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But since Shell is an all-around evil company that is responsible for many many evils, from polluting the oceans to driving indigenous populations of their lands to poisoning exploited workers to undermining democracies to literally pushing our climate closer to full collapse and mass extinction, let’s also talk about how you can hurt Shell.

I don’t have all the answers to this, but there have been some pretty cool actions. Mass civil disobedience actions have blocked Shell gas stations, drilling and processing sites to disrupt their operation and decrease their profits. Action groups in universities have disrupted panels with shell cooperatives to correct their bullshit. And art collectives have held protest interventions in Musea that accept Shell sponsorship, which resulted in several museums refusing to work with Shell in the future.

None of these things individually destroys Shell, but all of them are damaging their profits and their ability to present themselves as a decent company.

Cool pictures below…

Free Fossil Culture at Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands

Liberate Tate intervention at the London’s Science Museum, UK

Art not Oil at the National Gallery, UK

Shell Out Sounds at Shell Classic International concert, UK

Code Rood blockading partially Shell owner gas site, the Netherlands

I really like what this physicist, Lamar Glover, has to say in Behind the Curve. 

+ this part from Spiros Michalakis:

Play a character who is seeking creatures that haven’t yet been discovered.

Iron dragons, while similarly violent, are a lot less ill-tempered. They revel in war, and nothing gets their blood flowing like getting someone else’s blood flowing. Smart generals coax them into joining their ranks as living siege machines.

One day, he showed up to the building and the city just painted over the murals without permission or notice.

First, the city told him he couldn’t have graffiti art on HIS building because it brought down property value. After he complained, then they said: ok you can do this, but you need a permit. After he got the permit, then the city said: ok, but you can only use these artists.  Of course, these artists were all White graphic design students from USC, and of course they charged 3x more.

Whatever she had planned for them didn’t pan out, but she never ordered her minions to stop collecting them; by the time it became clear that the project was a no-go, expectations had already been set, and when you’re the Queen of the Fairies you can’t very well admit to having a bad idea.

(Everyone’s a little worried about the Baron of Autumn, who specializes in bespoke Orphan’s Tears.) 

Village residents are suddenly compelled to speak in rhyme, but most of them are lousy poets, so in practice they’re just unable to communicate effectively (this one works even if the GM is bad at improvising rhyming dialogue, since the premise takes that into account)

Certain villagers’ personalities are warped into archetypal heroes and villains, without the skills to go with it, so you basically end up with Batman theme villains; e.g., a villainous shoemaker who devises dastardly shoe-related crimes

Domestic animals begin behaving as folkloric guardians and tricksters; e.g., a chicken who won’t let you gather her eggs unless you successfully answer her three riddles, and devours you if you fail

Formerly harmless rituals and superstitions become efficacious, e.g., a rash of seemingly unconnected people all getting hit with the same curse, the common thread being that they all walked under the same ladder at some point

Local tradespeople become supernaturally effective at their trades in awkward or inconvenient ways, e.g., the village piemaker begins unwittingly baking pies that act as magic potions with a variety of exciting and undocumented effects

For bonus points, have each incident be amenable to its own targeted cure or solution that doesn’t obviously point back to the water supply. If you’re running a town-centric campaign (e.g., perhaps using a system like Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures), you could squeeze a whole series of investigative scenarios out of this bullshit before the players figure out what’s going on.