tapioca to find power roles.
* Forces Medic to choose a claim. Mafia will also be able to find and kill Medic more easily due to knowing which claimable pool Medic is in. (e.g. if there are 7 Villager claims (5 of which are town) and 8 Tapioca claims (6 of which are town), the mafia know that one of the Tapioca claims is actually the Medic)

Thus, this strategy has both benefits and drawbacks to it.

### Town

Anyone who claims Villager and dies as Villager was either an actual Villager or the Con Man.

Anyone who claims Villager but dies as Mafia was the basic Mafia.

Anyone who claims Tapioca and dies as Mafia was either an actual Tapioca or the basic Mafia.

Anyone who claims Tapioca but dies as Villager was the Con Man.

#### Medic

Play as normal, protecting power role claims.

#### Polygraph

Investigate Tapioca claims. Any Tapioca claim that isn't a lying role is either the Medic or a mafia member.

#### Vanilla Cop

Investigate Villager claims. Any Villager claim that isn't a vanilla role is either the Medic or a mafia member.

### Mafia

Use night 1 to coordinate which roles each member will fakeclaim as.

#### Con Man

Claim Villager if you think you are going to get condemned. Otherwise, claim Tapioca.

#### Headhunter

Check Villager claims to see if they are actually Villagers, or Tapioca claims to see if they are actually Tapiocas. Anyone who isn't who they say they are is a power role.

You can come up with an elaborate signal with your fellow mafia members to let them know what your check was, in case you get condemned and are unable to reveal it to them the next night.

#### Basic Mafia

Claim Tapioca if you think you are going to get condemned. Otherwise, claim Villager.

#### Paparazzo

Reveal someone that you think is a power role when you get condemned to give your team additional info.

Don't stall. If you are the last mafia left, just hurry up and choose someone to end the game.

## Trivia

* This setup originally had Hooker instead of Paparazzo. Hooker was believed to be too oppressive, so it was replaced. (It was also mostly a filler role.)