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Persuaded News Reporter

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Core Agent Social

This role is supposed to be unique, depending on the ruleset.

“Truth is nothing but subjective, it’s not about what happens, it’s about what appears to happen, Persuaded News Reporter.”

Win Condition: Eliminate ALL hostile units, or at least 1 hostile unit per day/night phase.

Day:

Unskilled Attack - Select a node, green or white. Leaves a log.

Impersonate (1 charge) - Permanently rename your operative to whatever name you want. If you name it the same as another operative, targeting that operative will randomly target either operative of the same name.

Upload Fake Intel (1 charge) - Select a white or green node and upload intel that is downloadable by others. You can write what intel you want to leave. Leaves a log.

Rollback (1 charge) - Select a green node, return the node to a white node, un-hacking the node. Connections to nodes ahead fail. Leaves a set of random connection logs, one of which is you.

Derail News (1 charge) - For the next night, any operatives arrested and murdered will have their roles hidden and logs wiped, including through voting.

All in (1 charge) - Turn into a Field Agent. Can only be done if there are no Agent on the Field roles.

Night:

Get Scoop (N1 -> N3 cooldown) - Select a target operative. Visit and occupy them, talking about the hack. Do not go through frames or cover. Find if the target is not neutral.

Ambush (N1 -> N4 cooldown) - Select a target operative. Visit them, if they are arrested or killed during the remainder of the game, their role will be hidden.

Perform Fake Headline (N1 -> N4 cooldown, 2 charges) - Select a target operative. Visit and occupy them, performing a fake headline on them. If they are arrested or murdered tonight, they will be framed as the role you select.

Passives:

Not Agent - Your true faction is Neutral.

In The Business - You will learn if any Journalists have spawned, including Sympathetic Reporter, Journalist, Shamed Journalist, and Paragon Journalist.

Fake News Script - All roles hidden, framed, and logs wiped will be revealed and recovered upon your arrest/death.