comment: |
  {{{
  Judge who doesn't like their faction but likes being a Judge
    Needs to swap with an actor and back with a judge
  }}}

  * This is an undermotivated/dumb character; we don't like the judge-swapping
    mechanic

  * New interpretation: wants people to be able to immigrate by choice (and
    leave by choice, ideally)
  * Be the Minister of Ragged Things
  * Get Items of Power into the real world
  * Help other people with their questions so they can leave if they want

  * Question: Are people wise enough to choose?
  ** Can people be equal if different?
  ** Can you have equality without abuse of the system?
  ** How can you get people to do the right thing without incentives?
  ** "How can different people ever be equal?"
  ** Answer1: "Give everyone the same opportunities, and they will
               choose what they become."
  ** Answer2: "Well, then.  We must have uniformity."
name: Karl Marx
player: Alex Smith
gender: m
stuff: |
  [[Hell]],
  [[History]], [[Clever]], [[Persuasive]],
  [[Local]],
  [[MarxFake]]
contacts: |
  \TrainMorgan{An earnest worker for the common good.}
  \Publisher{Seeks to expose lies and corruption, a most admirable calling.}
body: |
  \cenquote{Four maidens walked through the door to a room where each found her
  most favored food.  Also there was all they ever wanted.  Toys and games,
  companions, tales of wonder,  tools of beauty, and release from obligation.
  So much for freedom.}{ --Jenna Moran, Exalted: The Sidereals}

  \cenquote{He tuned his thoughts to electronic\\ Circuitry.  This soothed his mind.\\ He left irregular (moronic)\\ Sentimentality behind.\\ He thought of or-gates and of and-gates,\\ Of ROMs, of nor-gates, and of nand-gates,\\ Of nanoseconds, megabytes,\\ And bits and nibbles... but as flights\\ Of silhouetted birds move cawing\\ Across the pine-serrated sky,\\ Dragged from his cove, not knowing why,\\ He feels an urgent riptide drawing\\ Him far out, where, caught in the kelp\\ Of loneliness, he cries for help.}{--\textit{The Golden Gate}}

  It would not be an exaggeration to say that people's freedom to be who and what they want is at the heart of
  what it means to be truly human.  Not everyone agrees.  Those who would enslave others speak of the duty to
  the state, to God, or to the Boss who signs their paychecks.  They don't realize that they have a choice, 
  that things don't have to be as they are, and that the chains that bind them can be shrugged aside.

  You remember long days spent under the warm Californian sun, laying around the beach and surfing, thinking
  up the electronic circuits you were so good at but only so you could make enough money to go back to the
  beach again.  Necessity make for imperfect freedom, but as you remember explaining to Engels later
  when Communism arrived it wouldn't be a complete absence of work but only working as was needful, from
  each according to their ability and to each according to their need.  You were still free enough to be
  quite happy.

  Though come to think of it, when was Engels ever in California?  Those must have been different times\ldots{}.

  This place screws with you mind sometimes.

  The world isn't always a just place, though.  Governments conscript soldiers to fight in unjust wars
  like the dismembering of Poland or fighting the Viet Cong.  The church leans on the government to get 
  them to ban the publication of your works.  The proletariat slaves away in dark factories for a 
  pittance while the factory owners grows rich.  And now a giant slug-thing kidnaps innocent surfers
  from California and holds them in this odd metaphysical state with no means of escape or doing anything
  meaningful.

  You'd like to think that you've done a lot to inspire people to end the rule
  of the Capitalists and inspire people to do better, but you'd never imagined
  anything like this.  Thankfully it seems that tools have been given into your
  hands to help.  Ii Ma has appointed you and others as judges, remaking you to
  some extent (Is that why your memory seems confused?  Or maybe why you're
  female now?) and appointing you to judge the plays that will form the basis for
  the world to come.  Judge isn't a role you have all that much experience with,
  but you're determined to make the world a better place through it.  It's a
  chance to bring peace and freedom to the masses.

  Freedom for the masses is dearer to you than freedom for yourself,
  but you can't help but think in times like these of the question Ii
  Ma whispered to you long ago, the question that binds you here:
  "**How can different people ever be equal?**" True equality is a
  hard thing to grasp, but even if you don't know exactly what complete
  equality would look like, it's a goal well worth working for.

  Some people seem to want to take various things out of this place in the hopes that the world they
  re-enter will be enriched by them.  You wish them the best of luck!  You'll even help them since
  a better world is what you desire, and such things can only serve to speed up the advance of
  history.

  You can make a new world in the place of this one that better gives people the freedom to choose who
  they want to be.  Also, if you manage to maneuver yourself into the winning side on this struggle between
  judges you can get appointed as the Minister of Ragged Things, those buggers who dragged you here from
  California.  But if you were controlling them you could have them take only those who want to come, and 
  return everyone else.  You might not be able to get that appointment, though, so it would be best if
  you could help as many of the actors leave the Place as possible, if they want to.  Just in case.

  == Goals ==

  * Become Minister of Ragged Things and ensure that only people who
  wish to come here are brought in.
  * Assist others in recovering Treasures, and help useful ones return to
  the outside world so that they can benefit the many.
  * Help others answer their Questions so that they may regain their freedom.
  * Drive the Place Without Recourse towards Peace, so that the place this
  becomes may be a safe, productive place for all.
username:
claimedby: Andrew
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  A Reserved \mf{Man}{Woman}
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castinghint: |
  Your character is \name, a judge in the Place without Recourse.
  \mf{}{Also you're a woman, this place must be very weird.}  But you're
  determined to bring freedom to the place without recourse and to
  free the residents from their chains.

  Costuming:\\
  19th century academic/philosopher\mf{}{, except female}.

  Suggested reading:\\
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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answers: |
  [[MarxAnswer1]], [[MarxAnswer2]]
email: asjm@mit.edu
