Lovers

The Lover is a Mafia role. It is rare in IRC games, and relatively common in forum games. Alignment is usually town, but may vary.



Abilities
A Lover has the ability to freely communicate by night with their Lover partner (named by the Moderator at the start of the game). However, if one player dies the other will commit suicide immediately after.

Variations
Lovers are usually both town-aligned, but if one is a scum player and the other is town they are known as Conflicted or Star-Crossed Lovers. A Lover may not necessarily commit suicide on the death of their Lover - ProfessorLizzard as Jeremy Schmaltz in Murder on the Schmaltz Estate acquired a one-shot vig upon his lover Whoosh's death.

Strategy
Lovers will detract from the Town's total power as a whole, as the death of one player will lead to two, advantaging scum. Claiming lovers is a potentially WIFOM-y move, as it makes the player an immediate anti-town target. If this happens, outing both Lovers is usually not recommended.