Organizations¶

49 pages, grouped by the case they belong to.

Main cast and recurring¶

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CIA	The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is the home agency of Kurt Larson, who serves with the Paranatural Incident Task Force on loan, and the keeper of the undersea prison where the villain of the Georgia case ends up.
FBI	The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is the parent agency of the Paranatural Incident Task Force and the employer of three of its four investigators.
National Guard	The National Guard is the military reserve force called out twice to back up the Paranatural Incident Task Force: in Massachusetts, where it arrives after the fighting is over, and in Utah, where it fights beside the...
NSA	The NSA (National Security Agency) is a U.S.
Paranatural Incident Task Force	The Paranatural Incident Task Force (PITF) is the small FBI unit, created at presidential request in 1992 and run out of a derelict Washington barbershop, whose four investigators are the player characters of the...
UTAW	UTAW (Unorthodox Tactics and Warfare) is the fictional division of the CIA in which Kurt Larson served before he was loaned to the FBI, and the source of most of his stranger skills and stories.

Across several cases¶

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Aetherius Society	The Aetherius Society is the church of Andrew Howard: a cosmic-minded faith devoted to the Masters, which raised him, issued him his church mace and, in later arcs, looks after his health.
KGB	The KGB is the Soviet security service, which in The Things in Appalachia reaches out to Dick "The Biz" Baxter through a fake sweepstakes line and trades information on the "Massachusetts matter" for a favor in...

Radford, Virginia¶

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Armed group in the woods	The armed group in the woods is a party of five or six people with flashlights and at least one shotgun, one of them heard speaking Spanish, with a muscular teen and a jumpy man introduced as "Uncle Trevor," whom...
The cartel	The cartel is the Mexican drug-smuggling organization that the Radford Sheriff's Department names as the official explanation for the heroin and violence of the Radford killings.
The cleanup crew	The cleanup crew is an unidentified armed group of soldiers without insignia and heat-suited "volcanologists" with flamethrowers, who converge on the old-town church at the end of The Radford Horror and afterward...
Convoy ambushers	The convoy ambushers are the gunmen who bomb and attack the Russian president's motorcade on the road to Oryol Oblast in Radford Horrors 03.
Gray van crew	The gray van crew is a five-man paramilitary-style team that drives gray vans around Radford, abducts people, scrubs crime scenes of evidence, and bags the creature in the Douglas Pinball Emporium.
IRS Criminal Investigations	IRS Criminal Investigations (IRS CI) is the federal tax-enforcement unit whose SWAT-style team raids the Ferry Lodge in The Radford Horrors at the end of an eight-month fraud investigation, just as the task force...
Missing FBI task force	The missing FBI task force is the team of five veteran FBI agents that President Ross Perot had handpicked to redo the Radford investigation, who vanish in the Virginia woods and leave behind an intact campsite.
Radford Sheriff's Department	The Radford Sheriff's Department is the small, understaffed local law-enforcement agency of Radford, Virginia, and the task force's main local contact across both Radford arcs.
Russian government	The Russian government is the set of officials, guards, doctors and soldiers around President Boris Yeltsin that first holds the Biz as a captive in Moscow and then, in The Radford Horrors, treats him as a trusted...
Safe Environment Fund	The Safe Environment Fund (SEF) is a nominally environmental research and advocacy group that buys and fences off large stretches of the woods around Radford, Virginia, protecting them with armed guards, lawyers and...
Whateley family	The Whateley family is a churchgoing Radford household of four, Yobiah, Irene and their identical twin sons Abe and Wilbur, whose house holds a shrine-like bedroom, a butterfly collector's room and a hidden cellar,...

The Summer Service¶

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EPA/USGS survey team	The EPA/USGS survey team is the eight-person field team that was sent to Marblehead after the offshore explosion, was threatened by town officials, and vanished before the task force arrived in The Summer Service.
Foreign Influence Task Force	The Foreign Influence Task Force is the FBI task force headed by Big Bill Nelson, which sits above the player characters' own unit in the chain of command and treats alien visitation as "foreign by definition."
Marblehead Board of Selectmen	The Marblehead Board of Selectmen is the town's governing council, which in the world of The Summer Service is an eleven-seat board bound to the Sons of Adam church and led by the bloated mayor.
Marblehead police	The Marblehead police are the town's hostile local force, suspected by the task force of the lighthouse interrogation and the bug left there, and aligned with the Sons of Adam cult when it besieges the task force's...
Mystery covert group	The mystery covert group is the unidentified armed organization behind the voice on the task force's pocket radio, whose dead "advanced team" leaked the nerve agent into Marblehead's water in The Summer Service.
Russian intelligence	Russian intelligence is the Russian agency that reaches the Biz through a fake phone sweepstakes line during the Marblehead case, using a book cipher to tell him that two submarines have been lost near Massachusetts.
Sons of Adam	The Sons of Adam are the millenarian, ocean-obsessed church that dominates Marblehead, Massachusetts, with its own Bible, a worm-filled communion wine and a congregation that includes the town's selectmen, its police...

