I understand. Thank you for the clarification.

And, not to deter you from your goal, you have a lot to pick from.

There is a lot of background from which you can pick and build from but what would be the end result you are envisioning? I can tell I got to know a particular “tradition” where no rituals exist; initiates undergo a sort of tutelage under more experienced individuals but at some point it is supposed for each individual to set out their own path. No dogma, no saints, demons or higher powers; they just take the universe as a power source and it is the people tapping into it that can use it for “good” or “bad” endings.

The wiccans I got to know were essentially neo pagans, drawing from a favourite personal pantheon and ancient culture. I knew a Neo-aegiptyian priestess, a couple of neo-druids, a neo-norse shaman, one new age witch and one neo-meso american priest. Each just associated with an ancient culture they most closely identified with and delved into it. I watched magic circle drawing, offerings of food and items to gods and even assisted in a ritual of personal sacrifice, through fasting, sweating and intense physical exertion.

But I sense this is not what you expect as information. Feel free to pose more specific questions.

What do you mean by world building? Honest question.

I’ve had some contact with wiccans, pagans and other people that held belief in the supernatural and watched some of rituals but I don’t know what to tell you that may go into what you are looking for.

I don’t know what my most played song currently is but I can tell you what has been the most played for the last 15 years and it’s this one.

Every single time I install a computer this is the soundtrack to test the audio. At first it was annoying, the dog barked, kids screamed and the elderly cursed me. Now, of I don’t play I’m asked if I’m feeling under the weather.

You mean my civilian public identity data?

Let’s speak about me now: I have no social media presence and I like it like that. I pay my taxes, I drive a 20+ years car. I’m boring and I enjoy it as it is.

Someone telling me I seem suspicious because I have no electronics and no interest in using it would be gold.

Actual event: I was once stopped for speeding. The police pulling me up asked me if I hadn’t seen the FB post warning for the speed radar. And I bluntly put it that I had no account on the network. Their face was priceless. I got fined for speeding, fair, but that was that. Social networks are not official communication channels. They want to be, but they are not.

According to what I’ve been told, an entire page of requirements was forwarded by the travel agency; not something they drafted but just passed on.

The application was also handled by the travel agency and it was the agency taking the photo to process the travel authorization, regardless of the passport info already been made available. As personal note: this entire demand on the looks and garments for the travellers make sense if we factor the heavy use of automated tools being used at border controls nowadays. And how poor they can be is also widely known.

Tourist VISA. Everything I listed came through the travel agency.

Under the current american politics reasoning I’m a radical but I have no predefined approach to ideas and concepts.

Not gay, nor transgender. And I think people are more than labels. Human dignity is howed to all.

But I’m not really white. Give me a few days under a hot sun and I darken enough to pass for something else.

This person is completely oblivious of political strife.

That was a typo on me. I have to rectify that.

Burn Notice fan? Because I just heard your message in my head in the main character’s voice.

What is a burner phone? A phone with no direct association with your name? A prepaid plan?

I’ve mentioned this in the thread: what would be the reaction if someone arrived there with no electronics on them? And if further stated they did not intended to buy any for their stay? What could happen?

That is grim outlook!

I actively fear that.

you’ll either water

Mind explaining this part, please?

I’m not going anywhere.

You made a pretty grim image. I’ll have nightmares, tonight.

No country is worth this. And even North Korea, someone shared here some time ago, is not that invasive. They do give you a nanny to escort you around, you can go everywhere, you can’t take pictures or film but they don’t care about what you do in your country.

Visiting family of their current partner. And as the tickets were paid for by the family living there, there is an added feeling of obligation, but the main drive is the eagerness to travel abroad, the opportunity. Their words, not mine.

I’m writing from Portugal. Not really a country on the radar for political upheaval.

I had a dog that enjoyed sitting in the driver seat when I was out of the car. Used to mess with pooch, saying he should remember he had his licensed revoked because he had been caught driving drunk. Good times.

Nothing to add on what you said.

I was just mentioning that as well. What could be the reception of someone with no social presence and no electronics upon arriving? I’d refuse giving details of relatives as well.