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I wanna award Spud for that best reaction image in the last panel. It is perfection. XD
Loving the expressions you chose. Also, I was just thinking that same thing you wrote in your author's note. They have to create a pre-existing bond out of thin air, while playing it out. Should be fun reading.
I am consistently finding reactions and expressions that I had not known about in these comics. One of the nicer surprises for reading along.
Hehe, this reminds me of something I ran a couple months back. We are playing on Discord voice chat, and the PCs got captured by the undead.
One of the PCs was dragged off to be questioned alone. I did this in a separate voice chat, leaving the other PCs to RP how they wished during this time. His interrogator just started asking him basic questions: his name, where he was from, who his companions were, starting to edge towards actual intelligence by the end. The PC mostly cooperated, figuring it would create more opportunities and that the information he was giving wasn't that actionable.
Then the interrogator turns outside the room and goes, "Did you get all of that?" and a Deathlock came out of the shadows and used Disguise Self to look like the PC after having studied him for several minutes. I then brought him *back* to the group playing the Deathlock, to confirm anything he said and to hopefully get more information. It was a great scene.
One of the PCs was dragged off to be questioned alone. I did this in a separate voice chat, leaving the other PCs to RP how they wished during this time. His interrogator just started asking him basic questions: his name, where he was from, who his companions were, starting to edge towards actual intelligence by the end. The PC mostly cooperated, figuring it would create more opportunities and that the information he was giving wasn't that actionable.
Then the interrogator turns outside the room and goes, "Did you get all of that?" and a Deathlock came out of the shadows and used Disguise Self to look like the PC after having studied him for several minutes. I then brought him *back* to the group playing the Deathlock, to confirm anything he said and to hopefully get more information. It was a great scene.
And this is why my sorcerer in one campaign, who’s very paranoid, has plans for the identity confirmation of the entire party as well as two or three important NPCs. It’s a simple 7-step process that she expects to happen without any prompting from her, so it’s really more 8 steps, but it includes “something only you would know” and “when did we first do *something they never did*”, alongside “who am I”, “do *something only they could do*”, “have you seen *one of the sorcerer’s secret identities that the party knows of* in the last few minutes”, and “when did I tell you *something she said two or three days ago*”. She won’t give any hints or anything so people are very confused and slip up.
Really, there are two good options here.
One, having a character that can't remember a complicated speech, and being prompted to give it -- the imposter has too high of an opinion, gives the speech properly, and outs themselves. (See Naruto).
The other? The people are tossing out numbers. The trick? Don't say a number that has already been said, and the new imposter doesn't know the history or the rule.
One, having a character that can't remember a complicated speech, and being prompted to give it -- the imposter has too high of an opinion, gives the speech properly, and outs themselves. (See Naruto).
The other? The people are tossing out numbers. The trick? Don't say a number that has already been said, and the new imposter doesn't know the history or the rule.
There’s a bit of that too — she gives anything in *asterisks* just out of the blue and they’re expected to respond with all of the answers, so the person also has to know the protocol.
Does that face have a name? That face should have a name. It's hilarious.
I'm kind of reminded of a Shadowrun game I've been playing off and on for a few years. A couple of adventures ago, we discovered that the BBEG is apparently a clone of my character.
The following adventure, we discovered that the BBEG might not be the one who's a clone.
The following adventure, we discovered that the BBEG might not be the one who's a clone.
Well, there's always the Mar-Vell technique:
Nick: Prove you're not a Skrull.
[Carol fires photon blast right past Nick's ear, after which Nick gives a look that says “what does that prove?!]
Carol: That's a photon blast.
Nick: And!?
Carol: A Skrull cannot do that.
Nick: Prove you're not a Skrull.
[Carol fires photon blast right past Nick's ear, after which Nick gives a look that says “what does that prove?!]
Carol: That's a photon blast.
Nick: And!?
Carol: A Skrull cannot do that.
My favorite comes from the first X-Men movie in the kinda-recent by not really series:
Cyclops: "How do we know it's you?"
Wolverine: "You're a **ck."
Cyclops: *is convinced*
Cyclops: "How do we know it's you?"
Wolverine: "You're a **ck."
Cyclops: *is convinced*
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