Tea Lady
“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, tea will cool you. If you are depressed, tea will cheer you. If you are excited, tea will calm you.”
Identity: Tea Lady
Alignment: Good
Category: Townsfolk
Ability: If both your alive neighbors are good, they can’t die.
Explanation: If both of your alive neighbors are currently good, those neighbors cannot die. The Demon cannot kill them, nor the Godfather, nor the Gossip. If they are executed (voted out during the day phase), they do not die. The only exception is the Assassin, who can kill someone protected from death.
Tips for playing as the Tea Lady: The Tea Lady is a powerful protector, but is vulnerable themselves. Deciding when and to whom you should reveal will decide the strategies that you implement for each game moving forward. Revealing right away can help you coordinate executions on your neighbors early (best case scenario: confirming two good players), but will expose you to the evil team. Staying quiet or playing cautiously can make it harder to confirm information, but you will survive longer and could trick the Demon into targeting your protected neighbors, wasting a precious kill. There’s no right or wrong way to play – judge for yourself which strategy will play out best for the game you are in!
Execute your neighbors! If both your neighbors are good, they cannot die. The quickest and easiest way to test this is to execute – if they don’t die, there’s a good chance that it was your ability that saved them. Avoid characters who have immunity to execution normally (e.g. Sailor, Fool) as they will muddy the waters. You should also be cautious of the Devil’s Advocate, who could mistakenly trick you into believing that an evil neighbor is actually good by timing their ability with your execution. Finally, be aware of the Pacifist – while they’re alive, the storyteller may choose to spare any good executees, which is indistinguishable from your ability activating.
Tips for bluffing as the Tea Lady: If both your living neighbors are good, do your best to get one or both of them executed. If the good team believes that you are the Tea Lady, they will usually be keen to execute your neighbors to gain information on their alignment. Keep doing this, if you can, until you run out of good living neighbors.
