TEXT: Thin Black Line
  The Order of  
  Saint Cecil
  
  Thin Black Line 
  The Order of Saint Cecil
  Written by Chad Underkofﬂ er
  Illustrations by Christian N. St. Pierre
  Produced by Jeff Tidball
  Published by John Nephew
  Special Thanks to J. Andrew Byers and Kenneth Hite
  Unknown Armies Created by Greg Stolze and John Tynes
  Thin Black Line 
  The Order of Saint Cecil
  Special Thanks to J. Andrew Byers and Kenneth Hite
   Created by Greg Stolze and John Tynes
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  The Legend of St. Cecil
  The Moor looked at me with his sorcerous eyes. 
  “You belong to my servants” said the Moor, 
  and unleashed his demonic spirits upon me.
  I was drowned under the assault. Spirits clawed 
  their way into my body and my mind—but 
  not my soul. It was days, it was weeks, it was 
  months of unchristian behavior. It was wrong. 
  Still, a part of me fought against 
  his unnatural dominance. 
  Finally, through strong prayer, reﬂ ection upon 
  the struggles of the saints, and the Love of 
  Christ—I came free of his foul domination.
  —The Testimony of Saint Cecil
  In Al-Andalus in the Emirate of Grenada, in the Year 
  of Our Lord 1236, a Christian priest—Cecil—was 
  magickally assaulted by a Moorish sorcerer named 
  Al-Sulayman. That priest’s ultimate victory against 
  dark powers led to the establishment of the Order of 
  Saint Cecil. That’s the legend, at least. Its events are  
  recorded in a work called The Testimony of Saint Cecil. 
  But the fact of the matter is that there’s no record of a 
  Saint Cecil—not on the books, at least. There’s a Saint 
  Cecilia and a Saint Cecilius, but no Saint Cecil.
  Some say that the story of “St. Cecil and the Moor” 
  is allegorical, and that the Order knows it. These schol-
  ars argue that the Order’s name comes from the Latin 
  phrase sanctus caecus, which means “holy blindness.” 
  Cecilites voluntarily blind themselves to magick, and 
  RTFM
  References
  This supplement contains lots of references to 
  existing Unknown Armies material. For easy 
  reading, most are abbreviated.
  † AOTM: Ascension of the Magdalene
  † BT: Break Today
  † HH: Hush Hush
  † LGM: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  † PMM: Postmodern Magick
  † TG: To Go
  † UA2: Unknown Armies Second Edition
  Google Me
  Where you see the names of people, places, 
  and events in typesetting that looks like this, 
  go forth and google them for more info. 
  They’re all primo NPC and adventure seed 
  fodder.
  Part 1: The Light of Truth Blinds
  
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  keep the world blind, too, by destroying it where they 
  ﬁ nd it. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.
  Other occultists explain the events of the Testimony
  as a combination of hypnotism and demon summoning.
  The Founding of the Order
  Dating back to the days of Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24), 
  the Church has always had members who have con-
  fronted adepts. Over the centuries, they’ve done a lot of 
  confronting.
  Pope Urban V formally founded the Order of Saint 
  Cecil in 1369. He was mostly worried that if enough 
  European kings became aware that Moorish/Saracen 
  magick actually worked, they’d resist further crusades.
  Here’s a quick and sketchy list of the important 
  dates that shaped the Order in the ﬁ rst few centuries 
  of their existence. Many involve the acquisition of 
  magickal libraries or artifacts.
  † 1236: The events of The Testimony of Saint Cecil.
  † 1244: Montségur—the stronghold of the 
  Cathars—falls. 
  † October 13, 1307:  The arrests, torture, false confes-
  sions, and burning at the stake of many Templars, 
  including Jacques de Molay. 
  † 1312: The Knights Templar are formally disbanded 
  by Pope Clement V. (Pope Clement absolved the 
  Templars of all heresies in 1308, but the Chinon 
  Parchment containing the details was misﬁ led, only 
  coming to light in 2001.)
  † 1350: Sir John Mandeville tangles with the 
  Brotherhood of Harmonious Repose in Hangzhou, 
  and his memories and dreams get scrambled. These 
  events are described in the second half The Travels of 
  Sir John Mandeville.
  † August 19, 1369: The secret, formal founding of the 
  Order of Saint Cecil by Pope Urban V.
  † 1440: The trial and execution of the bloody, bold, 
  and resolute Gilles de Rais. 
  † 1539: The Order ﬁ ghts against Mayan magick.
  † 1541: The execution of Hubert Roscommon in 
  Salzburg (UA2, p. 229).
  † 1557: The sly, conspiratorial, and mystical Guillaume 
  Postel joins the Jesuits.
  † 1600: Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake. 
  † 1610: The events of The Ascension of the Magdalene.
  
