I wonder whether these people are actually good at doing the “reality distortion”, or just good at finding the right kind of victims.
That would also explain the “over-the-top evil” as a tool for filtering easy victims, kinda like the typos in Nigerian prince’s e-mails.
I imagine that Vassar approaches you and says: “I am a dark wizard with mysterious mind manipulation powers”. (Except more socially gracefully.) If you look at him skeptically and say “what?”, he will just mumble some random advice and walk away. But if your eyes widen and you say with a trembling voice “please, sir wizard, don’t hurt me”, he will take you aside and tell you some paranoid conspiracy theory and advise you to start taking drugs.
I wonder whether these people are actually good at doing the “reality distortion”, or just good at finding the right kind of victims.
That would also explain the “over-the-top evil” as a tool for filtering easy victims, kinda like the typos in Nigerian prince’s e-mails.
I imagine that Vassar approaches you and says: “I am a dark wizard with mysterious mind manipulation powers”. (Except more socially gracefully.) If you look at him skeptically and say “what?”, he will just mumble some random advice and walk away. But if your eyes widen and you say with a trembling voice “please, sir wizard, don’t hurt me”, he will take you aside and tell you some paranoid conspiracy theory and advise you to start taking drugs.