Drama
- conversations
- 161
- Locations
- 11
Description
COOL FOR: UNDERCOVER COPS. THESPIANS OF THE STAGE. PSYCHOPATHS.
Drama urges you to treat the world as a stage – and on it, to perform. It enables you to lie, to concoct the most elaborate and wonderful stories; to take on ingenious personas and perform acts of stagecraft in an entertaining amalgam of fourberie and deceit! As well, it enables you to see through would-be actors and their false antics. If they lie, you’ll know. Immediately.
At high levels, Drama may render you an insufferable thespian – one prone to hysterics and bouts of paranoia; for to know the world is a stage is to know that Truth is a Vanity. However, with low Drama you cannot lie – or discern when others lie. And a cop who can't do either is a cop who's soon going to be lying six feet under.
Where
11Tasks
117- The pissing competition
- Ask the pétanque player about may bells
- Ask René about the photo
- Find the armoured gloves
- Get yourself organised
- Take on la responsibilité
- Become a man of plenty
- Talk to Garte, Lieutenant Love
- Where is the rest of the armour?
- Inspect the traps
- What happened to the previous forewoman?
- Find the Insulindian Phasmid
- Getting the body down
- The Jam Mystery
- Call your station's lazareth
- Investigate Doomed Commercial Area
- End-of-day debrief with Kim
- The Missing Insects Case
Dialogue
161- "We just need to get him back to the mainland." A crooked little smile. "We actually did…
- "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..."
- Here we are again, my broken bird. The waves are coming... carrying you away... but you…
- "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.
- "Fucking right, pig. Cuno's filling bath tubs with that shit. Cuno's a kingpin."
- "I found someone who saw the hanging. A witness."
- Establish authority in their eyes.
- "And I'm sure you two had a hell of a time." He throws a couple of playful punches in…
- The woman is tying a complicated nautical knot around the post.
- Good. Step one complete. Now, let the lieutenant feast his eyes on the fruit of the tree…
- The lieutenant's door is closed.