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  Old School Occultism 
  The magick of antiquity and the medieval period—
  alchemy, proto-Cryptomancy, Kabbalism, Western 
  necromancy, goetia, and so on—worked much 
  differently than modernist magic did and postmod-
  ern magick does today. (More info at “Magick” 
  in UA2, p. 83, and “Why Now?” in PMM, pp. 
  15–20.)
  This Old School Occultism worked back in the 
  day because those adepts were drawing power from 
  the collective unconscious of humanity. But as su-
  perstition fell to reason—as God and the Devil gave 
  way to a scientiﬁ c and secular view of the universe—
  that unconscious lost its faith in magick. As a con-
  sequence, magick became harder to do. It got more 
  complicated, and became less reproducible.
  Mostly, Old School Occultists dealt with arti-
  facts (UA2, p. 223), demons (UA2, p. 220), ritu-
  als (UA2, p. 96), and spells. “Spells,” here, means 
  alchemy, charms, curses, glamours, hexes, talisman 
  creation, and all that jazz.
  Here’s a quick-and-dirty set of mechanical 
  guidelines for how Old School Occultism was dif-
  ferent from today’s adept schools:
  † Practitioners of Old School Occultism always 
  had minor charges on hand. They gained one 
  per day starting from the end of the new moon. 
  (When the moon went dark again, all accumu-
  lated charges were lost.)
  † Gaining signiﬁ cant charges required at least six 
  hours of uninterrupted study or meditation, or 
  the use of a ritual like Harmonious Alignment 
  (UA2, p. 98).
  † Gaining major charges required at least a month 
  of uninterrupted study or meditation, or the use 
  of a ritual called Virgil’s Vigil, which has been 
  lost in the modern day.
  † Old School traditions had no real formula spells, 
  but their adepts could ﬂ exibly duplicate the ef-
  fects of the proxy (UA2, p. 101) and tilt (UA2, 
  p. 105) rituals, as well as any of the unnatural 
  phenomena described at UA2, pp. 298–300, with 
  one minor charge per minor effect, ﬁ ve minor 
  charges per signiﬁ cant effect, and one signiﬁ cant 
  charge per major effect.
  † “Fixing” a magickal effect into an item (i.e., creat-
  ing an artifact) added a cost of ﬁ ve minor charges.
  As a quick-and-dirty guide to how an Old School 
  Occultist operating today would be different from 
  an adept of a postmodern school (if, say, some-
  one wants to play an Old School adept), all of the 
  above remain true, except:
  † Old School Occultists in postmodern times gain 
  one minor charge per week (as above, re-starting 
  from the end of the new moon).
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  La Belle France
  The ﬁ rst quarter of the 17th century was the height of 
  witchcraft and demonic possession in France. Aghast, 
  in the 1650s—the time of the Sun King Louis XIV—the 
  Order of Saint Cecil decided to take advantage of all of 
  the mystical knowledge, captured artifacts, and native 
  talents it had acquired over the preceding two and a 
  half centuries to take up the tools of magick against 
  magick.
  It ended badly. Very badly. So badly that the Order 
  will never again try to ﬁ ght ﬁ re with ﬁ re.
  Aix-en-Provence and Loudun
  In 1609, demons began possessing nuns in Aix-en-
  Provence. Exorcisms were futile. All evidence pointed 
  to Father Louis Gaufridi, because it turned out that 
  he’d had a lot of sex with the nuns. Eventually, he was 
  called out as a devil worshipper, sorcerer, and general 
  bad egg. Tortured by the Inquisition, he made a huge 
  confession and was executed.
  Aix-en-Provence set a precedent: it was the ﬁ rst time 
  a possessed person’s testimony was accepted in court. 
  Demons ﬁ rst mentioned at Aix-en-Provence (and re-
  corded in the Phonebook—see below) include Verrine, 
  the demon of impatience, and Sonneillon, the demon of 
  hate.
  In 1634, the Ursuline nuns of Loudon were pos-
  sessed by a plague of demons—possibly the largest case 
  of mass possession in history. A good-looking man 
  (wealthy and well-educated to boot), Father Urbain 
  Grandier cut a sexual swath through the nuns. He had 
  incurred the wrath of Cardinal Richelieu by writing a 
  libelous satire about him in 1618, and also in resisting 
  the destruction of the fortiﬁ cations of Loudon (that is, 
  by opposing Richelieu’s program to eliminate Huguenot 
  strongholds by destroying local fortiﬁ cations). Grandier 
  was eventually convicted of the crimes of sorcery, 
  casting evil spells, and enabling the possessions visited 
  upon the Ursuline nuns—based on the testimony of 
  possessed nuns, of course. 
  The Jesuit Father Jean-Joseph Surin was sent to 
  Loudon to exorcize the nuns. Struck by their torment, 
  he offered to be possessed himself instead of them. The 
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  † Gaining a signiﬁ cant charge today requires at 
  least a day of uninterrupted study or medita-
  tion, or the use of a ritual like Harmonious 
  Alignment (UA2, p. 98).
  † Gaining a major charge now requires at 
  least six months of uninterrupted study or 
  meditation.
  † All Magick: Old School Tradition rolls are 
  made at a –50% shift. 
  In short, it’s no small thing to cling to the 
  idea that science, rationality, and the very 
  foundations of modern society are fundamen-
  tally wrong, but that’s what contemporary 
  Old School Occultists have to do. And the 
  universe punishes them for it.
  Old School Occultists might also want to 
  look at the Magus avatar (AotM, p. 52) and 
  Authentic Thaumaturgy (UA2, p. 101).
  
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  demons swarmed into him. For twenty years, Surin 
  served as a living demon-prison. Many times, he was 
  paralyzed or forced to commit uncontrollable sins with 
  his body. 
  Two of the demons mentioned Loudon (and re-
  corded in the Phonebook), among a portfolio of many 
  more, include Isacarron, the devil of debauchery, and 
  Gressil, the demon of impurity and uncleanliness, the 
  latter of whom essentially turned state’s evidence as 
  part of the affair.
  It was in the wake of these mass possessions, and 
  armed with the knowledge they had accumulated in 
  centuries of ﬁ ghting the occult—a warehouse of arti-
  facts, a great deal of New World mystic info, and the 
  “information” (that is, the lies) provided by the demon 
  Gressil—the French chapter house of the Order started 
  using magick to ﬁ ght magick, around 1653.
  They thought they could wield magick without be-
  ing changed by it. They were guilty of the sin of pride. 
  The infection soon spread from France to Spain and 
  Portugal. Western Europe started getting really weird: 
  ghosts everywhere, lots of people getting possessed, 
  adepts running rampant doing either fancy magick 
  (nobles) or folksy magick (peasants). This “occult re-
  naissance” set the stage for what came to be known as 
  the Affair of the Poisons.
  The Affair of the Poisons
  Dateline: 1675 to 1677, France. 
  At all levels of society, people were going to fortune-
  tellers for drugs, for poisons, for prophecies, and for 
  curses. Then, important nobles started dying. In es-
  sence, everybody was poisoning—or using magick 
  against—everybody else.
  The volume of cases clogged the French judicial sys-
  tem, and the Order was in the thick of it, using magick 
  in their warfare, espionage, diplomacy, and politics.
  The witch/midwife La Voisin implicated numerous 
  nobles, even including the king’s mistress, the Marquise 
  de Montespan. Most of the implicated nobles and 
  clergymen were high-ranking members of the court or 
  the Church. A few were even members of the Order of 
  Saint Cecil!
  On February 22, 1680, La Voisin was burned at the 
  stake for witchcraft and poisoning. One-hundred and 
  ﬁ fty-six “magicians” died at the same time.
  After the Affair of the Poisons, the pope placed the 
  Order under the guardianship of the Society of Jesus, 
  the Jesuits.
  Father “René Encanto”
  Father “René Encanto” was a Gascon, an abbé, a dis-
  ciple of Father Surin, an intriguer, a noble, a musketeer, 
  a spy, the Superior General of the Jesuits, a grandee of 
  Spain, an ambassador, and a ﬁ ghter of monsters. Born 
  Henri d’Aramitz, ﬁ ctionalized as “Aramis” in Dumas’s 
  work, he changed names like you change your under-
  wear. Some sources claim he died in 1674, but he actu-
  ally lived (under the radar) until 1719, ﬁ nally dying at 
  the ripe old age of 99.
  After the Affair of the Poisons, and the sweeping of 
  the Order of Saint Cecil under the Jesuit rug in 1680, 
  Encanto was made Order’s head, its Superior General. 
  He’s remembered today as the reformer who re-
  aligned the Order’s operations into their contemporary 
  organization.
  
