I didn't expect gold fish to become a react or the word count to start memeing when I logged back in after work today. Fuck it, if this isn't a sign that we should pull something sort of silly then nothing is.
[X] Ministry of Propaganda
We should transfer some of the
Whisper safes we have in use to the MoP and craft them some
Books of Whispers so that they can monitor and respond to public opinion/rumors in real time. The first item even comes with built in analytics, so we could dip into the fel power of target advertising tactics when manipulating public opinion.
Truly we are the darkest timeline.
Just to round out their "big brother is watching" spell/item list:
Seek Thoughts
Rumormonger
Find Quarry
Reveal Secrets
Which allow them to scan crowds for particular opinions or ideas, trace those ideas from person to person, find the exact location and current direction/means of travel, and compel people to admit having secrets about a particular topic then forget that you asked.
Anyone (other than us) trying to use low level dupes to screw with public opinion would have a hell of a time if we had people running a few of these in key areas.
It'd be even easier if we could swap out the typical spells added to a
Crystal Ball for rumor monger or seek thoughts since they offer built in filtering that detect thoughts doesn't.