I actually like those. Mainly cause they display something they certainly don’t want to display.
Yes, when the person to be interrogated actually has a reason to be spoken to in the first place. Torturing some random character for the sake of it gives me some serious 
about the point and if that entire thing is not OOC’ly motivated for some weird reason. Like Zanmarea already said. The only instances of torture I have witnessed recently in roleplay was due to only hate IC anyways. Which still gives me about 99 questions as of why torture is required.
I don’t know, I just have witnessed too often that what some characters do is more motivated OOC as IC. Especially torture stuff. Same topic would be slaves. I remember when a certain high quality troll guild (they actually are, love their rp) offered people to roleplay slaves. The weirdos that used that for some OOC motivated stuff quickly came up and made some innocent intentions into some weird s-word.
Stuff like that is why I cringe each time IRL when some guilds practices torture. You never, NEVEEEEEER, know if this is just “yes, this is my character” or “yes, this is me ooc doing this”.
Maybe just avoid that kind of roleplay in the first place.
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Yes. There was a Worgen Rper in Duskwood not long ago who would just ‘sneeze’ at it because ‘It’s not lethal. Worgen are just allergic.’
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I’m positive if they took the time to play through worgen starter zone and most likely see their own character throwing fire at the hundreds of worgen chasing the player.
I’m also sure if they played through the Horde quest line in silverpine forest they would find that the forsaken apply Wolfsbane to their weapons. Why? Because it is near fatal to worgen.
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And everyone else. It’s a very poisonous plant.
Ahh, I was under the impression it was poison just for worgen. Thank you.
It does seem to be particularly harmful to Worgen; which is lifted straight from werewolf lore in general.
If it’s anything like the real-world wolfsbane however, that’s not something you want to handle casually.
I am extremely unfamiliar with the actual plant.
However, in RP a worgen can’t just shrug it off.
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It’s either ‘Worgen aren’t THAT affected by it’ or ‘Your character shouldn’t have it. it ruins my RP.’
…Then I look over to my Human who is, in fact, a Monster Hunter by trade who uses weaknesses and gadgets as opposed to enhancements.
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Pfffft. We all know Monster Hunters are actually using oversized weapons, cat companions, food buffs and iFrames to kill stuff.
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I saw your unedited version and generally I am wary for that type of roleplay.
I know it can be done well but I also have the image of pack roleplayers that aggressively do some erp with eachother on every turn. Or the other guy that -sort of- tried to pin down a female character to do things to her.
This sort of stuff attracts the weirdest kind of people. Not sure why either. Not surprised that some of them also tend to ignore established lore.
You know how it is… Power fantasy and so forth. Went over it a million times. “People don’t wanna lose because it hurts their ego” and so forth. Can imagine it came from that.
I will simply make them watch ten hours of ‘Nein nein nein’ or blast it from the speakers if they will not give me the information willingly.
In Beyond the Dark Portal, Turalyon compels an Orc to speak the truth through Holy magic. A bit powergamey for my taste, but definitely lore friendly.
Blast blood on the dance floor for 10 hours straight while chaining them up in your basement.
At this point I wonder if my character simply just pops a pill to be immune to pain for the next 90 hours. Will they just do nothing if their only means is to torture people physically? Would be curious about it.
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In the specific scene in Beyond the Dark Portal, the orcs kept dying to conventional torture exactly because orcs have a really high pain tolerance. They kept dying without uttering a single word, so Turalyon steps in and compels the orc by enslaving it with the Light. Kind of like with Xe’ra.
I looked it up. And imagined listening to it while chained up in a basement for ten hours straight. You are a cruel, cruel man Xeogs.
The only torture/ interrogation RP I’ve ever done I think was also a model of how it should be done.
The violence was minimal and sparingly described - just blows to the body - but the threat of serious harm was enough to create an atmosphere of over-whelming dread. Surgical tools and instruments of torture were laid out in full display of my character, but never actually used - because the implication of their potential use was enough to strike terror into her all the same. Her captor remained faceless and nameless, so there was no possibility of making a personal appeal - surprisingly hard to beg for clemency when you don’t have a name, and can’t try to relate or connect with your interrogator - and the worst wounds inflicted on my character were purely psychological.
The interrogator, for the most part, already had a pretty clear picture of the situation, and was seeking confirmation of knowledge, and gaps filled out, as opposed to going in blind. Simple rules were laid out - don’t lie, don’t omit any information, and don’t answer back - and then traps were laid to ensure that those rules would be broken, either through goading and harassment or cleverly worded questions. So, when those rules -were- broken, they were broken unintentionally, which left my character in a state of constant paranoia, not knowing what her captor knew or didn’t know, and as a result, after the first couple of punches, she was saying anything and everything she could, divulging every minute detail, in the hopes of avoiding another trap. Any personal information she gave up was then used to condemn her, allowing for a vicious and over-whelmingly damning judgement of her character.
When she finally walked away, I think she’d only sustained a half-dozen punches and a wound to her finger, but she was left a shivering wreck of her former self for weeks - the merciless indictment of her life and personality a worse brand than any iron could ever have inflicted. All in all, pretty harrowing RP - and in terms of violent content, at least, purely PG-13. I’m unsure how threat is calculated in terms of rating boards, although I know it’s a factor, but I wouldn’t have put it much further past, say, the Joker scenes in TDK.
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This is the principal reason the Sun Hawks never use it. a) It demeans both the tortured and the torturer, b) it is just not fun except for those who enjoy their atrocity kink, and c) it is a damned useless way of getting information. It is the -least- effective way of getting information from an enemy. It really is.
Implied menace is fine, but most trained soldiers would be kind of “Well, they’re going to kill me anyway, so I am as good as dead, so whatever they do to me is horrible, but the end result is the same: I’ll be dead. Might as well spit in their eye by giving them nothing.”
The most effective Interrogator during World War II, a German one, never laid a single hand on any of the prisoners he was interrogating. Hanns Scharff. He would try to become their friend, try to be the one bulwark between them and the dread Gestapo, go for walks and strolls in the grounds, take them out for tea with enemy soldiers (He primarily interrogated USAF pilots who had been shot down, so he took them to Luftwaffe air bases, where they were generally greeted as honourable enemies and feted, ) He got more information as a sole individual than the entirety of the Gestapo finger-nail pullers. There comes a point where people will just scream and confirm what their torturer wants to hear. But their torturer already -knew- that! If people went into Interrogation RP, as opposed to Torture RP, people might be more willing to engage in it, and it wouldn’t have the stigma it has for being people wanting their atrocity kink. You’d also probably get less people wanting to be taken prisoner to satisfy -their- masochistic kink, which just frankly is awkward for everyone concerned. Even with Forsaken, they are not -stupid-, I mean there is a reason that Sylvanas wanted Stillwater shut down, she’s smart, doesn’t have time for games, and mindless atrocity gets her nowhere.
Sadly, it is easier for people to go for the nasty metal tools and mutilation than -actual- interrogation.
I mean someone once admitted under Torture that they -were- the Devil. Not ‘a’ Devil, but -the- Devil. I mean they got burned alive anyway, which is ironic, as if I was the Inquisition, I would have thought that the worst way of destroying an entity that lives in eternal hellfire would be to…set fire to him…but hey, like I say, Atrocity kink.
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I will read what you wrote later but just an out of topic question:
are you al’quir or a terrorist for hallow’s end? I can’t tell.
That seems strangely borderline racist
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