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  The Age of Modernist Magick
  From around 1700 to 1910, the Order was mostly do-
  ing exorcisms, taking down “sorcerers” (read: adepts 
  and avatars), meddling in politics, overtly using magick 
  powers, and beating up on vampires and zombies.
  They noticed that the ground was shifting be-
  neath their feet, as the types of magick they were 
  used to ﬁ ghting (mostly diabolic or heretical in na-
  ture) were slowly being replaced by less religious and 
  more philosophical types of magick. These were the 
  so-called “modernist” schools like the Way of Cogs 
  (Mechanomancy), the Way of Text (Bibliomancy), 
  the Path of Indelible Liberty (“freedom”), and so on. 
  Where Old School Occultism represented an antique or 
  medieval worldview, these modernist Ways and Paths 
  reﬂ ected a more secular, individual, and rational out-
  look. There was, in the world, a loss of ambient magick 
  power that was accompanied by a commensurate rise 
  in personal power.
  Here’s a short list of the notable events the Order 
  participated in during this era: 
  † 1789: The formal ratiﬁ cation of the Constitution of 
  the United States of America, completely shocking at 
  the time.
  † 1885–1917: Father Bérenger Saunière shakes the 
  Church down for cash, using it to rebuild his lo-
  cal church (Rennes-le-Chateau, in France). In truth, 
  Saunière had discovered a relic with mystical pow-
  ers and sacred provenance, a supernatural nuke that 
  became the heart of a political struggle between the 
  pope and the Superior General of the Order.
  † 1890-1897: Joséphin Péladan, Gerard Encausse
  (“Papus”), and the “War of the Roses”—Rosicrucian 
  factional warfare.
  † 1904: Aleister Crowley has a vision in Cairo. The 
  result: The Book of the Law.
  † 1937: The rift between Jacques Bergier and 
  Fulcanelli.
  The one-two punch of the World Wars caught the 
  Order unawares, knocking them off their feet, which 
  culminated with the loss of the Knocking Box (see 
  below). 
  The Age of Postmodern Magick
  After the World Wars, the Order tried desperately to re-
  gain their footing. They were often stymied by the rise 
  (resurgence?) of the Sleepers and the explosion of new 
  schools of magick including Plutomancy, Cliomancy, 
  Entropomancy, and others. 
  The mid-50s through the mid-70s saw both groups 
  ﬁ ghting each other, and often: James Bonds in collars 
  versus James Bonds with wands. Plus, now, the magick-
  ans were doing their stuff differently: they had different 
  powers, knew different demons, and were working on 
  different ideas! The occult world had changed around 
  the Order once again, and they haven’t even caught up 
  to the last Age yet.
  A few highlights of the postmodern age:
  † 1946: John Whiteside Parsons, American rocket sci-
  entist and occultist, attempts the “Babalon Working” 
  
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  (with L. Ron Hubbard, no less!), intended to incar-
  nate a living goddess. It failed.
  † 1953: The Order kidnaps (and later accidentally kills) 
  French alchemist and author Fulcanelli. 
  † 1960s–1990s: Magickal turf wars (very bad in San 
  Francisco), riots from the Sleeping Tiger being wo-
  ken, and the rise of cults—often archetype-relat-
  ed—like those of Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and 
  Dermott Arkane. 
  † 1997: Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of 
  Satan, dies and is cremated, his ashes divvied up 
  between his heirs. The Order steals LaVey’s cremains 
  and replaces them with Folgers crystals.
  † 2000: Mak Attax pulls off their “Safe and Happy 
  New Year” project.
  † 2006: A massive zombie outbreak in Sydney, 
  Australia is contained by the Order.
  Despite all their research, the modern Order still can’t 
  really understand the modern Occult Underground. 
  Trying to ﬁ t the Underground into the Order’s religious 
  schema just doesn’t work. For example, the Order 
  doesn’t distinguish between “adepts” and “avatars.” 
  They class both under the basic header, “Magick is a 
  Sin.” Their medieval viewpoint fundamentally limits 
  what they can understand. 
  Bottom line: The Order is old, rigid, and strange. 
  The Occult Underground is new, ﬂ exible, and 
  accepting.
  Magick vs. Sorcery vs. 
  Witchcraft vs. Miracles 
  The Order slices very thinly when determining 
  the provenance of supernatural powers.
  Magick is the use of hidden forces (ordinar-
  ily reserved to God).
  Sorcery is the use of spirits/demons to effect 
  changes in the world.
  Witchcraft is making a pact with the Devil 
  for power. 
  Miracles are wonders that serve as signs of 
  a special mission or gift, explicitly ascribed to 
  God. A miracle…
  † Must be useful; worthy of holiness, good-
  ness, and the justice of God; and conducive 
  to the true good of men.
  † Must not produce disorder or discord.
  † Must contain no element that is wicked, 
  ridiculous, useless, or unmeaning.
  The Order currently believes that 99.44% of 
  all supernatural events are magick, sorcery, 
  or witchcraft—and thus, intrinsically evil. 
  To them, there is no such thing as “good” or 
  “white” magick.
  
