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Subtle Emote/Pose
do things - subtly!

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It'd be cool if there were a pose and emote equivalent of whispering, where you do an action that's meant to be 'subtle' and only seen by like one person. For example, flashing someone something you palmed, or hidden on the inside of your jacket (gun, money, whatever). Obviously, like whispering, unintended people might still be able to see what you're doing.
By Baguette 4
Can't you already do that with pose softly and emote softly?

emote softly - Emoting Softly will return your emotes to the usual visibility and will make them only visible to those who have been addressed by you or are watching you.
from https://www.sindome.org/help/game/emote/

By Gilvian 0
no, that just disables the "loudly" thing
By Baguette 1
Would like this. How else is my character supposed to sneakily finger their Input under the table at the bar?
By PepicWalrus 0
man what
By Baguette 2
Softly just stops you from doing things loudly, this sounds like the kind of thing where someone who fails the perception check can't quite make out what you're doing. Which I do actually think could be a really neat feature actually.
By Nepika 0
I really dislike hidden actions becaus, inevitably, someone will use it to power emote on someone who did not see the hidden action, and that's a whole tons of mess.
By Froggy 0
Well… I suppose that is one use of it?
By Nepika 0
Definitely all for this. Unintended awareness, maybe gated on a high Perception check or someone who's 'watching' you, but otherwise possible to pass hand-signals or 'knowing looks' that might otherwise be easily missed on a busy street or in a busy bar.
By Knyghtskye 0
@Froggy Well I imagine it would be like address. If someone is addressing you with a sneaky action then you'll see it. Or if someone is watching a person they'd see it too or high pcp.
By PepicWalrus 0
Perhaps it could give a 'Character does a subtle gesture' kind of message or something? Expanding to 'Character subtly gestures at target' and eventually the full emote based on stats/chrome?
By ikunaut 0
@PepicWalrus I am just relaying what I saw in other games that had similar system, where one way or another the tagging would be forgotten or flat out avoided, perception check failed, and now you had something done to your character that everyone but you saw done. And yet your character did not respond to it, where everyone think that you are intentionally ok with whatever it was.

It's very hard to untangle as you don't even know anything is wrong.

(Edited by Froggy at 12:21 pm on 11/23/2025)

By Froggy 0
@Froggy I'm pretty sure if it's directed at you then you'd see it. It's meant to be a whisper emote in their suggestion so the person it is directed at is meant to see it.
By PepicWalrus 0
https://sindome.org/bgbb/game-discussion/ideas/hidden-emotes-2984/

I would love hidden emotes. I think people struggle to take hints that you're trying to do something subtly because everything an open plain to see emote without stats involved.

Someone fidgeting nervously under the table, crossing their fingers behind their back, betraying some emotion they would rather hide, squinting suspiciously. Lots of opportunities to use that!

By Papertiger 0
People already complain about the watching system enough without adding more things people won't see. I'm not sure we want this…
By Slither 1
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