The excesses and hidden violence of our current society create wounds in the world from which demons emerge that hunt the vulnerable. In Mad as Hell, you play as a Radical, individuals who have decided, with the backing of their Communities, to fight demons and make the world a better place.
The only way to kill demons is to understand what quiet violence created them in the first place, work out how to solve that problem, and turn it into a weapon. You might kill a demon of mouldy water with a purifier, or a demon of bigotry with a pride flag. Unless you address the root cause of the problem, the wound in the world will continue to fester, and the demon will be reborn, free to wreak havoc. To defeat the demon truly, you need to make meaningful social change in your communities and help those around you.
The game is intended to create a safe, lightly fictionalised environment for aspiring and current activists to become familiar with the methods used in community organisation and direct action. It helps provide a structure that mimics the real-world approaches to tackling injustice through a radical lens, and takes action against capitalism.
The world is dying, choking in heat and smoke and microplastics. And that's not an inevitable thing, an impossible to overcome thing, it's a choice being made. People with power, who have made pacts with the forces of horror in our world, have made an ideological decision. They have done it before, they will do it again. They'll do it every single time, unless we stop them.
