He said it wasn't pretty.
That may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that it's pissing them off. They don't want to have to do something like that, they just want us to stay in line
Look, I agree with all of this. I would like to bring magic to the public eye, and make it into an actual field of science. But as it is, the government would crack down us if we breathed a word of it. It's going to have to wait until after things calm down a LOT more, or until the Masquerade breaks. In which case, EVERYONE has bigger problems to deal with.
Some minor applications could be disguised to seem mundane, admittedly. Or at least branded to seem like just that much more mad science.
I think we need to break the masquerade with the government a little by little like slowly but sturdy like a band-aid, not rip the whole thing or a huge chunk of it off at once.
Definitely, the school shouldn't be publicized until we have reached either a superior or stalemate position with Toffee.
They also got Xanatos and others backing it off so probably they will and can if we break it too hard.
Ah, dammit. So much for that idea. Still kinda curious about what happened to Kim
No, no we didn't. For all intents and purposes 'Doofania' is still apart of the United States of America. C-Moon said this over on the Discord:
Our Normbots? They only exist in the renamed city of Danville. The legal system? Basically intact. At most the 'Sovereign State of Doofania' is a city-state.
Revealing magic is something which could seriously cause Major Problems.
I said it was about the worst thing you could possibly do. There is a subtle, though important difference in the terminology. Now, all of the worse things are exponentially worse, but that doesn't mean that the terminology was incorrect. The movers and shakers like the status quo. Doing blatant things like this could cause them to start rethinking our reliability or even have them consider to just, end, the threat to stability. As people have opined already, the way that this world works is through secrecy and stability.
Agent Russ knows enough that if we sent him to investigate, say Oregon or the Wastelands, he would return with nothing.
That's bakaemono now.
Yeah. I absolutely want to pick a fight with Toffee, but I'd prefer not to advertise it until he's already locked himself in hostilities with someone else. Not only does this give us more time to focus on Doom and finding Star, it also means we have someone else dedicating actions to thwarting Toffee, as well as being a natural segue into an alliance with whichever king it ends up being (unless it's Doom, in which case, our enemies fighting each other is also good).
He's a toon. His failures are almost always going to be about what's funny, and his stocks going up doesn't matter to anyone except his ego. Like, we already are in the situation where money is of basically no concern, and he's a lot richer than we are.
Uhh...what does that mean? I'm missing context.
From what I can tell parts of the government do, but they compartmentalize the information. You can see evidence in some of the Agent Russ interludes/quests.
Oh...sorry, keeping track of things now is getting hard.
