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Network Zero:
Network Zero: On a number of occasions now, information released on the
Internet has compromised potential avenues of profi t. We recommend that all
fi eld resources remain alert for members of the group responsible and take
measures to secure and/or destroy any recorded media that might result
from our fi eld projects.
Loyalists of Thule: The Board of Directors requests that should any fi eld
Loyalists of Thule:
resource identify an individual behaving in the manner described in the
attached fi le, it is imperative that you retrieve any and all information
they hold, by any means deemed necessary.
Task Force: VALKYRIE:
Task Force: VALKYRIE: It has recently come to our attention that the
Americans do, as long suspected, have an agency of their own dedicated to
much the same purpose as our own fi eld agents. The Board of Directors does
not consider them a threat; if it should happen that you encounter this
agency’s operatives, however, we recommend you make every effort to secure
any Potential Assets and withdraw before your counterparts have succeeded
in their own mission. Avoid violent confrontation if possible.
Aegis Kai Doru: Our fi les on the Aegis Kai Doru are restricted; however,
Aegis Kai Doru:
be assured that Field Research has been assigned to investigate the
organization, and we are confi dent that our fi eld resources will have some
progress on which to report shortly.
ects, you said, hell, why not? You should have read the small Retrieval agents make up most of the Field Projects Divi-
print, pal. There isn’t a day goes by that you don’t wish you sion. They’re the ones who go out and hunt monsters, truss
were still behind a desk, glued to the phone. them up and call in the DPTs.

You left the Marines some years ago, only to find that Field resources working for Recruitment look for other
your only communicable skill was the ability to shoot people hunters to hire, and the best way to do that is to observe them
and pop eyeballs out with your thumbs. Cheiron hired you as hunting. TCG has a terrifying attrition rate, and often loses
a “cleaner,” a man who tidies up messy situations: you didn’t more hunters than it hires.
like it, but didn’t feel you had a choice at the time. Now the Field Research resources are basically spies. TCG is
only choice you have is whether you have nightmares about highly interested in those conspiracies whose members have
being in Iraq or nightmares about the monsters. access to unusual powers or equipment, and often sends agents
You were a cleaner, too. An actual cleaner. With a mop. to seek them out, assist them on hunts and, if they can, poach
A clerical error led to you (instead of someone with a name everything they can from them when the time is right.
with one letter different) getting transferred to Field Projects,
and you had the surgery before you fi gured out what was hap- Status
pening and they realized their mistake. Too late now. You In the Cheiron Group’s Field Projects Division, you get
have parts of monsters inside you, a gun you don’t know how Status by getting results and sucking up to the boss.
to use and a handbook that’s worse than useless. You’re in • Y ou have a handbook, a n d y ou’ve si gn ed the contract,
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offered you a job. You took it, but it didn’t take long for you to ••• You have the clout to call for a small amount of
fi gure it out: this is not an exit. backup, equivalent to two dots in Allies (TCG Backup).
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