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Suggestion For [DetectiveName] Replacement Tag
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Wilfred Bukowski
Wilfred Bukowski
Sleuth About Town

Jun-23-2013 03:41

In some scripts or intros the detectives are involved in somewhat closer or even personal relationships with the characters. Wether the client is an old college mate, the chief inspector is a friend or one of the suspects becomes more intimate, their only option is to use the appellative 'Detective'. This is off putting considering that a friend would call you by your name and not your title.

Having said that, I realise that this allows for a neutral approach in reading intros and scrips as some of the detectives' names are more unconventional. However, finding your name in the newspaper, in a telegram, on the back of an envelope, called out in a telephone conversation with a friend, written in blood on a brick wall or appearing in scripted twists, this would provide for a deeper immersion in the text.

Could this be achieved with a simple [DetectiveName] replacement tag? Or, indeed, [DetectiveFirstName] and [DetectiveLastName] would provide an even more complex choice of writing if it forenames and surnames would be implemented in the game.

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jun-28-2013 18:23

erm in Scripted Mysteries there IS a [DetectiveName] replacement tag. You can see that in the Intro of the Sleuthetania SM (I only remember that one coz I leant a hand).

Doesn't work in Intro's. No Idea why. So I can't imagine if Ben ever got round to it it would be difficult to do. But he'd have to get round to it first :)

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