Tell me more.
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Can’t do that I’m afraid. What happens in the garrison, as you know, stays in the garrison.
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I bought your garrison from your uncle.
I’ll do you one better! Puns!
Which garrison was it? You’re Horde and Lóras is Alliance, so I am a bit confused there.
What a man and his gimp do in the privacy of their own garrison is no one’s business but their own.
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With the power of nepotism, the faction divide can be anything I want it to be …
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Is this a leak of x-faction garrisons becoming a thing in 9.0?
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I’ve not heard it referred to as ‘the faction divide’ before
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I got another one.
“Hourglass”
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… it doesn’t even work the way RPers think it does anyway.
You can torture dude A to verify information you got from dude B or C.
You can torture dude A to get a confession false or true.
BUT
You can’t torture dude A for information, because you have no way of verifying what he says is true or not, without other dudes to torture.
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Torture this person for saying that.
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Do you mean that it’s almost like [most] people that do torture roleplay have absolutely zero reasoning to and other than “we are edgy/scarlet crusade because not creative enough to think of something better” there isn’t anything else to say to it?
Of course other than avoiding consequences if it’s an entire guild and someone spills the beans?
Torture roleplay is absolutely useless and pointless and anyone who uses it has no clue how to properly use it anyways. Each time I read “Interrogation” in roleplay I just know it’s some weird s-word instead of trying strategies from real interrogations.
Sleep deprivation, psychological tricks, deception, convincing… There are so many ways of interrogation. Could even (if the other person accepts that in roleplay) give them some truth potion because yes that exists and just ask them about whatever. Good cop / bad cop would also be a thing yet I have never ever seen that in roleplay. I wonder why. You got all this mind magic, mind potions and whatever you can think of yet the peoples creativity ends at “let me put this hot iron at his body uwu”.
Mages, seen at Jaina, can literally show you in a reflection of memories above your head what happened in a specific situation. Why not use stuff like this?
Get some creativity y’all.
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I agree with your point, but just to chime in on the flipside of this;
- Sometimes people are not very smart. When those people try to use a (perfectly good) shortcut in the form of a potion of truth, they (somehow) also tend to think that the battle has already been won, and starts asking -really terrible- questions that doesn’t really get them the information they’re after at all, and often ends up convincing them that the information is unobtainable — So, to anyone intending to use this; Don’t ask silly, open-ended questions unless your intention is to let the subject squirm out of it. Having to answer questions truthfully, and actually giving you the information your character is after are two very different things.
*Mostly giving this advice based on experience from prior (non-WoW related) roleplays where people would overtly rely on magic truth serums and such. As an interogation subject, I would want nothing more than to spill the beans once we’ve gotten to that point, but that is very difficult to do if the interogator is asking bad questions.
tl;dr: Ask good questions, for the sake of everyone involved.
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Pretty much everything you wrote and it was just an example of what can be used. Yet the most common method I see is just your basic torture.
Makes me sad because some good cop-bad cop interrogation would be pretty fun.
Imagine a roleplay where a guild does not use interrogation but instead becomes friends with whoever they want to figure out something from and THEN figure it out that way!
What a world that would be.
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Personally I’m an avid proponent of the ‘good cop, bad cop’ strategy.
For reals, though: Interrogation roleplay can be fun if it’s just kept to actual questioning and maybe even try to cut a deal with the captive/subject of interrogation. It can lead to some interesting scenarios.
One of my best experiences in roleplay came from my character starting to sympathize with a lawbreaker over the course of a few sessions, as they were conducting investigations on the side and it turned out said lawbreaker may have been wholly justified in their criminal activities.
They reached an accord and the criminal agreed to help them with something, since it turned out there had been some unforeseen consequences. Unfortunately that story thread hit a wall and ended up unresolved, but damn was it juicy. 
Torture roleplay, though? Not so much.
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I’ll add another trope to the list.
The ‘Me Stronk’ Growth Pot RPer who seems to barrel through any sort of resistance, poisons or magic.
Worgen who are impervious to Wolfsbane, Fire and other weaknesses.
Mages who ‘cannot be silenced’ and are immune to shields being dispelled.
The Cronic Curser who only talks big when they know they can get back up from their guildies.
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Everyone’s silenced with a solid fist 
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I actually love that weakness for a race. But do people who RP Worgen actually say they are impervious to all that?
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