In my last post I talked about language used in the actions available in your blades hack.
I then talked about a bunch of alternative social words that could be used instead of command, consort, sway.
I came up with the trio Clarify, Obfuscate and Imply. I was so horrified with what that implied, that that I started to write a Hack.
It is about awful people in a bureaucracy (maybe in Akoros).
Attributes and Actions:
Power: Impose, Crush, Dismiss
Guile: Slink, Obscure, Imply
Insight: Predict, Reveal, Refine
Very rough at this point these probably wouldn’t be the final actions that I would settle on; and I have no idea what setting I would put it in. I don’t know if I even want to do anything more with it than this, but it was a fun exercise.
The words are very evocative.
You could add a concept we discussed earlier : more positions, representing social positions (Defensive, Accusative, Bored, Shroud…)
This sounds like the actions are more granular than BitD, in keeping with a tighter focus on verbal sparring and layers of deception. That’s pretty cool.
I tried to have words that would do specific things socially but that could be more broadly interpreted for other actions. This would definitely be a much more focused game than blades.