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- The young woman raises a cigarette to her lips.
- A bespectacled man in an orange bomber jacket has folded up his newspaper and is now…
- A man in his late twenties with a thin, unimpressive beard notices you approaching. He…
- The corpse looks at you with bulging white eyes. The face around them does not look…
- "Look." She greets you, taking a drag. "It's dark outside, the dogs are barking and I'm…
- "Our tenant, the policeman. I hope the waves don't keep you up at night. What can I help…
- "Oh, hello, officer." He covers his mouth, struggling to suppress a coughing fit.
- "Hard-cop." She nods to you with respect and turns off her recording device.
- "Is there something I can do for you?"
- "I'd appreciate it if you didn't force us into situations where I may have to shoot…
- The trash container stands in the spring snow.
- All around you, rain falls on the great city of Revachol. Rain drips from the eaves and…
- "What do you see?" The lieutenant cleans his glasses, squinting at the shapes in the mud.
- The dented yellow mailbox greets you with it's graffito, bullet holes and an RCM sticker.
- Paintbrush -- check, heavy fuel oil -- check... Now the only thing left to do is paint…
- The rotting man lies on his side with his eyes looking straight through you. The belt is…
- It's only a red chair. Just a red chair in an empty shack -- with what looked like a…
- "I don't want to. But you discovered a new species. And solved the murder..." He shrugs.