12-01-2012, 07:58 PM | #11 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
I kind of knew that, but thought there were songs that at least kind of mimicked resonances.
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12-01-2012, 08:08 PM | #12 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
There's also the matter of "what counts as an answer?" Does it have to be verbal, or does reading someone's body language count? (Admittedly, the notion of "body language" strikes me as something with which most angels would be unfamiliar.
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12-01-2012, 08:11 PM | #13 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
Saying, "yes" while shaking your head no? Saying it sarcastically? Sign language?
Crossing one's fingers behind one's back? Deceptive but technically true statements? (The word, "is" is present tense...)
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12-01-2012, 10:31 PM | #14 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
The resonance determines if you think you're lying. On better rolls, it can also tell them what you think the truth is, whether you actually know the truth, why you're lying, and on a really good roll what the truth is regardless of whether you know it, although there are limitations on that last one.
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12-02-2012, 02:49 AM | #15 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
Lying with all its vagueness, or just deception?
Big difference. "Do you have any sexual perversions?" "No, I do not." (Because I don't consider "loving" park benches perverse. They just don't understand our love.)
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12-02-2012, 08:12 AM | #16 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
Remember the resonance check digit tables... AND remember any penalties to check digit (or target number) that might occur with non-verbal communication. (I recall there's something useful about Seraphim in the APG, for this sort of thing?)
The thing about check digits is, of course, that sometimes all you get is "the person is saying X to get your buddy to stop hitting him."
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12-02-2012, 10:27 AM | #17 |
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Re: Ethics and setting oddities
At least with a Seraphic investigator, when you tell them "I don't know the answers you're looking for!" they'll stop hitting you. (Assuming that was the truth, anyway).
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There are certainly ways that torture can be used to create a certain mindset in a victim, where you give him a lesson in what happens when you discover him failing to tell you the truth, for example. It's very unlikely to be effective in a quick-and-dirty "tell me the secret codes before the bomb goes off" situation, which is generally what RPGs are going to cover. Note that there's a definite difference in the limited effectiveness of damaging a celestial's "meat suit" and the potential effectiveness of inflicting such catastrophic damage on a normal human that it would take a miracle to survive... and providing that miracle, even when death would be a mercy. |
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12-03-2012, 09:33 PM | #20 | |
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