The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - Factions
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university labs, books (out of print) in forgotten public libraries,
puzzle pieces that could be put together. Puritan is charged with
eliminating all trace, by whatever means necessary. This includes
the identification and termination of Pagan.
3. Maintain vigilance. The threat is still out there. In the 1950’s
it took a massive government program and super computers
to make contact with the other side. What the lab-coats didn’t
know was that outside, in the communes, dormitories, and
occult temples, contact was being made by other means. Puritan
was formed during the years of calm before the storm of the
psychedelic movement and the many faceted spirit of the new
age. They reacted, and they may have won many battles, but the
genie is out of the bottle, and today they’re tracking the spread
of Wonderland through the population, watching the ranks of the
Underground grow, and deciding what to do about it.
Who Knows What
The name “Project Puritan” referred to an operation created by the
1950’s Secret Service to assess “real, theoretical, and hypothetical threats
to the psychological health of the nation.” The project was officially
expanded in 1963 and became an internal organ of the Service that
continues to this day. From the outside, they are tasked with a variety
of threats dealing with sophisticated political blackmail against military
officers and politicians to recruit the mentally ill for terrorist activities.
Their real purpose is closely guarded and their agents are selected from
both the Secret Service and the FBI. This section details what different
agencies know about Wonderland.
Puritan Operatives
There is a refitted missile silo out in the Midwest that serves as the
training and induction center for Puritan Agents. Agents are recruited
after they have been exposed and Infected (when the damage of possible
disclosure has already been done) but they also recruit and train new
agents. In the silo (also called “The Rabbit Hole”), there is training
in Mastery techniques (most Infected Puritan Agents are Proficient or
Advanced level) and psychological conditioning exercises.
The top-level Puritan operatives (of which there are exceedingly few)
understand the Chessboards, Reflections and Shadows, and Whirls.
They are less clear on the Caretakers––they know entities exist on the
lower levels but are unclear as to their natures. They prefer to work
with non-Infected agents (people who are not part of the inner circle).
They believe that any accurate knowledge of Wonderland is a dangerous
thing beyond their organization. It has been conjectured that a complete
briefing given in a believable manner to, say, the President, would make
him far more susceptible to Infection.
Puritan Agents
There’s a very small number of Operatives. They are trusted with the