Editing Supernatural Law: New Orleans (section)

==Occult Crimes Division==
Not every officer in OCD is a mage. That will mainly be the player characters. But the division has a number of other officers, along with crime scene investigators, crime lab technicians, and other personnel, and even though they cannot perform magic they are aware of it. The people in the department are either ungifted relatives of mages, witnesses to a supernatural event, or just plain too curious for their own good. Either way, the department prefers to recruit from people already aware of magic. The people in the division are capable of handling supernaturally hazardous materials or evidence, detaining supernatural suspects, recognizing the signs of the supernatural at crime scenes, and supporting the mage detectives in their investigations.

The division has a fully stocked alchemy lab and a number of artifacts at its disposal, such as handcuffs that hinder the ability to perform magic. What they do not have is stockpiles of wands, amulets, magic potions, and other items of magic. The division has a budget and is subject to oversight, and magical gear tends to be costly and may look strange in bookkeeping. So the division prefers to keep such acquisitions to a minimum. In return, the division allows its mages to bring in just about any personal gear they wish, and cookings in the alchemy lab raise no questions unless they result in a huge mess.

OCD is part of The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and their relationship with the rest of the NOPD is frosty. The NOPD has a long history of civil rights violations, corruption and poor oversight. Meanwhile, OCD personnel are trained to first and foremost follow the traditional [[Supernatural_Law:_New_Orleans:Peelian_Principles|Peelian Principles. ]] OCD officers and detectives tend to be high ranking, which allows them to take command before the regular officers clash with the supernatural. And most of them do not hesitate to school a bigoted or thuggish NOPD officer. The arrival of OCD to the scene is normally met with exasperated groans.

OCD has its headquarters in Hale Boggs Federal Complex, second to topmost floor, right under Arclight offices.

The head of the division is '''Detective Captain Jean Lafitte'''. Descendant and namesake of ''The'' Jean Lafitte, the famous pirate mage who led a fleet of privateers to help General Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans. Lafittes are the most powerful and influential mage family in New Orleans, and Captain Lafitte is surprisingly young for his position, at only 27 years of age. He got the rank of Detective Lieutenant straight from the academy and only served on the streets for a couple of years before being promoted to Captain at the retirement of the previous one – Captain Harry Coulson, a grizzled Grunt and a street veteran. Lafitte got promoted over several much more experienced people, and the general assumption is that his family got him the position that he might not be really qualified for.

Captain Lafitte is well dressed, well groomed, well mannered and soft spoken. Unlike his predecessor, he never raises his voice. The clean shaven, dark haired man is known as a skilled Warlock.

===Dispatch===

Dispatch has a pleasant voice of a young woman. It is always the same voice, no matter the time of day. And no one has ever seen Dispatch enter or leave the building.

And at the very back of OCD offices is a door with a sign "Dispatch. Do not enter." It is a sturdy iron door engraved with warding sigils and bolted shut from the outside with seven different, old looking padlocks that no one seems to have the keys for.

===Player characters===

[[Supernatural_Law:_New_Orleans/Fantasma|Fantasma Oblivado, Angel Blooded Necromancer]] played by Seandemonium

[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recruitment-chargen-supernatural-law-new-orleans-wicked-pacts.921630/post-25301083/ James "Jimmy" William Bonom] Half Blood Grunt played by shadowsaint007

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pK_a-qgPJ4EgJ4E5TB8xZh7tggHp3K1PhW5u4jqDLBE/edit?pli=1#heading=h.fwkjzq6qyo81 Henry Dorgan] Pure Blood Seer played by Talisman

[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recruitment-chargen-supernatural-law-new-orleans-wicked-pacts.921630/post-25278212/ Sorne Jasso] Pure Blood Warlock Played by Daxian

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GtAF-vAzP2LtZTZuqwGpDBow-KeMfCf7ZBj03xvurGw/edit Seraphine Delacroix] Ungifted Angel Blooded played by NightGoblyn