January 11th, 2010
Your assignment just arrived. Castle Rock Complex a.k.a the Minerva Archive. An underfunded Cold-War era research institute and archive that has seen better days. Supposedly, the Castle is on it's last leg and the Federal Government is pulling the plug. Looks like you've got a lot of boring, monotonous work ahead of you cataloging and organizing half a century worth of occult bs. Have fun!

Take on the role of a member of an under-funded research and archive station known as the Minerva Project, aimed at investigating supernatural, extra-terrestrial and occult matters. With a recent bump in funding from a mysterious source (or probably a government oversight) the Archive is considering opening up new investigations and projects. This a non-traditional role play in that there will be no linear plot or narrative, instead relying on the creativity of the players to invent new objects, NPCs, events, data, research and plotlines themselves. My characters are described in the CLASSIFIED section below. More information will be made available in the OOC thread. Thanks for reading.

As World War II came to a close and an Allied Victory was assured, a division of the Nazi Special Research Division was tasked with investigating the occult, supernatural and even extra-terrestrial. The Office of Strategic Services dismissed reports of Nazi activity regarding fringe-science and 'mythological studies', but was soon forced to reassess the threats posed by the Occult Science Division.

While speculation varied, and was undoubtedly confounded by conflicting Soviet reports, the Allies took no chances with victory so close at hand. On May 8th, 1944 these suspicions were confirmed when...