Jail Cells

[Spiritus]

*laughs* I was thinking it would be fun to have small rooms that can only fit 1 - 2 people but allow them to talk to other prisoners within the jail. Would be alot of fun for roleplaying when you interogate rebel forces from behind bars.

[Zanthos]

It would have to fit 2, or else you couldnt drag the person out. I guess they could in practice be like a vehicle, in that you can interact with the prisoner ect... but the prisoner is locked in. Though, I don't think you'd want the prisoner attacking you, so maybe the vehicle model doesnt work too well.

[formerly known as hf]

Who says that buildings named as or used as jails aren't divided into compartments of some kind?

Just because it's not overtly written, doesn't mean that's not the case... I really wish people would engage their imagination a bit more often...

[tiddy ogg]

That, HF, was my first reaction, but he wants communication between them. The jail could be built with each cell leading to the next allowing notes to be passed, but this is up to the jail builder... and I can't think many of those would be very keen.
Could knocking be used as communication?

[Solfius]

I think HF meant that you ought to imagine smaller cells in a room for something like this, rather than build rooms within rooms to create a set of cells.

Really, rather than a way of building cells in a room, so you can see and talk to prisoners, but they can't move from the cell or attack others in the main part of other cells, I'd prefer to see shackles and restraints as they could achieve the same effect, but be more widely useful, as they wouldn't be limited to buildings

[SekoETC]

You could imagine a lot of stuff but when you have several prisoners, what's the chance of them all playing along? You might be lucky to find one who for example doesn't punch you if you've rp'd tying their hands behind the back, but many people take all game-technical chances they've got without rp'ing at all. (You could game-technically use a bare-handed attack and rp it as a tackle or a head-butt.)

I think cages were suggested earlier and that's what this suggestion pretty much equals.