The idea is that there are four categories: admire, joke, coerce, and jaunt. You find out for each person which they like best, and which they like least, and talk to them in the correct manner in order to raise how highly they think of you. Easy enough, right?
Well it is, until you get to thinking about it. The truth is, there are a heck of a lot of people in the Cyrodil world who think that coerce is the best thing since sliced bread. I have to say, from this vanilla zombie girl's standpoint, there is something creepy about a conversation that strikes a huge grin when you make them say "I submit, I have no choice."
Creepier still is the fact that I know there are people in the real world who want to be talked to in the same way. And it makes them smile.
Let's just put it plainly. I'm not that girl. A good joke, maybe a gentle admiration, even a good fake story... and of those are going to be preferable in my mind to a threat.
But then again, people never cease to amaze me. And Oblivion was good enough to not leave this wonderful slice of life out of the game. Makes me shudder.
Braaaiiiinnnnnn food: I play RPGs by talking my way out of problems as much as possible. What skills do you focus on?
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