Composure
- conversations
- 175
- Locations
- 10
Description
COOL FOR: CARD PLAYERS. MILITARY FETISHISTS. COOL PEOPLE.
Composure wants you to not crack: or, at least, it wants you to not crack in front of other people. It enables you to put up a strong front. It keeps your emotions hidden from the world and helps you to read the body language of others – to sense the cracks in their own composure. As well, it keeps you looking good while you do it. You’ll rock that disco outfit a lot more if you don’t slouch.
At high levels, Composure makes you tuck your gut in and maintain a stern expression. Even lying in bed, late night when no one else can see you, you’ll have to keep it up. You’ll never be able to stop. With low Composure, though, you’ll always be the first to crack. Every cop’s got a point when all that fear and rage comes spilling out – and the ones who unleash it don’t stay on the force much longer. Perhaps worse still, you won’t even make the ranks of Fashion Police.
Where
10Tasks
122- Add even more beauty to the wall
- Open trash container
- Interview the Wild Pines rep
- Interview the Union boss
- Perform field autopsy
- Find out who is in the Union box
- Speak to the assault victim
- Ask about Ruby in the village
- Return to the Whirling-in-Rags
- Run the number on the victim's armour
- Find your paperwork
- Ask 'Scab Leader' about tattoos
- Spirit is eternal
- Close the water lock on Wednesday
- Ask Kim to tell you about the case
- Inspect the window in Klaasje's bedroom
- Prove your authority to Titus Hardie
- Look for Ruby on the coast
Dialogue
175- "They're good apes, actually."
- "I've got nothing to say to you. Why are you wasting your time?" She crosses her arms.
- "The coppernado is back..." He smirks. "What do you want?"
- "Yes," she looks at you. "What is it?"
- "Again?! I can't believe this shit..." He shakes his head, looking like he really is…
- Soft, light brown eyes look back at you, directly into the space behind your eye sockets…
- "Titus Hardie gave me a recording. On it, the deceased says he intends to rape someone."
- "Okay." She puts her coffee mug on the table.
- As you look back you think: So love did do him in after all.
- You see the shape of a prepubescent boy in FALN pants. It turns double -- then triple…
- The scruffy-haired little boy kicks a stone while the other watches him do it.
- There's a rain-soaked mattress on a concrete slab, only half-covered by the crumbling…
- The old man stares at the reeds. His face shows no emotion -- only a faint tremor passes…
- Hissing and clicking, the arthropod extends its mandible-like antennae to greet you…
- Dolores Dei -- the innocence of humanism, internationalism, and the welfare state…
- There they both are -- two identical shoes, both copiously green and indiscriminately…
- Inside you see a set of steering levers, a radio-microphone, a pull-out toolbox, and the…
- "I believe they heard something," he says, glancing back at the twins. "And given the…