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Dupery Conman: true information can hide an evil role

The short answer

The Conman is normally an evil Underling that copies a role present in the case without the ordinary added lie condition. Useful, true information does not clear its actual identity, and its Demo description says arrest does not reveal that identity.

Category
Underling
Alignment
Normally Evil
Ability
Imitates an in-play role and remains unrevealed when arrested.

Detailed role examples use the Demo v0.8.2 text. Check the role and quirk descriptions in your installed build if they differ.

Truth and allegiance answer different questions

Conman’s snapshot description gives an in-play disguise and a hidden arrest reveal; it does not contain the “I lie” condition written on many other Underlings. The dated disguise rules allow truthful copies to execute the displayed function.

An announcement agreeing with independently known information can make that particular statement useful. It does not establish that the speaker is normally good. Conman is the reason to keep “statement appears reliable” separate from “resident cleared of evil alignment.”

OneaddressCategory:UnderlingNormal:EvilInformationcan be true
A truthful statement can coexist with evil alignment. These parallel fields do not establish the address’s actual identity by themselves.

A hidden reveal is not an acquittal

If an arrest leaves the identity unrevealed, do not conclude that the action found a good role merely because you still see a familiar display. Conman explicitly makes the reveal unhelpful in its Demo text.

Keep the before-arrest role display, announcement and reasoning in your notes. Then interpret the action using the current case’s rules and any other independent evidence, rather than inventing an identity from missing reveal information.

The Blood Hound self-counting question remains specific

Players have asked what happens when an evil truthful Conman displays Blood Hound. The discussion points out uncertainty about whether that role excludes itself, but it supplies no developer answer or verified behavior used by this guide.

Do not turn that uncertain interaction into a rule such as “it always points at another evil” or “it must always bark.” The Blood Hound page explains the supported row-and-column, tie and no-target rules while leaving this self-counting case open.

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