The Madness Dossier

Operation URIEL

A game of high weirdness, ontological warfare, and office politics set in 1970s California.



The Club

There’s a thing that we all in URIEL have in common. You, me, Roger, Jocasta, Archie. I thought that was everybody who had it, but Charley has it too.

— Mitch’s Debrief with Marshall

Mitchell Jefferson Hort
Roger Martin ∙ Jocasta Menos
Archibald Ransom ∙ Marshall Redgrave

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Genevieve Abeille ∙ Charley Helix

201 Files

The Central Intelligence Agency also uses the term “201 File” to refer to their own personnel records used for analogous purposes.

— Military Personnel File

Human Assets

I can remember when our organization put the question to me. In that moment, I felt like I was making a choice, but now when I look back, I realize I was already in all this, up to my neck. And I’ll bet some of the other folks sitting here feel sort of the same way.

— Archie Recruits Andy and Viv

Secure Archives

Behind this door are a suite of cubicles, a cozy glassed-in reading room and library, and several TMDS terminals hooked into the Livermore Time Sharing System and, as of February of 1973, the nascent ARPANET.

— The URIEL Suite