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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: Ryan_Singer on January 06, 2017, 05:13:13 PM

Title: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: Ryan_Singer on January 06, 2017, 05:13:13 PM
The PayPal Mafia
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/PayPal_Mafia.jpg)

Goal: Use favors from the Fae to support favored startups

Obstacle: Summer is sabotaging Winter-sponsored Vaccine Biotech

Resources: Unseelie Magic, Tremendous money, Silicon Valley Connections

Weakness: Heavily Invested in particular startups, paranoid

Aspects: Zero to One, With Us or Against Us

Next steps: Solidify hold over VC market
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: Ryan_Singer on January 06, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
The Fomor
(http://rainycity.wdfiles.com/local--files/wiki%3Athe-fomor/fomor.jpg)
Goal: Gain deep access to social graph data to isolate vulnerable minor talents

Obstacle: The EFF and fellow travelers are discouraging tech companies from storing user data

Resources: Embedded Agents at Major Social Networks and Search Companies

Weakness: No allied factions, no empathy

Aspects: The Hunt is On, Not Human Enough

Next Steps: Intensify Kidnapping Regime
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: Ryan_Singer on January 06, 2017, 05:34:43 PM
The White Court
(https://ap-pics2.gotpoem.com/ap-pics/contest/2660/909.jpg?pk001.jpg)
Goal: Popularize Poly and Kink to Build WC inroads

Obstacle: Poly and Kink don't advertise much

Resources: Burning Man community

Weakness: Disconnected from broader Raith networks

Aspects: Free Love, Everyone Belongs, Art is Pleasure

Next Steps: Enter SF Political Scene
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: Ryan_Singer on January 06, 2017, 05:36:22 PM
The Long Now Foundation
(https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Long-Now-clock-face-By-Rolfe-Horn-courtesy-of-the-Long-Now-Foundation1.jpg)
Goal: To Found, Fund and Support Institutions that protect the Human Race from Supernatural Predators

Obstacle: White Court targeting it’s members

Resources: Individually Wealthy Members, cross-membership with the White Council of Wizards

Weakness: Disconnected from popular opinion, slow to act

Aspects: A Perfect Plan, Think 10,000 years out

Next Steps: Investigate Increased Fomor Activity
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: Sanctaphrax on January 07, 2017, 10:25:00 PM
The Long Now Foundation as a supernatural agency?

I like the way you think.
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: g33k on January 10, 2017, 09:29:50 PM
The White Court
...
Goal: Popularize Poly and Kink to Build WC inroads
Obstacle: Poly and Kink don't advertise much
Resources: Burning Man community

Heh.  You know about the San Francisco Armory building, right?  National Register of Historic Monuments & HQ for what may be the single biggest worldwide kink vendor?  Huge uproar when Kink bought the Armory!!!

EDIT:  well, DAMN.  No sooner do I point it out, the local paper announces that "Kink" is moving out of the Armory...
Title: Re: Factions for DF:A in San Francisco
Post by: jeditigger on January 17, 2017, 08:19:30 PM
I dig it, Ryan.