Beguiler (Mafia Deception)

## Mechanics

### Abilities

You can hide in a player's home, redirecting all effects targeting a Mafia member of your choosing to your target instead

### Attributes

You may only hide three times.
You have access to Mafia chat.
If there's no more Mafia Killing roles alive, you will be promoted to a Mafioso.

# **Beguiler**

The Beguiler is a Mafia Deception role which can Hide to redirect people from a Mafia member's house to someone else's house during the night. If anyone attempts to target the Mafia you have selected, they will visit your other target instead. You can do this three times per game.

## Mechanics

* Select two targets (like Disguiser), the first target being a Mafia member and the second target being a non-Mafia player. Anyone that visits the first target will be silently redirected to the second one.
* The first visit is Astral and is not affected by Transporters, Pirates. or seen by Spies. The second visit, though, is not astral.
* You can use your ability 3 times.

## Investigative Results

 : Your target is Suspicious or Framed!

 : Framer, Vampire, Jester, Hex Master, **Beguiler**

 : Your target is sneaky and likes hiding. They must be a **Beguiler**!

## Strategy

* One of the Beguiler's greatest strengths is its ability to protect Mafia members - redirecting can be used in a multitude of ways to keep mafia members safe and alive.
* You or fellow Mafia Members can also bait certain abilities to redirect them - the most powerful use of this is arguably baiting Vigilantes and redirecting them into towns for a double kill, but you can also bait Escorts, NKs or Coven Members to control who they use their powers on.
* If you suspect a Town Investigative role is going to find one of your Mafia Members, you can use your redirect ability as a mini-Disguiser to make them appear innocent.
* You can use your second visit to be seen by Lookouts when TP/LO is called, although you have a limited number of ability charges so only do this if you are sure of what you want your claim to be.
* Do not try to use your ability to redirect players into Veterans or Medusa - as you visit your second target, you will die to their attacks.

## Dealing with **Beguilers**

* As a Tracker, if you suspect someone may be a Beguiler, try tracking them. Beguiler is one of three roles that can visit two people at once (the others being Transporter and Disguiser), so if no one is claiming transported, chances are you’ve just tracked a mafia member.
* As a Vigilante, be careful with shooting an “outed” evil when there is a Beguiler in the game. You may accidentally be redirected into an innocent townie. Note that if the evil you’re shooting is confirmed to not be a mafia member, this does not apply.

## Trivia

* Beguiler was the third revealed role in the BetterTOS mod.
* Beguiler received a major rework in the v1.1 update which changed their mechanics.
	+ Prior to this update, the Beguiler could only ever select one target: and anyone who visited them would visit said target. They did not have the ability to use this on other mafia members, it was purely a self targeting move.
	+ It worked similar to Pre-Patch B.0.1.5 Trickster from ToS 2 - however it could redirect any ability instead of just attacks.
* The icon for Beguiler was also changed in the v1.1 update, prior to this it had an icon much more reminiscent of Transporter, however this was changed due to creating too many parallels with this role being a "mafia transporter". The suggested change was conceptualised by user **Gocj**, and was drawn by **Nuggy**.
	+ Here is the icon prior to the rework:

## Update History

### ***Update v1.1***

* Beguiler went through a major rework:
	+ Charges increased from 2 to 3.
	+ Beguiler can now deflect from any mafia member rather than just themselves.
* Updated the role icon for Beguiler.

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