People for the Ethical Treatment of Monsters

Pronounced Pet-'em by members. Pronounced You stupid *&^%&$$!! by Bureau-13 and various encountered Scoobies
*Number of Members: Fluctuates. Drops rapidly until there is a supernatural encounter near a major university, or in Berkeley Ca.
*Nature of Members: Fluffy headed people who feel that monsters are an ecological response to the depredations of humanity, and a natural control for humanity's over-population. Sentimental people who feel that, just because a creature wants to suck out your insides and wear your skin for a disguise, this doesn't mean he doesn't have feelings too.
*Organization: Loose cells, organized by local enthusiasts, often quickly exterminated.
*Game Role: To make your players spit things all over the table, to make ruthless fun of "people for the ethical treatment of animals," or other people who see humanity as a blight and wear Birkenstocks.
*World Role: McVictims.
*Relative Influence: Slight, although they can get into delicate situations and make them worse/stupider/weirder.
*Public or Secret? Public until members of Bureau-13 various Scoobies get a hold of them.
*Publicly Stated Goal: To ensure that vampires, werewolves, demons, face-huggers, brain-eaters, bone-suckers, and everything else nasty and brutal is treated fairly by society and gets its day in court.
*Relative Wealth: Not much. Often, members eschew materialism and capitalism.
*Group Advantages: Earnest belief in silly things.
*Contacts: Very often a cell of this organization will crop up after a potential member (probably already a PETA supporter) encounters the supernatural. In this case, he may already be in proximity to agents of Bureau-13 or various Scoobies. 
*Special Abilities: Members of this group can rationalize the most fatuous, slap happy, and self destructive ideas, and act on them sincerely.
*Group Disadvantages: McVictims!
*Special Disadvantages: They tend to pursue monsters that see them as food to try and explain their cause. Many monsters take this as a request to be eaten.
*Who Belongs: People who believe humanity is too numerous, arrogant, and inherently destructive, and that horrifying creatures provide a valid ecological balancing mechanism. (Applications for membership in PETM come with Birkenstocks.)
*Who Doesn't Belong: People who value human life.
*Those Who Favor Them: Monsters (incredulous, but supportive), PETA.
*Public Face: Team Green Extreme. Clueless hippies and ultra liberals somewhere past the bounds of sanity.
*History of the Group: First started in 1983, when members of a PETA organization were attacked by a vampire and were then saved (wasted effort). Realizing the implications, the original members of the organization researched monsters and such, and soon formed Pet'Em. Not long afterwards, they were all eaten by vampires.<P>Apparently, despite all efforts, their notes and writings keep turning up. (Agents suspect that vampires with nasty senses of humor preserve them and reintroduce them to vulnerable groups. (Vee vould not know anyting about that - The Vampires)) Of course now it with the internet nothing ever truly goes away. (sigh) Save the sane people and be glad of the distraction. 
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