A Declaration Deploring Disestablished, Drunken Detectives

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I'm fairly new around here, at least compared to most of the other folks, so my idea of Goonstation tone hasn't really been cemented yet, and I keep getting mixed messages on whether or not the Detective is actually expected to be a detective, or if it's lime the Janitor in that no one expects them to actually do their job because it's redundant/largely useless and instead expects them to run around doing whatever inane shenanigans they think of.

Play detective however you want. Most people expect the detective to either drink all the booze and be incoherent and useless for the entire round, or don the thermals and a full backpack of ammo and spend the entire round playing super-vigilante and murdering anyone who looks even slightly suspicious. In other words, expectations for the detective are rock-bottom already, so just play however you like and you won't have to worry about disappointing people.