Circum

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One player with the end goal for both. Who wins depends on who finds them first.

### Town Roles

Cop, Emcee, Grandma, Jailer, Medic, Merlin, Pollster

## Description

With a name deriving from "circumference", the game centers around visitation and trust. It's similar to save/hunt the president, but if no one knew who the president was. Fake-claiming is less common, as Merlin has knowledge that your traditional President doesn't. For both sides, knowing who Merlin is, is key to winning the game.

For town, your job is to protect who one believes Merlin is, and safely get the role information out of them. Accidentally outing Merlin too early is a death wish, as then mafia can easily kill them, which kills the whole town.

For mafia, your job is to find and kill the Merlin, by using soft reveals, role reveals, and deaths, so you can figure out who the Merlin is through process of elimination. However, you also have to be careful of visiting roles like the Grandma or Emcee, who spell certain death for any member who visits.

## Optimal Play

### Cop

As cop, your main job is to discover mafia, just like in any game of mafia. Cops should remain aware of the Informant role, who will know if any mafia members have been investigated.

### Emcee

As emcee, your main job is to trick mafia into visiting you. When visited, who visited them becomes public, allowing them to out any potential mafia.

### Grandma

Like the emcee, the grandma's main job is to lure mafia. However, they must be extra careful around cops, medics, and jailers, as the grandma kills **anyone** who visits them, even other town.

### Jailer

As jailer, your main job is to carefully get information out of the merlin. In a private chat, the merlin is able to safely out themselves. However, attempting to figure out who the merlin is can be an extremely difficult task.

### Medic

As medic, your main job is to protect the merlin. However, you need to be extremely careful, as you could accidentally visit the grandma or emcee.

### Merlin

As merlin, your main job is to try and safely inform the town of who the mafia are, while avoiding outing themself. Outing is certain death, as when the merlin dies, so does the whole town. The Jailer is going to be your best friend here, as when jailed, you can claim your role safely along with all of the information you have.

### Pollster

As pollster, your main job is to prevent condemning the merlin in a situation where Mafia have voting majority because of Lover. If you believe you are finding softs from the Merlin, your two choices will be forced to out with your help, which can net you some mafia.

### Hooker

As hooker, your main job is to prevent the jailer and medic from helping the merlin. It takes a lot of guesswork, but roleblocking medic and targeting the merlin on the same night can be exactly how you win. Similarly, roleblocking the jailer prevents them from getting the information needed from merlin, so it removes the possibility of a fakeclaim.

### Informant

As informant, your main goal is to protect the mafia around you. It's a 7-1-3 game, so you need all the help you can get.

### Mesmer

As mesmer, your main goal is to get merlin to out themself.

## Trivia

The setup is named Circum after the word Circumference, referencing both the circular motion of visitations, as well as a nod to *The Knights of the Round Table*, the original source of Merlin as a character.