Rhetoric
- conversations
- 248
- Locations
- 15
Description
COOL FOR: IDEOLOGUES. CONVERSATIONALISTS. WOULD-BE-POLITICIANS.
Rhetoric urges you to debate, make intellectual discourse, nitpick – and win. It enables you to break down arguments and hear what people are really saying. You’ll spot fallacies as soon as they’re used -- what exactly did the waiter leave out of their testimony? What was the dancer trying to divert you from? Was that double entendre intended, or did you just get an accidental lead?
At high levels, Rhetoric will make you an impressive political beast – one whose beliefs are impenetrable. Which is to say, one whose mind will not change; one who will calcify. With low Rhetoric, though, you’ll have a hard time of shooting down any argument. Nailing people to their testimonies will be neigh impossible.
Where
15Tasks
125- 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
- Find working class husband
- The Jam Mystery
- Call your station's lazareth
- Investigate Doomed Commercial Area
- End-of-day debrief with Kim
Dialogue
248- Yes, of course. Now we're on the right track...
- Wait... No, something about this bunch doesn't smell right...
- "Hello, sweetie. How are you?" She sounds tired.
- A sturdy metal door guards the southwest entrance to the apartment building. It's locked.
- "Give me a moment..." The cleaning lady still seems to be having difficulty breathing.
- "Hi again, gendarme."
- "What now?" She crosses her arms impatiently.
- That isn't just a five-pointed star -- it's an inverted white pentagram cradled in a…
- "Someone tried to exorcise the curse using technology?"
- The note is written with a blue pencil on a piece of lined office paper. The kitchen…
- "Hello again, officers. Have you come to admire my mural?"
- A row of mugs sits on the shelf. Each one depicts a human figure: a dark-skinned woman…
- Suddenly, your entire body is paralysed. Aggressive white noise fills your skull -- a…
- You feel something -- like a swarm of hornets buzzing under your scalp. A strange…
- The once-bright mural towers above you, saying "FELD ELECTRICAL R&D."
- The rusty ladder leads to the rooftop.
- A moustachioed and mutton-chopped man, amateurishly depicted, gazes at you with sad eyes…
- "Okay, let's take a... step back." (Conclude.)