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I want to skip this round. I am not sure what to add besides filler.

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I think the idea is to start in Haye and move on a little later. Haye would not be the site of a permanent camp, more like transportation facility, akin to a jail rather than a prison. But it's busy, because it's one of the feeders into a bigger and longer term center.

No sheets are up yet, so we have room for one or two more. ;)

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Is it alright if I make a non-magical character? Like an investigative journalist or an activist?

@The Spectre

No problem with that, though I think it might make sense if they were a parent or sibling of someone who is in the camps, that would explain why they're willing to go all in with a pro-emergent group.

I think we need to set the towns down, so I'm going with;

Haye Township, PA, a small blue collar town (though Haye College is a small liberal arts school in the area and that brings in some outsiders) and Livingston, NJ, a fictional city that's fallen on hard times as manufacturing has moved away from the region.

I wanted to use places that we can invent the landscape and culture of. I think we should start things off in Haye, however.

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Oh, awesome. Well, like I said in the Int Check, I feel interested in a small town setting. There's something about the vibe of a rural or midwestern tight-knit community undergoing a wave of fear and paranoia, but areas like Detroit or other urban sites are rad, too.

@Architect

Yeah, I think there are a lot of options. I suppose it's not a bad idea to start in a rural town that is subsidiary to a larger one, but I'm trying to figure out how to structure it. I think as a transport hub-feeder to the main facility in one of the cities makes a lot of sense, so a lot of Emergents coming through and being transported in. Always a backdrop of this thing going on, this massive effort to forcibly move people around.

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Retagging: @Hellis@Architect@Mike73@The Spectre@Vietmyke

Name the place you first began roleplaying.

RhyDin.

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Also, let's shift the discussion over to the OOC.

It's definitely worth having there or in the chat.

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Honestly, Zionism was a political lobby in the 1930's, but it never had a strongly religious component. It was labor-socialist in a lot of senses, but Orthodox Judaism was a very different thing and only had some representation in Zionist movements. Israel itself is the outgrowth of the movement, and took on a similar character of secularized youth groups that emphasized a more nationalist identity that wasn't necessarily bound by the religious observances of Judaism, which always had variation in how the traditions are kept and practiced. Within Modern Israeli politics, some ultra-conservative groups exist that are highly traditional, but they also tend to represent a minority.

The most prominent group I can think of that is orthodox and works internationally is the Chabad and they tend to focus on bringing assimilated Jews back into the fold. Their relationship with politics is basically nonparticipatory to the point where they take no official stance on the establishment of Israel.

Basically, Judaism gets complicated fast, but there's not a lot of consensus. It seems like the response to magic would be fragmented.

I'd also say that Catholicism and Mormonism, which each have lately had their internal beliefs and subcultures on display, also would have a loud argument over magic. With Catholicism, the reaction of Jesuits would be different from more conservative elements (including American ones that think very differently from South American ones who think differently from African ones) and with Mormonism, you have different interpretations of their scripture making people decide on different priorities in a crisis. There may be splinter factions, of course, like that underage polygamy cult in Arizona that claims to be Mormon, but they have no real influence.

Islam, as we know, is pretty decentralized and has been since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. So the really big religions aren't that monolithic, even the ones we'd expect to be monolithic like the Catholics. The words of the Pope are considered guidance...I'd name a couple of politicians that exemplify that, but I don't want to start an argument.

Now when we get to something like Scientology, which is a lot more cultish, heavily monied and probably would consider magic to be their tool. There are smaller protestant groups, we might have some leverage there, especially as some megachurch pastors tend to deal with a more unified base of tens of thousands rather than millions.

Luckily, America has a bunch of megachurches and the pastors collectively have influence. I also think they'd be the least paralyzed of groups with lobbying influence in American politics. Scientology, of course...well, we can see.

The next question regarding religious reaction is, what happens? Condemnation? Outreach/ministry to comfort the people detained in the camps as an act of mercy and redemption? Conversion therapy? Pitchfork parties? I'd imagine that with some of these groups, "Burn the witches!" becomes a thing.

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Task #1: Establish setting location; we could invent a rust-belty sort of faded industrial town with a tough ghetto. I used the name New Camden or something in a previous RP. It was basically a Northeastern city without the specific cultural baggage or need to do a lot of research on, so it was less intensive for the lore.

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