The Conspiracy
“It makes no difference what their goals are. If these are their methods, I shall oppose them.”
“It makes no difference what their goals are. If these are their methods, I shall oppose them.”
The Registry
“No, I don't think I've ever talked to Mr. Johnson in room 304. Why do you ask?”
The Registry is a series of data points, documents, bank accounts, records, and legal briefs. They are a complete paper trail of birth certificates, employment histories, school records, and bill payments. And that's all they are. None of the people in The Registry exist. It's not that they are different people hiding under those aliases, there just literally aren't any people at all. Their rooms are empty, no one actually sits in their desks or goes to their classes. But papers get turned in, they get grades, they buy and sell things, and members of The Registry vote and even die. It's hard, maybe even impossible to say how far back The Registry goes or what it wants. After all, what are you going to do? Check the old records?
The Hollow Men
“He just came in and stabbed Carline! It was horrible! It was... what were we talking about?”
The Hollow Men are dour and pale, and they do horrible things that no one remembers. They don't have any hair, and abhor light and color. They usually wear glasses to hide the fact that they don't have eyebrows. Their big trick is that reality overwrites itself to hide evidence that they have ever been anywhere or done anything. If they walk across a field, the foot prints will vanish. If they murder someone, records of that person having ever existed will be expunged. This sanitized history exists everywhere except the memories of people with Hyper Perception. Don't bother trying to show sleepers where Hollow Men have acted, because even if you get there in time for there to be evidence remaining, the sleeper won't remember the conversation.
The Night Terrors
“I've never seen one of the monsters. No one ever has.”
The Night Terrors are horrible monsters that murder people in ghastly ways while they sleep. It is presumed that they are hideous, and indirect evidence points to them having very strange anatomies and tremendous strength. Fortunately, Night Terrors die and vanish from reality if they are seen by any living person. They have the ability to mess with electrical items, meaning that lights go out in advance of their arrival. They leave no traces of their bodies and can't be photographed. So you'll have to deal with them alone because no one else believes they exist. Those who do manage to see one only see a brief flash of something horrible before it is wiped from existence.
The Metatron
“A lone voice arguing for evil wins any argument against silence.”
The Metatron have no physical form. They can appear as absolutely anything or anyone, but cannot touch anything or leave any physical trace (thus, they also do not appear in photographs and their words cannot be recorded). They are essentially hallucinations of whoever is near them. It is theorized that there may be some limited number of them such as seven or even just one. They commit wickedness only by convincing real people in the real world to go do horrible things - at which point those people appear to be simply delusional to the rest of society. Those who have Hyper Perception can feel places the Metatron have been, but no one else can.
The Agency
“Your tax dollars at work.”
The Agency exists because people expect it to. It has no offices that have been found and exists in no organizational chart for any government. Nonetheless, it has agents in every corner of the globe. People just start getting instructions from The Agency, and then they start performing covert operations on its behalf. Perfectly ordinary policemen just get upgraded to the secret police one day, and from then on they start being Men in Black. Mostly they gather information about people and events and pass them “up” to their unknown superiors, but sometimes they cover up events, sabotage things, or even make people disappear.
But there are also a series of disturbing tactics employed by The Conspiracy that I would like to go into. I would like to make it so that there are at least enough tactics that each of the conspirators could be behind one of them, but also make it so that it isn't entirely clear who is behind any of them.
The Contest
“Congratulations! You're a winner!”
Sometimes people get calls informing them that they have won something. And when it's a free vacation, it is usually something where they make you sit through a long commercial for buying beachfront property or something. But there is one Contest where none of the winners ever come back. They make various calls, they settle their affairs, they gradually stop talking to people, and... that's it. No one sees them again. And no one files a missing person on any of them, because it's perfectly reasonable under the circumstances.
The Extras
“Wait... who was that guy?”
When you go to a big party, or the mall, or a political rally, you don't know everyone there. No one knows everyone there in most cases. But in some cases, there are people who show up that no one knows. Not party crashers, or people from the next town over, but literally people that are not known by anyone. They only exist in crowds, and appear to stir up riots and spread rumors. They photograph normally, but do not appear in photos other than crowd scenes. But if you study a lot of crowd scenes, you can find that the faces do repeat – often in crowds separated by decades.
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