Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20160504205202/@comment-5543592-20160509212708

The officer hesitated for a moment, before shrugging, and saying his piece. He hoped that the guards got the memo and at least had the common sense to give their betters some privacy.

There was an art to impersonating someone, Crimson knew. The art to not making them think you were who you said you were, but to make them whole-heartedly believe it. To get one's intended target to think that, without a doubt, you were not only this person, but that this person was real. People didn't believe someone who was whole-hearted and earnest, or someone who looked like he might tell a lie every other word, because real people weren't like that. Real people were flawed and everyone expected a flaw.

"My questions are not complicated." The officer said, with a tone that implied 'luckily for you, because I am infinitely more intelligent and important.'  Yes, he was condescending alright.

"But my investigation into a matter of national security has led me here.  There is an impersonator, a man who is pretending to be the Imperial Battlemage, his Highness, Jagar Tharn.  He has been seen all over the Empire, but one his more recent sightings lead me here." The officer made his task sound important, of the utmost importance, like there was nothing more important in the world he could be doing. Yet, at the same time, there was something that didn't add up. He had officer's stripes, yet he was going on a nationwide investigation? The impersonation of an official of the Battlemage's stature likely would've gotten the Blades involved, not the Legion. This officer, a Tribune by the looks of him, wasn't as important as he made himself out to be.

"This imposter, although his motives are unknown, has been very active.  He secreted himself out to places of remote import all over the Empire.  Places that no one would ever set foot in, for some unknown purpose.  My question is simple- have their been any supposed sightings of the Imperial Battlemage, or has someone bearing his likeness come to you in person.

In fact, he likely wasn't important at all. He was an idiot. An idiot who wanted to make himself feel important, and likely just wanted to be humoured by the Captain on what he percieved as a very important matter that was assigned to him by a man who, by all accounts, had left the Legion years ago.

What kind of idiot followed the orders of a retired officer? A dedicated one. An idiot who wouldn't shut up until you told him what he wanted to hear.