Prologue:
People have always known about the supernatural. Throughout history and even now, there have been tales of paranormal occurrences and creatures, from demons and dragons to kelpies and kappa; whether they believed the supernatural is real is another thing. In reality, the paranormal has been just that-- tales and stories. Nothing more. However, what we call reality is merely an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. Reality is only an interpretation of what is around us.
Recently a girl began to question this supposed 'reality'. Sometimes it just didn't make sense. She felt like her whole life was some sort of dream-- she also wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it more than she was.
Her name was Tzipora Highborne, a 16-year-old girl whose life was never that 'real' in the first place. She lived alone in an apartment with her older cousin, an unfathomably dork-ish 22-year-old named Stuart. What happened to her parents? They never existed, and it makes as much sense to her as it does to you or me.
She always pestered Stuart as to their whereabouts; since she was not old enough to remember, he surely would have. However, he always gave her the same answer, in a fearful tone, "They never existed. Stop asking." Speaking of anything out of the norm was taboo in Stuart apartment (which also made her wonder why her parent's disappearance was such taboo). In fact, he strangely had a fear and intolerance of anything that did not seem natural. Around Tzipora, though, a lot of these 'unnatural' occurrences happened.
Nonetheless, she respected Stuart's wishes, though it wouldn't be for long. There was an incident that ruined her, one faithful day..
Tzipora did not return home, afterwards.
Worried, Stuart tried to stay awake that night hoping she would return the apartment, but he fell asleep on the couch, waiting. The next morning, he went to the police to report her missing, but was only laughed at.
A girl named Tzipora Highborne? She doesn't exist.........
Yes, your home away from home. I suppose an explanation is in order so let me explain this as best as I can:
Stationed in the Big Apple, although we don't refer to it by it's original name anymore. We use code-names, sectors and whatnot. In this case, fortunately, New York's codename is in fact Big Apple. Convenient, right? The year is just about 2024? I don't remember, I haven't been checking the calendar lately. The years pass me by pretty good. All the people in the city just go about their business, cause that's all you can do nowadays with an infinitely growing population and economy. Just goes to show you ignorance is bliss, and all work and no play....you know the rest.
Nothing's really been changing lately over the past thirty years, people keep shooting, gambling, abusing their lives in whatever fashion they want. The only big difference is that the paranormal activity has been on the rise for quite some time now...
You know that whole 2012 spook twelve years ago? Where they said some tribe from probably thousands of years ago predicted the end of time on that date? Funny thing about that: We prevented it. Turns out it was a riff opening into the Otherworld. Demons, monsters, chaos, simply rushing out from the riff and creating their disastrous havoc on the others. It was our job to keep this entire '2012' apocalypse invisible and under wraps.
You can see by now that secrecy is pretty important in this organization, to keep something as big as an apocalypse from happening altogether. However, as secret as our organization is, it's size is questionably large, and questionably growing.
Well when our services are needed, we'll be ready for it. When there's something out of the ordinary, like a walking skeleton in the subway, we can stop it and cover it up like it never happened. We're no Ghostbusters,and we're not Men In Black but we get the job done. In return for our services, the U.S. makes us invisible, as if we never exist.
But there are people out there, both human and inhuman that want to expose us, or just specifically cause us a little pain and suffering on our part. The modern day anarchists of the paranormal variety. People like this are referred to by codename as well. Codename: Visio Dei.
Now, choose a side...