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  Members of the Order of Saint Cecil are taught to 
  recognize, analyze, and eliminate supernatural threats. 
  They focus on discerning the difference between the 
  mundane, the mystical, and the magickal. The mun-
  dane must be protected, the mystical must be studied 
  (to determine if it is godly or satanic), and the magickal 
  must be destroyed.
  Being a Cecilite priest is very different from being a 
  parish priest. They have no home. They jet around the 
  world to perform exorcisms. Sometimes, they shoot 
  people in the face.
  Fight the crazy. Destroy the demonic. Corral the 
  weird.
  The Cecilite Ideals
  The Cecilite ideal essentially encompasses a simple pair 
  of directives:
  † Protect Humanity
  † Know Yourself
  Protect Humanity
  The Order exists to determine if a supernatural event 
  is godly or satanic—and then to destroy the latter. 
  However, a wider interpretation of this ideal lends itself 
  to three additional spheres: medicine, mental health, 
  and physical security. It’s no coincidence that many—
  perhaps even most—Cecilites are trained as doctors, 
  psychologists or psychiatrists, or soldiers.
  Know Yourself
  A Cecilite must understand himself to best fulﬁ ll his du-
  ties. He must consider his actions and desires, his blind 
  spots or established attitudes, and how those affect his 
  mission. A Cecilite needs to see where God is challeng-
  ing him to change and grow, and where he is calling 
  him to reﬂ ection or action.
  Being a Cecilite
  Organization & Hierarchy
  The Order is currently composed of 139 full members 
  (priests), 67 associate members (monks and nuns), 5 
  of the “Gifted” (see “Part 3: The Gifts of the Spirit,” 
  below), and at least 230 lay support people.
  The Order of Saint Cecil is led by a Superior General 
  who nominally reports to the Superior General of 
  the Jesuits. The Cecilite Superior General is elected, 
  popularly, by the entire “Order Formal” (i.e., by 
  its priest members), is conﬁ rmed by the Pope after-
  wards, and then rules the Order for life. The current 
  Superior General is Father Cheng Huang, an avuncular 
  scholastic.
  The Superior General is aided personally by three 
  Advocates, known as “Humanity,” “Knowledge,” and 
  “Occultism.”
  The Order divides the globe into various geographic 
  provinces, three per continent. Each of these provinces 
  is led by a Father Provincial, who is selected by the 
  Superior General and directly responsible to him.
  Part 2: The Pure of Heart
  
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  A Cecilite lives the three solemn vows of poverty, 
  chastity, and obedience—plus a fourth vow (usually 
  unique to Jesuits) of obedience to the pope. 
  Lastly: no ordained member has ever betrayed the 
  Order (though lay associates have, repeatedly, about 
  once a century). Both TNI and the Sleepers have com-
  promised most of the Order’s electronic information 
  resources and networks, but only a few of their physi-
  cal ones.
  Recruitment
  The Order recruits new members as best it can, from 
  three main categories:
  † Clergy (priests, monks, and nuns), or the faithful who 
  have witnessed supernatural events. 
  † The Gifted: Charismatics or those with “wild 
  talents.”
  † Deprogrammed adepts (see “Mentored Adepts,” 
  UA2, p 113). By driving an adept insane, the Order 
  can change the target’s obsession skill, effectively 
  cutting him off from using magick. (However, it’s 
  unusual for ex-sorcerer members to be treated with 
  full trust.)
  Education
  Members of the Order of Saint Cecil are among the 
  best-educated people alive. In addition to ongoing 
  theological studies, every Order priest and lay member 
  has or is instructed to gain signiﬁ cant knowledge in at 
  least one other academic ﬁ eld. See “The Cecilite Skill,” 
  below.
  Blessings of the Order
  There are beneﬁ ts to being part of a large, rich, legiti-
  mate monster-hunting organization.
  TRAVEL ANYWHERE: The Order has a small ﬂ eet of 
  vehicles—planes, helicopters, cars, jeeps, boats—as well 
  as trained pilots, drivers, and mechanics. When on a 
  mission, Cecilites have access to this ﬂ eet and its sup-
  port personnel.
  REQUISITION EQUIPMENT: The Order can provide any 
  sort of off-the-shelf hardware (handcuffs, ﬁ rearms, am-
  munition, computers, cellphones, etc.) and even some 
  military-grade equipment, provided the Cecilite has 
  appropriate training.
  COMMAND SUPPORT: Each Order ﬁ eld team has a 
  support team back at the closest HQ, wired into the 
  OSC datanet and available 24/7 while on a mission. 
  From googling up info from the web (or the Order’s 
  The All-Cecilite PC Group 
  A PC group composed entirely of priests, asso-
  ciate members, Gifted, and specially skilled lay 
  members can work really well in a street-level 
  Unknown Armies campaign, will have interest-
  ing challenges in a global-level campaign, and 
  would probably be an exercise in frustration in 
  a cosmic-level campaign. Be warned.
  Such a group would be a mash-up between 
  the “Occult Investigators” and “Vigilantes” 
  group structures (UA2, pp. 28–9). Call them 
  demon-centric reality cops.
  
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  archives), getting an attorney down to the precinct 
  house, or wire-transferring sick amounts of money, they 
  can get it done.
  Travails of the Order
  There are also problems to being part of a large, rich, 
  legitimate monster-hunting organization.
  GROUND ZERO: Order members are always being 
  found at the sites of creepy stuff. The local and federal 
  authorities agents in many countries do not like this, 
  and tend to suspect Cecilites of all sorts of things.
  FOLLOW THE MONEY: Order operations are eas-
  ily trackable from ﬁ nancial records, travel itineraries, 
  and the strange and expensive purchases made by the 
  Order’s front companies.
  POROUS PERIMETER: The Order’s relatively large size 
  means that for an ostensibly secret organization, it’s 
  fairly easy to insert moles into their hierarchy, or to 
  other garner intelligence about them.
  Cecilite Locations
  The Order maintains three chapter houses on each 
  inhabited continent (sorry, Antarctica!). These are 
  chapels, dormitories, data centers, supply caches, secure 
  locations, safe houses, and administrative headquarters 
  for the Fathers Provincial. All members of the Order—
  clergy, brothers and sisters, and laity—have access to 
  them. They are comfortable, but not luxurious.
  Lay staff maintain the chapter houses and work 
  directly for the Fathers Provincial. Most Cecilites are 
  assigned a “home” chapter house.
  Additionally, all Jesuits offer aid and shelter to 
  Cecilites when they require it, the Jesuits just don’t have 
  access to the same sort of resources.
  La Tour Noir
  “The Black Tower” in Lyons, France is the main head-
  quarters of the Order, the mother house, which the 
  Superior General calls home. This is where artifacts are 
  studied.
  As the most secure site the Cecilites have, it is staffed 
  entirely—down to the janitors—by ordained, full mem-
  bers of the Order. Even the Sleepers have never (yet) 
  penetrated La Tour Noir—and it pisses them off to no 
  end.
  Cecilite Missions
  Investigations
  All cases the Order works on start as investigations. 
  Called in due to something strange, they observe and 
  correlate. Mostly, these cases end up being the froth of 
  hoaxers, cranks, and lunatics. The Cecilite offers advice 
  on dealing with the mentally ill, writes up a report, and 
  goes away.
  The “Hot Cases”—Laying Unquiet Spirits
  These are the types of missions described at length in 
  UA2 (pp. 253–4). Here’s the short form of that infor-
  mation—what each type is, and what a Cecilite is sup-
  posed to do about it: 
  HAUNTINGS: Unnatural phenomenon manifests with 
  no human focus. (Do what you can.)
  POSSESSIONS: A demon presents in a human body. 
  (Exorcise it.)
  INCARNATIONS: A demon walks the earth in the ﬂ esh. 
  (Kill it.)
  