The Things in Appalachia¶

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The Circle Chasers	The Circle Chasers are a group of teenage paranormal hunters who travel in a crop-circle-painted trailer around Dahlonega, Georgia, hunting Bigfoot and UFOs, and who the task force privately calls the Scooby gang.
The Covenant	The Covenant is a religious community led by the prophet Elijah Ray that occupies the Georgia ghost town of Auraria near Dahlonega, known locally for its fermented peach preserves, a hallucinogenic peach drink and...
Dahlonega Sheriff's Department	The Dahlonega Sheriff's Department is the small local law-enforcement agency, led by Sheriff Carter Burke, that investigates the disappearances in and around Dahlonega, Georgia and works alongside the task force in...
Fox 5 Atlanta	Fox 5 Atlanta is the Atlanta television station whose news crew covers the story of the FBI allegedly spying on Bill Clinton, and whose camera catches Andrew Howard outside the Spud Hut plant in Dahlonega, Georgia.
Georgia State Police	The Georgia State Police is the state agency that Sheriff Burke calls in to help with the Dahlonega disappearances, and that then finds a pair of night-vision goggles outside the task force's hotel, holds a press...
Jan's Conspiracy	Jan's Conspiracy was the ring, led by Spud Hut manager Jan Martense, that mined gold with the labor of captive ape-men beneath Dahlonega, Georgia, and used fake Bigfoot sightings as cover.
Next-door Hotel Guests	The Next-door Hotel Guests are a group of secretive occupants of a room at the Smith Hotel in Dahlonega, the room the Biz bugged in Appalachia 02.
Spud Hut	Spud Hut (also Spud Hut America, SHA) is a Dahlonega-based stuffed-potato restaurant chain whose distribution center fronted an illegal gold mine worked by ape-men.

The Walkers in Skin¶

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Ballard town government	The Ballard town government is the small-town leadership of Ballard, Utah, made up of Mayor Wilford Hiram and city treasurer and school superintendent Deborah Wells, who push a controversial community center and its...
Bigelow's research operation	Bigelow's research operation is the private UFO and paranormal study run by billionaire Robert Bigelow at Sherman Ranch near Ballard, Utah, with scientists, a couple of ex-Navy staff, instruments and armed security.
FBI Salt Lake City field office	The FBI Salt Lake City field office is the medium-sized local Bureau office where the task force picks up the case file on Sherman Ranch before heading to Ballard.
Hazmat cleanup teams	The hazmat cleanup teams are dozens of unidentified hazmat-suited personnel who appear under silent black triangular craft at the end of The Walkers in Skin to load and clear bodies after the community center collapses.
Roosevelt Police Department	The Roosevelt Police Department is the small-town police force of Roosevelt, Utah, which lends the team its car Betsy, forces a false confession out of Yusuf Ansari, and is later massacred and replaced by skinwalkers.
Skinwalker faction	The Skinwalker faction is the organized group of skinwalker copies that holds most of Ballard, Utah, massacres the Roosevelt police, steals every car, runs the bridge blockade and hoards supplies at the community center.
Utah cleanup crew	The Utah cleanup crew is a group of three skinwalkers in gray maintenance uniforms, armed and carrying plastic sheeting and bungee cords, whom the team confronts outside the Roosevelt police station.

The Roulet Estate¶

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Keely Network	The Keely Network is a community of UFO enthusiasts who trade messages on electronic message boards, and the source of the letter that sent the task force to the Roulet house.
Local Rhode Island Police	The Local Rhode Island Police are the local officers who secure the Roulet crime scene near Exeter, issue an APB on the agents' stolen car, and lose an officer during the Brooks pharmacy siege.
Russian Government / FSB	The Russian Government / FSB is the Russian state apparatus that abducts Dick "The Biz" Baxter from his hospital bed, holds him at the Vorkuta labor camp and flies him to Moscow to be questioned by Boris Yeltsin.

Philosopher's Fist (non-canon)¶

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The Alien Faction	The Alien Faction is the largest cluster of entrants at the World Martial Arts Tournament briefing, a loose group of aliens who are friends and train together.
Animal Control	Animal Control is the agency the library calls about a "shaved baboon," which is Derk.
Pure Human Martial Artists	The Pure Human Martial Artists are the entrants who rely on technique and ki alone, and who plan to ally with the authorities so as to look like the stable, safe heroes.
Secret Service	The Secret Service protects the werewolf president in the one-shot Philosopher's Fist 3.J/2: Unchainable.
World Martial Arts Tournament	The World Martial Arts Tournament (WMAT) is the quinquennial contest at the heart of the world of Philosopher's Fist, a talent pipeline for superhumans whose grand prize is a few minutes with the Philosopher's Stone.

Minor entries¶

Smaller subjects are collected on list pages, one per case.