(October 22, 2014 at 10:50 pm)Drich Wrote: Last year we did one on witches and most of the old timers lost their minds, and wanted to burn me at the stake. I figured since we have so much fresh meat, we can let the new guys play, and see what they think. Rules are simple. If you want to play sick with in the senerio, don't wander off into history or self righteousness.
Ok so what if.... witches as per folk tales and scary movies existed? (Not the dbag witch/emo/hippies we do have) but real fly on a broom, steal your children cook and eat them, prey on people in general, no prision can hold them, can only be killed by water or fire, but real as the day is long???
Would it then be ok to have an hold witch hunts of old/Salem witch trials?
What if #2: what if just a few hundred years ago these type of witches really did exist and it wasn't superstition and rampant ignorance that over took people. What if the population was then just as aware of reality as we are now, only that the variable in the equation was reality itself and not our ancestors knoweledge of it? Meaning the supernatural was stronger than it is now?
Would that change your view of what they did and why they did what they did?
Ok so a book of spells has been found, a demon is summoned and witches roam the earth.
The basis of this question requires a LOT of facts to be dismissed. It's generally accepted as a fact that the old trials of witches were based on confessions brought about by torture, people could be accused of witchcraft for having a bad reputation or reading the wrong books. So for a start no logical person could ever even begin to think about doing these things again because they obviously result in innocent people, often children, being hung, burned or pressed to death.
The people who did the witch trials were very religious, very superstitious, not very well educated, which we know results in things like witchcraft accusations and persecution, you just have to look at Africa where witchcraft accusations happen and killing albino people to use their bodies for good luck charms.
Ok so just dismissing everything that's obviously wrong about believing in witches, let's just assume witches do exist in modern day times,
I think it would be best to have some sort of Dateline NBC, how to catch a witch, television show.
Have some swat team ambushes, stuff like that.
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