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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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[Hey, Hellboy's totally great at recruiting people. Or at least convincing the higher ups to take in people he saw fit against the better judgement of just about everyone. But that's more on a case-by-case basis.]

So, what have we got? Anyone sound promising?

[Because he's computer illiterate and has no idea how to read other people's conversations. So.]

A few people seem interested, and most of them have relevant experience either with the business side of things or the fighting evil part. We might also be able to get some funding for the damn thing.

Funding? Jeez, Liz, you might really get this thing off the ground.

If we're lucky, yeah. I still need to find somebody and meet with them to figure out the numbers stuff, so hopefully that'll work out. Either way, it'd be nice to actually make this work properly instead of just having people volunteer in their spare time.

Would make the help more reliable, that's for sure. You can only count so much on volunteers.

[And with the crap they might have to put up with on a regular basis, it would be nice to be able to give them a little compensation.]

But I'm glad it's working out. Keep me posted.

[No kidding. Volunteering is great, but when one's life is on the line, some kind of compensation would definitely make things a little nicer.]

I'll let you know what happens, but things seem pretty good so far.

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