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  • Make the existence of MCC an urban legend (e.g.: leak some information about it in occult site or occult TV program)
  • Also make sure the urban legend is not taken seriously (e.g.: broadcast some comedy that make people who proclaim themselves MCCs are stupid, delusional people, and that existence of MCCs are just fiction made for entertainment)
  • This will make real MCCs feel agitated: the leaked information is right, real MCCs feels that something is wrong (imagine you awoken an ability that you yourself don't understand very much, but everyone knows a lot ofdetails about such ability and say that such ability is delusional)
    • Example:
    • There has been an established social norm that MCC is a fiction and people who claimed to be one is delusional clown.
    • Bob awakened as a MCC.
      • If at this point Bob make a big commotion about his ability, then the government can find him immediately
      • If he did not, then continue
    • Bob knows little about his own ability.
    • Urban legend leaked information says that MCCs effective range is no longer than 10 meters.
    • Not even Bob knows his own range, so he tried to verify this 'urban legend' by practicing his ability
    • Bob finds out that those facts in government-spread urban legends are mostly (if not all) true
      • If Bob tries to find further information about the urban legend (e.g.: via internet search) then government can try to locate/profile him (e.g.: government-built sites that contain the urban legend will track and try to profile its visitor from IP address, tracking cookies, etc.)
      • If not then Bob will (hopefully) show sign of discomfort. Your agents might want to look for such people

Other cheap idea:

Use recruited MCC to give command to all populace:

  • "If you're a mind-controller, then you have to do X,
  • if you're not then you will never do X.
  • Also, you will think that doing or not doing X is not from this command but from your custom/tradition/religion instead,
  • and you will forget about ever receiving this command".

The command to do X or not to do X should be something simple and observable (e.g.: X is wearing hat when indoor, or X is always put 3 pen of different color in breast pocket whenever wearing clothes that have breast pocket).

  • Make the existence of MCC an urban legend (e.g.: leak some information about it in occult site or occult TV program)
  • Also make sure the urban legend is not taken seriously (e.g.: broadcast some comedy that make people who proclaim themselves MCCs are stupid, delusional people, and that existence of MCCs are just fiction made for entertainment)
  • This will make real MCCs feel agitated: the leaked information is right, real MCCs feels that something is wrong (imagine you awoken an ability that you yourself don't understand very much, but everyone knows a lot of such ability and say that such ability is delusional)
    • Example:
    • There has been an established social norm that MCC is a fiction and people who claimed to be one is delusional clown.
    • Bob awakened as a MCC.
      • If at this point Bob make a big commotion about his ability, then the government can find him immediately
      • If he did not, then continue
    • Bob knows little about his own ability.
    • Urban legend leaked information says that MCCs effective range is no longer than 10 meters.
    • Not even Bob knows his own range, so he tried to verify this 'urban legend' by practicing his ability
    • Bob finds out that those facts in government-spread urban legends are mostly (if not all) true
      • If Bob tries to find further information about the urban legend (e.g.: via internet search) then government can try to locate/profile him (e.g.: government-built sites that contain the urban legend will track and try to profile its visitor from IP address, tracking cookies, etc.)
      • If not then Bob will (hopefully) show sign of discomfort. Your agents might want to look for such people
  • Make the existence of MCC an urban legend (e.g.: leak some information about it in occult site or occult TV program)
  • Also make sure the urban legend is not taken seriously (e.g.: broadcast some comedy that make people who proclaim themselves MCCs are stupid, delusional people, and that existence of MCCs are just fiction made for entertainment)
  • This will make real MCCs feel agitated: the leaked information is right, real MCCs feels that something is wrong (imagine you awoken an ability that you yourself don't understand very much, but everyone knows a lot details about such ability and say that such ability is delusional)
    • Example:
    • There has been an established social norm that MCC is a fiction and people who claimed to be one is delusional clown.
    • Bob awakened as a MCC.
      • If at this point Bob make a big commotion about his ability, then the government can find him immediately
      • If he did not, then continue
    • Bob knows little about his own ability.
    • Urban legend leaked information says that MCCs effective range is no longer than 10 meters.
    • Not even Bob knows his own range, so he tried to verify this 'urban legend' by practicing his ability
    • Bob finds out that those facts in government-spread urban legends are mostly (if not all) true
      • If Bob tries to find further information about the urban legend (e.g.: via internet search) then government can try to locate/profile him (e.g.: government-built sites that contain the urban legend will track and try to profile its visitor from IP address, tracking cookies, etc.)
      • If not then Bob will (hopefully) show sign of discomfort. Your agents might want to look for such people

