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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6876495" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't understand what you have in mind.In&nbsp;&nbsp; [MENTION=6801328]Elfcrusher[/MENTION]'s Eloelle narrative, Eloelle knows the truth - her patron has revealed it to her, and/or she has worked it out in virtue of her genius - but she feigns ignorance and/or error, also at the behest of her patron.There is no mistake that she can sincerely reveal. If, in the fiction, she is affected by ZoT then she has to reveal the truth - which would break (or, at least, disrupt) gameplay for two reasons: first, her player doesn't actually know what that truth is, and so the GM would have to play Eloelle and speak for her; second, it would make her secret knowledge a relevant consideration in the game, which - given she has 5 INT - it shouldn't be.Hence the notion of preserving the gameplay status quo by having the player sincerely reveal all the information s/he has access to (namely, the ignorance/error) while narrating, in the fiction, that Eloelle's patron has interceded to protect her from the burden of truthfulness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6876495, member: 42582"] I don't understand what you have in mind. In [MENTION=6801328]Elfcrusher[/MENTION]'s Eloelle narrative, Eloelle knows the truth - her patron has revealed it to her, and/or she has worked it out in virtue of her genius - but she feigns ignorance and/or error, also at the behest of her patron. There is no mistake that she can sincerely reveal. If, in the fiction, she is affected by ZoT then she has to reveal the truth - which would break (or, at least, disrupt) gameplay for two reasons: first, her player doesn't actually know what that truth is, and so the GM would have to play Eloelle and speak for her; second, it would make her secret knowledge a relevant consideration in the game, which - given she has 5 INT - it shouldn't be. Hence the notion of preserving the gameplay status quo by having the player sincerely reveal all the information s/he has access to (namely, the ignorance/error) while narrating, in the fiction, that Eloelle's patron has interceded to protect her from the burden of truthfulness. [/QUOTE]

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