Factions for DF:A in San Francisco

[Ryan_Singer]

The PayPal Mafia


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

[Ryan_Singer]

The Fomor

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

[Ryan_Singer]

The White Court

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

[Ryan_Singer]

The Long Now Foundation

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

[Sanctaphrax]

The Long Now Foundation as a supernatural agency?

I like the way you think.

[g33k]

The White Court
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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...

[jeditigger]

I dig it, Ryan.