Kidnapper (Mafia Killing)

## Mechanics

### Abilities

You may kidnap someone, and optionally exterminate them once. You may only kidnap twice per game.

### Attributes

You may not kidnap a revealed mayor.
You may not kidnap the Jailor or a player they Jailed, but they may Jail you.
Your chat will appear as the Jailor to your victim.
You may only exterminate once.
You have access to Mafia Chat.
If there are no more Mafia Killing, you will be promoted to Mafioso.

# **Kidnapper**

The Kidnapper is a Mafia killing role which can choose people during the day to detain in their basement during the night. They can also exterminate one player per game, which deals an unstoppable attack to them.

Visually to non-Mafia members, the Kidnapper appears to be identical to the Jailor. Their chat will appear as "Jailor", the message for extermination reads as " The Jailor has decided to execute you.", and their killing message reads as "being killed by the Jailor".

## Mechanics

* During the day, select someone to detain in your basement. You can do this twice per game.
* You can exterminate one kidnapped player per game.
* You cannot kidnap the Jailor, a revealed Mayor, or someone that the Jailor has Jailed.
* Your night chat and death message appear as "Jailor" to all townies.
* If you have used up all your kidnaps, you are first on the priority list to be promoted to Mafioso.

## Investigative Results

 : Your target is Suspicious or Framed!

 : Spy, Blackmailer, Jailor, Guardian Angel, **Kidnapper**, Banshee

 : Your target takes people off to their basement. They must be a **Kidnapper**!

## Strategy

* Kidnapper is a powerful mafia role, although if used carelessly it can easily backfire.
* The most important tip is to not claim Jailor outright. You are hard countered by the real Jailor, and even if there is no Jailor in the game, this limits your options and also puts pressure on your claim when you can't jail more than two times.
* It is important to throw doubt onto Jailor using your abilities however. You can feed players false information at night pretending to be the Jailor or give them recommendations or commands that are counter intuitive, but important if the Townie wants to gain your trust. In Town Traitor, you can also use your execute on a bad target to make Jailor appear to be the Traitor.
* Do not forget that your Kidnapped target can see all of your night chat - try not to communicate with Mafia while you have Kidnapped someone, as you may feed information to the townie you have kidnapped.
* Your sole execute is incredibly powerful as it allows you to take one player out of the game regardless of TP roles. Although you cannot kidnap the Jailor, or Mayors/Marshalls that have revealed, you can still take out Transporters, Escorts, and other Evil roles that pose a threat to the Mafia.
* Your Kidnaps also act as super roleblocks - you can use this to stop any role in the game from using their night ability, including ones who are typically roleblock immune. Be careful in Serial Killer games however, as they can kill you if you kidnap them and do not exterminate them.

## Dealing with **Kidnappers**

* Kidnappings appear the exact same to you as Jailings. Thus, it is very important to assess the situation to avoid telling a Kidnapper things they don't need to know.
	+ If the "Jailor" doesn't seem very talkative or is saying things that don't appear to be directed at you, chances are you were Kidnapped.
* If you are Kidnapped and you immediately see the extermination message, you may want to write in your that it could be a Kidnapper game. Assuming you are right, this takes suspicion off of the Jailor.
* As a Serial Killer, a risky but potentially rewarding play you could pull off is to ask to be Jailed. If you're lucky, you may catch a Kidnapper off guard, killing them in the process.
	+ Note that this outs you to the Mafia, and leaves you vulnerable to players noticing you were Jailed on a night where a Kidnapper's will was bloodied.

## Trivia

* Kidnapper was the fifth revealed role in the BetterTOS mod.
* The icon for Kidnapper was drawn by Nuggy on Discord.

## Update History

### ***Beta:***

* Kidnapper can only kidnap two targets per game now. Previously, they could kidnap three times.

### *Update v1.1:*

* Kidnapper is now notified of their remaining Kidnap charges at the start of each day.

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