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\title{Protocols of the Elders of Zion}
\author{Glenn Thain}
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{\large ATTENTION! \ \ \ ATTENTION!
\ \ \ ATTENTION! \ \ \ ATTENTION! \ \ \ ATTENTION! \\}
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{\small
\# 291393 -- D: Role-Playing Fantasy Games \\

{\bf Whereas} our plan put forth in Protocol \#212943-R (To Increase Fascination
with the Occult) has succeeded beyond all expectation, and the Elders being 
aware that the youth of America are now callow, questing, and overly
imaginative; that their ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy has
been blurred by the means of fairy tales, Saturday morning cartoons, movies,
comic books, bedtime stories; and that they are fond of games and pursuits
where the use of jargon, cants, and specialized vocabulary is calculated to 
confuse and exclude adults; therefore the Elders decree that:\\

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\item{A fantasy game shall be devised wherein young people are forced to 
	take on the personas of characters utterly without morals, and are
	constrained to act the role of such characters in the context of the
	game; violence shall be the key to the survival of the players'
	personas; greed for wealth and occult power shall be the goals of the
	game; and the players' personae may rise in rank, power, and wealth
	via prowess in the game, thus promoting continual play.}

\item{This game shall involve sorcerers, witches, elves, gnomes, trolls, 
	demons, demigods, monsters, dragons and fabulous beasts and other
	persons and creatures associated with the occult, with a view towards
	predisposing the game's young players to believe in the occult and 
	thus become ensnared in the traps of Satan our Master.}

\item{The rules of this game shall be written as if such mythical and occult
	persons and creatures are real; and actual Satanic spells and prayers
	shall be included in the rules, up to and including spells of the 29th
	Level and all rituals suitable for First Circle Initiates of the Left
	Hand Path.}

\item{This game shall be promoted as the {\em in} thing among young people and
	an aura of intellectuality shall surround it. The game shall be
	presented to parents as a teaching aid suitable for use in classes for
	gifted children, and it shall be claimed that playing the game
	enhances the child's imagination and creativity.}

\item{For the purpose of causing young minds to dwell on the power of the 
	occult and to lure them into our ranks, actual signs and passwords
	known to the servants of Satan shall be incorporated in the rules;
	further, our Agents and Provocateurs shall frequent the vicinity of
	schoolyards, game rooms, and playgrounds to signal children by means 
	of these signs and passwords in order to initiate them further into 
	the Black Arts.}

\item{The game shall have trappings of other games familiar to children
	(dice, rule books, figurines, playingboard, etc.) Further, as the
	players advance to higher levels of play the figurines should become
	stranger, the rules more complex and bizarre, and the handbooks more
	costly and seductive. It is recommended that occult lore be scattered
	through a series of rule books for advanced play, so that players 
	shall be forced to contribute unwillingly to our General Fund for the
	Corruption of Society as they fall deeper into our clutches.}

\item{Our Agents and Provocateurs shall spread across the land promoting 
	this game on local and national media (See Protocol \#182968-N: Use
	of Advertising) and steps will be taken to sabotage the sale of
	conventional games so that stores will rely more and more on our
	product (See Protocol \#19-N: Dirty Tricks)}

\item{As acceptance of this game grows and the original generation of
	corrupted players begins to age, our Agents and Provocateurs shall
	initiate steps to keep the acceptance of these converts by translating
	this game into other forms of media (See Protocol \#277666-X: Use of 
        Subliminal Messages); especially visual media, movies and television,
 	so that a general level of acceptance of the Dark Powers are assured.}

\item{Selected portions of this Protocol shall be leaked to the 
	Fundamentalist Christian media, whose capacity for promotion of it's
	own paranoia will serve the double function of bringing ridicule
	upon Christianity, while giving publicity to our game (See Protocol
	\#261362-C: Any Publicity is Good Publicity). The backlash effect of
	this media blitz upon atheist game-enthusiasts who turn to our game 
	as a means of thumbing their noses at Christianity (or even for mere
	secular diversion) will be salubrious to our ends.}
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