A scenario about a team of Cleaners set in the Atrocity Archives setting.

Team Bravo assigned to Case Morning Brightside are:
Detective Sergeant Robin Lewis – (M) Team leader/ chief investigating officer
Private “Tiny” Tim Croaker – (M) Transportation manager/ physical defence consultant
Dr. Eva Novavova – (F) Forensic pathologist/ team medic/ group archivist
Dr. Devon Garkovitch – (M) Mental health and safety / ISO9000 compliance officer
Mosin Mohammed Anwar – (M) IT hardware and technical support

INTRODUCTION
The time is now…

Player characters are members of Cleaning Team Bravo. They have worked together for about six months, spending much of their time training and kicking their heels waiting for occasional calls from Laundry Operatives to clean up their “mess” and serving as back up to the primary group – Team Able. There is considerable rivalry between themselves and Team Able.

Team Bravo have just spent the last two weeks on an “Awareness Course for the Sensitivity Impaired” following a particularly indiscreet remark from one of the team. They have therefore been somewhat out of the loop on the recent office gossip.

At 4.15am each of the PCs are awoken from their various homes by a phone call from the gravely voiced night duty officer (called Carlton). After confirming their identity, he informs them that a Code Blue has been called (urgent high threat imminent), and that a car is being sent to collect them, before hanging up. They are then rung back and also told to bring an overnight bag. It’s Team Bravo’s first ever Code Blue event. Five minutes later a police car arrives to take the PC at high speed to London Docklands Airport where they meet the other PCs and Trevor – a youthful (i.e. spotty) Laundry gopher who directs them all to a waiting helicopter. A short time later they touch down at an RAF base (Brize Norton in Oxfordshire) and are met by Alexander Thorn (who looks remarkably like Roger Delgado – The Master from the Jon Pertwee era of Dr Who), the team’s head of section. He has briefing packs for each of the PCs (which they must sign for) and directs them to read them whilst en-route to Iraq. The packs are to be handed back to Trevor, who is to return with the read packs. Needless to say Trevor looks very surprised at this bit of news.

Thorn does not have time to field questions, except to explain that Team Bravo’s clean up mission is to “tidy up” after an air incident. “The details are all in the briefing packs. Equipment requisitions will have to be made via our military liaison officer in Basra – Group Captain Andrew Powers,” Thorn explains. News aware PCs will recall that very recent news reports (as in heard or read whilst waiting for the police car) from Iraq indicate that an RAF transport plane has just crashed outside Basra airbase.

After a quick briefing on in-flight safety procedures by RAF flight personnel, they are bundled aboard an RAF C-130 Hercules transport bound for Iraq with the bewildered Trevor.


The Briefing Notes.
The report makes reference to Project Saving Grace and Case Epsilon Mauve.

Project Saving Grace is concerned with the search for weapons of thaumaturgical mass destruction by US Black Chamber operatives. Such devices are of course classified way above top secret and are whether they found any or not are not discussed. Needless to say the Black Chamber felt confident that there were none in the Basra sector and happily handed over control of this area to the British. As the former colonial power in the area after the First World War, the British know different…

Case Epsilon Mauve is about the recovery of “Mythos” artefacts from Site 1 in the Kabir Hills approximately10km from the Iranian border and some 100km North of Basra. Six months ago, locals in the area murdered a patrol of British soldiers, following the alleged failure of their radio equipment. The hills are notorious for magnetic and electrical interference thought mainly due to the concentrations of magnatite ore in the area.

Laundry analysts unearthed records from the old colonial administration that revealed military operations (in the form of aerial bombings and attacks by light reconnaissance vehicles) to deal with the local hill tribes, who revered a deity called Umm al-Alf Al-Muthlimun (literally “The Mother of a Thousand Dark Things”). The colonial authorities dispersed the tribes and a tribal village was destroyed when bombs set off a huge rockslide down a nearby hillside.

Obviously the hill tribes had regrouped and the British military authorities took (secret) punitive measures against them three months ago. With the area now secure, a Laundry survey team was sent into the area last month and discovered a number of significant artefacts in a cave system, near the lost tribal village. This area is now designated Site 1. Cleaning Team Able was sent in to clean up the site and to remove all significant artefacts from the area two weeks ago. This process is still ongoing and Case Epsilon Mauve is listed as Active status.

The first shipment of artefacts recovered by Team Able were loaded aboard a Hercules C-130 transport plane designated, Flight Zulu X-Ray Eight Zero, which departed Basra Airbase at 05.30 local time (02.30 GMT or 03.30 BST), just before sunrise. At 05.33 local time, Flight Zulu X-Ray Eight Zero vanished suddenly off local flight control radar. At 05.36 reports came in of an explosion east of the air base from eyewitnesses on the ground, in the location roughly where Flight Zulu X-ray was last seen on radar.

Cleaning Team Bravo is assigned to assist the RAF air accident investigation into the crash and to recover the lost cargo, which is now assumed to be scattered all over the crash sight. Cleaning Team Able is finishing up their work at Site 1 and has being recalled to assist. This mission has been designated Case Morning Brightside and is now designated as Active status.