Golden Caramel Freedom Fries
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6/27/2014
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Has it been established how Summerset personnel (or that guy at the palace) are able to determine, on sight, who is without their soul (and thus deter their approach if necessary)? Text seems to indicate that, yes, the person beside you could be short a soul without you knowing, but also that people are routinely treated differently because they haven't got theirs. Soulless students getting expelled? Could be a scenario where they take action if the situation comes to light. But to bar people from participating in end-of-term festivities and haul them off premises? Doesn't sound like paperwork's involved. Is there some secret explained in the Soul Trade storyline, or is there some clue I missed?
I had a thought that maybe someone's gotten lists of names from the Brass Embassy, but that sounds highly implausible and not feasible at all. Should it be assumed that these bigots (for lack of a better word) are simply uncannily accurate when eyeballing persons for symptoms of soullessness? Or at least above fifty percent accurate, and we just never get to see someone's righteous indignation at being subject to their disapproving scrutiny.
Not that I'm affected. None of my characters are currently lacking that bit of themselves.
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Zack Oak
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6/27/2014
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Also a more horrible, disturbing possibility: chances are good they *don't* know who has or has not, and just tend to group people following a set list of stereotypes as "probably soulless."
Other horrible, disturbing possibility: Devils straight-up tell them for a laugh. Given the player is paid attention to a lot, knowledge of this seems likely to spread.
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Diptych
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6/27/2014
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Two ideas: either they base it on rumours and gossip, or someone high up in the College has an infernal contact who passes on such information for reasons of their own. Or both!
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Mordaine Barimen
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7/16/2014
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It's Victorian England, where mental health disciplines are in their infancy, so there are likely many false diagnoses (both false positive and false negative) and horribly inept cures everywhere. I would not be shocked if somewhere there is a particularly subtle devil masquerading as a therapist, for that matter.
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Rupho Schartenhauer
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6/30/2014
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
... or someone high up in the College has an infernal contact...
Well, we know that for a fact!
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Gillsing
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6/27/2014
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I've gotten the impression that soulless people are a bit listless and detached, so while it might be difficult to immediately determine the status of a stranger's soul, it might be equally difficult to hide such a thing over an entire term at the University. And once they know, they'd surely remember who's got their soul and who doesn't. That's the most feasible explanation I can come up with.
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