Supernatural Organisation Data Files: Ghoul Council of Paris

Supernatural Organisation Data Files: Ghoul Council of Paris

Summary: The ‘Ghoul Council of Paris’ is a group of master ghouls that began working together in Paris around 1520. Despite their name, they have only ever been in Paris for a few years over the centuries; they have spent most of their time travelling to find new victims and new members.

            More so than any other encountered ghoul group, the Ghoul Council of Paris delights in truly terrible activities: mass torture and killing; tormenting of victims for years sometimes before killing them; in truth, committing almost every depraved act of violence possible. Some of what they have done is almost beyond imagining in its sheer foulness.

The true sickness of this group makes them one of our organisation’s top priority targets. Unfortunately, their centuries of experience, cowardly approach to conflict and adaptation to modern technology have made them impossible to find after our initial encounter.

Structure: Recovered information indicates that the council treats all their members equally, and each have a say in the large-scale activities of the group (such as moving between countries) while also being free to carry out any small-scale activities (such as killings or kidnappings) they wish to. Despite this, the older members of the group tend to guide the rest, primarily due to their many years of experience.

History: Most of what we know of the Ghoul Council of Paris is due to the acquisition of may diaries belonging to their members. The diaries were recovered during a raid on a building occupied by them in the late nineties in which only three members of their group were killed – two of which we believe were only ordinary ghouls being kept as pets of some kind.

This initial encounter, in which the ghouls present (around fifty of the council’s members) escaped around eighty of our agents was initially believed to be due to a bungling on the part of the team leaders. However, investigation indicated an unusual amount of preparedness to rapidly flee during daylight hours on the part of the ghouls, as well as a sophisticated network of lookouts.

The recovery of the diaries was a huge stroke of luck, and also revealed the long history of the group. The horrors found in the facility – a few hundred dead bodies showing signs of extreme torture, as well as several still living individuals who had been grotesquely mutilated – were nothing compared to some of the activities described within the diaries.

            The first members of the council were serial killers – unlike most master ghouls who are rightly afraid of discovery, this group killed to ensure their food was fresh. Worse, they enjoyed tormenting their victims, scaring and chasing them; and would often eat parts of the victims while they were still alive.

            The initial handful – three or four master ghouls – grew their numbers to their present size of roughly eighty individuals in two ways. Firstly, other master ghouls met while travelling who found the methods of the council enticing were invited to join. Secondly, the most despicable killers the group encountered – psychopaths with a penchant for truly horrific crimes – were turned into master ghouls, and then invited to join.

Not all of these killers joined – in fact, we believe the large number of violent, sadistic ghouls has a lot to do with the efforts of the Ghoul Council of Paris – but many did. Unlike the master ghouls who joined – who are quite emotionless and immoral individuals due to their transformations – the transformed killers delight in performing ever more terrible acts of torture and slaughter. We doubt that they will ever grow tired of committing these atrocities.

A quote from one of the diaries: “He said to me, ‘We like to play with our food.’ I’ve never been so happy in my life.”