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  Missions of Mercy
  Sometimes, the Order tries to leverage their limited oc-
  cult know-how to ease widespread or “environmental” 
  mystical badness. Mostly, before it was lost, this con-
  sisted of sending the Knocking Box (see below) some-
  where to vacuum up undead. Often, these are perfectly 
  mundane efforts to relieve the negative aftermath of 
  some occult incursion: counseling the tormented, recon-
  secrating deﬁ led holy sites, and doing related charity 
  work.
  Consigned to the Fire
  After Father Rene Encanto (see above) became Superior 
  General, the Order stopped stockpiling magickal good-
  ies and started destroying them, often out of hand, but 
  sometimes after study in some of the borderline cases.
  Order Artifacts
  You’d think a centuries-old monster-ﬁ ghtin’ orga-
  nization would have a veritable warehouse full of 
  awesome magick artifacts they’ve collected over 
  the years, wouldn’t you?
  You’d be wrong.
  The Order only has a few artifacts like that, 
  and they fall into two groups, those that can’t be 
  destroyed (because of their powers) and those that 
  shouldn’t be destroyed (because of their prove-
  nance—i.e., they’re religious relics). Both types are 
  kept under crazy-high security at the La Tour Noir 
  (see below). Everything else is Consigned to the 
  Fire (see below).
  Caput 58 M
  Taken from the Templars in 1307, this artifact is a 
  silver reliquary in the shape of a beautiful woman’s 
  head that contains a skull with “58 M” (actu-
  ally the astrological sign for Virgo) inscribed on 
  the forehead. It’s rumored to be the skull of Mary 
  Magdalene. It has two mystical powers:
  † It’s indestructible.
  † It glows faint green when touched by a person of 
  the Merovingian bloodline. Given genetics over 
  time, it glows three times out of ten when any-
  one who has a Western European ancestor comes 
  close to it.
  The Phonebook
  While not actually an artifact, the Order’s 
  Codex Daemonis—known colloquially as the 
  Phonebook—is also worth describing. The Codex 
  Daemonis is essentially a list of the names, port-
  folios, powers, and recognition signs of various 
  demons whom the Order has exorcised. Sadly, this 
  is less handy than you’d think, because demons—it 
  turns out—lie. (As but one example, there are 17 
  different entries on “Asmodeus,” none of which 
  agree in any substantial detail.)
  
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  The Order has ﬁ les on all of the major artifacts it’s 
  said to have destroyed. Excalibur, Aristotle’s Treatise 
  on Comedy, Caravaggio’s Ascension of the Magdalene, 
  John Dee’s Shew-stone, Tezcatlipoca’s Smoking Mirror, 
  Benjamin Bathurst’s Shoe, Amelia Earheart’s Compass, 
  a dozen ﬁ rst-generation copies of the Naked Goddess 
  tape (and some even say that they fried the original 
  three years ago). That’s just the highlight reel.
  Super-powerful magickal items, thrown onto the 
  pyre, with no regard for the awesome things they could 
  do. This is one reason the Occult Underground just 
  plain hates the Order.
  (Speaking literally of “consigned to the ﬁ re,” ﬁ re 
  usually isn’t enough to destroy these freaky artifacts. 
  It took hydroﬂ uoric acid to melt the Shew-stone, 47 
  pounds of TNT to shatter the Smoking Mirror, and 
  placing the Ascension of the Magdalene at ground 
  zero of a nuke test to fry it. The Order had to weigh 
  Excalibur down with a ton of lead and drop it into the 
  Mariana Trench.) 
  
