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CHAPTER FIVE: TO HELL AND BACK

bask in the glory of the God-Machine for yourself. ual vocations. In practice, Utopia Now is like any other startup.
You’re the scary one. The rest of your peers are engineers It’s a young organization, and promotes those with a strong will
and businesspeople. But you? You’re an experienced killer try- as much as those who have talent or ability.
ing to settle down as a family man. You design and execute You’re a new hire, probably a specialist with some
tactical operations that go off flawlessly, minimizing the lady in needed expertise, but not a lot of experience. Gain a
marketing’s need to spin elaborate back stories. You’ve got the free Specialty.
best retirement plan of your career…now if only your coworkers
would look at you with something other than dread. Your bosses in Utopia Now know you’re a rising
Departments star. You gain Horn or another key player in the
operation as a two dot Mentor.
The Cure performs the dirty work…well, the dirtier work… The leadership knows you bring something unique
to build the future. It’s their job to make sure the same kinds to the table, and gives you the tools to act on it. Take
of supernatural parasites the old system makes use of can’t find a four dot Retainer to represent staff, or four dots of
their way into the new one. They’re the most traditional hunt- Allies in a partner organization.
ers of the lot. They scavenge occult lore, they run monsters to
the ground, and they end them.
Operators do the footwork to track down the really big Stereotypes
targets, the institutional demons Horn wants to dissect. They Ashwood Abbey: These guys know how to party, but they
analyze financial reports, police blotters, and any other infor- miss the point. You celebrate success when you accomplish
mation they can get their hands on to identify demons. Then something worthwhile or land a new investor, not just because
they eliminate them using a combination of business acumen you found some exotic monster to eat.
(to break the institution) and old school exorcism (to get rid of Loyalists of Thule: Everything we’re fighting against. They
any remaining part that might seek revenge). Afterward, their set into motion the monstrous engines of the twentieth cen-
acquisitions group takes apart the demon’s physical compo- tury. Whatever knowledge they might have, is it worth even
nents and ships them back to Silicon Valley. speaking to the architects of the very past we want to erase?
Incubators take charge of society’s engines when other The Cheiron Group: You hear about these suits some-
hunters have broken them. They examine the occult patterns times. Big players in biotech, rumors that they’re after the same
on which institutional demons were built, seeing if they can targets as us. But they’re not about changing things. They’re
rearrange them for a better world. They take the reactors that about lining their own pockets with the existing system – the
run on blood, and determine what they can boot up using ar- one we’ve sworn to tear down.
tificial plasma. The Union: On the one hand, you’ve got to admire their
Status gumption. They take matters into their own hands, and they
get shit done. On the other hand, our ideological divide’s right
Status in Utopia Now depends on two things: how much there in the name. “Union.” We want a future where everyone
you believe, and how well you can deliver miracles. In theory, works for honest dollars (or better yet, crypto-currency). The
this compact expects its hunters to be the best in their individ- Union thinks the world owes them warmth and security.

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