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(c)2013 Pelgrane Press Ltd.
The Esoterrorist and Ordo Veritatis are trademarks of Pelgrane Press Ltd.
Contents
The State of Play...................................................... 4
About This Document .......................................... 5
The Membrane ........................................................ 6
The membrane & humanity ................................ 6
Damage to the membrane ................................... 7
Breach Categories ................................................. 7
Repairing the membrane ..................................... 8
Summoning Techniques........................................ 9
Greater Invocative Summoning ......................... 9
Methodology........................................................... 10
Countermeasures ................................................ 12
Case Study:
Celestial Temple
of Aquarius ......................................................... 12
Lesser Invocative Summoning ............................. 14
Ontological Summoning ....................................... 15
Methodology ....................................................... 15
Countermeasures ................................................ 16
Case Study: Operation SAGE NAPOLEON ... 16
CASE STUDY: Operation
TOLEDO CRESCENT ........................................ 17
Constructionist Summoning ............................... 18
Methodology ....................................................... 19
Countermeasures ................................................ 20
Case Study: TOPAZ NIGHT ............................. 20
Impositional Summoning .................................... 21
Methodology ...................................................... 21
Countermeasures ................................................ 22
Case Study:
BELINDA WHALE............................................. 23
Opportunistic Summoning ................................... 24
Methodology ....................................................... 24
Countermeasures ................................................ 25
Case Study: WHISKY NEPAL .......................... 25
Negotiating With The Dark ................................ 27
When is
Negotiation viable?............................................. 27
Goals of Negotiation .......................................... 27
Establishing Communication ............................... 28
Proxies .................................................................. 28
Impersonation & Verification
........................... 28
Authentication .................................................... 29
Avoiding Entanglement .................................... 29
Instrumental and Expressive Demands ............. 30
Offering a way out .............................................. 31
The Ethics of Negotiation ................................. 31
Cell Death ............................................................... 33
Introduction ............................................................ 33
Backstory ................................................................. 33
Investigative Trigger .......................................... 33
Sinister Conspiracy ............................................. 33
Trail of Clues ....................................................... 34
Antagonist Reactions ......................................... 34
CURATOR FOUR .................................................. 34
Investigating
CURATOR FOUR ............................................... 35
Dying Alone ............................................................ 36
Heading to Idaho ................................................ 37
Clearing Bluewater ................................................ 37
Greater Invocative .............................................. 37
Lesser Invocative ................................................ 37
Opportunistic ...................................................... 37
Ontological........................................................... 37
Constructionist .................................................... 37
Impositional ........................................................ 38
Investigating the Farm ....................................... 38
The Farm ................................................................. 39
Layout................................................................... 39
Getting In ............................................................. 41
Antagonist Reactions ......................................... 41
The Balefire Man
................................................ 41
Stopping the
Balefire Man
........................................................ 42
The Veilout .......................................................... 42
Appendix:
The Balefire Man
.................................................. 43
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The recent Operational Review, presented at
the sixteenth Global Conference, presents an
alarming and singularly pessimistic outlook on
Ordo Veritatis efforts to contain the Esoterror
threat. As discussed in the 1979 Strategic Overview
Assessment, the overall Ordo strategy has changed
over time in response to the actions of the enemy,
the limitations of Ordo resources and the level
of support, cooperation and tolerance from
friendly governments and organisations. The 1979
assessment listed five strategies that might be
pursued; Eradication, Suppression, Containment,
Mitigation and Survival.
Under the Eradication strategy, pursued from the
foundation of the organisation until the seventh
Global Conference, the aim was to completely
destroy Esoterror and eliminate awareness of the
Outer Dark from the human knowledge corpus.
This ‘zero tolerance’ approach was predicated on
being able to thoroughly liquidate any Esoterror
conspiracies, contain any knowledge transfer, and
ensure that no trace remained of the conspirators
and any Outer Dark Entities (ODEs) involved. As
part of the Eradication strategy, OV agents infiltrated
groups that were deemed vulnerable to Esoterror
corruption, eliminated potential Esoterror recruits,
and attempted to guide societal development
towards a form deemed favourable to our aims.
Eradication proved overly ambitious, especially as
communication methods improved and the ability
to wholly erase all references to Esoterror-related
material was lost to us. Destroying a single diary or a
few locally printed books is simple; destroying every
copy of a thousand-book print run that has been
distributed across the United States is much more
difficult; completely suppressing information in the
age of the internet an impossibility. The ultimate but
unattainable goal of Eradication was to completely
destroy even the possibility of Esoterror, in the hope
that the lack of ontological trauma would permit the
Membrane to harden and even calcify, permanently
locking reality into a ‘safe’ state.
The seventh Conference recommended a
retrenchment and a move to a Suppression strategy.
The State of
Play
Under Suppression, the Ordo abandoned the aim of
completely destroying Esoterror as a concept, and
instead concentrated on wiping out manifestations
as soon as they occurred. Monitoring activities were
expanded, so that field teams could be deployed to
suppress Esoterror activity and seal breaches as
soon as problems were detected. Rather than try
to destroy every single Esoterror-related document
or thought pattern, the Ordo Veritatis aimed to
identify vulnerable groups and cauterise any
infections before they could spread. The policy was
described as ‘triage and culling’. We have operated
under Suppression until the present day.
It was hoped that Suppression would restrict
Esoterror activity to a minimal level that would
not impact severely on the Membrane. The
damage caused by a handful of short-lived cults,
conspiracies, memes or other enemy action is
comparatively low, as long as these Esoterror
cells were eliminated promptly. Other cells would
inevitably spring up to replace those destroyed, but
as long as the Esoterror activity remained below the
so-called epidemic threshold, the contagion could
be kept manageable. The quicker an Esoterror cell
is suppressed, the lower the risk of a significant
breach in the Membrane. Damage to the Membrane
increases non-linearly over time – a hundred short-
lived cults are less damaging overall than a single
cell that goes undetected long enough to cause a
breach. The key to successful Suppression is the
Ordo’s reaction speed; for the Suppression strategy
to work, the Ordo has to be able to eliminate
Esoterror cells before they have the occult resources
to wound the Membrane.
To be blunt, Suppression is on the verge of failure.
New Esoterror incidents exceed our ability to
suppress them. Since the seventh Conference,
the number of operations classified as ‘some
supernatural presence’, ‘new Low Membrane
Strength Location’, ‘active possession by
ODE’, ‘localised reality collapse’, ‘considerable
supernatural presence’ and so on (rung 21 or
more on the modified Kahn/Steadman escalation
ladder) has risen from 1.2% of missions to more
than 25%. The presence of active supernatural
opposition not only makes field operations vastly
more hazardous, it also accelerates the spread of
Esoterrorist beliefs and reduces the probability of
a successful Veil-Out.
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