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  The Order lends itself to the development of peculiar 
  mental or spiritual skills. Some are learned and some 
  are native talents. 
  The Cecilite Skill
  The skill “Cecilite” is a Mind skill, and it’s the killer 
  app of the Order.
  Cecilite replaces the General Education skill for 
  those who have it. Within its penumbra falls knowl-
  edge that would fall under the Theology skill for other 
  characters, knowledge in at least one other academic 
  ﬁ eld (such Anthropology, Biology, Education, History, 
  Sociology, etc.) deﬁ ned at character creation, and the 
  areas of specialized knowledge described in the follow-
  ing sections.
  To be clear, a character must actually be a member 
  of the Order of Saint Cecil to have this skill.
  Specialized Knowledge
  Those with the Cecilite skill have several other use-
  ful capabilities that fall under its general umbrella: 
  Exorcism, Occult Countermeasures, Paradigm: 
  Christian, and Pray. (Each of these can be taken as 
  a separate specialty skill by a character without the 
  Cecilite skill. The stats they would fall under in such 
  cases are Soul for Exorcism and Pray, and Mind for 
  Occult Countermeasures and Paradigm: Christian.)
  Exorcism
  Exorcising a demon from its host is difﬁ cult: it’s a com-
  plex interaction of the priest’s mystic potential, force of 
  will, and strength of faith versus the raw occult power 
  of the demon. (See the Demons chapter of UA2, pp. 
  220–2.)
  When exorcism is an option (i.e., when blood isn’t 
  oozing out of the walls and people aren’t being lit on 
  ﬁ re) the Order ﬁ rst spends a great deal of time studying 
  the possessed to ﬁ gure out the obsession of the demon. 
  Then they lay a trap. Then they kidnap the possessed 
  person and beat the (mystical) crap out of the demon. 
  Here’s how that works mechanically:
  STUDY: The Cecilite uses the best value among his 
  Cecilite skill, Exorcism skill, or Soul stat when dealing 
  with demons. (This is always true, any time a Cecilite 
  deals with a demon.)
  GRAB: The Cecilite mystically takes hold of the demon 
  within the possessed target. Treat this as an attempt to 
  control the demon (see UA2, p. 221), except it costs 
  no charges and is resolved using Cecilite, Exorcism, or 
  Soul (see above).
  † If successful, the Cecilite has the demon in hand and 
  can ask it a question—which it must answer truthful-
  ly—before proceeding to exorcise it.
  If failed, the demon jumps into the Cecilite’s head. 
  Immediately roll per demon summoning (UA2, p. 
  220–1).
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  EXORCISE: Again, treat this as an attempt to control the 
  demon (UA2, p. 221), except it costs no charges and 
  is resolved against the relevant skill/stat (see above). 
  Additionally:
  † Apply a +10% shift for using the full regalia and the 
  Roman Ritual to exorcise a demon.
  † Apply a +10% shift for knowing the demon’s name, 
  either real or assumed.
  † Apply a +10% shift for knowing the demon’s 
  obsession.
  † Apply a –10% shift for each of the seven deadly 
  sins—avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, vanity, and 
  wrath—on the exorcist’s soul. (This is why most 
  Order members make time to go to Confession be-
  fore an exorcism!)
  Occult Countermeasures
  Occult countermeasures are mundane techniques to 
  limit, block, or taboo an adept who’s trying to mess 
  with you, drawing on the (vague) information the 
  Order knows about the magickal schools and the 
  power of confusing symbolism.
  In game terms, there are three main functions of oc-
  cult countermeasures:
  † Provide protection from magickal effects.
  † Stop an adept from charging.
  † Taboo an adept.
  Here are the summaries, per school:
  BIBLIOMANCERS: The Order knows more about 
  bookworms than any other magick school, due to the 
  Church’s monastic tradition of the scriptorium. They 
  know to steal or destroy the books of a bookworm, 
  and keep him at least ﬁ ve yards from printed material. 
  It’s theorized that it’s possible to “shield” a printed 
  work from Bibliomancy by interleaving pages of a 
  different printed work that’s vastly different in intent 
  (for example, by interleaving poetry into a technical 
  reference).
  CLIOMANCERS: The Order has no solid data on the 
  cobweb farmers. (They’ve been hit with too much 
  mind-magick.)
  DIPSOMANCERS: Sober ‘em up. Keep them away from 
  alcohol. 
  ENTROPOMANCERS: Restrain them. Keep them from 
  doing anything stupid or dangerous.
  EPIDEROMANCERS: Don’t let them touch you. Stop 
  them from cutting themselves. Cut their hair.
  MECHANOMANCERS: Prevent them from touching 
  tools or mechanisms. Quiz them on their past. Aim for 
  The Things Demons Say
  When dealing with a demon, the Order pro-
  tocol is to ignore absolutely everything it says 
  in the moment. Demons, they lie. However, 
  Cecilites are required to provide detailed 
  notes, in their reports, on what the demons 
  they encounter say. These are duplicated for 
  the Codex Daemonis (see “The Phonebook,” 
  above). 
  
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  exposed key gears, governors, and timing chains on 
  their constructs.
  NARCO-ALCHEMISTS: Stop them from taking drugs. 
  Blow up their labs. Isolate them and wait for them to 
  come down.
  PERSONAMANCERS: You see someone with a lot of 
  masks, burn them.
  PLUTOMANCERS: Manipulate them into spending 
  money—at least $1,000.
  PORNOMANCERS: The Order has no real data, other 
  than that they do “lust magick.” Vows of chastity seem 
  to help.
  URBANOMANCERS: Drag them outside of their city’s 
  limits.
  VIDEOMANCERS: Grab them, and then keep them 
  away from televisions as long as possible.
  Paradigm: Christian
  Cecilites have a version of the Christian paradigm skill 
  (UA2, pp. 42–3) that protects them from the Unnatural 
  at the cost of a permanent failed Self notch (applied 
  when they gain the Cecilite skill). This works just like 
  other paradigm skills do.
  Pray
  Roll this skill to snap out or break free of any mental 
  or emotional magickal inﬂ uence or control.
  The Protective Faith Skill
  This Soul skill (see AotM, p. 13) protects a subject from 
  supernatural effects. Effects that do not roll higher than 
  the target’s Protective Faith score simply do not—or no 
  longer—work on the target. This is a major check, and 
  lasts for a number of minutes equal to the sum of the 
  dice for the skill roll. 
  It’s unclear whether this skill can be used on behalf 
  of another—that is, if a character with this skill can use 
  it to protect a character without it. GMs should decide 
  at their nefarious whim, and should feel free to vary 
  their decision from instance to instance.
  Protective Faith is very rare in today’s world, now 
  seen as a valuable “wild talent.” 
  Hey! Canon Cecilites 
  Don’t Have This Skill!
  It’s true, existing Cecilite NPCs like Father 
  Jose and Father Giacommo don’t have the 
  Cecilite skill. The reasons are obvious. Here 
  are four options for how you can deal with it:
  † Don’t worry about it. 
  † Replace their General Education with 
  Cecilite.
  † Give them a ﬂ at Cecilite 15% Mind skill.
  † Rework the math on their Mind skills to 
  add Cecilite at some rating that you think is 
  appropriate.
  
