Talk:Oswyn Spencer

Investigation Guide

Starting an Investigation

So you want to try your hand at investigation! Hooray! Clues are one of Arx's most interesting features. There are many, many, many @clues. Here are the basics of how to set up an investigation:

@investigate/new

This will start a new investigation.

@investigate/tags

This will pick a tag or tags to investigate. You may already have clues; they probably have tags linked to them. For the purpose of this guide, we'll begin with a fairly benign tag: folklore.

@investigate/tags folklore

@investigate/story

This is where you explain how your character is going about getting the information. It's also where you can explain skills you're using, if you're using something other than perception/investigation. Same with resources. We'll get into both those later.

@investigate/story Oswyn is a scholarly Scholar with access to the stacks and archives. He's also very good at navigating the multiple cataloguing systems that have been built up over the years. He's also good at directing other scholars, guiding them in research.

@investigate/finish

At this point, you'll make a new investigation and it will be assigned a number. You've essentially saved your work here. These are the basics. You can totally do an investigation with just these commands.

Alternate Example: Keskia

Let's say we have a more social-oriented character, Keskia.

@investigate/new
@investigate/tags folklore
@investigate/story Violetta is a bard with numerous contacts. People tell her stories. She puts word out with other contacts, bards and various caravan guards she's worked with before.
@investigate/stat Charm
@investigate/skill Manipulation
@investigate/finish

Adding Resources and Lowering the Difficulty

There are a few more steps you can include.

@investigate

This will show you a list of your investigations. Youll be able to see the investigation ID number, the investigation tags, and whether it's an active investigation or not. Let's say your investigation number is 9999.

@investigate 9999

This will show you the basic writeup of the investigation; all the parts you put in before. It's also going to show you modified difficulty and current progress. The higher the difficulty, the higher your roll is going to need to be to get info. The lower the difficulty, the easier it is. You will get results faster with a lower difficulty. But how to get a lower difficulty? I got you, fam!

@investigate/resource

You have resources! You can see them when viewing your inventory. They are economic, social, and military. You can use these to help lower your investigation's difficulty.

@investigate/resource 9999=social,50