Surveyor

> Once per game, may choose to learn which roles are still alive
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> If visited by another player on the same night Surveyor uses their power, no information will be given and the power will not be used
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## Surveyor

### Role Tags

Info Power, Night Power, Single-Use

**Surveyor** is a Town-aligned Info Power role that can learn what roles are currently alive.

## Mechanics

Each night, the Surveyor is given the choice to "survey." The player must choose "yes" or "no" by the end of the night. If the player does not choose by the end of the night, they will not perform any action by default.

If the player chooses to survey, they will receive a list of all current living roles in the form of a system message at the start of the next day.

* The list will say "These are the roles alive in the game:" and then list all roles that living players have.
* Duplicates will never appear on the list.
	+ For example, if 3 Villagers are alive, the word Villager will still only show up once on the list.
* Roles are listed in alphabetical order.
* Roles that appear incorrectly, such as Soloman, are shown as their true role to Surveyor.
	+ For example, if Soloman chose to appear as Cop, Surveyor would still see Soloman in their list and not Cop (unless there is another Cop in the setup).
* Surveyor itself does not appear in the list unless there is another Surveyor alive.
* Surveyor is affected by conversions.
	+ For example, if a Cop got converted to Villager, Surveyor would see Villager in their list and not Cop.

Surveyor can only use their power once per game. If they are visited by any player on the night they use their power, the power will not be used. They will receive no message and they will be able to use their power again the next night.

## In Setups

Surveyor is only useful in setups where roles reveal incorrectly or not at all, or setups where conversions are prevalent and knowing current roles is important. For example, in a setup where roles don't reveal on death, Surveyor can be used in place of Coroner to be able to catch mafia who are fakeclaiming dead roles. In a setup with Impostor, Surveyor can be used to help solve CC wars in which Impostor is CCing a PR. In a setup with Corruptor or Yakuza, Surveyor can learn if any power roles have been converted to scum.

Including mafia visiting roles can help mafia counter Surveyor. For example, Jaywalker can visit an outted Surveyor every night to prevent them from using their power.

## Gameplay

The night on which a Surveyor should use their power varies from setup to setup. Familiarize yourself with a setup to be able to optimize your Surveyor usage. For example, in setups with Impostor or Diva, you would likely want to use your power following a CC war. In a typical RR Off setup, however, you may want to wait until you believe town is in dire need of the knowledge of which roles are still alive.

Usually you should claim with notes the day after you use your power, unless you have a will. Otherwise, your power will be meaningless since no one else will know your results.

It is important to remember that in typical setups, knowing which roles are alive means you know which roles are dead by process of elimination. Conversions may make this information unreliable, however.

Be careful of being forced to claim before having used your power if there are visiting mafia roles in the setup, since that will likely render you useless.

## Trivia

* Surveyor is one of two roles that gets "roleblocked" when visited, the other being Seer.