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  Charismata
  The Order recognizes that certain people have inherent 
  supernatural gifts. The big question for them is whether 
  any given instance arises from an extraordinary favor 
  granted by God or the sin of magick. Here’s their quick 
  cladogram: 
  † Does the effect happen automatically or through 
  ardent prayer? It’s divine.
  † Does the effect require some bizarre exchange or a 
  manipulation of symbols? It’s magick.
  The mystical gifts of the Holy Ghost are usually 
  called charismata. These are supernatural abilities of 
  many different types that are speciﬁ cally granted to 
  their recipients for the help of others. In the early years 
  of the Church, many of the faithful had all of these 
  abilities. Today, not so much.
  Capital-C Charismatics exchange vows of absti-
  nence, poverty, and loyalty to the pope; manipulate 
  symbols like crosses, holy water, and holy raiments; 
  and display an obsessive devotion to piety. That is, 
  they’re adepts obsessed with their faith, practicing what 
  amounts to a quirk school of magick. Additionally, a 
  few people manifest individual, speciﬁ c Gifts of charis-
  mata (see below) as “wild talents”—that is, as mystical 
  Soul skills—rather than being full-ﬂ edged Charismatic 
  adepts.
  Historically, Cecilites have gone to great lengths to 
  recruit both types of people, but there really haven’t 
  been that many in the Order (or the world, for that 
  matter) during the past two millennia. Their rarity is on 
  the order of two to four in any given generation, and 
  until 1903, most were of the wild talent rather than 
  adept variety.
  The Order has a strange love-hate relationship with 
  Charismatics. They’re guys who pull out mystical mojo 
  (that’s bad!) but it’s all somehow supported by Church 
  doctrine (that’s good!). At the end of the day, the Order 
  keeps an eagle eye on them, just in case, while still 
  treating them as their Big Guns. Generally speaking, 
  older Charismatics get more respect than younger ones.
  An important thing to note is that the Order ab-
  solutely does not categorize Charismatics as adepts. 
  To the Order, it’s just the usual stuff—prayer, fasting, 
  devotion, contemplation—taken to a high degree. 
  Charismatics are simply high-achievers who do what 
  everyone else, but with an obsessive fervency that pro-
  duces honest-to-God results.
  Since Charismatics don’t have a real paradox or 
  taboo—just the restrictions of their vows and obses-
  sive focus—they can’t really take advantage of the 
  psychic tension of magick to do the big, big stuff. No 
  Charismatic in recorded history has ever achieved a 
  signiﬁ cant or major effect.
  The Charismatics
  aka Holy Rollers
  Stats
  GENERATE A MINOR CHARGE: Spend in six hours in 
  uninterrupted prayer and meditation.
  GENERATE A SIGNIFICANT CHARGE: Unknown. Contain 
  a demon in your head for three exchanges without 
  becoming possessed, maybe? (Puts a new spin on the 
  temptation of Christ…)
  GENERATE A MAJOR CHARGE: Be cruciﬁ ed for a day?
  TABOO: Charismatics don’t really have a taboo, other 
  than breaking their vows. As discussed above, this 
  
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  “weak taboo” means that Charismatics don’t have the 
  metaphysical “oomph” of other schools.
  RANDOM MAGICK DOMAIN: None, really. All abilities 
  are constrained within the scope of an established Gift.
  STARTING CHARGES: Charismatics start with three minor 
  charges.
  Charismatic Minor Effects
  Charismatic minor effects are called “Gifts.” Each costs 
  one minor charge. Usually, a character attempting to 
  use a Gift prays aloud, beseeching God for aid. This 
  should be roleplayed.
  The Gift of Speaking with Wisdom
  EFFECT: The Charismatic determines the rightness or 
  wrongness—or alternately, the “goodness” or “evil-
  ness”—of some action, item, or line of thinking. That 
  is, the GM lets the Holy Roller know if the target is 
  good/right, evil/wrong, or neutral/ambiguous.
  The Gift of Speaking with Knowledge
  EFFECT: The Charismatic speaks knowledgeably on 
  any subject, whether or not the PC has any training 
  or education about it. That is, the GM either gives the 
  PC greater information on the subject at hand, or lets 
  his player deﬁ ne—on the ﬂ y and in play!—some true 
  fact about the subject. This can even include a demon’s 
  name or obsession.
  The Gift of True Faith
  EFFECT: Faith imparts the Charismatic vast courage to 
  resist obstacles and difﬁ culties. This resistance grants 
  protection against the supernatural, functioning as the 
  Protective Faith skill (see above) at 100%.
  The Grace of Healing
  EFFECT: This is the laying on of hands to aid those in 
  pain or bearing injury, by which the Charismatic heals a 
  target’s injuries, equal to the sum of the dice of the heal-
  ing roll. This healing works on everything, including the 
  “unhealable” damage caused by Pornomancer blasts.
  The Gift of Miracles
  EFFECT: The Charismatic performs a deed beyond hu-
  man limits for the good of another (rather than him-
  self), receiving a +50% shift on the necessary roll. It’s 
  most usually used to enhance physical capability (to lift 
  a car off someone, for example), cast out devils, take 
  up serpents, drink poison without harm, and so forth.
  The Gift of Prophecy
  EFFECT: While Charismatic prophecy usually amounts 
  to divinely inspired proclamations about religious 
  subjects, this Gift can give a vision of future events. If 
  attempting to discern the future of a speciﬁ c person, ac-
  tion, or event, it costs an extra minor charge. The GM 
  either gives the PC a hint about the target’s near future 
  or lets the PC simply state what may be.
  The Gift of Discerning Spirits
  EFFECT: The Charismatic gains temporary Aura Sight 
  (UA2, p. 43) for a number of minutes equal to the sum 
  of the dice.
  The Gift of Tongues
  EFFECT: The Charismatic can engage in basic communi-
  cation in any human language, understanding and ex-
  pressing basic concepts for a number of minutes equal 
  to the sum of the dice. This ability to communicate is 
  very rudimentary; simply put, talk like Tarzan. 
  
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  The Gift of Interpreting Speeches
  EFFECT: Conferred for the direction and comfort of 
  one’s neighbor, this allows the Charismatic to mysti-
  cally distinguish spoken truths from falsehoods. That 
  is, the GM reveals whether the target is lying or telling 
  the truth.
  Charismatic Significant Effects
  Unknown. Duplicating the miracles of Jesus Christ
  (water walking, quelling storms, multiplying loaves 
  and ﬁ shes, resurrecting the recently dead, etc.) are good 
  bets.
  Charismatic Major Effects
  Totally unknown. Create an incorruptible body for 
  yourself, maybe?
  Contemporary Charismatics
  There are three Charismatics alive in the mod-
  ern day. The Order is aware of two of them, 
  and both are members.
  SISTER MARY RACHEL: An elderly nun from 
  Connecticut. Interestingly, she makes Caput 
  58 M glow. Although there is great respect for 
  her among Cecilites, she’s “just” an associate 
  member of the Order. She doesn’t do much 
  ﬁ eldwork these days, and mostly operates as a 
  support member.
  FATHER KEONI JOHNSTON: A very young 
  priest from Hawaii. Although there is rela-
  tively little respect for him inside the Order 
  (that is, they keep a very close eye on him), 
  he’s a full member. He spends his days running 
  around the world and smiting things.
  UNKNOWN: The third living Charismatic is a 
  mystery—and may not even be Christian!
  (Need it be said that any of these three 
  would make interesting PCs?)
  
