User:Peach/coup-pyratechnic

The World That We're In

while the global society is being shaken up by one crisis after another, you managed to amass a considerable amount of influence in the turbulent online landscape. your position has many perks, but you need to be vigilant to keep enjoying them.

internet is a living organism, and it has a very short attention span. and for the most part it is uninterested in boring, sensible, dry facts.

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most effective way to keep the attention on you is outrage and scandal, but be careful, your tactics can backfire and the angry mobs turn against you. whether it's material wealth or social capital, and whether you are taking action for a higher cause or you are in it for yourself, you need to use all your resources to make your opponents disappear into insignificance, before they make you disappear. will you pick a hostile approach? or will you take the appearance of an ally? no matter what your strategy is, know this: you can trust no one.

Players

CEO

rising star of Wall Street, the young and successful businessman Elijah Kendrick became the CEO of Cassandra after his fathers departure from the company. Cassandra started out as a local news network in the 90s, focusing on fringe conspiracies. Inspired by the Ancient Greek oracle, the channel insisted that even though their warnings are ignored by many, they will eventually be proven right. At the beginning of the 21st century, Cassandra went through a drastic restructuring effort and became an online bookstore. And after that, it quickly grew into one of the biggest companies in the world. It branched into numerous industries, from online shopping to tourism and media. Today Cassandra owns multiple online news outlets and a streaming platform. additionally, It is the biggest provider of various web services to majority of the tech industry. with all these connections, its easy for Kendrick to influence the flow of online culture. He is the richest man in the world and he gets richer with every passing minute, and although he doesn’t publicize his political views, he can effortlessly suppress anyone who stands between him and exponential growth of his company.

Lobbyist

idina wintory comes from a long dynasty of interest representers. the lobbying firm started by her parents was credited with influencing around 60% of the public laws passed by the US Congress in 1985. Idina has been attending political fundraisers since she was a teenager and is praised by many for ensuring the enactment of Democracy In Agriculture Act in 2016. Though she is resented by many more, since the act gutted financial support for small farmers, increased taxes on purchasing agricultural equipment (though larger farms were exempt from this tax increase) and stripped their rights to produce their own seeds. idina is very image conscious, she works with a team of public relation experts and social media analysts. she effectively capitalized on the rise of liberal feminism in the recent years and created the online image of a wholesome, fun loving girlboss, but in private company she will admit she doesn't really care much about feminism. while she is vigilant about staying away from controversy, if the need arises, she certainly has the necessary connections in a number of government agencies to shut down any slander for good.

anonymous troll

while many claim to know how to influence public opinion on the internet, no one demonstrates their skills better than XEN. the identity of this figure is completely unknown, the grammatical errors on their posts suggest that English isn't their first language, but this could be a diversion. Their posts originated on anonymous forums around 2014. the earlier posts were controversial allegations about internet celebrities, and while almost none of these allegations had any basis, they garnered plenty of attention. XEN effectively ended the career of a beauty guru in 2015 with a forum post accusing her of conspiring with her husband to kill her in laws (who were alive at the time, but when the accusation shone a spotlight on them it was revealed that they were involved in money laundering). In later years, XEN pivoted to politics and hatred towards them has been a bipartisan issue ever since. They don't target any specific group or political ideology, in fact, their targets are seemingly selected at random. They combine baseless, outrageous accusations with factual information, which blurs the line between what is reliable and what is