[description] Concerned citizens have come to lobby for a ban on mediums after a woman in @@CAPITAL@@ spent her life savings on a psychic hotline to talk to her dead husband, and the operator informed her that the husband's only words were, "Gib money pl0x."
[validity] N/A
[option]"These so-called mediums claim they can talk to the dead," muses John Brandi, the founder of Skeptics United, @@CAPITAL@@ chapter, "But what they really do is take advantage of the weak minded and desperate. They robbed this poor woman with falsehoods, we must protect others from being swept in. We must cure this plague on our civilization by banning all mediums."
[fallout]Citizens must now order their steaks rare or as beef-flavored charcoal
[option]"These witches are also the first step on the wide and wicked path," says Rev. Josias Firebrand, patting his head with a moist towelette. "We must eliminate from among ourselves the yeast of sorcery!" he declares as he fashions your candelabra into a crude pitchfork.
[fallout]Bakers are burned at the stake for over-proving their bread
[option]"Freedom of speech is paramount, even if it means lying--err, unprovable facts are permitted. Allow us to practice our supernatural abilities in peace. Your fourteenth cousin once removed has told me she's very disappointed in you for even listening to these wicked men," declares Jezebel Jones, psychic.
[fallout]Unprovable facts are a common defense in courts of law
[option]A man wearing an obviously fake mustache bursts into your room, then throws a smoke bomb. "The Great Zalanthor appears as mysteriously as the circumstances which have brought him here. I have heard great tales of you, O @@LEADER@@, and I have come to offer you my services as the court medium. For a small fee, I will give valuable criminal evidence, interviews with great leaders of the past, and I can also do card tricks. I would tell you how it works, but the Alliance of Magicians ensures I never reveal my tricks," Zalanthor says, before running back out the door and setting off the smoke alarm in the hall.
[fallout]Something wicked this way comes