Pentex: Old and New

In White Wolf Game Studio's setting the World of Darkness, specifically the role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the Pentex Corporation was a vast fictional conglomerate dedicated to promoting the agenda of the Wyrm. Though primarily staffed by mundane humans unaware of the corporation's sinister mission, its upper management is a group of corrupt humans and outright supernatural beings fully aware of the existence of the Triat and werewolves. The public face of the Pentex corporation itself appears to the public to possibly be a corporate consulting firm or administrative assistance firm. Its true method, however, is to own other businesses. As such, "Pentex" not only refers to the central corporation, but also to hundreds of other companies and businesses, openly owned or secretly controlled by the Pentex upper management. This allows Pentex to achieve vertical integration, allowing them to secure powerful but clandestine monopolies. That was the a definition of the old. As you all know, the new World of Darkenss has completely done away with this corporation. When writing our new stories I thought it would be interesting to reimagine Pentex in our specific setting. It is VERY important to realize that Pentex is not directly related to the old World of Darkness version. There are several important differences. I will list a few below, leaving some ommited because I want you, as characters, to discover them for yourselves. - Pentex is a single corporation. They are located in Alaska. They are powerful but not in the old way of possessing hundreds of subsidiary companies. - It is unknown if they are truly evil in a spiritual sense. Only the connection to their parvovirus production and David Simmons has been uncovered. - The CIA has been keeping tabs on them. This is apparent from Wades confession to Marcus Blair. - They have been performing experiments on children. The latest examples of this are Chelsea and Wendy. Wendy has confessed mutliple thoughts of various individuals have been infussed into her contiousness for reasons unknown. They are plenty more, but that should be enough to spark your imagination. Healing Scars, remember that the clock is ticking towards your death. Finding a cure to the virus can only happen with a clearer understanding of the enemy at hand.