Merceter & Sons Detective Agency

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Renown: 1

Description

Sandwiched between a coin laundry spot and a used bookstore, the Merceter & Sons Detective Agency always smells like soap and musty books. The Merceters have, through years of being located here, just gotten used to it.

The smell doesn’t really seem to ward off any potential customers, though, and the little detective agency always has a couple cases to be following up on. Naturally, most of them are checking for infidelity with “loved ones”. They don’t charge more than the average going rate, and sometimes even cut people they like a deal, if they so need, but they don’t promise time frames ever.

Old Man Merceter likes to say, “If a deadline is needed, you’re going to miss the important things on the way to meeting it.” So, people don’t come to this place if they have something urgent. Regardless, the agency has a pretty winning success rate, in comparison to other places in Atlanta, which has left many others puzzled – just how do they do it, anyway?

Size, Location and Security

Size 1, Location 0, Security 1

Benefits

Minor

You’ve pretended to share a beer at a local bar with one of the boys, or you’ve done them a favor in the past for one of their cases – either way, they know you by name and you by theirs.

+1 Investigation; +2 Research Rolls

Sizable

You’ve been around and in their little hole-in-the-wall agency long enough to know that all things just aren’t what they seem. You’re not really sure what it is – and while the guys working there all seem to like you and mostly trust you, you get the feeling they don’t trust you enough yet.

+2 Investigation; +1 Streetwise; +2 Interrogation Rolls; +2 Research Rolls; Gain Access to Surveillance Gear

Uncontested

Maybe someone let it slip? Either way, the reason you’ve been able to get in close is because they wanted to learn more about your kind! You know it’s a Masquerade breach, but all the same, they don’t seem to be going to tell anyone, and they know things about other supernaturals too (humorously, they keep them in the “X Files” section of their passworded private servers). It’s not a whole lot of information and a lot of it’s basic, sure, but it’s enough to have startled you enough. Either way, they don’t seem like they’re going to hurt you with this knowledge – and so you might as well benefit from it.

+2 Investigation; +1 Streetwise; +2 Interrogation Rolls; +2 Research Rolls (which may be used on other Supernaturals); Gain Access to Surveillance Gear; +1 Urban Legends Rolls