Commission OSIC

The OSIC (Occult Sciences Investigation Commission) is the government agency responsible for monitoring, classifying, and containing everything the Maelström has allowed to seep into the world. Officially, it does not exist: its offices are fronts, its reports are redacted, and its agents operate behind the scenes of U.S. institutions.

Born out of the panic that gripped the decades following the opening of the Astral Gates, the Commission set itself a mission that was simple to state but impossible to fulfill: to prevent the occult from spilling over into civilian life. This involves espionage, the confiscation of relics, the discreet elimination of targets deemed too dangerous, and the recruitment of agents capable of operating where the police fail.

The OSIC has an ambiguous relationship with the Cursed City. The Patrons’ ritual is exactly the kind of event it should be suppressing, but it prefers to plant its own agents there and observe. As long as it can gather intelligence, it lets things play out, even if it means compromising itself with the factions it’s supposed to be fighting.