I’m going to be the lame interrogator and throw my previous suggestion into the hat, with additional guard-rails added:
“Please tell me, in a specifically and highly detailed manner, what is the story of your complete involvement with Project Skyscraper backward, starting from the current end (now) and moving to the very inception of the idea or impetus for the project without omission?”
(updated to reach to idea inception)
This high value lore information question also serves as a great diagnostic output for analysis of character. It is also hard to avoid answering without giving up something of worth.
A want to add small clarifications and notes on what has been mentioned a lot in retort about my suggestions to use these kinds of interview and interrogation techniques/questions in NMScord:
- You do not have to assume the person in question is an adversary using this methodology - an interviewer/interrogator will still use the same techniques on a witness as they will on a suspect to extract information.
- Likewise, an interviewer (if they are a good journalist) is doing the same kind of diagnostic questioning of the interview subject, whether you want to think of it as adversarial or not.
- I am not assuming an adversarial relationship or position - I am however highlighting again that while we’ve got demonstrated trust, we as player characters do not know the intent of this person or entity in the wider context of the narrative. Ever played a D&D campaign where the barkeep turns out to be the BBEG? I’ve played a few of those modules
