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Mortal Government Knowledge of Magic
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--- Quote from: dspringer1 on July 18, 2017, 03:14:18 PM ---You have three strong forces working to cover up magic's existence.
1) The natural reluctance of people to believe or talk about issues. Judging by Butter's actions in Dead Beat, this is strong.
2) Supernatural creatures do make some effort to minimize impact and/or take care of evidence/witnesses. Given many of them have powers to control people or manipulate memories, that can be very powerful.
3) We have a government agency that is almost certainly working to keep things secret -- while collecting as much info as they can on the subject.
Combined, these forces can do a lot to hide supernatural events from the public eye. Snark Knight and others are correct thought -- these three forces are going to have a lot of difficulty covering up the events of a major supernatural war, much less the supernatural equivalent of WWII. I suspect the magic secrecy dam is really under strain right now -- and will break at some point (perhaps at the start/during the final trilogy).
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Not to mention that the universal laws about magic (and the metaphysical implications of the Day/Night cycle) both further support #1 by preventing the sorts of modern documentation that folks now require before they'll believe much of anything. Harry makes that argument to Butters at one point.
Shift8:
--- Quote from: Aminar on July 18, 2017, 02:00:47 PM ---I have a movie for you to watch. It isn't factual, but its realistic. It's called "Wag the Dog."
The government doesn't have to cover up anything(sort of). They have to keep it off the news. Then they don't have to explain, just shell out death benefits and clean up the mess quickly.
Besides, didn't you know there was a large stash of aerosolized LSD(swamp gas) kept in the facility after the FBI confiscated it from the CIA's MKUltra program. For safekeeping. A stray cartel bullet must have hit. And everybody in the office had been reading The Strain recently, so the hallucinations all went a specific direction.
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-Not a factual movie. Enough said. :)
Shift8:
Some of you guys have an inordinate capacity for suspension of disbelief. I like the DV as much as anyone, but good grief. A plot hole is a plot hole.
You guys are attributing the US government with plot power comparable to ministry of magic in Harry Potter. And the other half of you is giving human rationalization totally unrealistic capabilities. It doesn't work this way IRL.
Note I'm not saying the cat is totally of the bag here. But people would absolutely, totally, completely certainly, without a doubt, indubitably, know that something strange happened. They may not know what kind of animals attacked them. They may not even think it was magic. But its crazy to say that the general facts of the incident would not be known. Not. Possible.
But I digress. I am sure Jim will explain everything all in due time, one way or another.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: dspringer1 on July 18, 2017, 03:14:18 PM ---I suspect the magic secrecy dam is really under strain right now -- and will break at some point (perhaps at the start/during the final trilogy).
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It was even mentioned in Ghost Story (by Butters, I think?) that the Fomor had been pushing the envelope far enough that the normals were starting to have a hard time not noticing something going on with the widespread disappearances.
Cozarkian:
FBI agents have to pass a background check for Top Secret clearance.
It is quite possible the agents involved in the attack will keep their mouths shut, so while I by think more than just Tilly learned about vamps, I doubt vamps became public knowledge.
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