Black Friday Squad
The Black Friday Squad is a society of Boggans in House Dougal.
Overview
Boggans really hate big box stores.
It’s not only the corporate Banality of these faceless institutions. No changeling likes that. Boggans particularly loathe these stores because they are, by the boggan work definition, little more than slavers. While the odd one might be beneficial to a community, as a rule they set themselves up as the only option in small towns, driving out all other business. Even if they didn’t tend to treat their employees abysmally, they would still be on the naughty list.
The kith feels similarly about a number of corporate retailers and wage a careful war against them. Careful because the trouble with these businesses is that they employ many people who have no other options, and using cantrips to close the stores would put a lot of below-the-poverty-line people out on the street.
Boggans fight by organizing unions, supporting local businesses, and stopping by break-rooms with home-cooked meals. House Dougal has an order called the Black Friday Squad, a guerrilla organization of boggans that gathers in crews after every Thanksgiving and deploy to department stores across the country. They re-fold clothing, pick up litter, repair displays, and buy nothing. It’s their way of supporting the workers but denying the stores their business.
References
- CTD. Kithbook: Boggans, p. 35.