Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160205140028

It all depends on the extent you want to go into the background. For example on Billy and Mandy they show the background characters and non-main cast to be haplessness happy-go--lucky boobs who occasionally show up and react to what is going on with the main cast; This illustrates that what is going on is not an everyday occurrence. Rick and Morty do the same thing as does Daria.

Though you could also do the cover-up angle, ie make it seem like what is going on is the being kept a secret so the normal world has little to no affect taken. Like Men in Black or Secret World.

The Magicians fight a giant soul consuming Eldritch horror that has just sprung up beneath Time Square in New York, they are largely jaded to it's existence cause things like this happen everyday just usually in areas that can be contained. When it is beaten Alex and Mei Ling have the following conversation in the middle of a war torn New York with the giant black corpse of a tentacled eldritch creature laying in the middle of an intersection.

Alex: Do you think anyone noticed

Mei Ling: I'd say there is a pretty good chance

Alex: If anyone ask, leaky gas pipes.

Mei Ling: You've got to be kidding.

Alex: ''When have you ever known me to make a joke. Look, I don't make policy but the way I see this news of this gets out that's it, no more secret handshakes.''

Mei Ling: ''Is that all you care about? Plausible denial?''

Alex: ''Doesn't need to be all that plausible. As long as people are given an excuse to ignore this, that's what they want.''

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Mei Ling: But where did it come from?

Alex: Now that is an excellent question, where does any slimy tenticled cosmic demi-god come from?

Mei Ling: Manchester?

Alex: Well that would be my guess as well.

So setting can be everything for how the work status quo is handled. Perhaps the troubles are handle as personal matters and just don't invoked the rest of the world, Perhaps the average person for the most part doesn't notice, Perhaps there is an active conspiracy, wall or handlers to keep the average person from being affected by it. It is up to the writer to establish that one to keep from the world turning into a crap-sack-world. Just as long as at some point the events are acknowledged as having a relationship to the outside world.