Their Finest Hour- New Associations

The setting of “Their Finest Hour” holds the same abundance of riches as Victoriana. This sea of adventurous possibilities could drown some parties, but Associations throw out the life preserver of campaign themes.

The Home Tradition Section

Aware of the incredible magical energies powering the Nazi war machine conquering across continental Europe, Churchill ordered the assemblage of an organization fit to secretly scour Great Britain in search of its legendary past. The agents of Home Tradition Section include dishonored crackpots, little-regarded researchers, specialist criminals, and treasure hunters deemed unsuitable for military service for the task. Along with a small staff, the HTS numbers little under 100 members.

While some members of HTS are registered Thaumatergists, the Guild has no affiliation with the section nor does the section draw on the vast magical resources of the Guild. This is due to both the Guild’s increasing responsibility in the war and the HTS’s remit to study magical traditions not sanctioned by the Guild. Agents and academics of the HTS often travel under the cover of the ROC (Royal Observer Corps), claiming their excavations to be preliminary construction of watchtowers, and their long hours tramping through the country as part of a short term observation assignment.

Current Research Projects of the HTS include:

Operation Quadrangle- Track down the historic truths behind the legend of King Arthur, Camelot, and Merlin

Operation Omit- Examine the possibility of harnessing Ley Lines connecting places of power in Great Britain

Operation Acre- Find and make contact with the lost kingdom of fairies

Operation Pursuant- Catalogue folk magic of the British countryside not recognized by the Guild and access for military application

Operation Visit- Obtain and catalog magical relicts of Great Britain

Operation Scarlet- Search for the channel for evidence of the lost city of Ys and the possibility of mermaid civilization (The HTS scaled back the efforts of Operation Scarlet since Dunkirk)

Skills: History, Language, Athletics, Lore, Appraisal, Navigation

Privileges: Friend of the Library,

Bargle Street Station Committee

When the air raid siren warns of enemy bombers, civilians run to the nearest shelter. In and under the heart of London, the underground tunnels and tube stations nightly protect the population of the surrounding city-blocks from the mass devastation of air raids. Fear, charity, and desperation forge unique communities beneath the surface. At the Bargle Street Station, the respectable middle-class families living on Upper Bargle Street mix with the hoochie-coochie girls, gamblers, con men, and assorted riffraff of Lower Bargle Street in the safety of the underground.

Through the chaos of classes and criminal records, “The Bargle Street Station Committee” maintains the station, organizes entertainments for morale, and keeps the population of the underground cooperating during the desperate days of war. The Committee consists of a handful of locals respected by both sides of the street for their pluck and reliability, such as doctors, gang leaders, matrons, and madams. When disaster falls from the sky, terrible sewer monsters crawl up from below, or the constables search for ill-gotten goods, the Committee protects the nightly refugees of Bargle Street Station through professional skill and larcenous canny.

Skills: Accounting, Forgery, Gambling, Legal Matters, Pickpocket, Streetwise,

Privileges: Ear of the Street, Gang Member,