Pair o' Fixers

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👋In this setup, it is ❕❕ important ❗⁉ to be careful about who you fix 🛠.

### Town Roles

Cop, Emcee, Medic, Fall Guy (x1), Paranoid Cop, Sleepwalker (x2), Villager (x4)

## Description

Pair o' Fixers is built around the interactions between Fixer, Trancer, and the Town roles in the setup. The Fixers can fix each other, fix a Trancer to make a townie look fixed, or fix no one to be able to claim Fall Guy. The Town play around this with Cop and Paranoid Cop both being important to make the Mafia not always do one thing.

Town has little hard info in this setup due to the Fixers, a Fall Guy, and Sleepwalkers. They must use scumhunting for the vast majority of condemnations.

## Roles & Play

### Cop

Cop is present in the setup to pressure Fixers into fixing and to pair their notes with the Paranoid Cop. Ideally, the Cop wants to try and check similar people to the Paranoid Cop to determine whether someone was fixed or not.

While Cop alone is not very strong in this setup, they are still able to give basic alignment information and find Fall Guy (unless Trancer fixed). The more Fixers are dead, the stronger the regular Cop is in this setup.

### Paranoid Cop

Paranoid Cop’s objective is to find fixed players. It also sees itself as Cop and dies as Cop, so if killed at night, Mafia will not necessarily know which Cop they killed.

While Paranoid Cop naturally only receives red reports, they will receive a blue report if their target is fixed. A fixed player is likely Mafia and should be treated like a red check in a normal setup in most cases. The one exception to this is if Fixer is tranced onto a town.

Paranoid Cop is overall stronger than Cop in this setup but becomes useless if all the Fixers are dead or if mafia knows the real Cop is dead. If Fixers do not use, then Paranoid Cop is powerless.

### Emcee

Emcee primarily exists to promote the Fixer/Trancer interaction (which will be discussed later) and to give visitors a higher likelihood to be town. Any given visitor to the Emcee is town UNLESS fixer specifically visits Emcee by being redirected by Trancer.

It is also a difficult role for mafia to kill and generally stays alive in most games.

### Medic

Medic plays similarly in this setup to most. Preferably, Medic wants to protect any outted cop claim or Emcee visitors.

Medic wants to try and avoid visiting the Emcee, otherwise they will out themselves to the Mafia.

### Fall Guy

Fall Guy exists to weaken the real Cop and give Mafia some variety when it comes to who they fix. Upon death, Fall Guy and Busboy also look the exact same. This can make it difficult to determine which of these two roles died. Mafia can also plan around its death flip if condemned.

### Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker is a slightly buffed Villager role that can visit the Emcee randomly. The purpose of this role is to help protect PRs if they visit the Emcee and give tranced Fixers a potential claim for their visit.

### Busboy

Busboy and Fall Guy both appear as "Mafia" upon death, giving town misinformation. It is not optimal to fix the Busboy, so they can appear as red to the Cop and die looking like Fall Guy.

Busboy is also the sacrificed role if Mafia kills Emcee at night, which is why killing the Emcee is not ideal unless the Busboy is outted.

### Fixer

The pair of Fixers are the key element and namesake of the setup. If the Fixers decide not to use, then the regular Cop becomes strong. If the Fixers both decide to use, then the Paranoid Cop becomes strong.

Therefore, it is usually optimal for only one fixer to use at any given time. The Fixer that chooses to use should almost always go on the Trancer. However, this is only the case if both Cops are alive, or if the type of Cop dead is unknown.

If regular Cop is the only cop alive, then both Fixers use on each other. If Paranoid Cop is the only cop alive, then neither Fixer uses.

### Trancer

Trancer’s power allows them to redirect all visits from themselves to a selected target (Note: Trancer does not visit unless Busboy is dead and committing a night kill).

In this setup, the way Fixer is redirected is unique. Normally, Fixer can only select Mafia teammates to visit and therefore can only visit Mafia. With Trancer, however, Fixer can be redirected and visit a Town player. This interaction creates a pseudo-framer for Mafia that specifically affects Paranoid Cop. For example, if Fixer goes on the Trancer and the Trancer redirects to a random Villager, the Fixer will visit the Villager and make the Villager appear Not Sided on all reports (including Paranoid Cop).

If Mafia can use this strategy well, they can potentially get a town miscondemned for free.

Fixer can also become an Emcee visitor through this method and claim a power role or Sleepwalker.

The downside of this pseudo-framing maneuver is that if the Paranoid Cop visits the Trancer, they will also be redirected to the fixed target. This makes the Trancer look Mafia to Paranoid Cop. Therefore, the Fixer using should NOT go on Trancer if they suspect they will be checked by Paranoid Cop. Regular Cop will see Trancer as Not Sided regardless of the pseudo-framing mechanic (unless they trance to a mafia teammate or Fall Guy).

### Villager

Villagers should try and act as blue as possible, especially as one of them could be Fall Guy. Upon visiting Emcee, they will know they are a Sleepwalker. In this case, softing Power Role is a good idea, to try and bait a Mafia kill.

## Trivia

The following is a common paragraph to paste when explaining the setup:

👋In this setup, it is ❕❕ important ❗⁉ to be careful about who you fix 🛠. You can choose not to 🔨 fix at all and claim fall guy if you appear red 😡 on a 👮‍♂️ cop check ✅, fix ⚒ a 🤝 teammate hoping 🙏 regular cop 🚓 checks ✔ them but 🍐 paranoid 👮‍♀️ cop does not, or fix 🔨 trancer to frame 🖼 a townie 🏙 that 🍐paranoid cop 👮‍♂️ might ☑ check (However, this also makes trancer look 😰 fixed so it is risky!). trancing is a redirect, but doesn't visit themselves. Glhf! 🤗🤗🤗

Upon being found as fixer, the following is a humorous statement to utter:

guys, if you think about it, fixing this is GOOD. are you really going to vote someone who does good things just because they think a little differently to you? thats called discrimination, and it's unacceptable. I've fixed many things in my day but today you're about to break my heart.