Poisoner

Storyteller cues

First nightThe Poisoner chooses a player. ◦

Other nightsThe Poisoner chooses a player. ◦

How to run it (Storyteller)

How to play

• Prioritize poisoning the Investigator, Empath, or Slayer on night one — roles that produce hard information or have instant-kill power are the highest-value targets early.
• Coordinate with your Demon: ask them each night which player they are attacking, then poison whichever Townsfolk is most likely to detect or respond to that kill (e.g., the Undertaker the night after a kill, or the Fortune Teller if they seem locked onto the Demon).
• Claim a safe, quiet Townsfolk — Monk or Librarian are ideal because they produce limited public information and are rarely pressed to prove their role early.
• Use self-poison strategically and sparingly: if you need to 'prove' you were awake and active a given night without poisoning a useful good player, pointing at yourself costs almost nothing since the effect lasts only until dusk.
• The most common mistake is poisoning the same player two nights in a row out of fear — it wastes a night on someone already neutralised and lets other information roles run freely.
• If you are the last minion alive and the good team is close to solving the Demon, switch to poisoning the most dangerous night-action role each night rather than fishing for information disruption.

How to fight the Poisoner

• Cross-reference information roles across multiple days: a Townsfolk whose ability fired on a night they were poisoned will have subtly wrong data — two Empaths with conflicting readings about the same player, or a Fortune Teller who got a false positive, are strong signals a Poisoner is active.
• A Poisoner's presence means at least one piece of information each night cycle is potentially garbage; do not execute purely on a single datum — require corroboration from at least one independent source before acting.
• Bait the Poisoner by having a trusted Townsfolk loudly announce their night-action result early in the day; if the Poisoner is protecting a nomination target they can't afford to have exposed, they will often re-poison that same player, which a Monk can intercept or which leaves other roles free to run cleanly.
• Narrow the Poisoner identity by process of elimination: if your Investigator or Washerwoman has a result that is mechanically impossible given what you know, work backward — whoever was most incentivised to corrupt that specific role on that specific night is your suspect pool.
• Even with a Poisoner active, the good team wins by triangulating: find two independent confirming reads that cannot both be poisoned on the same night and build your execution case from those.

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