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a life they left behind. Others, though, keep their heads and — exactly the sort of thing a cell needs to know. Officers have
work against the monsters on the fi elds of war. a better grasp of tactics, and sergeants know how to motivate

Away from the battlefield, Soldiers still encounter the people going into dangerous situations. The difference be-
world’s supernatural underside. One Soldier takes up the hunt tween Soldier and civilian can really raise tension in a hunter
after returning home to find her husband and children muti- group. The Soldiers stop trusting the civvies to do their part

lated and killed by what the police dubbed a “mad slasher” because they haven’t gone through the same shit the Soldiers
while she was on maneuvers. Another pokes his nose in when have. Civilians, for their part, refuse to take orders from some-

his commanding officer starts taking orders from a civilian one who shows up and bosses them around without asking
nobody sees during daylight hours. Others don’t believe what them to put their specialized knowledge to good use. When
they see — if they’re drunk or running on 36 hours without a cell has more than one Soldier, it has to ensure they don’t
sleep, they have plenty of reason to doubt their own senses — split into factions.
but soon understand what they have to do. Fighting humans on a battlefield is a damn sight easier

Stationed Soldiers who take up the Vigil must keep their than fighting a monster off it. A vampire kills perfectly good

hunt under wraps. They stalk monsters with larger groups people not because the humans would kill it, but because
when they’re able to get off base, but military bases have their murder is part of its own sick life. A cult kidnaps people not
share of the supernatural for when the group is not around. because it wants information but because the cult believes it
One base might have a whole squad that has sworn to uphold can trade life for power. Some Soldiers have real problems
the Vigil, wherever they are posted. The problem’s even worse fighting things that aren’t out to kill them, while others throw

if the hunters are aboard a ship or submarine. While Soldiers themselves into the fray with gusto.
can’t take automatic weapons off base, many hunters smuggle Away from the forces, some Soldiers go right back to the
smaller arms with them to protect themselves. Those who soldiering life with Task Force: VALKYRIE, or get jobs in

leave the forces often keep their service pistols, and with a private security firms. The Cheiron Group is always in need
network of contacts and old Soldiers, they can get their hands of volunteers for experimental surgery, and Soldiers have all
on much bigger armament. manner of skills the group can use (and all manner of wounds
A Soldier brings more to a group of hunters than just and derangements that Cheiron may hope to “repair”). The
access to guns. She’s trained in combat and small-unit tactics Union recruits veterans who saw 10 shades of Hell during

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