Pain Threshold
- conversations
- 120
- Locations
- 13
Description
COOL FOR: UNSTOPPABLE FIGHTERS. GUYS WHO WON’T DIE. MASOCHISTS.
Pain Threshold ignores damage so you can push on, bloodied and crawling, to the bitterest end. It enables you to negate damage you would otherwise take. Even mental pain – heartache and loneliness. In fact, these things can become a thrill you seek out and perversely revel in.
At high levels, Pain Threshold turns in on itself in seriously unhealthy way, with full-on self-destructive behaviour. With a low Pain Threshold, however, you will suffer too easily. Even a slap from a teenager will make you whine and complain.
Where
13Tasks
104- Add even more beauty to the wall
- Interview the Wild Pines rep
- Interview the Union boss
- Perform field autopsy
- 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
- 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
- Find the bullet before you get fooled
- Ask the pétanque player about may bells
- Ask René about the photo
Dialogue
120- The ageing alcoholic is still there, breathing... The air in the room is stale.
- "The legend returns. You know the deal, legend-man. Smokes are smokey, pilsner... gets…
- The woman stands, slumped. She looks catatonic under her mountain of RCM paraphernalia…
- A metal payphone under a yellow plastic dome. There's a bitter, caustic taste on the tip…
- "Oh hey, wey. There's coffee in the back... Oh, wait, I meant the Mother's love."
- "Yes, what is it?" She doesn't look up from the keyboard.
- A weathered brown door. The number reads '20'.
- The woman gazes steadily at the waves. A sudden gust picks up her dark hair and lets it…
- The display rack is brimming with worn paperbacks featuring an extremely muscular…
- The shelves are littered with romantic tales from across time and space.
- "Oh... sorry, officer... What do you want?"
- "Cuno cares now."
- "Mr. Du Bois! Every worker for himself, right?" He smiles a wide sly smile. "What can I…
- It's the ledger you found in the trash: a cabbage of papers hanging from the board…
- Your arm reaches out and your eyes close, as if by their own volition. It's dark all…
- Your flashlight slides over an old green chalkboard covered in scribbles, sketches and…
- "The performative experience has ended. Good -- what can I help you with?"
- She reaches for the photo; takes it, then holds it in her hand...