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Overview

The Bus Driver is one of the most chaotic yet influential roles in the game, capable of drastically turning the tide both for and against the town. The role has the ability to swap the positions of two players each night; night actions that target one of the swapped players will be redirected to the other one.

Strategies

• It is highly recommended to not drive if its unnecessary for a number of reasons including: accidentally killing crucial Town members, it can force the Bus Driver to have to claim if a Sheriff or Investigator investigates someone the Bus Driver has switched (which incidentally may not be revealed at all if their target was innocent), if the Bus Driver doesn't claim it can lead the Town to believe some people are guilty when they are in fact innocent and that some people are innocent when they are in fact guilty.

• A Bus Driver has the potential to cause Serial Killers, Mafioso and Godfathers (when killing without a Mafioso) to kill themselves by swapping them with their target. This becomes exponentially more valuable as the longer the game goes on since who the Mafia are more likely to target as well as who the Mafia actually are becomes more clear.
  • Swapping the Mafia's target with any member of the Mafia will kill that Mafia member.
  • Additionally a Bus Driver can also force an Arsonist to douse themselves by swapping the Arsonist with their target.

• It is highly recommended for a Bus Driver to list who was switched when in their Last Will in case they die unexpectedly
  • Having an easily readable and understandable format can be very important. For exsample:
    • N1: no one, N2: #7 and #1, N3: #15 and #14,

• Situational strategy: if it comes down to 2 or 1 Mafia (who can kill), a Doctor, and a Bus Driver, and the Doctor knows who the Bus Driver is and vice versa, then the Town is almost guaranteed a win.

Have the Doctor heal the Bus Driver and switch the Doctor with one of the Mafia roles. The Mafia can choose to shoot the Bus Driver (which he'll be healed from), shoot the Doctor (which will redirect onto one of them), or shoot no one (Mafia will win if there is two and they wait for stalemate, Town will win if there is one because they can vote to lynch).

• See: Three Days of Peace

• Situational strategy: if a Survivor role-claims (or proves it) you can start saving yourself (or others) by continually switching the person with the Survivor. The only con to this is if the the Survivor gets targeted for death, so use at your own risk.
  • See: WIFOM

Options

• Can target self - (Default: Off)

Notes

• Bus Drivers can become extremely chaotic when multiple Bus Drivers are in the game at once.

For example if there are 3 players (Player A, Player B and Player C) and 2 Bus Drivers and the first Bus Driver swaps players A and B whilst the second Bus Driver swaps players B and C:

• The original order of the players is A B C
• If Bus Driver one swaps first the new order is B A C followed by B C A after Bus Driver two swaps
• If Bus Driver two swaps first the new order is A C B followed by C A B after Bus Driver one swaps

Hence with multiple Bus Drivers it becomes impossible to predict which players were actually affected in the previous night if the Bus Drivers targets overlap because there are multiple possible outcomes. The game mechanic is whoever is higher up on the original game lobby list gets to swap they're targets first.

• Bus Drivers only affect the recipients of night actions. For example if a Sheriff investigates a player and the Sheriff is then swapped but the Sheriff's target is not, then the Sheriff will still investigate their target normally.

• If a Bus Driver swaps a killing role and their target with [Kill Messages|death description]s turned on a message exclaiming that the killing role was hit by a bus will be displayed.

• If the Bus Driver is controlled by a Witch, no one will be swapped. [1]