Special Agent

The job is federal law enforcement. The subject matter is everything that federal law enforcement training didn't prepare you for. Most agents develop a tolerance for cognitive dissonance within their first eighteen months or they don't make it to nineteen.

Favored Save: Wit Save (+1D to Wit + Resolve rolls)

Power Access: Mediumship or Glamourist (choose at character creation). The Bureau does not formally acknowledge that its agents use supernatural capacities in their work. It also does not discourage agents from developing useful capabilities, provided those capabilities don't appear in any documentation that could be subject to FOIA requests. Agents who bring lineage-native tradition access to the role find that it is quietly accommodated.

Starting Resources: Federal credentials, service weapon (standard sidearm), BUA-issued field kit (EMF meter, evidence bags with classification markings, portable recorder), secure access to federal law enforcement databases.

Lineage Affinity: Human (institutional default), Haunt, Faeborn. Dhampir and Skinchanger agents exist but are managed carefully. Marked agents are a significant internal debate; the Bureau does not have a formal position on shadow compacts as a background investigation factor.

Progression Track: Special Agent

Stage 1 (10 XP), Field Certification
  The agent has developed case management capacity and the institutional trust
  that comes with surviving the first year.
  - Investigative Resource: Once per session, the agent may request a records
    pull, witness contact, or forensic analysis from Bureau resources. The GM
    determines how quickly and completely the request is fulfilled based on
    current case classification and resource availability.
  - Procedural Cover: The agent can generate legitimate-appearing federal
    documentation for an investigation, scene perimeter, evidence seizure,
    witness NDA; that will withstand routine scrutiny from civilian law
    enforcement and most media contacts.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Field Agent
  The agent has a track record. They also have the institutional knowledge
  that comes from seeing what the Bureau actually does with the cases it closes.
  - Classified Access: The agent may access one currently active NRD flagged
    case file per session. These files contain anomalous information the Bureau
    officially treats as resolved. The information is real.
  - Secondary Tradition: If the agent does not already have both Mediumship and
    Glamourist access, they gain the other at 1D (no Talent cost). The Bureau's
    working expectation for senior agents is broad capacity.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Supervisory Agent / Special Case
  The agent has become something the Bureau occasionally produces: someone who
  understands the full scope of what the Bureau's mandate actually covers.
  - Annex D Contact: The agent knows about Annex D and has been authorized to
    invoke it once per campaign, establishing or invoking an existing NDA
    agreement with a nonhuman entity. What the Bureau agrees not to investigate
    carries weight because the Bureau keeps its word.
  - Standing Authority: The agent may task junior BUA resources, analysts,
    field support, local office assistance, without a formal request chain.
    The Bureau trusts them to determine what the case needs.