UWIAEE Field Agent — Personnel Background Brief
Document ID: BKG-007-2c Classification: UWIAEE-INTERNAL // PERSONNEL // ALL CLEARED STAFF Issued By: Office of Personnel Welfare Last Revised: [REDACTED]
Purpose
This document outlines the background profile for personnel operating under a standard field agent designation within UWIAEE. It is provided at the conclusion of orientation and is retained in the employee's personnel file.
Background: UWIAEE Field Agent
| Skill Proficiencies | Investigation + Deception |
| Tool Proficiencies | Disguise Kit |
| Languages | One of your choice |
| Feature | Field Cover |
| Variant | The Analyst |
| Equipment | Five dark suits + 20 gp operational funds |
Overview
You work for the United World Institution of Abnormal Entities and Events. You knew something was wrong with the world before they recruited you — a wrong shape in a photograph, a disappearance that the news covered too quickly, a sound you heard once that you stopped telling people about. UWIAEE found you because they find everyone who notices. The screening process confirmed what they already suspected.
You have been trained to blend in. The suits are not a uniform; they are a deliberate choice, calibrated over decades of operational review to read as generic authority in nearly every region in which UWIAEE operates. You have a credential card. You have a cover identity, fully backstopped by a real desk staffed by a real person. You have a handler.
Most of your work looks, from the outside, like nothing at all.
Proficiencies
Skill Proficiencies: Investigation and Deception — the first for finding what is wrong, the second for not letting anyone know you found it.
Tool Proficiencies: Disguise Kit — not for elaborate theatrical disguises, but for the quiet maintenance of a face that is not quite your own: the right cut of hair, the posture of someone with a different job, the way an insurance adjuster holds a pen.
Languages: One additional language of your choice. UWIAEE operates globally; agents are expected to be useful in more than one jurisdiction.
Equipment
Five dark suits (well-cut, locally appropriate, unremarkable), a credential card identifying you under your current cover identity, a fabricated professional backstory maintained by the Office of Personnel Welfare, a standard-issue field notebook in plain black cover, a contact card for your handler's direct line, and 20 gp in mixed currencies from Earth drawn from your operational budget. (about 20$)
The mid-size dark sedan is checked out from the motor pool, not personally owned. Return it clean.
Feature: Field Cover
You have a fully backstopped cover identity — a name, a profession, a paper trail, and a phone number that rings to a staffed desk. Civilians and officials accept your cover without significant question in routine interactions. Your credential card identifies you as a plausible mundane professional (the specific role is noted on the reverse and memorised before first assignment).
If a civilian becomes suspicious, you have approved fallback language that has been refined over sixty-five years of use. If your cover is blown in a serious way, you contact your handler. Personnel Welfare has extraction protocols. You are not expected to improvise your way out of a collapsed cover alone.
Additionally, your handler is available at all hours on a line that is always staffed. You are expected to report unusual encounters within twenty-four hours. Your handler will tell you if they already know.
Suggested Characteristics
Field agents come from everywhere. UWIAEE does not recruit from a single type — it recruits from the population of people who notice things. What they have in common is a particular quality of attention: the kind that does not announce itself, that watches without appearing to watch, that files things away without moving its eyes.
The psychological weight of the work varies by person and by assignment. Personnel Welfare is aware of this variation. The resources are there. Use them.
Personality Trait (d6)
| d6 | Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have a habit of noting exits when I enter a room. I stopped trying to break it years ago. |
| 2 | I am very good at seeming interested in what people are saying while thinking about something else entirely. |
| 3 | I do not tell people what I do for work. I have a practiced story. I have told it so many times it feels true. |
| 4 | I find genuinely mundane things deeply reassuring — a normal crowd, a predictable commute, an ordinary shop window. |
| 5 | I am more comfortable with strangers than with people who know me. Strangers ask fewer questions I cannot answer. |
| 6 | I keep a personal log that my handler does not have access to. I do not examine why. |
Ideal (d6)
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Containment. The point is to keep things manageable. Not to fix them — that is usually not possible — but to keep them from getting worse. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Protection. The civilians who walked past a scene and did not understand what they saw — they are who this is for. (Good) |
| 3 | Honesty. We do not lie to our own people. I extend that principle further than my handbook does. (Neutral Good) |
| 4 | Professionalism. I was trained for this. I execute what I was trained for. The rest is noise. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Curiosity. I will not pretend I am not interested. I do this because I need to understand what is out there. (Any) |
| 6 | Accountability. Someone has to answer for what gets done in the dark. That accountability should be real. (Lawful Good) |
Bond (d6)
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My handler has been in my corner since orientation. I do not know what I would do if they were reassigned. |
| 2 | A civilian I encountered on an assignment was not given the full Welfare Protocol. I have not stopped thinking about them. |
| 3 | I have a family who believes my cover completely. This was the right call. I revisit it every year. |
| 4 | There is an ongoing case I was pulled from before it was resolved. I still have my notes. |
| 5 | A colleague I respected was terminated for an ethical violation. I am still not certain the call was right. |
| 6 | I found something in the field that I did not report. I still have it. I do not know what it is. |
Flaw (d6)
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have maintained my cover for so long in some relationships that I am no longer certain who I am without it. |
| 2 | I do not trust anyone who has not been vetted. This includes people I care about. |
| 3 | I categorize every new person I meet as a potential threat, asset, or liability. I do this automatically and I cannot stop. |
| 4 | I have accumulated knowledge I was not supposed to retain. I cannot bring myself to report it. |
| 5 | I am constitutionally bad at leaving a scene before I understand what happened there. This has cost me time I did not have. |
| 6 | I believe, more than I should, that I can handle things alone. My handler has noted this in my file. |
Variant: The Analyst
Not all UWIAEE field personnel conduct active operations. Analysts are stationed at field offices or regional hubs, processing incoming reports, cross-referencing known phenomena, and flagging patterns that field agents have not yet connected. They rarely attend scenes. They occasionally understand what is happening at a scene before the people standing in it do.
Replace Feature with — Pattern Recognition: You have access to UWIAEE's regional database and the indexing conventions necessary to use it. When you have time to research a phenomenon, location, or entity — at least a few hours with network access — you can identify whether UWIAEE has encountered anything similar, and if so, what happened. The information may be redacted above your clearance. The fact that there is information is itself useful.
Issued by the Office of Personnel Welfare, UWIAEE. This document is retained in your personnel file. It is not for external distribution.