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of your organization long sought to put sleeper agents into the Strong Back mysteriously manifests. Social Merits are com-
bureaucratic machinations of the Cheiron Group to uncover mon. Other “teachable” Merits work, too — Fighting Styles,
not just that conspiracy’s secrets, but the organization’s actual for instance, or even Holistic Awareness or Meditative Mind
purpose and history? (both of which could be cultivated as a part of the org’s ethos
and approach to the Vigil).
Systems It’s also possible that the hunter has access to free Skill
Specialties (maybe the aforementioned “secret police” com-
Your compact or conspiracy may have some systems con-
pact has access to a Politics Specialty dealing with “getting
cerns to consider upon designing the fundamental elements
around laws”).
of this new hunter organization.

For hunters of a third-tier conspiracy, the first dot of Sta-
Status tus goes toward allowing that hunter to purchase the Endow-
ment of that organization (see below).
The hunters of your organization gain benefits at one,

three and five dots of Status within the group. Within the Endowment

narrative, each dot of Status ultimately contributes to a larger
If your group is a third-tier conspiracy, it’s likely that the
role within the organization, just as it does within any group.
hunters of that group have access to an advanced or supernatural
However, it’s the system benefi t we’re discussing here.
resource unique to that organization. The Endowment should
The benefits of Status generally lean toward providing fur-

thematically reflect everything you’ve dictated up until this
ther Merit-type benefits (adding free Allies, Contacts, Retain-

point — the hunters’ motives, the group’s history, its ultimate
ers, Mentors, Resources and so forth) upon gaining Status. A
purpose and theme. A high-tech crew might have all manner of
compact whose hunters all belong to a kind of “secret police/
secret ciphers and code-breaking hacks, while a conspiracy driv-
good old boy” network (meaning they’re all cops or related to
en by Manichaean thought might rely on ritual texts excavated
cops) will likely fi nd that increased Status gives them a greater
at Ismant el-Kharab (part of an oasis south of Cairo). It would, of
connection to police-related Allies and Contacts (other police,
course, be inappropriate if the high-tech cell relied on the exca-

the mayor’s office, FBI, internal affairs, so forth). Some Merits
vated texts…unless they were able to procure a modern program
aren’t really appropriate, of course: gaining rank within an or-
code by deciphering the ancient writings found within.
ganization is unlikely to magically allow one’s mind to possess
Mechanically, Endowments are Merits, and are bought
an Eidetic Memory or braid their muscles in such a way that
with experience points or Practical Experience accordingly.

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