[SKILL] Disguise - Alternate description

[Alvirin]

I propose expanding the usefulness of this skill by allowing to create an alternate description, that would see a character if they look at you and they aren't able of seeing through the disguise.

By typing alternate, it would be opened the editor and you could write a description and from now, every time that you did disguise yourself and someone did look at you, if they are successful they would see your alternate description, of course this alternate description could be edited as many times one did wish and it would be subject to the description guidelines, also by typing alternate reset, your alternate description would be entirely erased and every time that someone did look at you, you would get what you get currently when someone looks at you and you are disguised.

[Lerytha]

Maybe the desc lines could be limited depending on your skilllevel at disguise?

[Brodnur]

Im not certain if this works in this way, since none of my characters have the skill "disguise", but couldn't you have a brief desc set as an alias, and justify the desc to a normal paragraph? To reset to default desc, have it also set with alias to return to your normal description.

[Alvirin]

The problem with actually changing your description through the description command is that you force everybody to fail in the check to notice who might be under the disguise (if there is anybody) just because that description it's your real description, by having this command people might see through the disguise (or might not).

[EDIT]

I suppose that limiting your alternate description to a number of lines according your skill level might make sense in a IC strict sense as well since the more complicated and elaborate is the appearance that you want to assume the harder it will be, in contraposition to trying look as most members of your race.

[Brodnur]

Ahh, I see your point Alvirin. Then I also agree to the tempory desc command being utilized with the disguise skill, providing there is some sort of pass/fail check made on it. Perhaps the new adj and desc could overlay the original, and if the check is made by the victim, they would possibly catch a glimpse at the "real" character, which would likely cause them to take a second or third look, but I think I am derailing a bit on that point. Anyway, I think the alternate description for the disguise use has a lot of merit.

[Tavik]

I'm not really sure why the description would have a chance to fail. The description simply reflects what you look like. The best way I've heard to think about what a good description should be would be to imagine what your character would look like dead. The being the case, when you disguise yourself you are actually changing your physical appearance to something else and if you die like that, you still look like whatever you disguised yourself as. If you die your hair, no one is going to have a chance of realizing that your hair is actually it's original color, chemicals can be used to change skin color and contacts (we'll assume they had those) can be used to change eye color. Despite all this, people DO still have a chance of recognizing a disguised person, but that's not because they can actually see through the dye/chemicals/contacts to see their original color.

What would make the most sense to me is that if you've met the person, there is a chance to see that person's NAME instead of the disguised adjective, but any new description written should remain.

I know I'm bringing the realism arguement into a magical setting, but this is one of those cases where I think it makes sense.
Those are my thoughts.

[Alvirin]

You have a point in what you have said, but in my eyes that what you say is assuming that you have disguised yourself perfectly with a 100% success rate, if you aren't so skilled at disguising yourself you might able to forget dying several spots of your skin/hair (or doing it bad) and someone might able to discern that you have it dyed, and even the real color of your hair.

For that I'm not sure if you would be allowed to change your description in such way, might a imm give some insight in this?