New Idea: Brief attention.

[Morrolan]

My impression (and vision) on this is that passive watch would let you see the occasional emote at other tables, and active watch would let you see most all of it (and still passively pick up occasional hemotes).

[Maso]

I'm not reading through the whole thread. But I'm all for something like this. Maybe the odd thing could slip through anyway, you overhear something or notice something every so often, but otherwise...a bit of peace when you want/need to concentrate in a busy room. If you don't like it and love the scroll...don't use it?