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Overview

The Bus Driver can be both massively helpful or destructive for the Town depending upon the skill and luck of the player. The Bus Driver 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 a good idea to not bus drive people randomly. You are more likely to cause harm than good, such as causing confusing for the investigative Town roles.

• A Bus Driver can cause killing roles to kill themselves if they are vulnerable by swapping them with their target.
  • Additionally a Bus Driver can also force an Arsonist to douse themselves by swapping the Arsonist with their target.

• You should always list who you swapped, and when, in your last will.
  • Having it be in an easy-to-understand format such as this is important:
    • N1: no one, N2: #7 and #1, N3: #15 and #14,

• Situational strategy: if a Survivor role-claims (or proves it), they are unlikely to be targeted at night by killing roles, so you can swap the Survivor with the target you want to keep safe.
  • This also works well with an Executioner. If the Executioner has publicly revealed himself, no one has any reason to try to kill him at night, especially if his options are set to be invulnerable at night.

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 their 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 death descriptions 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]