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to approach a dangerous creature with a syringe of something something and not ask questions, questions you couldn’t stop
potent than a shotgun or sledgehammer. yourself asking. Now you ask freely.
They often work alongside hunters of other compacts

and conspiracies, bringing along their electromagnetic field Theories
readers and Kirlian cameras while other hunters bring Bibles, Theories about the nature of the paranormal abound within
guns, grenades or holy swords. Some make contact through Null Mysteriis; for every hunter, a new theory. Still, a large number

academic sources with members of the Malleus Maleficarum. of them can be very broadly categorized into one of three groups.
Some have done contract work in their universities with Alexander Watt’s Rationalists form the majority of Null
people in the Cheiron Group. Of course, some hook up with Mysteriis: it’s all provable (and disprovable) with science —
members of the Ascended Ones, Aegis Kai Doru or Lucifuge, only some of it isn’t yet, but will be one day. It just needs
not to make alliances…but to capture and study these curious diligent research and sensible empirical study.
hunters with undocumented abilities. On the other hand, Vincent Fielding’s Open Minds believe
the important thing is proving or disproving the phenomenon by
Hunters any means necessary — even means that some might call unsci-
You spent years trying to prove the Extraterrestrial Hy- entific — and worrying about what makes it tick later. They’re

pothesis, and in the end you found nothing at all, and it frus- growing in numbers, much to the dismay of Watts’ faction.
trated you that many of your fellow seekers wanted to believe A small but similarly growing number of Cataclysmicists
so much that they refused to accept evidence to the contrary, rise above the methodological argument and instead react with
even when it was staring them in the face. You’re not a profes- concern to a steep rise in reported paranormal phenomena (and
sor or research scientist like most of the other members, but hence expense of unclassified energy) since the millennium, pro-

you appreciate the rigorous application of science and have jecting that if it doesn’t slow down soon, the world could be in
made yourself useful in the field, because you’re handy with for an cataclysm or apocalypse of some kind, and further postu-

a shotgun. lating that maybe something needs to be done about it.
You’re a professor in some very solid scientific field —

evolutionary biology, perhaps, or organic chemistry — and Status
you’re about as convinced an atheist as anyone can be. There Members of Null Mysteriis gain Status by gathering data
are not any more things in Heaven or Earth, Horatio, and and sharing it with the compact, maybe even publishing pa-
you’ll stake your reputation on proving it. pers in the organization’s annual journal.
You lost a family member to some supernatural creature, • Y ou are free ( if not a l ways we l come ) to ta k e p art in any
• You are free (if not always welcome) to take part in any
and this led you on a dark path, a path that threatened to cost N u ll M y steriis meetin g , an y w h ere in t h e wor ld . Y ou’ve
Null Mysteriis meeting, anywhere in the world. You’ve
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You got yourself a PhD by the skin of your teeth, but your
tutions worldwide, equivalent to one extra dot in Contacts
heart lies with the alternatives, the fringes of science and
(representing a specialist in one academic or Scientifi c fi eld of
medicine. You trade as a homeopath now, not letting people
your choice) as well as one dot in Allies (Null Mysteriis).
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