Infinite Geste
The Lords of Time who came up with Infinite Geste had a simple goal: come up with an organization that could function in any historical era, any timeline, any alternate universe, from the Dawn of Man to the Fall of Man. So perhaps it wasn’t really ‘simple.’ ‘Straightforward’ works just as well as a description, though.
Cosgrove and Stewart – Google Docs
Cosgrove and Stewart
To begin with, that’s the name of the company, not the two people who currently run it. Cosgrove and Stewart has the exoteric background of being a bookbindery that specializes in restoring and preserving truly antique books and scrolls; the company maintains offices in London and New York City. It is very much a high-end business institution: Cosgrove and Stewart is on long-term retainer with numerous national and academic libraries, Cambridge University Press, B’nai B’rith, the Genda Shigyo paper company, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Universal Exports, Bolten-Brauerei, the Windsor dynasty, Schwabe, Gazzetta di Mantova, the DIA, the World Council of Churches, Chief Khalsa Diwan, the National Geographic Society, and the Girl Scouts of America.
Benevolent Gentlemen of Saint Attis – Google Docs
The Benevolent Gentlemen of Saint Attis
Don’t believe the name: every word in “The Benevolent Gentlemen of Saint Attis” is a lie, with the possible exceptions of ‘the’ and ‘of.’ Explaining why will take some unpacking, however. In reverse order:
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Strategic Emergency National Imitative-Occult Reserve – Google Docs
Strategic Emergency National Imitative – Occult Reserve
The 1970s were, in many ways, the high-water mark for organized occultism inside the federal government. There were a lot of ideas and procedures implemented during that time period that would have never been permitted either ten years before, or ten years after; but in that time period, all sorts of weird programs flourished. And then promptly withered away to vestigial form, to be sure.
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Command_Logistics_Ordinance Warning Network – Google Docs
Command/Logistics/Ordinance Warning Network
(CLOWN)
Wheels within wheels within wheels.
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Regeneration Prison Solutions
This American private correctional company operates three facilities in the Midwest (two in Nebraska, and one in Iowa). Each facility holds roughly six thousand inmates who have been convicted of a variety of violent and nonviolent crimes; Regeneration Prison Solutions has a mix of state and federal contracts, and does not favor one type over the other. Each facility has a special section for particularly dangerous individuals, but the vast majority of its inmates are in the general population.
Undead Community Society – Google Docs
Undead Community Society
The Undead Community Society (UCS) is what is left over when the creation of reliable necromantic reanimation spells results in the sudden appearance of free-willed Undead, who then break into factions supporting/opposing living humans, each other, and society in general. There was a rather nasty little civil war among the Undead, in fact. The UCS was one of the two main factions, and the Zombie Liberation Front (ZLF) was the other. Fortunately for more or less everybody, ZLF lost. Badly.
Cult of the Dear Lovers – Google Docs
Cult of the Dear Lovers
Like many an odd fringe faith before it, the Cult of the Dear Lovers has happily taken root in Southern California. It is, however, a secret cult. There are elements to the cult that should worry even the most jaded and cynical adept; and rumors about its priesthood abounds. While everybody knows somebody who knows somebody in the Cult, nobody ever actually admits to being in it.
Crowley Memorial Society – Google Docs
The Crowley Memorial Society
It has had many names. The ‘Crowley Memorial Society’ is merely the latest alias, and it will probably switch again in the next two decades. When you’re operating a fairly clandestine group to help demons on the run, you tend not to invest too much in fancy letterheads.
Great Autonomous Road Show – Google Docs
The Great Autonomous Road Show
Note the lack of the term ‘classic cars’ or anything, in there. It was felt by the sentient cars who make up the Great Autonomous Road Show that even humans would notice if they just came out and lampshaded “HI! WE’RE A FLEET OF RETIRED SENTIENT CARS WHO ARE NOW ON PERMANENT VACATION!” like that in the title. A little misdirection is usually all that you need with humans, bless ‘em — but no need to push the envelope, there.