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  The Order has noticed various creatures, cabals, and 
  high-rollers operating in the world around them. Here 
  is what they know.
  The Unexplained
  The Order knows more about vampires and zombies 
  than anybody else—they have all the details of the 
  respective entries in UA2 (pp. 312–3).
  Unnatural Beings
  The Order has found that exorcism works against not 
  only demons, but also against astral parasites (UA2, pp. 
  300–1) and revenants UA2, pp. 305–6). For other un-
  natural beings, their knowledge amounts to…
  GOLEMS: Command them with authority.
  TENEBRAE: Shine bright lights on them.
  UNSPEAKABLE SERVANTS: Apply bullets, ﬁ re, and 
  explosions.
  Cabals
  Here’s what the Order knows (or thinks they know) 
  about the various cabals of the world.
  The House of Renunciation
  The Order doesn’t understand the House of 
  Renunciation; it has too many conﬂ icting reports about 
  its nature and the philosophies of its agents. Mostly, 
  they think it’s a cabal trying to hitch its wagon to 
  Hubert Roscommons’s (UA2, p. 229) occult star.
  The Sleepers
  The Order considers the Sleepers to be allies of the very 
  last resort, a desperate compromise with the forces 
  of Hell. As mentioned earlier, the Sleepers have inﬁ l-
  trated the Order, and the Order has inﬁ ltrated them 
  back. Unfortunately, the Order’s mindset prevents it 
  from taking advantage of any of the occult knowledge 
  they’ve acquired this way.
  A recent effort to digitize and translate extant jour-
  nals of past Cecilites could allow the Order to realize 
  that there’s no mention of the Sleepers in Europe until 
  the 1940s.
  The New Inquisition
  The Order believes that TNI is sponsored by the gov-
  ernment of the United States, a magickal black-ops 
  organization much like themselves. 
  The Sect of the Naked Goddess
  A blasphemous cult worshipping some sort of demon 
  of lust incarnated in a pornographic actress.
  Mak Attax
  More noise than signal on the Maks’ mailing lists. 
  Part 4: The World Around Us
  
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  The Global Liberation Society
  No data, not even their name.
  Satan’s Chosen Temple
  Not on the Order’s radar. (Once they are, though, it’ll 
  be quick and messy.)
  Adepts & Avatars
  In general, the Order has no understanding of the 
  adepts of the various schools or the avatars of the 
  various archetypes, other than what they’ve learned 
  through trial and error as reﬂ ected under “Occult 
  Countermeasures,” above. 
  The Comte
  The Comte—whom the Order also refers to as the 
  “Wandering Jew” or “Rex Mundi”—has alternately 
  helped the Order, hindered them, and ignored them 
  over the centuries. The Cecilites have learned not to 
  triﬂ e with him. After long experience, they either avoid 
  him or accede to his requests. Otherwise, things get 
  worse.
  As far as the Order knows, the Comte appears like 
  someone native to the region he’s in, and is invulnerable 
  and omnilingual. He can improvise magickal rituals. If 
  he’s an incarnate demon, then he’s one that’s too pow-
  erful for them to deal with. (Some Order theologians 
  posit that the Comte’s “something else,” other than a 
  demon—but they don’t know what.)
  Dirk Allen
  A hack writer of occult trash. A few members of the 
  Order are fans of his work. Go ﬁ gure.
  The Freak
  The Order thinks the Freak is probably just a nasty 
  bedtime story. Or, if not that, an incarnate demon.
  
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  The following sections are a precis of the existing, sig-
  niﬁ cant Unknown Armies canon on the Order of Saint 
  Cecil.
  Unknown Armies, 2nd Edition
  The description of the Order of Saint Cecil (UA2, p. 
  253) is the main source of information about its his-
  tory, structure, and activities. Thin Black Line expands 
  on those starting details. Note that the three types of 
  “hot” cases listed there are all classed under the head-
  ing “Laying Unquiet Spirits” here.
  Also, take a look at Father Jose Carrillo (UA2, p. 
  255).
  Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  The New Inquisition keeps close tabs on the Order 
  (LGM, p. 31). Alex Able abhors the Order’s slash-and-
  burn policy regarding the supernatural, but has no qualms 
  about pointing them at magickal threats when he has 
  nothing to gain from them. Able’s also a generous bene-
  factor to the Order through the Christabel Society.
  Postmodern Magick
  The Knocking Box
  For centuries, the Order had a potent (signiﬁ cant) 
  artifact—the Knocking Box—that was useful for laying 
  unquiet spirits to rest (PMM, p. 144). When used, the 
  Box sucks up demons and revenants in the area. Now 
  containing more than 350 years worth of angry spirits, 
  it amounts to a mystical atomic bomb. After World 
  War II, the Box was sent to Dachau for cleansing, but 
  was instead lost. 
  The Grail Knights
  Joseph of Arimathea (PMM, p. 164) aids the Order 
  when he can. The Order recognizes that Joseph is an 
  unreliable ally.
  Simeon bar Yohai (PMM, p. 165) is in email contact 
  with theological and magickal theorists of the Order.
  Hush Hush
  The Order works with the Sleepers more than any 
  other cabal (HH, p. 23), although they absolutely do 
  not like doing so. While the Order has the advantage in 
  money, personnel, and political inﬂ uence, the Sleepers 
  often have the edge in occult info. Complicating the 
  situation, Sleeper agents have compromised the lay 
  agents of the Order… and the Order has compromised 
  the Sleepers right back.
  Ripped-Off Head Riot
  Two Order members caused mayhem while dealing 
  with a crazy vampire/epideromancer (HH, p. 124).
  Break Today
  There are at least two lay agents of the Order on the 
  Mak Attax open list (BT, p. 66). They compare and 
  correlate occult information ﬂ oated there with the 
  Order’s records.
  The Usual
  Two members of the Order have been assigned to exor-
  cise a franchise of the Scotsman (BT, p. 124).
  Appendix: What Has Come Before
  
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  To Go
  A member of the Order is tracking Rosicrucians in Los 
  Angeles (TG, p. 15).
  Ascension of the Magdalene
  The upshot of this scenario is that the Order tries to 
  recover a mystical painting by Caravaggio in the Prague 
  of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. See the Knights of 
  Malta and the OSC (AotM, p. 11), Father Giacommo
  (AotM, p. 13), the Order House in Judith Tower 
  (AotM, p. 18), and Possession by the Knights of Malta 
  (AotM, p. 39).
  
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