Through Channel
Season Arc · The Old Ones - Art Dye
2All-In league: Through Channel stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleThrough Channel was created during the Bureau's founding in the early days of the Containment Zone. Senior agents needed a way to coordinate operations without leaving evidence in standard filing systems, so they established hidden communication pathways that appeared to be routine administrative traffic but actually carried confidential directives. The system has grown to encompass all secret Bureau communications.
Through Channel communications appear as official-looking documents with routine routing stamps but follow non-standard paths through the Bureau's infrastructure. They leave no carbon copy trails in standard filing systems and cannot be traced through normal audit procedures. The authentication markers they carry are untraceable, and the messages self-destruct after confirmed delivery, leaving no physical evidence of their existence.
Through Channel creates the infrastructure for secret Bureau operations that cannot be audited through normal channels. It represents the hidden architecture of institutional manipulation within the Containment Zone, allowing the Bureau to coordinate actions while maintaining plausible deniability.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyCraig Bennett entered week two as the carrier of the Through Channel, that classified directive routing through Art Dye's subnet like a ghost in the filing system. The Bureau's hidden communication system doesn't track round ratings, so we're left with only the tag delta: #2 to #3. A one-position slip, no data on how the fresco interpreted his throws. The paperwork is clean but the routing reads like a demotion. adjusts headset Per the file I'm legally required to read aloud: the directive still rides with Bennett, but the clearance level just got redacted one notch.
Through Channel has gone dark, resurfacing on a local subnet. Craig Bennett is now carrying the directive at The Old Ones - Art Dye. It looks like routine paperwork, but the routing is anything but standard. Consider this a classified side quest in the Bureau’s main arc.