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- End-of-day debrief with Kim
- The Missing Insects Case
- Replace lost boule
- Make truce with Cuno
- Find your other shoe
- Interview cafeteria manager
- Inspect victim's body
- Find money for rent and pay Garte
- Pay for damages
- Talk to Garte for Sylvie
- Talk to Joyce about the pale without Kim
- Who put the clothes in the trash?
- Style your paperwork
- Read your ledger and name the case
- Wash off the death smell
- Joyce's info on the lynching
- The victim's tattoos
- Send victim's body to processing
Dialogue
175- The ham-sandwich looks fresh and nutritious in you hand, begging to be eaten.
- The super fancy topping pie is waiting for you to dig in.
- You holding it together there, Meltdown Cop?
- Sounds like you're a potential Suicide Cop! With his finger on the eject button. Ready to…
- "What have I used it for..." He looks you dead in the eye: "I've used it for killing…
- "Three weeks ago, when the rich hag came in on her galley. Her honour guard came in tow."
- What strikes you about this gaunt man is not the stomach pain, or the cough, or the…
- "What?!" The old man's eyes fill with sudden, unexpected terror at the words: "But you…
- "He did everything he could," the lieutenant interrupts him. "We did everything we could…
- "It will take just a moment, officer..."
- "My style? What about it?"
- Was that -- could it be -- the Col Do Ma Ma Daqua?! No. It's probably just your…
- It's colder outside than you were expecting. You see the lieutenant, standing there, a…
- "Okay..." He eyes you sceptically. "I already did my best to inform you. I don't really…
- "Cuno's a pig now." He picks his tooth with a dirty fingernail.
- It's not Cuno. It's Cunoesse.
- "Cuno, I found your shack." (Point to the shack.)
- "No. Cuno doesn't give a fuck about bugs."