Who hit you?
NPC dialogue recalling last attacker, robber, etc.

To put it simply, I suggest that NPCs who've been attacked can recall the basic/short description of whoever attacked, robbed, or pickpocketed (if seen) them. How would it work? Codedly, I don't know, but the dialogue would be simple.

Q: "Who hit you?" or "What happened?" etc

A: "An average mona carrying a blade attacked me." or "A shrouded average playa attacked me."

Tack on the usual pubSIC callouts such as "looked like Sinners/Snakes/Arteries" for gang violence, even.

Thoughts? Pros and cons? Theme issues?

I think this will help with people not seeing NPCs as easy targets as much, if there are people who care that they were attacked. It would potentially generate RP and maybe get the data market going a bit. This mostly goes for gang violence, but could aid in TERRA investigations/enforcement I'd think. The downside is that it may feed some "white knight" issues, if I were to guess.

That being said, faction members should be able to question their NPCs, assuming they didn't get vatted.

And it also helps for when there's someone beat bloody at a faction member's feet, saying that, actually, they tripped and fell. Getting a simple 'yeah, an ugly devotchka wearing a dark red t-shirt dipped me' or similar just makes sense, without clogging puppet requests for some relatively basic RP.

Archer's concern is this opening up a lot of nonsense viz a viz meta / disguise / etc., but that's sort of been set up to happen anyway (potentially) with the shift (understandably!) in staff philosophy toward disguise and people's assumptions. If people want to potentially use such a system's chatter to make presumptions and extort or attack folks, those presumptions are theirs to make.

There are more than just gangers attacking gangers. I think the proposed system makes it more dangerous to attack gangers. That seems like a good thing to me.

@Jameson touched upon chatter again.

I hope this isn't too much cross over, but Chatter is fairly specific in terms of descriptions. Someone has been sharing Chatter on pubsic lately, and characters are getting upset because they are potentially being exposed.