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There comes a point in every case when the investigators can go no further. Perhaps they have exhausted all the leads available to them, perhaps there were never any leads to follow in the first place. On occassions such as these regular FBI agents - the ones who still have the respect of their peers - file their reports, pack their bags and head off for pastures new. The case itself sits there and festers. It becomes a cold case; a grey case. Then sometimes weeks, sometimes years, later something happens. A small clue, a tiny fragment of evidence that wasn't available to the original investigation surfaces and suddenly there are leads to follow. It is at this point that the grey case file is passed to Evidence Response. But what sort of FBI agent finds himself working the grey cases? Who would want to work in the least glamourous part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation? No-one. No-one but a certified loon would chose to work on these cases. The agents who find themselves in one of the these evidence response teams are agents that the FBI would rather lose, agents who have done something questionable in the past and now, through every fault of their own, need to be shunted somewhere out of the public eye. These are the player characters in Marc's Call of Cthulhu campaign. Not talentless losers, but agents with something dark in their past that has made them a liability. And being Call of Cthulhu something supernatural has been thrown into the mix. HierachyAt the time the mid-west team was formed, the head of evidence response was Deputy Director A. Jack Eisenstein. He was responsible for forming the unit and has a long and complicated history. After his death on 14 May 2001, the infamous Artemis Black stepped into his shoes taking the role of Assistant Deputy Director, Evidence Response. Eisenstein was resurrected on 10 June 2001 and promptly retired, leaving the way open for Artemis to schmooze into power. Now Deputy Director in his own right, Artemis has a desk at Quantico and an inner sanctum in Washington D.C. Beneath Artemis are a series of special operatives and evidence response teams, each with their own special jurisdiction. The East Coast TeamThe East Coast team has juristiction over the eastern sea board of the United States including Washington, New York and Florida (but not New England). The team is based on the top floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City, which they share with a friendly poltergeist. Currently the team is made up of the following agents:
The West Coast TeamThe West Coast Team has jurisdiction over the western sea board of the United States including Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico and Nevada. The current team was formed in 1995 and has served continuously since that time. The only exception being the seven month blip from 13 December 2000 and 10 June 2001 during which time they were dead (see case LA10749). The following agents are on the west coast team:
The Mid-West TeamsThe Mid-West teams have jurisdiction over the central mass of continental United States, including Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Missouri and anywhere else the other teams don't want to go. The first team was created in September 2000 when it became apparent that the caseload was too great for the East and West teams alone. A second team was created on 17 June 2001 to mop up some of first team's back cases. Both teams are based in Wichita, Kansas. The first team at the original headquarters, the second at the local FBI office.Within Kansas the team is subordinate to Assistant Special Agent in Charge Michael Tabman, the most senior FBI agent in the state. The team roster has changed markedly over the months, but it is currently made up of the following agents: The First Team
The Second Team
The North-East TeamCreated in April 2001, the North-East team was formed to lighten the workload of the East Coast team. This team has jurisdiction over the New England area. They are based in Augusta, Maine in a period farmhouse once frequented by Benedict Arnold. The team is made up of the following agents:
The North-West TeamVery recently created, the North-West team is designed to take pressure off the West Coast team. The North-West team is based in Anchorage, Alasksa. It has jurisdiction over several states including Alaska, Wyoming and Hawaii. The team is made up of the following agents:
Special OperativesIn addition to the teams, Eisenstein (and Artemis after him) had a number of special operatives with their own peculiar talents. They are not connected to any one team, but directly serve the Deputy Director. Some are based in Washington, but others live further afield.
Other AgentsThese are additional agents within the structure of evidence response. Some are working to further links with other organisations, others are dogsbodies. Oddly, all of them used to be part of the mid-west team.
The Cthulhu ConnectionNow, the thing about Eisenstein is that he was a man with his own agenda. He knew the truth. He knew that there are forces at work in the world beyond the ken of science. He believed in magic and witches and werewolves - mostly because he had seen these things with his own eyes. He knew that the regular FBI is ill-equipped to deal with supernatural threats because it is hamstrung by its naïve reliance of facts and evidence. He wanted to do something about it. The evidence response teams are uniquely placed to go and investigate cases that have a supernatural bent to them. Of course, this only works if the agents in these teams know and appreciate the same goals as Eisenstein, and so for the most part Eisenstein packed the teams with agents who were open to explanations beyond the rational and the earthly. Those agents that are not already believers are quickly indoctrinated into the truth of things within the first few cases. Do not suppose that Eisenstein's work was sanctioned by the federal government, for it was not. Whether Eisenstein had a superior in this shadowy endeavour is unclear; what is clear is that there were forces working against him and forces working toward the same ends wholly unconnected with him. Eisenstein's short term goal seemed to be to throw as many able-bodied agents in the face of supernatual menaces as possible in the vain hope of success. The mortality rate for agents working Eisenstein's grey case files was about 25%. Fortunately, the resurrection rate was slightly higher. If Eisenstein had a long-term plan he does not share it with his agents. He could certainly draw upon impressive resources - such as pills to slowly poison alien life forms, and government approved psychics - but these resources could not be relied upon. Eisenstein impressed on all his agents that their work fighting the supernatural must be kept secret. The agents submit two reports for each case: the sanitised version and one that documents what really happened. It may only be a matter of time before the entire house of cards crumbles, but in the meantime there is much to be done. Artemis Black heralded a new style of management. He was very keen to have the teams work more closely together and to share more infomation. This greater degree of open-ness has met with considerable success, as Artemis seems more inclined to put the resources that Eisenstein kept in reserve onto the front line. Perhaps this is because, as a member of the mid-west team for several months, Black appreciates the reality of field work. However, it is likely the old ham completely forgot his old companions the second he got his knees under a comfortable desk so the explanation probably lies elsewhere. See Also:
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