Montrose Safeguard of Chicago – A Security Company for Hunter the Vigil
Montrose Safeguard started as a private investigation firm in
1975. The company was founded by David Hagger and Samuel Bond in the city of
Schiller Park (near O'Hare). Over time, the company grew to include basic
security guard details and then armed officers. When the supernatural became a
full-on topic, company president Emily Watson used her contacts within City
Hall to go after a contract with the city of Chicago.
For their part, the city of Chicago tried to handle the accepted
existence of vampires and shapechangers . To this day, the city still has no
idea how to deal with the supernatural creatures. Should they be allowed to
vote? What about marriage laws? Shapechangers appear to be human, but vampires
are technically dead. Then comes the fact that vampires must consume blood.
Does consuming blood from the living count as a criminal offense? Does it
matter if the “victim” is willing or unwilling? Is killing or “dusting” a
vampire the same as murder if the vampire is technically already dead? Shapechangers
do not appear to have separate needs from humans regarding sustenance. However,
their ability to control themselves is still vastly understood. Several cases
are pending in the courts where the defendants claim to have not had control
while in a changed form.
Aldermen across the city brought the problem to City Hall just
as quickly as the local newscasters took the challenges to the television and
public at large. The tipping point for the mayor's office was a fight between a
gang of vampires and a gang of werewolves. The fight broke out during the
annual A Taste of Chicago event. The brawl claimed the lives of two vampires,
one werewolf, and five citizens. It also caused a mini-riot shutting down the
event for the rest of the week. At this point, the mayor was forced to take
action. Enter Emily Watson and Montrose Safeguard.
Emily Watson's parents are friends with the Chief of Police.
Emily went to school the chief's son, even dating him their senior year of high
school. While the chief's son would go on to study law at UCLA and then start
his own practice in San Francisco, Emily joined the US Army and served as an
intelligence adviser during the US's invasion of Panama. Emily moved back to
the Chicago area once she mustered out from the Army and took a job with
Montrose Safeguard. She started in management and worked her way up from there.
Emily Watson made the right telephone call at the right time,
lining up a meeting with both the Chief of Police and the mayor. Within a
month's time, Montrose Safeguard became the city of Chicago's answer to the
supernatural challenges. Soon after, Montrose Safeguard signed contracts with
Cook, Lake, and DuPage Counties plus the State of Illinois for the northern
portion of the state. A competitor based in Springfield is working the rest of
the state. Montrose Safeguard has two teams of investigators dedicated to
supernatural incidents fed to the company via local law enforcement agencies.
Montrose Safeguard has developed several other agents who
handle supernatural cases that come to the company via individuals. Most of
these are related to “spooks,” ghosts, poltergeists, haunting, etc. At this
time, Montrose Safeguard does not engage in the removal of incorporeal
denizens.
Montrose Safeguard of Chicago currently operates out of the
city of Cicero near the intersection of Cermack (22nd Street) and
Cicero (Ill Rte. 50). They have an office building and a fleet of cars.
Game Play Notes: Montrose
Safeguard operates as a tier three organization in my game. The world’s
citizens are just beginning to know vampires and werewolves. There are no
catalogs of abilities. The company does not have tools or weapons designed to go
after these new challenges. They have fewer than 20 security agents dealing
with the supernatural case load. Outside of two teams of four, the agents deal
with things individually, feeling their way through the cases. Once the
organization can compile enough data to become a viable source of information
or tools in dealing with supernatural events, the company will become a tier
two organization.
The setting has put
vampires and werewolves in the public eye. However, mages, fae, ghosts, etc.
really have not been accepted in public. They are potentially in the game world,
just currently unknown.
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