tldr; Ruse-hating activists kidnap individuals with particularly powerful imaginations, turn them into cultists? not sure. Society for the Ethical & Moral Use of the Imagination
Among esoteric and occult tomes and
bibliographiques* scavenged from vaults built sometime during the later-middle period of the
Null Empire, one may find the core practices and beliefs of the Society for the Ethical & Moral Use of the Imagination. (
SEMI). The Society has in recent years come under scrutiny for their antiquated practices of disbelief, essentially refusing any and all things
Ruse related. Acolytes may undergo hypnosis,
While the Null Empire itself is the subject of controversy and what meager collected histories scholars have managed to compile are filled with inconsistencies and contradictions, the Society has seized upon certain fundamental beliefs that were apparently prevalent towards the end of the Empire-namely the exclusion, nullification and rebuttal of all things Ruse related.
Although the origins of the Society are as obscure as facts relating to its founder, (a certain Robert J. Edvarde) the Official Society Archive declares that the first society meetings evolved from a book club that met bi-monthly in the basement of Arthur Pellington Primary School in Loris City. The book club consisted of mostly academics, amateur historians and archaeologists and political activists. From the basement meetings, to opening Guild Houses in several major cities, the Society has collected a large archive of Ruse related information, artifacts, hand written and oral accounts of the history and proliferation of Ruse related incidents, reports and entities.
Certain activities by SEMI has garnered the attention of authorities, alleged kidnappings and theft, fraud and anti-government activities although no formal charges have ever been raised.
The Society has in recent years struck up a partnership with the Halfway House on Hoddard Hill although the details of the relationship remain undisclosed. Whether SEMI is releasing malcontents and troublemakers into the custody of the Halfway House or vice versa, it remains unclear. Either way, the ranks of SEMI agents has increased despite public opinion of the Society remaining critical and quite negative.
bibliographiques* Beveled glass discs of varying sizes, most commonly approx. 1"-3" in diameter (although the cache discovered at XXXX contained discs nearly 4' in diameter) containing a sort of microscopic cuneiform that is parsed and sorted by Empire-Era graphique-readers.