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- The old man stares at the reeds. His face shows no emotion -- only a faint tremor passes…
- Hissing and clicking, the arthropod extends its mandible-like antennae to greet you…
- Dolores Dei -- the innocence of humanism, internationalism, and the welfare state…
- Inside you see a set of steering levers, a radio-microphone, a pull-out toolbox, and the…
- "Just a second, officer..." She puts you on hold, the static crackling softly like a…
- "Oh, I know everything about you, Harry." He taps on the folder in front of him. "I have…
- "Of course, let us dispatch with the formalities, you call me Evrart, I call you Harry!"
- "Harry... " he says almost gently. "Honestly, I'm just relieved you didn't get a hernia…
- "Yes, yes, my best men are tracking it down. Some kids saw some other kids running away…
- "I'm always happy to educate and entertain you, my friend." He takes a sip from his…
- "Are you shitting me, Harry? Did you not really open the door and are now just telling me…
- "Guess what -- I've come upon something incriminating."
- "So I talked to Klaasje about the tape."
- (Whisper) "Kim, we did it."
- "There's an old catatonic lady in the old fish market, on the other side of the bay. She…
- "Do you have any clues on where Ruby went?"
- Bratan, now is the time!
- Stop. Just up ahead: danger.