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Whispering
This is an idea I had a while ago about improving the flavour of whispering. Right now WHISPER seems to just act identically to SAY, except for a minor change to the message that is displayed (it says "whispers" rather than "says"). I think it would be interesting if it had some actual mechanical differences, in the same way that MUTTER (or MUMBLE, I can't remember which) does.
Essentially WHISPER <some text> would result in you actually whispering. People in the room would only catch the occasional word, the rest would be replaced with a "..." to indicate that there are words there, they just weren't able to catch them. If you were to WHISPER TO <person> <some text> then that person would hear it perfectly (because you're assumed to be close enough and whispering loud enough that they can hear you), but everybody else would still only hear the occasional word (as with an untargetted whisper).
The aural earring artefact (and possibly the hearing enchantment) could be extended to allow you to always hear what somebody is whispering due to your enhanced hearing capacity, regardless of whether it's targetted at you or not.
Essentially WHISPER <some text> would result in you actually whispering. People in the room would only catch the occasional word, the rest would be replaced with a "..." to indicate that there are words there, they just weren't able to catch them. If you were to WHISPER TO <person> <some text> then that person would hear it perfectly (because you're assumed to be close enough and whispering loud enough that they can hear you), but everybody else would still only hear the occasional word (as with an untargetted whisper).
The aural earring artefact (and possibly the hearing enchantment) could be extended to allow you to always hear what somebody is whispering due to your enhanced hearing capacity, regardless of whether it's targetted at you or not.
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...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
If there are more than two people involved then whispering might not be the appropriate method of communicating.
If necessary it could be extended further to allow you to have private whispered conversations between multiple people, with the potential for people to overhear parts or all of it depending on lip reading, aural earring, etc. I think there's already something similar to this for furniture.
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Needless to say, some words were inappropriately said that led to appropriate facepalms and thwacks on the back of my head.
Course most of us are deaf anyways and read speech with our mindseye.
this is a good point actually, how would it work if there was a serpent in the room with that lipreading thing?
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
I don't see how lipreading must necessarily circumvent it to be logical. Generally, people who can read lips can only do it when the other person is facing them and speaking very clearly. When someone turns away and quietly whispers to another person, it would be very difficult to read their lips.
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Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
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I really hope this gets added. My attempted uses at whispering in the past seemed a bit pointless considering -everybody- in the room apparently just heard you whisper to your companion a comment on how large that woman's rear end is and why is she now staring at us angrily like she just heard everything I said?
I always saw whispering more for comedy value than anything else. Like loudly confiding to someone next to you about something, like those assholes at the cinema that never stop whispering but everyone can hear them anyway. Otherwise, you know, there's tells.
Well we have mumbling (or is it muttering?) which gives you bits and pieces of the spoken sentence. Secrets don't have to be confined to tells!
Kresslack said:
Yes, which seems to have been especially coded to not occlude any of the letters when you're saying something offensive.
I think it's a good idea. Unless correctly roleplayed, whispering doesn't make much difference now.
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Whispering already had mechanical differences if I remember correctly. If someone is eavesdropping they cannot hear you if you whisper.
If that's true, it's pretty strange, considering eavesdropping can hear things that people in the room can't hear.