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Offline horridperson

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C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« on: September 22, 2015, 07:52:03 PM »
C.O.R.D. was a clandestine government department formed in 1921 by the 10th Prime Minister, William Lyon Mckenzie King.  The organization had it's roots in a similar Victorian agency that operated on Canadian soil at the direction of the Crown.  The Promethean Institute had conducted investigations into the supernatural occurring in the Canadas from a satellite bureau in Ottawa.  In 1913 Institute agents embarked on an expedition into the arctic for an unknown purpose.  The onset of the Great War in Europe diverted attention from the endeavor so when these operatives failed to report their status there was no one wondering what had become of them.

This is the basic premise for the organization that will be the focus of my Strange Aeons campaign.  It is quite a ways off as I only just picked up the rule set any associated models are still in the mail.  It could be a while before there are any AARs.

Just the same I enjoy monkeying around with alternate/weird history and providing an imagined history for the project could be an amusement unto itself.  King's diaries are a matter of public record so inventing a story within them is possible.  He was a prolific diarist so finding gaps in his journals can be challenging; Luckily he had a few days in 1920 and 1921 he was mum about so I can stuff some BS in there :) .

As I flesh things out (history, characters, AARs) I will make additions to the thread.  Hopefully I can make the story part more entertaining by introducing "historical documents" to give the setting some false veracity.  To get things started here a blank licence that would be issued to a C.O.R.D. agent and carried by them in the field.  Thirteen of these blanks were discovered in a footlocker in the Canadian War Museum in the early 1980's.  

At the time of their issue these documents had little value.  They neither granted the authority of the government or even that of a peace officer.  C.O.R.D. was unknown to the public, civil authorities and denied at the highest levels of government that created it.  To mitigate this isolation a series of way stations across the country offered traveling agents some respite.  The IDs were most often used as credentials to allow access to these secret road houses.    
« Last Edit: September 22, 2015, 07:55:25 PM by horridperson »

Offline LidlessEye

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 07:56:24 PM »
Canadian content is always heartily approved!  :D

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 11:19:25 PM »
Hear, Hear! That's one skookum organisation, right there.
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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2015, 12:31:58 AM »
Sounding good to me.  Maybe we can convice Uncle Mike to get a couple of Mountie C.O.R.D agents sculpted up.

Lem  :)

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2015, 12:37:08 AM »
I think thet'll have to meet my Royal Canadian Rocket Police!
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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2015, 01:21:31 AM »
I have a Dirk Goodspeed (Reaper) on order to get things started but if I need more RCs Bob Murch's Pulps look solid.  If I ever turned the clock ahead (Delta Green in Canada) I would have to pick up the Harwood Hobbies constable; He looks great.  Do you have pics of your rocket police Gary?  Sounds pretty awesome.

I didn't even start rolling out agent concepts or profiles and you guys already fingered the mountie  :(.  Such an iconic necessity I should have figured I wasn't surprising anybody  ;).  The other two starters should be a little harder to pick out but both will provide a slice of Canadian history because it makes me feel like I'm playing with my toys very seriously :) .

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2015, 01:29:41 AM »
You had me going for a second. Until I realized WLMK was the 12th PM.  lol

Edit:
I will concede WLMK was the 10th man to serve as PM but Sir John A and Mr. Borden served two terms each so I count him as #12. Maybe 11th as Sir John As terms were not consecutive... Aaaand I just bored myself. Apologies.
« Last Edit: September 23, 2015, 01:36:45 AM by Johnno »
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Offline horridperson

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2015, 02:44:11 AM »
"......formed in 1921 by Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King"

Semantics.  I look at it as 10th man.  When I produce the final edit before I blog it I'll  edit it as the quote above to avoid any ambiguity.   

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2015, 10:23:57 AM »
I'm just joking around. It's a fantastic idea either way. I look forward to seeing this progress.

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2015, 01:23:30 PM »
@gary42: awesome models!

@Johnno: NP, Some of the ideas are tongue in cheek any way.  The C.O.R.D. crest is an image of the Gordian Knot.  In spite of it's complexity Alexander simply chopped the thing in half.  It seemed like a simple Mythos solution to my poor investigators :) .
« Last Edit: September 23, 2015, 04:34:02 PM by horridperson »

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2015, 01:49:00 PM »
Thanks! 

Didn't  C.O.R.D. have something to do with burning down the White House in it'most early incarnation?

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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2015, 04:21:43 PM »
If I recall correctly, the act was misinterpreted, but the world is forever safer for it.

Such is the butcher's bill when fighting a pan-dimensional foe... These things have no respect for sovereignty.


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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2015, 04:28:14 PM »
Canadian content is always heartily approved!  :D

No doubt aboot it, eh!


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Re: C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2015, 04:48:56 PM »
I'm not sure on the history of the Promethean Institute/Society/Branch or even it's name for that matter.  The War of 1812 is certainly earlier than I was planning for the satellite Crown organization.  I thought the office might have come to the new world in the Victorian era post Confederation since the colonies were becoming more "civilized" and getting their own government affairs in order.  As long as they are around to do a polar expedition in the early 20th century that should do the trick.  I had thought about the promethean branch being wiped out at the commencement of the Great War but if the expedition left in 1920 with modest escort of Mounties the lone survivor might be an appropriate first C.O.R.D. agent.  With no Prometheans remaining King might have made an executive decision and appropriated the Lighthouse in the name of the Canadian government.

The Lighthouse was a Victorian house in the Ottawa region that served as a base of operations for the Promethean Branch in the Canadas.  Living Quarters, Motor Pool, Armoury, Library, Sanctum.

On government here's a transcript from King's diaries

 

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