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- Get the whole story from Titus
- Extract a confession from the Deserter
- Take stuffed bird to Garte
- Offer figurines to Dolores Dei
- Find the murder weapon
- Dead body on the boardwalk
- The Return
- Ask gardener about gardening in March
- Interrogate the vigilantes
- The doomed hostel?
- Inform Dicemaker about the Source of Doom
- Inform Plaisance about the Source of Doom
- Open the blast door
- Find Idiot Doom Spiral's jacket
- Find one armour piece
- Find all armour pieces
- Inspect the phasmid
- Question Klaasje about the tape
Dialogue
248- "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?"
- Here we are again, my broken bird. The waves are coming... carrying you away... but you…
- Thoughts, baby. A million little lights in the dark. You're one fine instrument, brother…
- Like a deftly cast fishing net, sleep pulls you out of the world and into its dark shore…
- It's colder outside than you were expecting. You see the lieutenant, standing there, a…
- There's really no point in manipulating anyone. You're chummy. Just go on and ask!
- "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."
- "Fucking right, pig. Cuno's filling bath tubs with that shit. Cuno's a kingpin."