SIGNET

SIGNET was a freelance organisation based in 21st century York which dealt with otherworldly matters.

Nature
Headed by Charles, SIGNET was an organisation with "beliefs", which strove to avoid being prejudiced against aliens on principle, and to be willing to help stranded aliens as much as threatened humans. Based in a HQ in York, they faced frequent financial worries, (PROSE: ) though they were still fairly well-equipped, able to afford specialty equipment from the Dark Web. (PROSE: )

History
In the early 21st century, the team was active under the leadership of an eccentric old man named Charles. Among its recruits were Jae-Hun, Xana, the Gendar Olivia (who was engaged in a character-building internship on Earth), and Aoife Fitzgerald, a young mother whom Charles had come to see as a kind of surrogate niece. (PROSE: ) At some point, "SIGNET agents" purchased specialty equipment from Damon Blue through the Dark Web, a transaction facilitated by Mads Palmer. (PROSE: ) SIGNET faced a number of threats in York, including the invisible Galvodon and an attempted incursion by the Yssgaroth, which briefly possessed Aoife.

A short time later, with Halloween approaching, Aoife came at the centre of another otherworldly incursion when a decapitated Hervoken called Hervy mailed itself to her house and attempted to leech off her daughter Norah's psychic energy to regenerate its body. Recognising her daughter's changed behaviour as abnormal, she called in Charles and Xana; Charles initially wanted to try and negotiate with the creature, but Aoife wanted no risks taken with her daughter's life, and with her own hostility spurring the alien to attack, she and Charles ended up killing it. On Halloween Day proper, as he came round the Fitzgerald home to check on Norah's recovery, Aoife told Charles that she would resign if he ever tried to put his principles before her daughter's life again, though she softened her stance on seeing the ease with which Norah herself had put the incident out of her mind. (PROSE: )

Undated events
It was one of the acronymic organisations to investigate the Letharcy. (PROSE: )