#the skills de

[skills-bracket-2]

1. “Hold yourself together. Keep your Morale up.

Cool for: Sane People, Well-Adjusted Cops, The Non-Suicidal

Volition urges you to be a good guy – to others and to yourself. It enables you to resist temptation: be it in a bottle, between a pair of legs, or at the end of an iron barrel which promises oblivion. Volition gives you the will to finish the investigation, improving your Morale – one of the two health pools in the game.”

2. “Hunches and gut feelings. Dreams in waking life.

Cool for: Dreamers, Para-Natural Investigators, Mental Creators

Inland Empire is the unfiltered wellspring of imagination, emotion, and foreboding. It enables you to grope your way through invisible dimensions of reality, gaining insight into that which sight can’t see. What’s really going on? What do these enigmatic riddles mean for the world-fate?”

[furies-inthe-mirror]

DRAMA - [Challenging: Failure]

[u3pxx]

it's a new year, harrier.

[zionmantis]

Hoooo boy. It's finally finished. This only took me eight months to paint. T.T

Disco Elysium is soooo good y'all; I feel like I'll never give it the credit it deserves.

I'm not even sure it's finished, but I'm just going to set this down now, though.

Clip studio paint and a ton of downloaded watercolor and acrylic brushes.

Let me know if you want me to pull out any closeups or anything

[goodbirbb]

espirit de corps

[fkndokt]

[mercuriobebop]

YOU - Why are you doing this? I just want to sleep. I can almost see the dark. ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - We're trying to help you. All these processes -- these tortures, voices and tremors -- are all just distractions. Flares and countermeasures. To keep you from the last dream. The worst of them all. YOU - The… last dream? LIMBIC SYSTEM - The last dream will be total annihilation. Cinders peeling off the fuselage. We won't be there to help you anymore, Harry. We will be dormant. You will be naked and alone.

Skills version and what came to mind after reading "A Spilled Kaleidoscope" fanfic, what are the consequences of The Pale

YOU - "The pale can damage the mind?" JOYCE MESSIER- - "Extensively." YOU - "How?" JOYCE MESSIER- - "Some say the damage stems from extreme sensory deprivation. Others argue that pale somehow consists of past information, that's degrading. That it's rarefied past, not rarefied matter. They call it the blend-over of the self. The pale does not only suspend the laws of physics, but also the laws of psychology, maybe History, even… The human mind becomes over-radiated by past."

[meeeeeks]

Harry big naturals

[smokedgastropod]

disco elysium utilizes its mechanics for storytelling and makes witty references to them in order to affect the player more, that's obvious

here's some of my favourite moments of that:

kim literally won't let you end the dialogue despite there being [Leave.] . he can override game mechanics because you fucked up so much

the classic. you are manipulated on the level of your character - you need to be extra careful with klaasje because you are given faulty options to begin with.

the multiple times the game makes fun of harry running everywhere. players go fast, people dont, it's noticable

visual calculus overriding a fail after the tribunal

multiple times skills will be frustrated at you if you fail or just are bad at them:

and times they are so fucking sure they are correct:

there's a lot more of course, like the talking in lists with dolores dei, and thoughts in particular have a lot of those! the white mourning thought increasing zoom out distance, for example. i might have a closer look at them later but those above are just more direct and dont require taking apart, really

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

What if Minos Prime, with his city skyline crown and faceless-selfless visage, blushes in city lights

[skills-bracket-2]

FINAL ROUND

1. “See, hear and smell everything. Let no detail go unnoticed.

Cool for: Fine Detail Detectives, Sensualists, Urban Scavengers

Perception wants you to be open to the world – with eyes, ears, and nose working at full capacity. It enables you to take in what others don’t notice. The little wad of bills hid away in the sugar bowl; the odor of a perp, hiding beneath the floor boards; the gulp of a suspect, after claiming they’ve nothing to hide.”

2. “Understand creativity. See Art in the world.

Cool for: Creatives, Psychedelic Fanciers, Critics.

Conceptualization has a special role it wants you to play in this world – not the role of cop, but of Art Cop. It enables you to make fresh associations, to delve into world-concepts from Jan Kaarp’s postmodernist karperie, to Revachol’s arabesque architectural style dideridada, and even the concept of HARDCORE – and then, importantly, to add your own contribution to these works.”

3. “Hunches and gut feelings. Dreams in waking life.

Cool for: Dreamers, Para-Natural Investigators, Mental Creators

Inland Empire is the unfiltered wellspring of imagination, emotion, and foreboding. It enables you to grope your way through invisible dimensions of reality, gaining insight into that which sight can’t see. What’s really going on? What do these enigmatic riddles mean for the world-fate?”

4. “Raise the hair on your neck. Tune in to the city.

Cool for: City Lovers, The Wisest of the Street Wise, The Genuinely Supra-Natural

Shivers come when the temperature drops and you become more keenly aware of your surroundings. It enables you to hear the city itself, to truly belong to the streets. It is a supra-natural ability; old wrongs play out in present time, scenes across the city happen in front of you. But who is speaking to you?”

[furies-inthe-mirror]

alright man

based off this post

[cusn0]

decided to make some custom skills for myself, these are psyche ones

Obsession - finding some fixation that gives you will to live and indulging it at all costs.

Masking - adapt, transform, mimic. Camouflaging weird parts of yourself to be more likable.

Le Rèveur - imagination bordering on maladaptive daydreaming

Moral - empathy based on (in)justice and subconscious analysis of situation

[poladraws]

he’s thinkin

[goodbirbb]

"Detective Arriving on the Scene"