News story from India that reminded me oddly of recent game events:

At 3pm on August 13 2004, Akku Yadav was lynched by a mob of around 200 women from Kasturba Nagar. It took them 15 minutes to hack to death the man they say raped them with impunity for more than a decade. Chilli powder was thrown in his face and stones hurled. As he flailed and fought, one of his alleged victims hacked off his penis with a vegetable knife. A further 70 stab wounds were left on his body. The incident was made all the more extraordinary by its setting. Yadav was murdered not in the dark alleys of the slum, but on the shiny white marble floor of Nagpur district court.

Of course, the major difference (besides the magical elements) is that in this case, local authorities refused to take any action against the rapist, so the mob was perhaps justified in feeling that if they didn't take mob action, no action at all would be taken. It might be interesting to do a future Nimus Animae storyline in which the priests were dead set on some action that the magi were not willing to go along with.

(I read this story in Pandagon, by the way).