Post by contributor on Aug 19, 2014 4:44:04 GMT -5
Just had the idea for a particularly wicked type of mission. It would fit well in the world and could be worked out lots of ways. I'm thinking of them as ones that would require a composite of skills like Intimidate, Negotiate and possibly Intelligence and/or Electronics (think of all the nasty little devices you could use!). Interrogation kits (physical or chemical varieties?) could be purchased that would help extract the needed information. It would be really cool to chain them together with missions like capture missions, but I don't know if that is possible.
There could also be a wide range a possible ways to complete it and outcomes. You could use a verbal interrogation (prioritize Negotiate and Intelligence) threaten it out of them (prioritize Intimidate) or resort to coercive physical techniques (i.e. torture)(prioritize Electronics and Strength) or even using drugs (Electronics and Intelligence). There could be unique outcomes to each possibility "Your extreme methods resulted in your subject losing consciousness/dying before you could get the needed information." "While waiting for the drugs to take effect local enforcers discover your location and interrupt the interrogation." etc. More extreme methods would also make rep loss more likely and extreme. You might also be able to adapt harsher methods if you initially fail with Talk or Threaten.
My initial thought was that these would be a sort of advanced Threaten mission (though it's expanded significantly) and would not be given out to knights with low rep/xp. They would be risky and require deep skills, but pay well. With Hunders in the wild now it would be cool to have more uses for the intimidate skill.
There could also be a wide range a possible ways to complete it and outcomes. You could use a verbal interrogation (prioritize Negotiate and Intelligence) threaten it out of them (prioritize Intimidate) or resort to coercive physical techniques (i.e. torture)(prioritize Electronics and Strength) or even using drugs (Electronics and Intelligence). There could be unique outcomes to each possibility "Your extreme methods resulted in your subject losing consciousness/dying before you could get the needed information." "While waiting for the drugs to take effect local enforcers discover your location and interrupt the interrogation." etc. More extreme methods would also make rep loss more likely and extreme. You might also be able to adapt harsher methods if you initially fail with Talk or Threaten.
My initial thought was that these would be a sort of advanced Threaten mission (though it's expanded significantly) and would not be given out to knights with low rep/xp. They would be risky and require deep skills, but pay well. With Hunders in the wild now it would be cool to have more uses for the intimidate skill.
