Half Light
- conversations
- 205
- Locations
- 14
Description
COOL FOR: HIGH-STRUNG INVESTIGATORS. SHOOT-NOW-ASK-QUESTIONS-LATER COPS. SURPRISE HATERS.
Half Light is your fight-or-flight response. It enables you to sense the way situations are about to turn. It injects palpable fear into your heart – fear that urges you to act before it’s too late to act ever again; fear that makes you frighten others. It is the aggression that lets you squeeze every last drop of information out of a witness.
At high levels, Half Light makes you ultra-attuned to the world. It is perpetual fear – of your own shadow, of someone else’s name or scent. You’ll be ready, always, to pounce and physically interrogate passers-by. At low levels, however, you’ll find your survival instinct is lacking. And your methods limp-wristed. Those who respect violence will not respect you.
Where
14Tasks
129- Call your station's lazareth
- Investigate Doomed Commercial Area
- End-of-day debrief with Kim
- The Missing Insects Case
- Find the traffic hooligan
- Replace lost boule
- Make truce with Cuno
- Interview cafeteria manager
- Inspect victim's body
- Report your badge missing
- Find money for rent and pay Garte
- Pay for damages
- Talk to Garte for Sylvie
- Talk to Joyce about the pale without Kim
- Track down your badge
- Who put the clothes in the trash?
- Style your paperwork
- Read your ledger and name the case
Dialogue
205- The ham-sandwich looks fresh and nutritious in you hand, begging to be eaten.
- "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…
- The smell... It's awful and familiar.
- There's really no point in manipulating anyone. You're chummy. Just go on and ask!
- "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.
- "I talked to Joyce. The merc you hanged -- his friends are coming for you."
- "And I'm sure you two had a hell of a time." He throws a couple of playful punches in…
- As you hold your ledger's clip under the headlamp, a shimmering iridescent pattern…
- Do you feel that?
- Ruination has come. The broken arches betray the once grand history of this building. It…