Night Office Series

For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has stayed up late, fighting off all sorts of whistling horrors, shrieking monstrosities, and drooling frog monsters. One of the secrets to their success is lots and lots of coffee. This Education Assessment Exercise is meant to introduce you to the perils of working for the Night Office. Instead of throwing you into the field, where all kinds of terrible things could happen to you, the Night Office wants to know if you can manage to order a cup of coffee. Naturally, tentacled face-suckers from another dimension are always lurking nearby, waiting for their chance. Can you survive a seemingly ordinary visit to the coffee shop? WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: • How to quickly assess a group of people, and discern credible threats. • How to deal with aggressive personalities who might interfere with a Night Office field operation. • How to think outside the realms of possibility. • How to decisively order coffee.

For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has been in your neighborhood. When someone on your street mysteriously vanishes, it is because the Night Office shoved them in a van in the dead of night. When stray dogs go feral, it is the Night Office that gets bitten so your children stay safe. When cats make strange noises at night, it is because the Night Office is standing on their tails.      This Psychological Assessment Exercise puts you on a Night Office field operation team. You are the Closer. It is your job to close all doors, gates, portals, jars, chests, and any other object that might contain a space jelly. Failure to close things properly means people will die. Do you have what it takes to keep humanity safe?      WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  • How to work with a team. • Or, at the very least, how to suffer the idiots you are forced to work with.  • How to identify space jellies. • How to navigate the awkward pauses of a failed relationship when you and your ex have to work together to save humanity. 

The Night Office never sleeps. For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has worked in the shadows, keeping all manners of tentacled beasties, gibbering madnesses, and slavering six-eyed goats from devouring you, your neighbor, and your neighbor's dog. And now, the Night Office needs you.   This Advanced Psychological Strategies assessment is meant for field operatives who have just returned from a mission. It will validate your mental integrity, verifying that you have not been breached by space jellies or other malignant entities. Successful completion of an APS assessment will demonstrate a field operative's readiness to continue the perpetual battle against the Great Old Ones.   WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: • How to construct a therapeutic personality which can verify your mental integrity. • How to navigate the Dark Labyrinth. • How to acknowledge lingering psychic trauma that has prevented you from making friends. • How to convincingly lie to yourself.

  It's been almost a hundred years since the first occult expedition to Antarctica. Others followed, and many of them did not make it back. Recently, a privately-owned research station has gone dark, and strange signals are being broadcast from the desolate Antarctic Plateau.   For this Advanced Psychological Strategies assessment, you will take on the role of a Closer, part of the second team which has been sent to investigate mysterious transmissions coming from MacReady Station. Once your team lands, you will be cut off from all external resources.  You will only have your wits, your coat of many pockets, and your Personal Therapeutic Construct. Will they be enough for you to survive the Cold Empty?   WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: • Self-reliance, aka "Are you sure you haven't lost your mind?" • How to deal to with trans-dimensional entities that require an unwitting human subject to create a link between realms. • How to overcome crushing isolation and utter despair. • How to discern what is real from what is intruding from another dimension.