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Old 09-11-2018, 05:18 PM   #5
Toptomcat
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Default Re: Brainstorm: False Empathy plots

The Queen seems distracted by...your face? She’s making that- you know, that universal ‘you’ve got a smudge right there’ sign known to moms everywhere.

The Queen seems extremely tense, as if expecting deadly violence at any moment- and her eyes are tracking something coming up right behind you.

The Queen is- stoned out of her mind? Blind? For whatever reason, her gaze seems very unfocused.

The Queen keeps subtly wincing every time someone’s voice gets too loud: maybe she’s hung over? Migraine? Better speak as quietly as possible, even if it makes you tough to hear in this huge audience chamber.

The Queen is deeply interested in [PC’S favorite subject], and wants you to steer the conversation in that direction.

The Queen seemed fine at first, but now she seems to be paler, subtly struggling to breathe and gradually losing the thread of the conversation. She’s been poisoned!

The Queen recognized you the moment you stepped in the room: her expression is venomous. She hates your guts, and you don’t know why.

(If the ability is magical, psychic, or otherwise overtly supernatural) You are getting absolutely no reading off of the Queen. Not like a person with well-concealed emotions, or one feeling nothing in particular- like a statue or a projection or something.

(At a sufficiently suggestive or suspicious juncture of the conversation) The queen wants you to drop this subject. Now.

Last edited by Toptomcat; 09-11-2018 at 05:36 PM.
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