Other cheap idea:

Use recruited MCC to give command to all populace:

  • "If you're a mind-controller, then you have to do X,
  • if you're not then you will never do X.
  • Also, you will think that doing or not doing X is not from this command but from your custom/tradition/religion instead,
  • and you will forget about ever receiving this command".

The command to do X or not to do X should be something simple and observable (e.g.: X is wearing hat when indoor, or X is always put 3 pen of different color in breast pocket whenever wearing clothes that have breast pocket).

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Kristian
Kristian
  • 550
  • 2
  • 7

Problem:

  • There is a mind control magic. Exact mechanism and details unknown and may vary from mages. What's known is just that they can control mind.
  • Cannot tell populace that such magic exists.
  • Government must find mind control magicians.

Solution:

  • Establish an accurate method to identify mind control magicians (later called MCC)

How:

  1. Recruit at least one MCC
  2. Recruited MCC should be in charge of recruiting/detecting other mind controllers
  3. Try to narrow down who might be a 'wild' (unrecruited) MCC. In this step, manual labor and surveillance is required (e.g.: looking for not very talented people who achieve more than their ability as stated by other answers)
  4. Recruited MCC will be supplied list of person who might be a mind controller (narrowed down by other agency/branch)
  5. Recruited MCC will try to determine whether the 'suspected' MCC is really a MCC or not: recruited MCC will control the suspect MCC's mind to mind control someone. If it's a success then the suspected MCC is a positive (really a MCC). If the proxied mind control attempt is failed then the suspect is a negative.
  6. Since MCC details are not very clear, it's also possible that an MCC cannot be mind-controlled by other MCC. If so, then whenever recruited MCC encountered a target he/she cannot control, then the target is obviously an MCC.

Example:

  • Alice is an MCC recruited by government.
  • Bob is a suspected MCC (not known yet if he is actually an MCC or not)
  • Charlie is a normal person who volunteered to be test subject, he waits at designated place (e.g.: public park or inside some office building)
  • First, Alice try to control Bob's mind to go to where Charlie is.
    • If the mind control is failed, then Alice knows immediately that Bob is definitely a MCC. She then calls another team to arrest/lobby/recruit/whatever they do with a MCC.
    • If the mind control succeed, continue to next point
  • Alice give command to Bob's mind that said: "control Charlie's mind to make Charlie stand up/sit down"
    • If Charlie do as Alice's command, then Bob's mind control attempt succeed. At this point Alice knows that Bob is a MCC.

Other ideas:

  • Make the existence of MCC an urban legend (e.g.: leak some information about it in occult site or occult TV program)
  • Also make sure the urban legend is not taken seriously (e.g.: broadcast some comedy that make people who proclaim themselves MCCs are stupid, delusional people, and that existence of MCCs are just fiction made for entertainment)
  • This will make real MCCs feel agitated: the leaked information is right, real MCCs feels that something is wrong (imagine you awoken an ability that you yourself don't understand very much, but everyone knows a lot of such ability and say that such ability is delusional)
    • Example:
    • There has been an established social norm that MCC is a fiction and people who claimed to be one is delusional clown.
    • Bob awakened as a MCC.
      • If at this point Bob make a big commotion about his ability, then the government can find him immediately
      • If he did not, then continue
    • Bob knows little about his own ability.
    • Urban legend leaked information says that MCCs effective range is no longer than 10 meters.
    • Not even Bob knows his own range, so he tried to verify this 'urban legend' by practicing his ability
    • Bob finds out that those facts in government-spread urban legends are mostly (if not all) true
      • If Bob tries to find further information about the urban legend (e.g.: via internet search) then government can try to locate/profile him (e.g.: government-built sites that contain the urban legend will track and try to profile its visitor from IP address, tracking cookies, etc.)
      • If not then Bob will (hopefully) show sign of discomfort. Your agents might want to look for such people