## [RT] New Chapter: Juncture 2.5

* Author: u/AHatfulOfBomb *
* URL: http://junctureserial.blogspot.com/2015/10/juncture-25.html
* Score: 5

* Created: 2015-10-18T13:29:29

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/ZeroNihilist** [+2]  (an hour later)
> 
> The protagonist seems surprisingly unimpressed with Siegfried's power, given that it basically gives him extremely strong manipulative powers.
> 
> The biggest problem is that he can't directly correlate emotion with persuasion in the general case (e.g. there's no obvious emotion for "agree to give me a loan" without other personality insight), but he'd be able to defuse arguments extremely easily.
> 
> It also doubles as a predictor, would be useful for assessing threats (e.g. if somebody has a fear response to "we know you've been working with The Grey Falcon", they might be a double agent).
> 
> In any interpersonal situation it's some pretty broken shit, which makes the lack of reaction surprising.
> 
> Then again, it's possible Siegfried used his power to communicate that information in the least alarming way.

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