Plague Doctor

### Description

Visits a person each night to infect them with the plague. The infected players will spread the plague to those who they visit and those who visit them. Once all of town is infected the village has one day to lynch the plague doctor before the plague doctor wins.(Min party size: 8)

## Basic Info

* Plague Doctor can be found in Corona and Crimson.
* Plague Doctor is a neutral role.

#### **Description**

The town seems to have lost its usual liveliness. The streets are empty, the shops are closed, and a fog covers the entire village. Not a single soul dares to step out into the night. Out of the fog steps out a black, hooded figure with a bird mask. It's time...

## Ability

* Each night, the Plague Doctor can visit someone to infect them with the plague.
* The infected players will spread the plague to all those whom they visit and those who visit them.
* Once the Plague Doctor has everyone infected, a warning is given to the party that the Plague Doctor has infected everyone with the Plague. The party then has to lynch the Plague Doctor on the day of the warning or else the Plague Doctor will win the game.
* The Plague Doctor's goal is to infect everyone and survive the warning day.
* Once the Plague Doctor wins, the game immediately ends.

## Useful Interactions to Know

* Plague Doctor actually "visits" the chosen target, therefore their movements can be seen by the Spy and Watcher. However, Plague Doctor doesn't die to Baiter to make it easier to win.
* The Link doesn't visit their targets but only remotely links them, therefore the targets won't be infected if the Link has the plague.

## Strategy

### **As the Plague Doctor**

* The single best target to infect is the PI, as they visit 2 players each night.
* Infecting the Mafia isn't a good idea, as all the players they visit would be killed by them anyways. The same applies for Vigilante and Hoarder.
* A sneaky strategy is to infect everyone except a confirmed mafia. Then convince the players to lynch the mafia since it would be in the best interests of village. Once your last uninfected target is lynched, you automatically win (unless the last mafia is lynched, see Game ending conditions).
* You can claim Watcher or Spy since you can see who your infected targets visit/are visited by each night. However, you should not claim this when the plague warning appears, since Watcher and Spy are very common claims for Plague Doctor and you will be lynched.

### **Against the Plague Doctor**

* If you see a player visit a confirmed Baiter without dying, they are either the Hacker or the Plague Doctor.
* Trying not to help spread the plague may not be the best strategy as it limits your options in finding the mafia. Instead, keep track of unaccounted movement that could be traces of the Plague Doctor's infection.

## Patch History

* 20/7/2020 (Small bug patch): Plague Doctor can no longer die to Baiter.
* 8/7/2020 (Patch 2.3): You can no longer get infected yourself as the Plague Doctor by players that visit you.
* 27/6/2020 (Patch 2.2): The infection rate of the infected to the players that they come in contact with was increased from 50% to 100%.
* 26/3/2020 (Patch 2.0.2): Plague Doctor was added to the game.

## Bugs Found

* Plague Doctor could get infected themselves by players that visited them. (Fixed)