Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Donny Brook

You could just say that it was part of the 26th amendment in 1971 and no such candidate happened to come up until now.

That's not what I'm looking for.

The world is our world until recently, but even after changes started occurring, they were too subtle to change much in wider society, but mainly affected the sort of thing that PCs and their closest enemies and allies got up to. However, in the 2010s, the world of the setting and our world have diverged far enough so that I wanted to throw in an obvious bit of background weirdness, unrelated to the PCs and anyone they had dealings with, but still something that would register as 'weird' for the players.

This is very much meant to be current events in 2018-2019, not ancient history. And it's very much meant to be something that informed observers (i.e., PCs) will suspect has occult explanations, but, it also needs to be well-enough justified so that it's clear if investigated that the supernatural influence is limited in power, and, especially, how blatant it can be.

Basically, it's background color that serves to establish what kind of alternate world the setting is.