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[So this is awkward. Liz has never been very good at talking about business beyond "what do you need me to burn". Handling everyone as a group was always Kate's thing - but Kate isn't here, and Hellboy's skills with rounding people up usually leave something to be desired. So she's just going to put on her best poker-face and do this.

Thankfully, she's always been good at keeping a straight face.]

I'm sure something everyone's noticed about this place is that there's no shortage of paranormal things going on. Some of you may be used to it, while others probably aren't.

For those of you that don't know me, I'm Agent Elizabeth Sherman, and back home I work for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Our job was to research, monitor, and investigate paranormal happenings around the world. ... And defend mankind from it, whenever it came to that. [Which it did. Very frequently.]

Considering the nature of this place, I thought it would be wise to try and put together something similar over here. That way the next time something happens, we'll have a group ready to take care of the problem without having to worry about civilians and other non-combatants getting caught up in the mess.

Of course, it's the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. So along with fighters, we'll need people with knowledge of the paranormal - and who could maybe help with looking into finding more information about the nature of the things found in this world - people who can keep records of what's already happened... office kind of stuff, basically. [She does paperwork when she has to, but it's not her forte, okay.]

If you're interested, let me know your experience with this sort of thing and what you're planning to contribute, and we can work something out.

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[That is too interesting to pass up, and God, has he been bored. Fresh-faced youth answers the call with the confidence of experience.]

I would be very interested. Dorian Gray, pleasure to meet you, and I have, oh, about a century and a half experience with the paranormal, now, it must be? Demons, dragons, vampires, ghosts, cursed objects... [Dorian waves it off.] That sort of thing. Most of the time, my experience has been in investigating and containing it. Rarely combat-based containment, but I can fight in a pinch.

Not really accustomed to doing paperwork for this particular side of things. Still, a few years in the Square Mile and you get used to it, and this is bound to be more engaging than banking. I'd be happy to help where I can.

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Dorian Gray? [Like from the Oscar Wilde story? Well, there are certainly stranger things that have happened.]

Well, whatever. Glad to know you're interested. Now, when you said you rarely used combat-based containment, what exactly did you mean? There are all sorts of demons and spirits that can't be fought off. I take it you're referring to those sorts of situations?

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[When people repeat his name, it is usually because the recognize it from Oscar's story. Under the circumstances, he isn't interested in lying about it] As in The Picture of, yes. Oscar took a little creative license in telling the story.

But exactly that. Very few of the supernatural things I've met were particularly tangible. So they also couldn't be destroyed. Most of them had to be fought with their own logic--removing the medium that linked them to the human world, in a handful of cases, or trapping them in a physical object and isolating it. That sort of thing.

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Right. We've dealt with things like that before. Good to know there's somebody else here that knows how to deal with it. Though first we'll need to find out more about what kind of creatures are native to this place before we figure out the right ways to deal with them. Since for all we know, the way we deal with them back home might not be the same here.

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I could ask among the locals, though it's most likely to turn up yet more civil war stories. Still, there has to be some information around, even if it is just in scraps. The poetry might even be of use for it.

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Scraps are better than nothing at all. The more we find out about this place - what little we can find - the better off we'll all be. Have to start somewhere, after all.