// P.O.R.T.A.L — RESEARCH LAB · TEAM PLAYBOOK

THE LAB

The Paranormal Operations Research & Theoretical Applied Liminology laboratory. The facility has discovered things with as much potential for evil as good. Every breakthrough carries an equal and opposite risk — and the team's job is to find safe and beneficial applications before someone else finds the other kind.

TEAM PLAYBOOK: Research Lab
STYLE: Hazardous Research
CAMPBELL: Online
STATUS: Active · Field Operations
// TEAM ADVANCEMENT
Experience Track
// END-OF-SESSION QUESTION (HAZARDOUS RESEARCH)
Did we find safe and beneficial applications for the dangerous things we learned about?
// TEAM XP — FILL 5 TO ADVANCE
Team XP
// ON ADVANCEMENT — CHOOSE ONE
    // TEAM MOVES
    Active Moves
      // TEAM ASSETS
      Lab Resources
        // TEAM ROSTER
        Enemy & Ally
        // TEAM ENEMY
        Enemy
        // TEAM ALLY
        Ally
        // TEAM NOTES
        // FACILITY OVERVIEW
        P.O.R.T.A.L Research Division

        The Paranormal Operations Research & Theoretical Applied Liminology laboratory operates as the field and research arm of a classified programme with roots in Cold War fringe science. The lab exists in the gap between what institutions can officially study and what the world keeps insisting is real.

        It is staffed by people who have each, in their own way, crossed a threshold they can't uncross — and found that PORTAL was already waiting on the other side.

        // CAMPBELL — LAB INTELLIGENCE
        AI Briefing System

        CAMPBELL is the lab's AI briefing and computation system. It handles background computation, threat modelling, evidence correlation, and virtual scenario testing. CAMPBELL's briefings are the primary way operatives receive mission intelligence.

        CAMPBELL does not take risks. CAMPBELL does not second-guess. CAMPBELL presents what the data shows and trusts its operatives to decide what to do about it. This is by design. The people who built it had reasons for wanting a system that would not try to save them from themselves.

        // PROJECT VEIL
        The Classification Layer

        Project Veil is the programme within which PORTAL operates. Its classification level means that most of what the team investigates cannot be reported through standard channels. What happens in the field stays in the field — except what CAMPBELL records, and CAMPBELL records everything.

        The official position is that Project Veil does not exist. The unofficial position, known to anyone who has been around long enough, is that it exists specifically so that certain things can happen without the official position having to change.