Name: Daniel "Danny" Crowley

Appearance: (kindly ignore the nameplate)


Age: 33

Sex: Male

Strengths: Danny is a patient man who attempts to be calm, fair-minded, and reasonable at all times. He is committed to doing what he feels to be the right thing, even when it is not to his advantage, and generally living in the spirit of his faith. He is disciplined and methodical in his pursuits due to his Army career. In addition, he is deeply fascinated by the supernatural and approaches it with great energy and enthusiasm.

Weaknesses: Danny is highly skeptical of modern science and the implications thereof. He refuses to lie, cheat, or break a deal, even when it would be sensible or advantageous to do so. His attempts to offer moral and spiritual guidance may easily be preachy, trite, or self-righteous, alienating others in the process. Additionally, despite his military experience, he has not once seen combat.

Brief Biography: Born in Philadelphia to a Catholic family, Danny Crowley felt a longtime urge to serve both his country and his faith. He attended seminary in Pennsylvania, as well as a Vatican-approved class in the Rite of Exorcism (due to his personal interest in the occult). Upon being ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, he enlisted in the United States Army as a chaplain. Volunteering for Ranger School and passing all tests given, he was attached to the 75th Rangers, being mostly rotated throughout rear-echelon staff positions.

It was during an otherwise uneventful posting in Germany that Danny's career took an abrupt turn. A young private in the Rangers was stricken by a bizarre affliction, speaking in languages he did not know and lashing out at others with inhuman strength. Base doctors could find no actual physical or mental illness. In desperation, the unit's CO turned to Crowley, their chaplain, who could think of nothing but to perform the Rite of Exorcism. Surprisingly, it seemed to work, and the private was able to return to normal duty with no recollection of the events.

Afterwards, Danny Crowley was suddenly transferred to the Criminal Investigation Command (CID), the detective wing of Military Police. Though still designated a chaplain, he was given training in basic investigation, he was told that the CID needed a dedicated specialist for investigating what was called "hoodoo cases"- cases that seemed to involve paranormal elements. The hoodoo cases often lacked a real resolution, no declaration of "Elementary, my dear Watson", but Crowley did his best to get results. Now, it seems he has been transferred yet again, ordered to report to Minneapolis indefinitely.

Special Skills: Crowley is an ordained Roman Catholic priest and trained in performing exorcisms. In addition, he has passed the basic requirements of Army Ranger School. He has basic policing skills and some experience in investigating occult phenomena.

Name: Alexandria (Alex, Lexi) Cooper
Appearance:Elementary, my dear Watson.

Age: 28
Sex: Female
Strengths: Intelligent and quick thinking, Alex is a woman who can rely on both her gut and analytical skills. She’s great at finding people who do not want to be found. She’s exceptionally fit and can handle weapons with ease. Her bold, outgoing personality in conjunction with an eye for detail when it comes to people makes her fantastic at gaining information from others and becoming a social chameleon.

Weaknesses: Though she seems perfectly friendly and sociable most of the time Lexi doesn’t trust people, at all. Her entire career has been to manipulate people so she assumes everyone else is attempting to do the same to her. Her grasp on any kind of forensic or technological intelligence gathering is light at best. Several combat deployments have left with a mild to mid, undiagnosed case of PTSD (easily starts from loud noises, regular insomnia or nightmares, and can become uncomfortable or even slightly paranoid in large crowds on occasion) that she stubbornly refuses that she even has, let alone seeks treatment for. She has a tendency to recklessly put herself directly in harm’s way so long as it helps her complete her investigation/mission without regard to her own well-being.

Brief Biography: Alex enlisted in the US Army at the age of eighteen with aspirations of using the experience as a springboard into getting herself into her dream job, an agent in one of the alphabet soup agencies (FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA, etc.). She chose the military occupational specialty (MOS) Human Intelligence Collector, or more commonly known as an interrogator where she was taught both direct and indirect interrogation techniques, source operations, and analytical processes. Always having been street wise and sociable, Alex excelled at her job and was quickly recognized by her superiors and was commonly promoted above her peers.

After almost four years as an interrogator with a combat deployment to both Iraq and Afghanistan under her belt, Alex applied to become an army counterintelligence special agent to buff up her résumé even more. Her sterling military career meant that she was quickly accepted into the program and several months of training and a year of probation later she became a full-fledged, badge toting CI agent. She spent some time working as a liaison in Washington D.C. where she was required to become fluent in Russian and Iranian Farsi, but the vast majority of her CI career was spent in the field (both within and without of the United States) where her main objective was to detect, neutralize, and exploit counterintelligence targets as well as conduct investigation of crimes such as sabotage, sedition, espionage, and treason. Basically, she was a spy hunter… and a damned good one at that.

Alex recently came into the time period of her enlistment where she had to decide if she would like to continue to serve or leave the military and she had full intentions to keep with her army career until she was contacted by the Bureau of Unconventional Crime and offered a position. After time to do a little research on the matter and some soul searching, she made the leap and decided to start a new chapter in her life.

Special Skills: 
Interrogations: her military career has given her ample opportunity to perfect her interrogation techniques. She is exceptionally skilled at covertly (or not so covertly) manipulating and questioning people to get the information she needs as well as reading peoples’ body language, intentions, feelings, and other subtle human behaviors.

Investigations: Though she has no experience in investigating with what might be considered ordinary crime (theft, homicide, fraud, etc.), Alex is very competent in taking a little bit of nothing and digging until she has something substantial as most CI related crimes are very subtle in nature. Pure tenacity, stubbornness, and a knack for finding those trying to stay hidden allow her to work virtually nonstop until she completes her mission.

Military training: In Alex's nearly ten years of military experience she has been on several deployments, become fluent in two languages, worked in both official and clandestine capacities, and has traveled around the world. She is proficient in firing just about any weapon in the US Army arsenal, tactics, close-quarter-combat (room clearing, urban warfare, and the like not hand-to-hand, though she wouldn’t balk at punching someone in the face who needed it), and retains exceptional physical fitness.