The Black Widow (TOWN Cop)

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are The Black Widow[/i]

REAL NAME: Natalia Romanova
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS: dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/37-black-widow.jpg

ALIGNMENT: Town
GENERIC: Alignment Cop
WIN CONDITION: All Anti-Registration forces have been neutralized

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BACKGROUND:

Nobody trusts you. It's understandable. In your exceedingly colorful career as a spy, S.H.I.E.L.D. quadruple agent, assassin, superhero, and supervillain, you've probably double-crossed three quarters of the people in any given room.

Works out OK for you, though. If no one really trusts that you're with them, then they're never quite sure you're against them, either. Since your loyalties are preceived as shifting and mercurial, you often find yourself in a position to receive all manner of useful information from folks who hope you might be planning to double-cross their enemies.

You have been sent by S.H.I.E.L.D., as an agent of the U.S. government, to help ferret out Captain America's so-called "Secret Avengers" and bring them to justice. However, in order to give you the best possible cover, none of the other supporters of registration present on this island know that you are here, or that you are on their side. You'll be under considerable suspicion for the duration of your stay - which is exactly how you like it.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. By Night, you may engage in conversation with a single player of your choice, in order to determine whether that player is pro- or anti-registration. You are a sufficiently skilled interrogator that your targets will never know you were studying them. Also, you can hack their e-mails, which is a nice shortcut.

2. Snooping, spying, hacking, and the like are bound to put you in some compromising situations, and let's face it, you just have a suspicious face. Your activities may not look entirely kosher to any interested Watcher/Tracker/other sort of spy.

[Pleonast]

How Pleonast would play this role: I'd claim on Day One (and neglect to mention the miller aspect) and ask any protective roles to protect me. That would let me stay vote-charged for every Night.

High reward, but is there high risk? Do scum have the means to bust through protection on Night One?

[Frank]

Not exactly. But they do have the ability to kill a protector. Read The Punisher's role description in the Scum section. Doing this would mean probably a dead Doctor Night One, and a dead Pleonast Night Two.

[sachertorte]

I had forgotten about the vote wrinkle. It seemed innocuous at the time, but seeing how the game is stacking up against Town I think mucking with the vote counts is very anti-Town. Essentially two votes for the Cop will be useless data.
If you want to cap the Cop, then set a hard cap and leave it at that.
Though I am curious how that would play with scum wanting Iron Man dead.

I sort of see the game progressing as usual then towards the end of the Day, Black Widow chiming in, "BTW could I get two votes on me? That would be peachy. Yes, I have a bag, and No, it's not magic."

Then Penance could chime in. "Could I get five?"

That would be funny.

[Frank]

Heh. Yes, it would. I kind of like mucking with the vote counts. If you feel like the game is swinging toward Scum, we can almost certainly swing it back in other ways. Remember, we still have two pro-Town roles to create. Right now I am leaning toward creating a role with a dual ability. I'm not sure of the color yet, but basically the role would have four charges (so could act a total of four times). The player could choose whether to use a negative charge (which would role-block the target) or a positive charge (which would render the target immune to role-blocking). Does this seem like a useful role? How else can we restore the balance?