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- "These men, they didn't do it!"
- All right, here we go -- this is an illegal tribunal. Their employer would never sanction…
- Dangerous! Ask about him first. You don't want personal facts about his dead friend…
- "Who the fuck is that?"
- "Hello again, sweetie." Her grey eyes shine above the rims of her glasses.
- "Officer, the flashlight please."
- It's the 700 reál modified street light you traded for shares.
- You see rows of toy soldiers guarding the rest of the trinkets displayed on the table…
- All the old boomboxes are there, blinking and waiting to whirl. All but one: yours.
- "Reckless traffic hooliganism."
- What a shirt. All other shirts pale in comparison to the muscular man with antlers and…
- You were right, bröther. (There's a sudden tightness in your lower intestine.)
- "René... I need to go back in time. Can you help me?"
- "I'm trying to turn back time. Can you help me, bröther?"
- "I need to find a way to turn back time."
- "Gary, do you know how to turn back time?"
- "Finally. I thought I have to come looking for you. What took you so long?"
- "What happened to you?" the lieutenant asks as he leans in, eyes mapping your frozen face.