KanzarisKelshen posted...From: Accel_R8 | #352We did that once and the result was two PCs rolling death saves and dropping into negative HP after about thirty minutes of OOC discussion ruining the scene, and the resulting roleplay "defaulting" to more mind rape.
Which still irks me. The first solution was "mind rape". So drama over the mind rape happens. And then the situation gets brought to the most responsible NPC to deal with.
And she defaults to mind rape.
It wasn't mindrape though. Mindrape involves either spying someone's emotions and thoughts, or straight up rewriting them. Looking for the base's location is checking for sensory input that matches what you need. It's like taking someone's prints - they don't get to refuse that, so why would they get to refuse a sensory scan?
If you could set up a scan in such a way that you can literally pinpoint specifically if there is a memory of a base or not, then it would not be such a big deal. However, failing that, it would involve sifting through a person's life which is naturally considered to be a gross breach of privacy.
Prints stay the same unless you purposefully alter them, but the information they impart is specific and socially recognizable as valid ID. A person's memories are as varied as gains of sand on a beach and more valuable than diamond.
And in a world where mind magic is a thing, why wouldn't a person's sensory register be as valid as their fingerprints? That's what I don't understand here - this isn't our world and it's, in some ways, infinitely more advanced. Being able to get the information you need from a criminal with little chance of failure (but still existent, same as with prints but more reliable) is exactly the sort of thing you need when lives are at stake, which they were in our case. When you conspire to rob someone of their basic rights, AKA the rights to live, be free, seek happiness, you forfeit your own. This includes your right over your private possessions, including your senses. I'm not seeing why they wouldn't count as such, honestly.
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