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- "Titus Hardie gave me a recording. On it, the deceased says he intends to rape someone."
- "What was what?"
- You made the right call there. It feels good. Pure.
- The porta-reel is just what you needed -- the reels attach to the apparatus with a…
- "Okay." She puts her coffee mug on the table.
- Wait, stop -- that man, bloated beyond all recognition, was 42?
- A warm column of air rises around you, encircling the building you stand on. You feel its…
- Is there something here that would indicate a sniper used this place as a nest for taking…
- You see the lieutenant's familiar shape in the orange jacket. It turns double -- then…
- You see the shape of a prepubescent boy in FALN pants. It turns double -- then triple…
- The graffito has been painted over the traces of the fight that took place here. It…
- The scruffy-haired little boy kicks a stone while the other watches him do it.
- The chain trails off into the ocean, connecting the island to the supply depot on the…
- An old door, worn by elements, guards the depot. The wind has blown a sand dune in front…
- ICM? This feels familiar somehow...
- This old cylindrical generator waits with its fuel cap open. Makeshift electrical wiring…
- Softcovers, serialized fantastique and detective stories, 'Animal Adventures', a magazine…
- This book is written by an angry humanitarian sciences doctor from the La Cherte…