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- Add even more beauty to the wall
- Open trash container
- Interview the Wild Pines rep
- Interview the Union boss
- Perform field autopsy
- Find out who is in the Union box
- Speak to the assault victim
- Ask about Ruby in the village
- Return to the Whirling-in-Rags
- Go to the island
- 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
Dialogue
248- "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…
- This is the flag of Revachol the Suzerainty.
- As you hold your ledger's clip under the headlamp, a shimmering iridescent pattern…
- The woman is tying a complicated nautical knot around the post.
- Be still, my beating heart... it's amphetamine, sweet amphetamine!
- That page-three girl... she must be the most beautiful page-three girl ever printed. And…
- Wait -- take a longer look at yourself and how you're reflected in that slick chemical…
- That's it. You got it.
- Good. Step one complete. Now, let the lieutenant feast his eyes on the fruit of the tree…
- The machine is dead and silent. It needs serious maintenance before anyone can play again.
- "Listen, Kim... we need to talk about the glasses."