Bureau of Measures

(The following is Fanon by Cherrio01)
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“I was told to give you this.” Victonio said, handing a sealed envelope to the teller. The wax on the envelope bore the mark of White Star Trading Company, something Infinity used to send invoices to other businesses on-world.
The teller took the envelope, taking a letter opener from a cup and opening it with practiced efficiency. The opener was sharp and clean. The teller looked over the letter furtively before folding it and placing it carefully in an organized drawer.
“We’ll have your order in fifteen minutes,” said the teller, pointing to the hefty clock that took up much of the far wall. The teller handed a sealed letter and a receipt to Victonio. “Let your employers know that everything’s going according to schedule.”
== Introduction ==
The Bureau of Measures is a meticulous and enigmatic parachronic faction combining old-fashioned natural sciences with supernatural study, with an almost religious devotion to precision and record-keeping. 
Bureau locations tend to match their surroundings, but are almost always pristinely clean, bizarrely well-staffed despite their location, and often feature clocks or timekeeper apparatus as a major furnishing. 
== Goals ==
The Bureau seems to be dedicated to finding various Unifying Theories, such as connecting gravity and electromagnetism, or psionics and magery. Members of the Bureau share a common meme that there is some great truth always just beyond the horizon, although only some members are actually professional scientists. The bulk of the Bureau are regular clerks, bookkeepers, and even craftsmen who produce various goods that work as the Bureau's "front", particularly paper and stationary supply.
=== The Language of Angels ===
"The Language of Angels is Unambiguous" -- this sentence, in different languages, has been the code phrase for many Bureau agents. Known by its shorthand term, "Qwervantian", the Language of Angels is a theoretical hyper-language that can convey immense amounts of precise data in a relatively short amount of time. It is--in theory--robust, precise, and unambiguous, a perfect language for making contracts, measurements, and deals with supernatural entities. Wishes cast in Qwervantian are immune to "Monkey's Paw effects" or tampering by demons, djinn, or fey shenanigans. See Known Fronts below for places this might be used.
== Known Fronts and Headquarters ==
The Bureau has camouflaged itself among many societies in the multiverse, although it primarily appears anywhere where paper has become common. Some branches have esoteric-sounding names like "The Order of Alethiologists", while some are simply known as The Paper Company or some variant therein.
Some examples include:
Region / Worldline 	Notes
Several papermaking businesses and trades based in China, TL2+ 	Paper is one of China's great inventions in seemingly every timeline. These "early" sightings are fuzzy and inconclusive, as the Bureau's iconography and ideology varies as the group finds its footing.
TL3 trading hub in Kerala region, India on Nergal 	
TL5 trading office in Kent county, UK on Britannica-6 	The Bureau's logo popped up among companies listed in The Stationers' Register. Relations with White Star were uneasy until the Bureau brokered a deal to sell off
TL7+ consultation firm in New York state on Gallatin 	Supposedly one more office hiding somewhere in the Pacific
TL8 office stationary companies (selling paper, pencils, staplers, etc) on several modern-equivalent timelines.	
Shattered factions among Reality Abzu (TL?) 	Due to what can only be described as "memetic poisoning".
Several overt and covert scientific research facilities on Azoth-7 (TL4+2) 	For fairly obvious reasons -- the Bureau has a chance to quite literally learn an angelic language, bringing them closer to their ultimate language (see Language of Angels, above).
== Known Foes ==
Besides the usual cast of baddies, the Bureau of Measures have two recurring foes:
* The SwagmenInfinite Worlds, p.71 -- Not for their cons and schemes, but for their thievery, as it becomes a logistical nightmare if your manifests or artifacts are intercepted by crosstime heisters
* An enigmatic entity known as "The Gray Ape". A personification of mystery and wonder, the joys and horrors of the inexplicable. The Gray Ape hides behind every door, and in every shadow, daring the Bureau to bring words and numbers to an undefined universe. Some of Infinity Unlimited's (admittedly few) thaumatologists speculate this entity could beYeichavah, the aethyr of Anostêr, who sometimes appears in dreams as a blind, gray ape.
== References ==
* Fanon from Cherrio01
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